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Indeed I consider it so clearly taught in the bible that is unclear to argue it. Now In regard to the object of Christ permit me, unclear at length. If I understand your views on the subject they are that the object of Christ's death was to add a kind of moral force ? & dignity his example. To give him the characters of a martyr to his principles like Socrates,
& in order that his life & examples might make a greater impression
on mankind than the object of Christ coming into the world was to set us an example how to live and how to be happy. & when the Bible says that there is salvation in no other name you believe perhaps that only so far as we copy this example & imbibe his spirit only in this proportion ? shall we be happy in this life as the next. Now I believe that Christ has set us an example which we are to follow 1 Proverb?.2.21 In proportion? as we imbibe the spirit of Christ So we shall be holy & happy Let me be distinctly understood, as saying that I believe it impossible for a perfectly holy being to be unhappy & that in as much as Christ was scratched through- perfectly holy has unclear undefiled, If we live like him we should be perfectly happy. But I think that there was an object in Christs' death. In the first place we are all sinners & are all therefore transgressors of God's law. Now there is a penalty to that law, And by this I do not mean the result of natural laws, I mean [[scratched through - was not that case with]] unclear penal infliction. was that not the case in Eden, were not A & E driven from the garden as a penalty for their guilt. Was that the result of natural laws or the destruction of Soddom & the cities of the unclear. Was the judgement on unclear & S the result of natural laws. Just look at Gen 2.17, Ezk 18.4,Rom 6.23 & Jam(es) 1.15 unclear is the trangression of the law & "this soul that giveth it shall die can that mean natural death. Then read the 9th and 7th verses of Ezk 18. Placed then as we are under the law of God if we violate it we must suffer the penalty. You my say it is unjust or perhaps impossible for unclear that his sinner once & then reformed & becomes perfectly holy to suffer endless punishment, so I say. But you have an extremely mistaken idea of sin it seems to me. One sin committed polutes the whole