He is to be raised from the dead as to his body (in the meantime, his soul is "dragged" downward to the prison of the underworld, where in conscious suffering he awaits the second resurrection and the judgment hour), he will be raised, judged, found guilty and cast forth into the lake of fire (which is the second death), from whence there will be no resurrection of the body (the body will perish in the fire--for an immortal body belongs only to the sons of God--the participants in the First Resurrection); then, as a disembodied spirit--a ghost--he will go forth with an inward, deathless worm, and an inward, quenchless fire, to be like "a wandering star unto whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever," an exile from God, outside the orbit of divine grace, love and life--a hopeless, an eternally hopeless--human derelict, upon the measureless sea of night and space. That is the Bible picture of the natural man. Is that the picture the natural man paints of himself? I trow not! Man looks upon himself as a son of God by nature, having in himself all the elements of divinity, and all the forces necessary to shape his life aright. He is proud of himself, and talks of the dignity of human nature. He describes himself in panegyric, magnifies his virtue and minimizes his vice. He flatters himself in his own eyes. The two concepts--that of the Bible and that of the natural man--are as far apart from each other as the heavens are from the earth. To man, the Bible concept is false, belittling, wholly disastrous and degrading, the death knell to any possible inspiration for human effort and attainment. It is a concept against which he revolts with all the nature in him, and hates with an exceeding great hatred. In the very nature of the case, then, the Bible concept of man is not due to man; it is not such a concept that he _would_ write if he _could_. The picture which the Bible paints of sin is not such a picture as the natural man has ever painted. The Bible declares that sin is something more than fever or disease or weakness, it is high treason against Jehovah, it is a blow at his integrity, a rebellion against his government, a discord to his being and a movement whose final tendency would be to dislodge him from his throne. The Bible hates sin and has no mercy for it.