p. 5 | Truth and Error

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 29, 1908

Truth and Error.

TRUTH is consistent; it runs in parallel lines. Error is ever inconsistent. It can't help it. Its paths are bound to cross. Here is an example. A religious paper has the following on the resurrection: "There is no such thing as death for a Christian. . . . It is only going away from the old house to go to be with Christ. What we call dying is simply a process of living, as when a dragon-fly bursts away from its old husk, and its place at the bottom of the pond, comes out with beautiful wings, and flies aloft in the air."

But if so, what is the use of the resurrection? If at death the real person goes to Christ, what need of the resurrection or the judgment at Christ's coming? Yet this same paper says a little further on: "Christ in His resurrection is called the first-fruits of them that are asleep. This means that Christ's believing ones shall at length come also from their graves, the whole great harvest."

Now this last is true—"Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming." 1 Cor. 15:23. For if the dead be not raised; "then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." 1 Cor. 15:18.