Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 64: October 16, 1902 This shows that endless, eternal, everlasting and similar terms indicate the hind not the duration of punishment. As God IS eternal, so are His laws and their appropriate rewards and punishments. They ever exist to inspire righteousness and correct evil, to bless the faithful and inflict retribution upon the disobedient. Under this everlasting code individuals will be rewarded or punished according to deeds done in the body. Thus the ...
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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 64: October 16, 1902 This shows that endless, eternal, everlasting and similar terms indicate the hind not the duration of punishment. As God IS eternal, so are His laws and their appropriate rewards and punishments. They ever exist to inspire righteousness and correct evil, to bless the faithful and inflict retribution upon the disobedient. Under this everlasting code individuals will be rewarded or punished according to deeds done in the body. Thus the justice of God is vindicated and a foundation is laid for the larger hope that the Latter-day Saints have so long advocated, and that is now so rapidly gaining favor among Christian people. The Savior taught that the unfaithful and disobedient would be beaten with many stripes, while those less blameworthy would receive few stripes (luke xii: 47 St. Paul says God will render to every man according to his deeds (rom. Ii: St. John adds his testimony to the same effect (rev. Xx': 12, So do Jeremiah (chaps. Xvii: 10; xxxii: 19) and others. If these passages mean anything, they mean that every man will receive absolute justice; no more, no less. Each disobedient soul must pay the uttermost farthing, but when the debt has been discharged and punishment commensurate with the transgression has been inflicted, the eternal law will have no further, claim upon that soul, purged now from sin. Justice as well as mercy would be outraged if the punishment were continued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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