Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
“We acknowledge that the personality of the Holy Spirit is the Father and
the Son; that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both, and is manifested in all
who receive the begetting of the Holy Spirit and thereby become sons of
God. (John 1:12; 1 Pet. 1:3.) We affirm the resurrection of Christ—that He
was put to death in flesh but quickened in Spirit. We deny that He was
raised in the flesh, and challenge any statement to that effect as being
unscriptural. (1 Pet. 3:18; 2 Cor. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:8; Acts 26:13‐15.) That
the basis of Hope, for the Church and the World, lies in the fact that
‘Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man,’ ‘a Ransom
for all,’ and will be ‘the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world,’ ‘in due time.’ (Heb. 2:9; John 1:9; 1 Tim. 2:5, 6.) That
the Hope of the Church is that she may be like her Lord, ‘see Him as He
is,’ be ‘partaker of the Divine nature,’ and share His glory as His joint‐
heir. (1 John 3:2; John 17:24; Rom. 8:17; 2 Pet. 1:4.) That the present
mission of the Church is the perfecting of the saints for the future work
of service; to develop in herself every grace; to be God’s witness to the
world; and to prepare to be kings and priests in the next Age. (Eph. 4:12;
Matt. 24:14; Rev. 1:6; 20:6.) That the Hope for the World lies in the
blessings of knowledge and opportunity to be brought to all by Christ’s
Millennial Kingdom—the Restitution of all that was lost in Adam, to all
the willing and obedient, at the hands of their Redeemer and His glorified
Church—when all the wilfully wicked shall be destroyed. (Acts 3:19‐23;
Isa. 35.)”—B. S. M.
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