The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 301

;

NOT A MERE NEGATION

SIN

As

belong together. tion.

it

was

A man's confession

sistent, tell

Hence

what

if

in the fall, so

it

must be

regarding redemption

his confession is regarding the

261

in the restora«

will, if

he be con-

fall.

Dr. Kohlbrugge had confessed that the restoration

leaves our being unchanged and only translates us into a sphere of righteousness, then

the fall as leaving

thing which

it

should be conceded that he also represented

man and

we can

his nature intact.

And

this is the very-

Dr. Kohlbrugge has uncovered

not concede.

the actual corruption of our nature so forcibly and positively that

we

will

never believe that according to his confession the

our being and nature intact.

Neither can

we concede

fall left

that, accord-

is left unchanged, even tho he connected that change, very rightly, with the mystic union and with the dying to sin in death. If he had actually intended to teach what many of his followers

ing to his confession, in the restoration our being

we would call his tendency very defiBut since we can not interpret him without taking into account the misrepresentations which he so strongly opposed, and especially since his confession concerning the corruption of our nature was so complete, we maintain that he did not teach what many of his followers offer in his name. Hence our way is in the very opposite direction. Dr. Bohl says in other words: "Dr. Kohlbrugge, in his doctrine of redemption, starts from the idea that redemption leaves the sinner essentially unchanged; hence neither can sin have affected him essentially." While, on the contrary, we say " The confession of Kohlbrugge regarding the corruption of our nature is so complete that he could not but confess that in the fall, and therefore in the restoration, our nature was changed. But be that as it may, this is sure, that, according to the word allege that he did teach, then nitely erroneous.

:

"

and the constant doctrine of our Church, sin, altho it is essentially and exclusively privative and lacking independent existence, is yet in its consequences positive and in its workings destructive. Our nature did not remain unchanged, but it became corrupt ; and corruption is the significant word which indicates the fatal, positive effects which resulted from this loss of life and light.

A plant needs light to

flourish

;

light excluded,

it

not only lan-

but soon withers, decays, and at last mildews; and this is, Cancer and smallpox are not merely loss of health corruption. gfuishes,

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