114 The Fundamentals that we have in Christ; it is God’s own righteousness, and therefore it meets and satisfies every claim upon us whether of law, or justice, or satisfaction to God, or holiness. The Apostle Paul does not shrink from ascribing even divinity to the blood of Christ: “Feed the flock of God which He hath purchased with His own blood” (Acts 20:28). An uninspired man would never have dared to write so amazing, so match- less words as these. Of their genuineness there is ample proof.* 4. The body of Jesus was not raised up from death. (Series II, pp. 125-130.) To explain the disappearance of the body which was crucified the book says: “Our Lord’s human body was, however, supernaturally removed from the tomb; because had it remained' there it would have been an insurmountable obstacle to the faith of the disciples. . . . We know nothing about what became of it, except that it did not decay or corrupt. . . . Whether it was dissolved into gases or whether it is still preserved somewhere as the grand memorial of God’s love, of Christ’s obedience, and of our redemption, no one knows; nor is such knowledge neces- sary” (pp. 129, 130). In Series I, p. 231 we read: “Jesus, therefore, at and after His resurrection, was a spirit—a spirit being, and no longer a human being in any sense”. Wicked and disastrous as are the teachings of Millennial Dawn noted above, this is immeasurably worse, if that be pos- sible. Here the climax in audacity and falsehood is reached. For here the basal, the vital truth on which Christianity rests, viz., the absolute certainty of Christ’s literal and bodily resur- ■*The American Revision has “The Church of the Lord.” It stands alone in this reading. The English Revision and the critical texts of Alford, Westcott and Hort, Scrivener, Weymouth and Nestle retain “Church of God”. The phrase occurs often in Paul’s writings, never once “The Church of the Lord”. One can perceive why “Church of God” should be changed into “Church of the Lord,” but it is difficult to see why if Paul wrote “Church of the Lord” it should be turned into “Church of God.”
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