By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger–June 1896 This phrase is a good name for the horrible practice against which the Apostle Paul warns us when he says: “But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”. {Ga 5:2} The truth should be earnestly maintained, but maintained…
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Seven Gifts in the Church
By Mike Ivey In 1Co 12 Paul identified several gifts, some of which were sign gifts which were unique to the first century church, such as the miraculous ability to speak a foreign language without any prior knowledge of the language. In Eph 2:20 Paul distinguished the foundational gifts of prophets and apostles which were…
Warning to the Backslider: Hebrews 6
By Bernard Gowens Can a child of God lose his eternal salvation? No! This is not the context of the lesson Paul has directed to the Hebrews. He has addressed a warning to them as believers to persevere in faith and obedience and to proceed in their course of discipleship to maturity, that is, to…
Thoughts on the Intermediate State (Between Death and the Second Coming/Resurrection)
By Joseph R Holder And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto…
The Error of Denying the Immortality and Endless Duration of the Soul
By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger-August, 1894 If man has no existence beyond the grave, all faith and all preaching are in vain; and I hope that my readers will bear with me while I carefully examine not only the dim teachings of nature, but the clearer teachings of the Holy Ghost in all the…
A Short Examination of Intermediate States
By David Pyles A popular idea among many Christians today is that saints who died in the Old Testament era did not immediately go to heaven, but were placed in some intermediate abode until the time of the resurrection. This idea has been adopted even by some who believe the doctrines of grace. Advocates of…
Evolution Disproved
By C.H. Cayce We have received from the author, Rev. William A. Williams, 1202 Atlantic Ave., Camden, N. J., a book called “Evolution Disproved.” In this book the author makes fifty arguments, each of which clearly disproves the doctrine or theory of evolution. Mr. Williams shows from a number of mathematical calculations, problems in simple…
Evolution
By Sylvester Hassell According to the admission of the wisest evolutionists in the world, the belief is only an unprovable theory and not an established fact. Their theories are constantly changing. They contradict themselves and one another, and the facts of nature, and the unchangeable truths of the Scriptures, and their speculations are not worth…
Three Dangers to the Human Race
By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger–April 1919 The first of these dangers that I will mention is German Infidelity, which has for more than a hundred years done its utmost to destroy the Bible, and during the last four years, to conquer or destroy nearly all mankind. As Rationalism, or so-called, but miscalled, “Higher Criticism,”…