INCONSISTENT ERROR by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 26, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 52.

INCONSISTENT ERROR.

By Editor

ERROR is ever inconsistent. For instance, before us is a letter from a correspondent who wishes to make out that we are under no obligation to obey God’s law. He quotes Heb. 7:19 (“For the law made nothing perfect”), and says, “It undoubtedly was not a perfect law, or those who obeyed it could have obtained a perfect salvation.” And by “the law” he tells us is “meant the entire law system,” upon which it is only necessary to say (1) that the Spirit tells us, “The law of the Lord is perfect.” Ps. 19:7. “The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” “For we know that the law is spiritual.” Rom. 7:12, 14.

(2) That the context and correlated passages will always clearly determine of what the sacred text is speaking. (3) That no law can give life to its transgressor, because “by the law is the knowledge of sin.” One must have life to keep the living law. All this is found in Christ. But the one who professes to be Christ’s, and yet transgresses the law from the transgression of which Christ died to redeem him, in that profession makes Christ “the minister of sin” instead of the minister of righteousness. (4) What is salvation good for if it does not save from sin?