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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

U.S. News and World Report displays this week a provocative title for its lead article: “Science and the Soul” (a pensive young woman on its cover). The article concludes with a touch of reality, contrasting Plato’s immortal soul philosophy with the Biblical truth of the resurrection of the body. Malcolm Jeeves, honorary professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews, is one of “many believing scientists” who now soberly realize that “the original Christian view was not the immortality of the soul but the resurrection of the body. ... As many Christian theologians now say, human beings do not have souls; they are souls.” But Plato’s philosophy “did creep in, ... winning over ... [great leaders like] Augustine and John Calvin.”

 

Jeeves thinks “it will take decades” for many Christians to accept the truth. But for someone who believes that we are already living in the last days of earth’s history, in the Biblical “time of the end” (Dan. 12:4) when the second coming of Christ is imminent, when Jesus says that “this generation will by no means pass away till all these things are fulfilled” (Matt. 24:34)—more delaying “decades” are perplexing and disappointing.

 

Speaking of that “generation, “ Jesus said, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world, ... and then the end will come” (vs. 14). Jeeves may not realize God’s promise, “He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth” (Rom. 9:28). God’s plan is that the apostasy in the Christian church that took centuries to develop shall be unmasked in that “short work” that the Lord will “make,” and every honest soul worldwide will rejoice in His “righteousness.” The message will then become crystal clear.

 

Confidence that Christ will do that “short work” is essential to Day of Atonement living. To the believer, His soon coming is always present truth.

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