Whom to Fear | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 38.

Whom to Fear.

Our Saviour admonishes us to "fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matt. 10:28. In order to force this text into a contradiction of the Scriptures which explicitly declare that the wicked shall be utterly put out of existence (Ps. 37:9, 10; Mal. 4:1; Rom. 6:23), a certain "holiness" publication construes the Lord's words in this way: "He says He is ABLE so to do, but He does not say that He will annihilate the wicked." Then, we would ask, Where is the force of the admonition of the Lord? Wherein is one who we know will not destroy us any more to be feared than one who can not do so? Such juggling of the Lord's words to make way for the doctrine of the never-ending conscious agony of soul is a reproach to the just character of God, who says that "the wages of sin is death," not eternal life in misery. "The dead know not anything." Eccl. 9:5, 6.