https://anabaptistwiki.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mennonite_Articles_of_Faith_by_Cornelis_Ris_(1766)&feed=atom&action=historyMennonite Articles of Faith by Cornelis Ris (1766) - Revision history2024-03-29T09:04:27ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://anabaptistwiki.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mennonite_Articles_of_Faith_by_Cornelis_Ris_(1766)&diff=16194&oldid=prevElizabethMiller at 18:42, 24 March 20162016-03-24T18:42:34Z<p></p>
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</table>ElizabethMillerhttps://anabaptistwiki.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mennonite_Articles_of_Faith_by_Cornelis_Ris_(1766)&diff=16177&oldid=prev198.51.243.89: /* Bibliography */2016-03-24T11:11:45Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Bibliography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Respecting the condition of those who in the final judgment will be condemned, we believe that it will be unhappy and terrible beyond all conception (Daniel 12:2), because the Holy Spirit represents it throughout in terms of all that is dreadful and insufferable (Hebrews 12:29; Isaiah 33:14), speaking of it now as hell (Matthew 10:28; 18:9; 2 Peter 2:4) or the valley of the children of Hinnom where the idolatrous Israelites formerly cast their children as an offering into the glowing arms of Moloch to be burned with fire; then as a furnace of fire (Matthew 13:50), a pit burning with fire and brimstone (Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 14, 15; 21:8) an outer darkness (Matthew 25: 30), the gnawing of a worm that death not (Mark 9:43-48) and fire that is not quenched (Matthew 3:12), and more of like import (Matthew 18:34). From all these dreadful representations we have every reason to assume that that condition will be one of utter perdition from God (2 Thessalonians 1:9; Matthew 7:23; Luke 13:27, 28), from all good, all comfort (Luke 16:24, 25), and all salvation, as also a realization of the insufferable wrath of almighty God (Revelation 6:16, 17) and His avenging justice (2 Thessalonians 1:8; Hebrews 10:30, 31), both as to soul and body, without any hope of escape or relief in all eternity. Matthew 25:46.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Hannahechttps://anabaptistwiki.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mennonite_Articles_of_Faith_by_Cornelis_Ris_(1766)&diff=10587&oldid=prevHannahec: /* XXXV. Of Eternal Life */2012-06-22T03:42:03Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">XXXV. Of Eternal Life</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The kingdom which the blessed shall inherit in the day of the final judgment (Matthew 25:34) we understand (1 John 3:2) to be in general a condition of joy (Matthew 25:21; Psalms 16:11; Isaiah 51:11) and glory (1 Peter 1:4) far exceeding our conceptions in this life of humble limitations. I Tim. 6:16. For this reason the Holy Spirit, in order to help our infirmity, speaks of it throughout figuratively, in terms of such things as in this life are esteemed the most agreeable and delightful. Matthew 8:11; 22:2; Hebrews 11:10; Revelation 19:7; chaps. 21 and 22.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The body will be freed from all its present imperfections and infirmities, altogether changed (Philippians 3:21), spiritual, heavenly (1 Corinthians 15:40-44, 49, 50), shining glory (Matthew 13:43), fashioned like unto the glorified body of Jesus Christ in heaven. In no less degree will the soul be set free from all that is yet painful and grievous (Revelation 7:16; 21:4) and on the contrary will be clothed with all the perfection of which it is capable, both in knowledge (1 Corinthians 13:9-13) and in glory (2 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Peter 5:10; Revelation 21:27), perfectly at one with God, and thus transformed into that image of glory (2 Corinthians 3:18) toward which the upward progress in this life is but as the beginning, though its consummation be sought with longing desire. 2 Corinthians 5:1, 2; Romans 8:23.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The company of the blessed will be extremely delightful. First there will be the perfectly blessed and all-sufficient God (Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:2; Revelation 21:3), and Jesus Christ as the Lamb that was slain (Revelation 5:6; John 12:26; 14:3; 17:19-24), then the holy angels of God (Revelation 7:11; Hebrews 12:22-24) together with all just men made perfect from Eden to the end of the world. Luke 13: 28-30. Among all these there will not be found the least contention or disagreement, but on the contrary, the fullest accord (Revelation 5:8-14; 7:9-12) and the most passionate love. 1 John 4:7-21. In all probability they will know each other (Matthew 17:3; Luke 16:19-31) and also communicate to one another their knowledge, their experiences and their enjoyments, all of which will be the source of unspeakable joy. Psalms 79:13.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That in immediate connection with the aforenamed resurrection of the dead the final and general judgment will take place, we believe -- first because of the idea of God's justice so deeply impressed on the conscience of all men that the consciousness of evil fills us with fear (Romans 2:15; Genesis 42:21, 22), and, on the contrary, the consciousness of good inspires a heartfelt confidence (1 John 3:20, 21), and this in such a manner that even the most godless can scarcely and at most only for a time deaden the impression (Isaiah 57:20, 21; Romans 6:13-17); secondly, because we do not always see justice carried out in this life (Psalms 73) and are thus led to look for it in the hereafter (Ecclesiastes 8:11-13; 2 Corinthians 5:10), since the above-mentioned idea can in no wise be denied or gotten rid of (Romans 1:19; 2:15), for which reasons all intelligent peoples in all ages, even though being without special divine revelation, have believed in a coming judgment. Our belief in this rests still much more on the explicit statements found in the Scriptures of the Old Testament (Ecclesiastes 12:14; 11:9; Daniel 7:9, 10; 12:1-3; Malachi 4:1) and more especially in those of the New.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The one who is to hold this great judgment is God, the Father (Acts 17:31; Romans 3:6) the Judge of all (Hebrews 12:23); yet it will be through Jesus Christ, His Son (Acts 10:42) to whom He has committed all judgment (John 5:22, 27) because of His willing humiliation and His obedience even unto death (Philippians 2:6-11) by which He, as mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 12:24), has obtained the right (Psalms 2:8-12) to rule over all. Psalms 72:8; John 5:27. Wherefore He will show His kingly power not only to His friends (Matthew 25:34; 28: 18-20) but also to His foes (Luke 19:27; Revelation 1:7) as it is written, -- "That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth, and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:10, 11.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The manner of the appearing of the great Judge, Jesus Christ, at His coming in judgment will be in the highest degree terrible, and the bringing of all nations before His judgment seat, without any escape (Matthew 24:29, 30); for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16) with the clouds of heaven (Revelation 1:7; Daniel 7:13, 14), with great power and glory (Luke 9:26; 21:25-27), with ten thousands of His saints (Jude 14, 15), and all the holy angels with Him, amid accompanying circumstances so mighty that all nature will be moved and amazed. 2 Peter 3:10. When He shall thus sit upon the throne of His glory before the eyes of all, even of His bitterest enemies, then shall the angels of His power (Matthew 13:41-44; 2 Thessalonians 1:7) gather before His judgment seat all nations to give account (Romans 14:12; Matthew 25) of the time (Revelation 3:3; Luke 19:44), the means (Luke 16:2; Matthew 11:20-24; Hebrews 2:14) and the gifts which they have received. Luke 12:47, 48.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That the great mystery (1 Corinthians 15:51) of the resurrection was revealed and known to the saints in the old dispensation (Daniel 12:2), though less clearly than to us (Hebrews 11:13-16), we know from the words of Christ when He said, to the confusion of the Sadducees: "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God." "God is not the God of the dead but of the living." Matthew 22:29, 32; Mark 12:24, 26, 27. The same is also evident from the many tokens and testimonies that they lived and died in this faith. This fundamental doctrine (Hebrews 6:1, 2) has, however, been set forth in a much clearer light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:9, 10), by which we now know definitely that before the final judgment there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust (Acts 24:15) so that all men that ever lived and died, whether buried on land or in the sea (John 5:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 15:21, 22; Revelation 20:12, 13) shall awake and be made manifest. John 6:39; Ezekiel 37:1-14.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As to the possibility of such an occurrence, surpassing all human thought, our faith rests not only on the above mentioned and many other clear testimonies, but on the omnipotence (Matthew 19:26; Luke 1:37; Zechariah 8:6), justice and faithfulness of Him who has promised and will perform it (Hebrews 10:23; Numbers 23:19), namely God the Father (Romans 4:17; Deuteronomy 32:39) through His Son Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:14; John 6:40; Philippians 3:21) in the all availing power and working of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11), seeing that He to whom nothing is impossible, who calls into being that which is not (Romans 4:17) should much less find it impossible to call them to whom the seed yet remaineth. 1 Corinthians 15:35-44; John 12:14. This faith rests further on the cases of those who in times past were raised from the dead (John 11:23, 44), and especially on the resurrection of our Lord Himself (1 Corinthians 15:12-18), for in that He was thus declared the Son of God with power (Romans 1:4), having power to take His life again (John 10:18) we can with confidence rely on His Word (John 6:54; 14:19) knowing that He is our Redeemer (Job 19:25, 26) and that He as the first fruit (1 Corinthians 15:20-23; Romans 11:16; Acts 26:23) and the Head of the church (Colossians 1:18) not only can but without fail will fulfill all His promises. Revelation 1:18.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Concerning the way and manner, how all this shall take place, we see from the Word of the Lord, that Christ Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch-angel, and with the trump of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16) accompanied by the angels of His power (2 Thessalonians 1:7; Matthew 25:31); that then all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of judgment (John 5:29); that this shall take place with the same bodies in which they have thus lived (Isaiah 26:19; Romans 8:11) yet so changed and made incorruptible (1 Corinthians 15:53, 54) that they can either live forever in bliss or continue in eternal woe; that these changes shall take place instantly as in the twinkling of an eye, and yet each in this own order (1 Corinthians 15:23), for they that have died in Christ shall rise first and they that are yet alive and remain shall be changed likewise. 1 Thessalonians 4:16.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That it is appointed unto man once to die (Hebrews 9:27; Psalms 89:48) is, we believe, a result of the transgression of our first parents (Romans 5:12-14; Genesis 2:17; 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:21) and is thus in reality a punishment for sin. Romans 6:23. But we also believe that through the obedience and death of Jesus Christ (Romans 5:19; Hebrews 2:14, 15; Isaiah 25:8) the sting of death has been removed (1 Corinthians 15: 55-57; Hosea 13:14) for all them that truly believe on Him (John 6:40, 50, 51, 58); so that these need not fear death (Hebrews 2:14, 15; Isaiah 25:8), but can thank God through Jesus Christ that it is theirs sometime to die. For though our body -- which, be it remembered, is of the earth (Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 12:7), polluted through sinful lusts (Romans 7:5, 23, 24; 2 Corinthians 7:1), and altogether unfitted for heaven without great change (1 Corinthians 15:36, 50; Philippians 3:21) -- continues under the necessity of a return to its first element (Romans 8:10), and though such a thought is indeed appalling to them that live after the flesh (Romans 8:6, 13; Luke 12:16-21) and are the servants of sin (Romans 6:16; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Hebrews 10:31), yea, also to the godly in a certain degree after the physical nature; yet to the believer the thought of death brings true comfort (1 Thessalonians 4:17, 18) amid the hardships (James 5:7, 8; 2 Corinthians 4:17, 18; 5:1-9) and imperfections (1 Corinthians 13:8-12; 1 John 3:2) of this earthly life, knowing that to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord, to be set free and be with Christ, is by far better (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:20-23), and finally that the putting of the body in the earth like the grain of wheat (John 12:24) is the divinely ordained way to the reaping of better things. 1 Corinthians 15:35-44.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As to the soul, the immortal nature of which has already been spoken of under Article Five, we believe that the same immediately upon its release from the body, returns to God -- not to the full and final condition of glory or punishment (Matthew 25:46; Jude 6) for this will come only after the resurrection of the body and the reunion of the soul with the same, in the day of the final judgment (Matthew 25:34-46) -- but to a lively anticipation of that state (Luke 16:23, 24; Revelation 6:10, 11) though in greater or less measure (Luke 12:47, 48; 2 Peter 2:9, 10) according to the degree of unrighteousness (Matthew 10:15; 11:22, 24) and estrangement from God (Matthew 25:30; Luke 13:24-30), or of holiness (2 Timothy 2:20-22) and intimate union with Him (John 14:21-23; 15:10; 17:23, 24; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 Peter 1:8), as it evidently follows from the justice of God (Galatians 6:7, 8; 2 Corinthians 9:6) and the nature of the case. With many their conscience bears witness to this even while they seek to deafen it, Romans 1:21-25, how much more when it awakes. Luke 16:23; Isaiah 57:21. The ungodly and unconverted sinners pass at death to a condition of imprisonment (2 Peter 2:4, 9, 17), of regret that is too late, of chagrin and pain. Isaiah 66:24; Matthew 18:34; Mark 9:48. Those who die in the Lord (Revelation 14:13) pass to a condition of comfort (Luke 16:25), of peace and happiness. Luke 23:43. In this state of being, kept by the hand of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:18; 3:7), they await either in fear (Matthew 8:29; Hebrews 10:27) or with desire (2 Peter 3:12-14) the last sentence or final judgment. For of a purging of the soul after death (as taught by the Roman church) we confess to know nothing, but rather that the judgment is connected with death (Hebrews 9:27) and that the tree will lie as it falls, Ecclesiastes 11:3; Luke 16:22, 23.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is therefore of the utmost importance that we seek to prepare for the hour of death in time (John 9:4) while it is yet today (Hebrews 3:15) not only by a solemn contemplation of these things (Deuteronomy 32:29; Psalms 39:4, 5; Psalms 90) but also by a true conversion (Acts 9:1-18; 1 Peter 2:25) and a striving after faith and holiness (1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22; Hebrews 12:14), to be found in Christ (Philippians 3:9-14), to have always a conscience void of offence (Acts 24:16; 1 John 3:20, 21), to do gladly and with our might what our hands find to do (Ecclesiastes 9:10), and whatever there is more of like import. Philippians 4:8. All this because (being repeatedly warned of the Lord, Mark 13:37) we know not at what time or hour He will come (Matthew 24:42; 25:13; Luke 12:35-46), that we may always be ready as those that wait for their Lord that we may not be ashamed at His coming (2 John 2:28) but may be found of Him in peace without spot, and blameless. 2 Peter 3:14.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We believe that the married state should be held in honor by all (Hebrews 13:4) and that it is not only permitted but also needful (Genesis 1:28), expedient (Genesis 2:18-24; Proverbs 18:22), and well pleasing to God (Matthew 19:4-6), if it is entered upon in the true spirit (Genesis 24; Proverbs 19: 14; 31:10-30; 1 Corinthians 7:39) and so continued in. Ephesians 5: 22-33. We are assured of this through the fact of God's own appointment (Genesis 2:18-24), and the reaffirming of the same (Mark 10:3-12) and through the action of Jesus, who hallowed a marriage by His presence (John 2:1-11), as well as through the example of the most eminent saints who, living in a married state, walked with God (Genesis 5:22) and had the testimony that they pleased God (Hebrews 11:5), including even the priests (Leviticus 21:7-9), the high priest (Leviticus 21:1315), the prophets (e. g. David, Ezekiel, Hosea) and the apostles of the Lord (1 Corinthians 9:5; Matt. 8:14). It appears indeed that the teaching of the Bible holds this state to be expedient for overseers in the church (1 Timothy 3:2, 12; 5:9, 10; Titus 1:6) wherefore we are certain that the throwing of suspicion on the married state proceeds from superstition and the prohibiting of it is anti-Christian and an abomination. 1 Timothy 4:3.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On the general question involved the will of God concerning this state is clearly expressed, viz., that only two persons free from all others and not of too close blood relationship may enter into it, to be united and bound together without any reserve even unto death. Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:28. The separation of such is moreover, altogether prohibited except for the cause of fornication. Matthew 5:31, 32; 19:7-10; 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Further, we believe that in cases of marrying as in all things, the Lord our God directs and disposes -- yet so as not thereby to annul man's freedom -- be it that He in His goodness graciously brings them about (Genesis 24: 14, 50; Matthew 19:6; Joshua 23:12, 13) or that He in His righteous displeasure and chastisement permits them (e. g. Judges 14:3, 4, 14; 1 Kings 11:1-6; Ezra 9:10-15; Nehemiah 13:23-27.) Therefore marriage is not to be regarded as an explicit general command (Matthew 19:11, 12; 1 Corinthians 7: 7, 17, 27, 28) or as a universally ordained destiny, but as a thing in which man may act with freedom, so far as this is not limited by God's holy directions, and that it be in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 7:39. These limitations are clearly to be seen in the prohibition of marriage with unbelieving persons (Genesis 24:14, 50; Matthew 19:6; Joshua 23:12, 13); the transgression of God's repeated command in this respect (Genesis 6:1-3; 26:34, 35; 27:46) and God's holy displeasure thereat (1 Kings 11:1-9); and in the necessity of putting away the strange wives out of Israel in order that the enkindled wrath of the Almighty might be turned from them (Ezra 9:10-15; 10:1-19; Nehemiah 13:23-28) as well as many occurrences showing the evil and hurtful consequences of carnal marriages in which only the natural passions are followed. Luke 17:26-28.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For this reason it is exceedingly important that a person purposing either to enter this state or to abstain from it should examine himself, consider well his qualities, in faith seek to know God's will concerning himself (1 Corinthians 7:12-17), take counsel of God and His Word (Proverbs 3:6; Psalms 119:9-11; Philippians 4:6, 7), and not decide upon one or the other course until in faith and with a good conscience he is convinced that in that course he will be pleasing unto the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 10: 31; 2 Corinthians 5:9, 10; Colossians 3:17. Those who thus marry have good reason to hope that it is in the Lord and that His blessing will accompany it.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If matrimony is thus begun in the fear of the Lord and conducted in a Christian manner (Ephesians 5:22-33) in accordance with the principles of the gospel, as laid down for the direction of both husbands and wives (1 Timothy 2:813; Titus 2:3-8; 1 Peter 3:1-7), then shall the man, who is the head of the woman, strive to be a worthy copy of Jesus Christ in His relation to His church. The wife shall be saved through the child-bearing (1 Timothy 2:15, R.V.), her seed shall be blessed (Genesis 18:18, 19; Ephesians 6:4) and all things shall work together for good to them. Matthew 6.33; Romans 8:28.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the question of taking oaths we believe that though it is possible to take an oath with a devout purpose, as did the holy patriarchs at times (Genesis 14:22, 23; 21:30, 31) and as it was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation, God Himself being often represented as speaking in this human manner (Hebrews 6:13-17; Psalms 89:35; 95:11; 110:4), yet such a practice is nowhere enjoined by a command of God (Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 19:12) but simply defined and restrained. Exodus 22:11. Thus it is evident that swearing, like divorce and some other practices, was in reality permitted because of the want of love and of the prevailing mistrust, and the increasing degeneracy among mankind. Wherefore the Lord Jesus, in order to correct also this violation of and deviation from the original purpose of God, entirely prohibited the use of oaths in His spiritual and heavenly kingdom, when He said: "But I say unto you, Swear not at all," etc. Matthew 5:34-37.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The reason why we cannot regard these words as a prohibition simply of the frivolous and notorious habit of profane swearing, or of swearing in things of minor importance, but consider it far safer to regard them as doing away entirely with all swearing are, besides those already mentioned and others, the following: First, because the Lord Jesus is evidently not speaking against trivial swearing but refers to the legal use of the oath, as it was said to them of old time, "Thou shalt not forswear thyself but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths" (obviously the Lord here refers to Exodus 20:7 and Leviticus 19:12). Further because the Lord says, -- "But I say unto you, Swear not at all -- but let your speech be Yea, yea; Nay, nay, and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one." Further, because James, repeating the same words, adds: "But above all things, my brethren, swear not -- neither by any other oath -- that ye fall not under judgment." James 5:12. Again, because such a view does not forbid an earnest assertion of the truth of our statements, when the honor of God and the love of the truth calls for it -- such as the Lord Jesus often made (John 14:12) likewise the Apostle Paul, now and then (Romans 1:9; 9:1; 2 Corinthians 1:23; Galatians 1:20; Philippians 1:8), since Christ does not mean to say that one shall use no words except Yea and Nay, but that our Yea shall be yea, and since we cannot regard such manner of emphasis as in reality an oath but an intense effort, proceeding from a holy motive, to awaken attention and deepen the impression; and even if in a few instances (like 1 Thessalonians 5:27) this should be found to have taken the form of an oath (which, however, is not conceded) it is well to observe that this was done by persons of unimpeachable truthfulness, and probably in the spirit of forbearance, but not to serve us as a pattern. Again, because it is far more commendable to keep our yea and nay as faithfully as though we had sworn to it; and this confidence in one's given word is in harmony with the kingdom of Jesus. Further, because by reason of the depravity of human nature it is to be feared that the very practice of making oath is taken by godless men as a cause for attaching no weight to simple assurances and making light of lying. Revelation 21:27; 22:15. Further, because the Christians of the first centuries in general seem to have understood these words thus, and we have on record the testimonies of almost all the old teachers of the church against the use of oaths.* Finally, because a look at civil life and the requirements of a well-regulated state does not seem to reveal the need of swearing, since godless and faithless men are not to be trusted even though they swear (Jeremiah 5:2) and such persons have often so little fear of an oath that it is known full well beforehand and afterwards established that false oaths are sworn without number, a fact that causes godly rulers as well as true Christians in general to sigh, and which makes it necessary in spite of the use of the oath, to provide civil punishment for the untruthful.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As for ourselves, we hold that if under our solemn affirmation of the truth, which is put in place of the oath, we should deal faithlessly or fail to come up to our word, we are just as guilty and subject to just punishment as though we had sworn the heaviest oaths.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We believe we do not err when by nature we judge that avenging or retaliating of every injustice is but just. Nevertheless, it is certain that though the Lord our God permitted His people in the olden times to exercise revenge (Matthew 5:38, 43), by reason of their hardness of heart (Matthew 19:8), yet it primarily and properly belongs to God Himself (Romans 12:17-21; Hebrews 10:30; Leviticus 19:17-18; Deuteronomy 32:35) who also is alone able correctly and with exactness to judge of the measure of the evil and of the just punishment (Isaiah 28:17; Jeremiah 17:10; Luke 12:47, 48) for which we are often incapacitated by our imperfect knowledge, our unbridled self-love, and excited passions. James 1:20; Proverbs 27:4. For this reason, we believe, our Lord Jesus Christ, when He would establish His spiritual and heavenly kingdom in accord with the will of God as it was from the beginning, forbade His followers not only all practice of revenge (Matthew 5:38-44) but even all vindictiveness (1 John 3:15), as did likewise His apostles after Him. Romans 12:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9. On the contrary, He insisted on their putting in practice the law of love to a degree far in advance of the teaching of nature (Luke 6:32, 33) or of the Jewish Rabbis (Matthew 5:20), as well as on an exercise of patience that should be perfect (James 1:4) after His own example (2 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Peter 2:21-23); that is, instead of violently resisting the evil with the object of destroying it, rather to suffer repeated wrong (Matthew 5:38-40); rather put up with material loss and injustice than to be quick to quarrel (1 Corinthians 6:1-8); to render to no one evil for evil (Romans 12:17, 20) not even reviling for reviling (1 Peter 3:9); but always to follow after that which is good toward one another and toward all; to overcome by doing good (Romans 12:21); to manifest love even to our enemy: if he is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink (Proverbs 25:21, 22; Romans 12:20); to bless them that curse us; to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that do violence to us and persecute us. Only as we do this shall we be children pleasing to our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:44-48), and true followers of Jesus Christ (John 12:26), who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not; but committed all to Him that judgeth righteously (1 Peter 2:21-23), in all of which He left us an example that we should follow in His steps. Philippians 2:5.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hence it is, as we think, self-evident that the use of deadly weapons and the carrying on of warfare to the destruction of our enemies -- and even of innocent ones who have not wronged us but upon whom in war often falls the burden of misery and sorrow -- is entirely unseemly for a true follower of Jesus and therefore not allowed (Matthew 5:39, 40, 43, 44; 2 Corinthians 10:3, 4). For we are persuaded that war, as we know it, cannot possibly be carried on without manifestly violating the fundamental principles of Christ's kingdom (John 18:36; Ephesians 4:31, 32) and without nurturing vice and practices contrary to those principles (Galatians 5:19-21), whereby there is often manifested the likeness of wild beasts and of devils, rather than of followers of the Lamb of God (Isaiah 53:7) and of those that show forth His excellencies. 1 Peter 2:9.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We therefore hold that it is our duty carefully to abstain from the use of all war-like weapons and from the above mentioned hostile resistance; that it is allowed to flee from the evil as much as is in our power (Matthew 10:23), to adopt such measures against an enemy that without working to his destruction we may prevent and bring to naught his hostile purposes (Acts 23:6-9), and by means of defensive reasoning and good words (John 18:23; Acts 4:8-13, 19, 20) and manifold kindnesses to bring him to reflect and be at peace (Matthew 5:25, 26; Luke 12:58; Genesis 21:25-27. Moreover, we are of the opinion that all malevolent treatment that we experience must serve to exercise us in the faith and patience of the saints, as we follow the example of Jesus Christ, His holy apostles, and many thousands of Christians in the early and later centuries, who when for conscience sake they had to suffer adversities (Matthew 5:10) experienced in this the grace of God making all things work for their good (Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 1:3-6; 4:17, 18; 6:10), not to mention that the merciful God often gives an issue and an escape (2 Corinthians 11:23-33) beyond all human thought (2 Corinthians 1:8-11; 2 Timothy 3:11; 4:17, 18). Besides all this, it was plainly prophesied that such a peaceful and non-resistant life (Matthew 10: 16; Luke 10:3) would be found among the subjects of Christ's kingdom (Isaiah 2:4; 11:6-8; Micah 4:1-3; Zechariah 9:9, 10). Wherefore we pray that this blessed kingdom may come (Matthew 6:10) and come soon, Amen!</ins></div></td></tr>
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