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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 18, 1910

The Resurrection Hope

By Editor

3009.—G. A. E. sends a clipping from the Kansas City Weekly Star, and asks us to answer it. But there is nothing in it particularly which needs any answer. It starts out by saying: “There is no death. There are none dead; no waiting for the resurrection.” And yet he quotes the words of Jesus to Mary, “Whosoever liveth, and believeth in Me, shall never die,” which show that those who do not believe in Him shall die, and this clearly shows that there is death. It is expressly said of Jesus that He died. Over and over it is said that He was raised from the dead. He tells us, and so also do His apostles, that the dead are waiting a resurrection, and the resurrection will take place at the last day. See John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15; 1 Cor. 15: 51-54; and 1 Thess. 4:14-18. These and many other passages teach the same great fact that men die. The whole 15th chapter of First Corinthians shows that the only hope that there is set before those who die is the resurrection; for “if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.” This we think sufficiently shows the unscripturalness of the statement.