Sin and Its Punishment.

CONTENTS:

PREFACE : Returned Soldiers' Views on Eternal Punishment. [reprinted from The Sunday School Times, Summer of 1919]
SCRIPTURE SYMPOSIUM.
SECTION I. INTRODUCTION.
Reason for this Thesis.
Right and Duty of Inquiry.
• Intellectual Honesty.
— • Questioning in Honesty.
— • Questioning in Faith.
— • Questioning in Reverence.
SECTION II. SIN, THE REASON FOR ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
Definition and Analysis of Sin.
Hereditary Sin, Not the Reason for Eternal Punishment.
• Sin in Social Heredity.
• Sin in Physiological Heedity.
— • Heredity of Acquired Characteristics.
— • Is Sin an Acquired Characteristic?
— • The Human Species Not Morally Changed.
— • Is Our Method of Classification Correct?
— • The Sinless Humanity of Christ.
— • Hereditary Sin, and the Origin and Nature of the Individual Soul.
• Reality of Hereditary Sin.
— • Hereditary Sin Implied in Scripture.
— • Hereditary Sin Expressly Taught.
• Accountability for Hereditary Sin.
• God's Remedy for Hereditary Sin.
• Hereditary Sin to be Repented of.
Particular Sins, Not the Reason for Eternal Punishment.
• Sinlessness without Christ?
• Involuntary Sin, Not the Reason for Eternal Punishment.
— • Involuntary Sin to be Repented of.
• Voluntary Sin, Not the Reason for Eternal Punishment.
• Determinism, or Mechanism.
— • Predestination.
— • Moral Responsibility for Voluntary Sins.
— • Works Regarded as Indication of Faith in Christ.
Eternal Sin.
• Rejecting Christ, the Reason for Eternal Punishment. (What of the Unevangelized?)
• Rejecting Christ is Eternal Sin.
— • The Sinner Lives Forever.
— • The Sinner Sins Forever.
— • — Progressive Nature of Moral Life.
— • The Sinner is to be Punished Forever.
SECTION III. ELEMENTS IN ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
The Place of Eternal Punishment.
Material Elements Associated with Eternal Punishment.
— • Historical Interpretation.
— • Worms and Fire.
— • Fire and Brimstone.
The Presence of Christ the Agency of Torment.
Rest in God's Love.
SECTION IV. CONCLUSION.
Divine Vengeance and Mercy.
The Presence of God.