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AGE FOUR THAT PARADISE Mimosa, N. C, July 9, 1920. The Fool-Killer, Boomer, N. C. Sir: Please read 2ncL Corrinthians 12:4 and explain it to me. Where was this paradise? I am not looking for an argument. I am open for Con- viction. J. W. MURDOCK. That's what I call the sensible attitnHft to take on' such oues- tions. When a man approaches tyip in that attitude of mind there is some satisfaction in talk- ink with him. All right, Mr. Murdock. We will now proceed. You ask for an explanation of the 4th verses only, out it is necessary to nonce the reading ot the three pre- ceding; verses in order to get the matter straight. So let me auote the whole four verses: It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and "Tof-c t. t Ww n man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I cannot cannot tell: God knoweth); such a one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body I not tell: God knoweth): how that ,ght up into paradise, and eakable words, which it is he was cau o Wor, f tvTiT Now what is it that Paul says he is coming to r Listen, "i will come to VISIONS and RE- VELATIONS of the Lord." The first idea we get, then, is that tne tnmg ne is going to ten us aboutis a VISION. What is a vision? Is it the real, literal thing that it appears to be, or is it just an appearance? We all know it is just an appearance of something that is not real at the time when seen. But this vision that Paul saw, while not real at the time he saw it, was a picture of something that is to be real in the future. The vision that Paul tells about here was what you might call an ex- act duplicate of what John the Revelator saw on Patmos. They both saw the same things in blank. It could not even be con vision .But in neither case were scious of its own existence, be- the things or conditions ACT- UAL at the time they saw them, They are still in the future. Seeing, then, that the thing was only a vision, let us see what the vision was and how it all happened. Some people take this passage as proof that there is an immortal soul in man which can get out of the bo'dy and go off and live and see things independent of the body. But it proves nothing of the sort. Note carefully that it does not say a word about any soul. It is talking about a MAN. And this man that was caught up into the third heaven HEARD certain things. A man HEARS with his EARS and SEES with his EYES. And the ears and -eyes are parts of the body. If a man's soul should leave the bodv and go to heaven, it would certainly leave the ears and eyes THE FOOL-KILLER, How then could it hear or see : It is generally agreed, of that Paul himself was course, the man he was talking about, and he says he couldn't tell whether he was in the body or out of the body. But the the ologians of modem times have assumed to know more about it tkan paul himself knew, and TTTF.Y snv Vip was OTTT nf fVi. body For pitys gake how do THEY know, if HE didn't? rney simply don't. Jtut it suits their wild-eyed theories to have him OUT of the body, and so tney teacn it tnat way. Paul was not any more out of the body when he saw this vision than John of Patmos was out of the body when he saw trie unrigs tnat ne lciis aooui. in eaen case it was simply a MENTAL PROJECTION INTO THE FUTURE. Things far in the future were supernaturally Pfl m review betOM their " t " A VvX1, VXACVU . -V rAKiiiNUii, was very vivia. We people of today, Without .aia' JrT P" oul minds into the past, and actual ly SEE things that happened a long time ago. For instance, the cabin that I lived in when J was a little boy has long been torn down and destroyed. But I snuLiny eyes Luua.y auu or, tnat caom just as piam as ever saw it m my childhood days when I lived in it. What do you can tnat c vo you tninK my soul gets out of my body and fef Da nirty years ana sees I I.IlM I. f'MFH II 111 Mf'l.llMI MX IS I HMTH ' 0h no! It is only my MEMORY that enables me to do that. And what is MEMORY, and where and how does it operate? We all know that the seat of the memory is m the BRAIN, and we know that the brain is a part of the physical body. There- fore a soul separate from the body would have no brain, and as a natural consequence would have no memory. It could not remember its own name, nor what its postoff ice address was on earth, nor anything else about itself. Its past existences, if it had one, would be an absolute cause consciousness is so closely associated with memory that you can't separate them. If you couldn't remember that you were nvmg nve minutes ago you couldn t be conscious that you are living this minut Did you ever think about that? The thing that enabled Paul to see this wonderful vision of the future was what we might call an INVERTED MEMORY. that is, a memory turned wrong end foremost and poked out into the future. That's the way all the old prophets got their dope, and they got it straight, too, regardless of what the "higher critics may trunk about it. But you want to know about that Paradise. Wait a minute. We will get to that presently. The next point is about being "caught up" to that third I heaeyen. Caught up is not BOOMER, M. C; true translation of the original. The, Emphatic Diaglott renders ., -i i i t tf it, "suddenly conveyed away. Wakefield puts it " carried away." Wyclif says: "ravished intn TWLradise"- Rheims' ver- sion reads, "rapt into paradise.", You see all the best authori- ties agree that the "caught up" idea is wrong. Paul was not "caught up", but "caught away," A1- vveiV UIie tr"u """ or words to that effect. And there is now being turned loose he was not caught away into a on the world a regular flood ot distant place, but rather into a distant timh;. i ne tnira heaven" does not mean a series of heavens built up vertically one above the other like the floors in j& sky-scraper. It means third in point of TIME, just as you would say the first day, the second day, or the third dav The first heaven and the first earth, constituting." The World That Was," passed away at the Flood. The second heaven and SS-8 wS, elV COiS!f Ut? reafrom tt? Flood to the end of the Gospel Dispensation. The third heaven and the th rd earth will start when Christ be- gins nis Millennial Keign on earth, and they will reach on through the Endless Ages. That will be what we speak of as "The World to Come," and that You can't find a syllable of Scripture to indicate that there ,;. ,,7;ii o Tn anTO.aW .1 0v,f h oanfii Hora i0 "VI S VH UlilU CtrX Lilt XXVI V ik) w r,oo,iio roc 4- lVin h no t,tViQo 4- iTmP swapped off for an apple and be re-established in the future. 1VU U , CfrXlVA uvig X.O VV llvl XI VV XIX The word "paradeisos" is not properly either Greek or Hebrew, but appears to have been- im ported from a more eastern tongue, probably the Persian. In Gesemus and Robinson's He brew Lexicon it is defined thus: a paradise, an orcnara, an A 1 11 arboretum, particularly of pome granates, a park, a fruit-garden ; a name common to several Oriental languages and especial- ly current among the Persians." T n j x ej'jstuiius ucuis uie garueiis 01 Solomon paradises and Berosus (Quoted bv Josenhus) savs that the lofty gardens erected by INebuchadnezzar were called the Ildmeb- 1 am paying ior tnem my "Suspended Paradise."' self' because I want them to hear the So you see the word "para- tmth- 1 can say to yu that 1 have dise" means something like a becn fighting this blasphemous doct beautiful park or garden filled rine of Eternal Torment for ten years, With fruits and flowers. The and 1 am Siting some of their eyes Garden of Eden was just that Pen on the matter. I tell them that kind of a place it was a para- the Blble dosn't tdbch anything of dise and in due course of time the sort' and 1 proved it by the pure that paradise is going to be re- Woild of God- So I'll stand by you stored and enlarged to cover the m the truth. whole earth. That was the . J- C. Simpson, Wellsvlile, Ohio I paradise that Paul saw in his am sending in a small club to the Vision. With his "inverted mem- greatest little paper en earth. I have orv he saw this earth with the curse of sin removed saw it re- newed and beautified, and pre- pared as the final home of the redeemed. When we learn something about the TIME features o the Bible, and how to calculate in terms of ages and dispensations, a lot 01 tilings tnat nad puzzled us are maoe piam ana easy. JUNE 1920. SPIRITIST LITERATURE T w , , -A xci many uwn -"""'"s , mniiTir.PTrimts of new hooks. tney come from the press. L am not able to buy all of them and no human being could pos- sibly read half of them but by studying these lists I can keep Ptty close track of the trend 01 preseni-uuy iitcicttuxc. lltiW ?yxiuu . , , , m ? bl2 publishers seem to pe mostly on tne aevn s siae, an,4 lf a book exposing Spirit- u.ahsni were offered for publica- turn it wouldV almost certainly be rejected. I could write a scorcher that subject myself, but what would be the use? - Q "3 tist propda .appear each L"u 1 JTr TJT mortal Soul lie, they are falling- j?!0. JP. bLth m": ""V. .1, l"f ""' : ZLZiZa11 A rZZ v?aS?a?l iyyie nave leni, tne prestige 01 their names to it, and the world is going raving bekussed over talking with the dead." In spite of the fact that it is. against all reason, alL science and f 11 Scripture, they will still cling hke a. ad refuse to listen when I offer to tell them the truth about it. No- wdy can answer my questions I 1 1 . 1 f 1 nor explain how the dead can uc CWi V C, UUt II1CV Uil UC" "C.V1U e uie uevn says C0BKESP0NDE1VCE. Lee Gill, 1304 Fourth Street., Wichita Falls, Tex. I got The Fool Killer yesterday and when I had read it I felt so good I just turned out and nabbed a few subs. Thousrh I hav -j- - not been guilty of it before I am in it now. So send the Fool-Killer to these seventeen names for which I en close $4.25. Hurry it along to these- TT' andT P'eT d,not miss an of them" 1 wlU send my lenewal soon. A- AVA- ttieton, baiem, b. c., I am sending you a club of five, and. Pleass sen the paper to the enclosed ' been a constant reader for a long time, and the only fault is we don't get it often enough. Keep her booming. W. R. Calloway, Haworth, Okla. I like your little paper. It hits along Uie line that I have been thinking on for some time, and I am glad to know that such thoughts are heinrr put in print s they will reach the ' C3 people. I enclose herewith a club of five.