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1.  "GREETING" We desire to reach those who are searching and who love the truth  for the truth's sake;---those who love and prize the truth, above   the creed, above the denomination, above their reputation, above all their   worldly prospects; those who are willing to part  with all they have for the priceless pearl.
2. "THE TITLE OF THE PAPER" By The Spirit of the Word, I mean its real and intended meaning.
3.  "BIBLE TERMS: NATURAL, SPIRITUAL, CARNAL"  Natural man is man in the rough---who has received no spiritual development: Spiritual  man is the illuminated natural man, unto the completion which is in His (Christ’s) likeness: Carnal man is the under development of spiritual man, i.e. “babes in Christ.”
4. "ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD"  There is no statement in the Bible that is   more remarkable and even startling than this. When you think of it  seriously, it seems as though Paul was very unguarded and careless in   his language. But no, Paul makes the sweeping, unqualified statement,   "All things are of  (literally, out of) God."  Furthermore, so important did   Paul consider this truth that he repeats it over and over again. The direct   statement is made no less than six times in the writings of the apostle.   See Rom. XI. 36; 1 Cor. VIII. 6, and XI. 12; 2 Cor. V. 18; Eph. I. 11, and   Heb. II. 10.
5. "FREE MORAL AGENCY" Let me also call attention to the fact that the   phrase, "free moral agency," is not a Scriptural one, any more than the   phrase "immortal soul" is Scriptural. Free moral agency is simply a   theological expression, man-manufactured for his own convenience, and   it may be that it does not express the truth. Let us by all means fit our  theology to the Bible; and not try, as many do, to conform the Bible to our theology.
6. "THE TWO ACCOUNTS OF THE CREATION" It is well known to all  Bible Students that in the first two chapters of Genesis we have two distinct, and in some respects apparently contradictory accounts of the Creation. Where there seems to be a contradiction or discrepancy in the Bible, when we come to understand the solution of the difficulty we shall   find some especially grand and glorious truth hid away in the heart of the   perplexing "letter," like a pearl in an oyster, and what at first seemed to be   an irreconcilable tangle, is found at last to be only another illustration of   the absolute harmony and perfection of God's wonderful "Word of life."
7.  "WE ARE GOD’S WORKMANSHIP"  Most Christians live as though the  responsibility of their own development and perfection rested entirely upon themselves. God thru His Christ ,while on the Cross, was manifesting the reconciliation of all mankind for in this act of redemption, or reconciliation , God took responsibility for His Creation. He did not leave anything or anyone out of His divine Purpose.
8. "WHAT IS MAN"   When man was first created he was just what the scripture says he was, “a living creature,” and from that mere animal, natural condition, he will be developed into a “perfect man” in the likeness  of God, incorruptible and immortal.  He, in the likeness of Christ, is the pattern man of God’s finished creation.
9.   "FAITH AND WORKS"   Is there something man can do?  Yes, but what is the nature and the purpose of this doing?  Christians do the wrong thing   and with the wrong motive, hence their doing is a snare and a stumbling stone.

10. DEFINITIONS:
 10.1    "WORLD, AEON"
 10.2      "KOSMOS"
 10.3      "HEAVEN , EARTH"
 10.4      "ETERNAL"
 10.5    "ORTHODOXY"

11.1 "WE SEE JESUS"   The sacrifice He made was not after His incarnation,   but before. He left the “glory” that He had with the Father before the world   was formed. We see Christ Jesus prophetically and we see Jesus Christ historically.
11.2  "THE MAN CHRIST JESUS"  Christ the Son is absolutely God the Father,--in the language of the creeds,--”the very unoriginated God,” is   not only absurd, self-contradictory and unscriptural, but confusing,   misleading and discouraging to the soul seeking after God.
12. "PROBATION"  The word “Probation” does not occur in the Bible, nor does   the idea that is commonly attached to it; their highest idea of salvation is  salvation from the consequences of sin--an endless hell.
13. "THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST"  Define the word, Divinity.  This word is   misused by  theologians.  Divinity is Godlikeness, and this was Christ’s birthright; He never stated that He was God.  Indeed Jesus Christ answered “My Father is greater than I” in John 14:28.

14. QUESTIONS:
         "CHURCH and  COMPELLING MESSAGE"
         "SECOND  DEATH"
         "SABBATH"
        "PROBATION AND THE DOCTRINE of ETERNAL   HELL"

15. "JUDGMENT"   “Before the Lord, for he cometh to judge the world (or the order of things). He shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with His Truth.” This presentation of the nature of the time of  judgement as a period of great rejoicing and special blessing, is in striking contrast with the orthodox view, unmitigated horror and dread.
16. "SODOM" In the case of Sodom, the purpose is one of benevolence,   mercy and love, and this purpose will plainly appear in God’s “due time.”
17.   "THE MYSTIC CHRISTMAS" A poem so beautifully illustrates the differences between the letter and the spirit.
18.  "TRUSTING"  We may have faith in a person and yet not be willing to trust him very much; especially with our worldly goods or reputation.
19.  "BIBLE CORRECTIONS" Psa. VII.11; Psa IX. 17; Psa. 109th; Isa. XXVI. 10, 11; John III. 16.
20.  "SWORD AND GARMENT"  This passage plainly indicates that there is a  mystical or spiritual meaning.  A message that is very symbolic; however,  prophecy was being fulfilled.
21.  "THE PURPOSE OF EVIL"  There is probably no subject in all the range of  religious thought so hard to deal with as that of the purpose of evil.  How   can you account for the existence of evil alongside of a supreme, all wise,  holy and benevolent God?  In regard to this subject, orthodoxy is hopelessly   contradictory, and utterly absurd.  But God purposed “all things.”
22.  "THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW" The first purpose of the law then is to   give knowledge of sin; or in other words to bring us to a true knowledge of ourselves.
23. "THE PURPOSE OF TRIAL"  I apprehend that the reason why so few   understand this experience is because they read the scripture so carelessly,   and understand so little about God’s way of life ”made perfect through suffering.”
24.  "THE ATONEMENT" The common idea of the so-called vicarious atonement   is offensive in the extreme and it makes a declaration that man can not be freely pardoned, and the penalty  fully remitted: he, or some one else must suffer the penalty before God, in order for God's "justice" is satisfied.
25.  "THEOLOGICAL REVERSALS"  The Bible is written, as the Word incarnate spoke, in “parables and dark sayings,” allegories, shadows and figures,  that the truth might not be seen, except by those to “whom it was given.”
26.  "TERMINOLOGY OF THE  ATONEMENT" It is very necessary in order to understand the doctrine of the atonement to have a clear apprehension of  the various terms:
                                     Atonement: Reconciliation (reconciliation of all mankind): Propitiation: Intercession: Mediator
                                     and Advocate: Redemption: Ransom: Purchased and Bought.
27.   "CORRESPONDENCE" Objections from a Christian brother.
28.  "WHY DID CHRIST DIE?"    To reconcile ( manifest the reconciliation of all mankind) the world unto God, to fulfill the law; making known God to man; bring forth the “much fruit”, the “whole of Creation,” destroying the works of the devil; to become the Lord of the dead and the living; to ratify the New Covenant; to present to God His inheritance in the Saints and establish God as “All in All.”
29. "THE ATONEMENT AS TYPIFIED IN THE LAW"  "I have sinned; there is a just and holy God who punishes sin; how shall I escape this punishment?" This is about as high as most men get in their moralizing, and their theory of the Atonement is built upon this basis. It is seen that the doctrine of substitution is false; let it go with that other lie of endless torments, seeing that it is equally dishonoring to God. Redemption was not an afterthought with God to counteract the effects of an unforeseen contingency. What we call "the fall of man," with its consequences of sin and death, was a part of God's original plan of creation, and hence of course atonement [redemption] [reconciliation of all mankind] was a part of that plan.

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