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In connection with the subject of sin, you quoted, I believe, a strong statement
concerning "all things being of God".
A.--The actual words are:--
"The only Scriptural, the only rational, the only true solution lies in the acceptance of
God's grand dictum that all is out of Him, and through Him and for Him."
B.--This means that:--
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finds its cause
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SIN
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finds its channel
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IN GOD.
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finds its goal
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But Scripture says:--
(1). "He that committeth sin is OF THE DEVIL" (I John 3: 8).
(2). "Whosoever doeth not righteousness is NOT OF GOD" (I John 3: 10).
(3). "He that is OF GOD heareth God's words; ye therefore hear them not because ye
are NOT OF GOD" (John 8: 47).
You quote, "the only scriptural solution", but you must see that it is anything but
scriptural. Further, that it is "the only rational solution", whereas it is most illogical. The
all things which are "of God" must of necessity exclude those things which are "not of
God", or else sane speech and reasonable argument must cease. Now these things which
are "not of God" include sin ("whosoever doeth not righteousness") and Satan, for the
Devil is placed in antithesis to God in the passages quoted. Spiritist teaching that Christ
and Satan are alike finds an advocate in your doctrine. Satan, you say, did exactly what
God had planned he should do. Scripture declares that Christ did exactly what God said
He should do. Yet to accomplish the plan of God Christ came to UNDO THE WORKS
OF THE DEVIL, and you call your teaching scriptural and rational! When Christ came
in the flesh He said, "Lo, I come to do Thy will", and through death He destroyed him
that had the power of death, that is the Devil. Yet you say it is scriptural and rational to
believe that Satan and sin are "of Him, and through Him, and for Him", who sent His Son
to destroy the one and put away the other.
Further, I find that "Satan who was created to sin and did exactly what God had
planned that he should do" is put into durance for a thousand years, and then, after
another act of furthering the will of God, is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone to be
tormented day and night unto the ages of ages. Can you call that treatment rational?
A.--No, I must confess that the more we study it together the more absurd and
unscriptural it appears.