We have now completed our consideration of the Hebrew and Greek words used with

reference to the Wages of Sin, and have settled once and for all the question which we

purposed to answer, namely, Does Scripture teach the doctrine of eternal conscious

suffering? The answer from the meaning and usage of the words of Scripture is an

emphatic NO.

Our investigations, however, have not been exhaustive enough to warrant us assuming

that we have considered the Scriptural teaching concerning Human Destiny in its wide

scope. Our faith must comprehend all Scripture. It would be comparatively easy to write

the articles in The Berean Expositor if it were the organ of any one particular creed or

view; this is not its mission, however. It is not satisfied with what is known as orthodox

belief relative to Hell and the future, as its articles have already shown, neither does it

feel that the other lines of teaching relative to this great subject, such as annihilation on

the one hand, and universal reconciliation on the other, allow the believer to have a faith

that accepts all that God has written. The difficulty of the attempt to consider the subject

as a whole, and refrain from the temptation of adopting one line of thought which is

much simpler, must not defer us.

The general effect of such considerations will not be, superficially, so satisfactory as

the effect produced upon subscribers to any one aspect of truth, but the Word of God

abounds with problems which cannot be dismissed, which may remain unexplained until

in resurrection we see, as now we cannot, the wider and vaster bounds of the purpose of

the ages. This being so, all that we can hope to do is to point out the most obvious lines

of truth, praying that our readers will not too hastily jump to a conclusion. It is saddening

to hear believers speaking airily of these matters as though the problems were not worthy

of consideration, or had all been scripturally explained. Among them is the use of the

words "all things," a mere undefined term in the minds of many who use it. Before

taking up the subject of Human Destiny as a whole, there are several topics which

demand consideration, otherwise we shall be using terms with unsettled meanings. We

proceed in this article to gather up some of the Scripture teaching relative to this

expression, "all things."

Great emphasis has been laid upon the fact that the Scriptures which refer to

reconciliation tell us that the reconciliation include all things.  All Scripture being

verbally inspired, no argument can be entertained which would seek to add to, or subtract

from, the words of truth. Believing with all our heart that God has a meaning in every

word He has caused to be written, and realizing that so much error has been perpetuated

by taking man-made interpretations for granted, we propose a little study of the words,