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73On Salvation and Punishment 145 146Quintessence of Religious DoctrinesCommentThe S.O.C. holds that, the final outcome of judgement wouldbe either eternal salvation and bliss or damnation andsuffering. Regarding the fate of the departed souls until theday of judgement, the S.O.C. does not entertain, the conceptof purgatory, which the Roman Church holds.4. If one turns away from good to evil and if another person doesthe converse thing, the original goodness in the former case andthe original evil in the latter case shall not be remembered. Sucha person, however, will have either eternal punishment or eternalhappiness, depending on the quantum of goodness, that standsto his or her credit.Ref: (a) Ezek. 18:21-24. “If an evil man stops sinning, andkeeps my laws, if he does what is right and good, hewill not die: he will certainly live. All his sins will beforgiven and he will live because he did what isright. Do you think that I enjoy seeing an evil mandie?” Asks the Sovereign Lord. “No, I would rathersee him repent and live. But if a righteous man stopsdoing good and starts doing all the evil, disgustingthings that evil men do, will he go on living? No!None of the good he did will be remembered. He willdie because of his unfaithfulness and his sins.CommentThis is a warning, that as for God, human bargaining orhuman accounting would be of no avail. So, they are told notto turn to evil ways on the confidence that their oncecommendednoble ways would win for them the mercy ofGod or that the good actions which they had performed intheir lives would stand them in good stead.5. The above dispensation of the Lord, who is full of mercy andjustice, generates hope and interest in the penitence. But as theteaching of some that redemption and salvation are the fruits ofgrace given freely by God in accordance with his earlydispensation, which says that every one will have identical justice,renders the God of Justice, into an unjust one.Ref: Lk. 15:17, 18, 19. So he went to work for one of thecitizens of that country, who sent him out to hisfarm to take care of the pigs. He wished he could fillhimself with the bean pots the pigs ate. But no onegave him anything to eat. At last he came to hissenses and said, “All my father’s hired workers havemore than they can eat and here I am about to starve!I will get up and go to my father and say, Father, Ihave sinned against God and against you. I am nolonger fit to be called your son.” Treat me as one ofyour hired workers.” (G.N.B.)CommentA further warning not to capitalise on the infinite mercy ofGod. For the S.O.C. the theory called akaphatastasis or thatGod would grant salvation to all as put forward by the geniusOrigen of Alexandria is not only acceptable but a heresyalso. It was this theory of his, which stood as a bar for Origenbeing canonised by the Church. The S.O.C. holds that God’smercy and justice have to be held evenly in every judgementof His.
74148Quintessence of Religious DoctrinesTheme No: 31On ResurrectionIntroductionThe soul and the body are rendered separate by the stroke ofdeath. The body thereupon returns to dust.CommentAccording to the theology of the S.O.C. death is a feat ofseparation. In death the body and the soul are separated.Earth unto earth or dust unto dust, the body returns, whilethe soul soars up to its ethereal abode.1. On the Dooms Day, however, the body will be resurrected,unite with the soul, attain indestructibility and enjoy eternalblessings or suffer eternal damnation. Everyone must hold thisview. Nobody should believe at all, the theories put forward bysome pagans that resurrection is reserved for the just and sothere is no general resurrection or the theory that resurrectionimplies, transmigration of the souls from one human body toanother human body.Ref: (a) Is. 26:19. Those of our people who have died willlive again! Their bodies will come back to life. Allthose sleeping in their graves will wake up and singfor joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth sothe Lord will revive those who have long been dead.(G.N.B.)(b) Dan. 12:2. Many of those who have already diedwill live again: Some will enjoy eternal life and somewill suffer eternal disgrace. (G.N.B.)(c) Jn. 5:28, 29. Do not be surprised at this; the time iscoming when all the dead will hear his voice andcome out of their graves; those who have done goodwill rise and live and those who have done evil willrise and be condemned. (G.N.B.)(d) Rom. 6:5. For, since we have become one with himand dying as he did, in the same way we shall beone with him by being raised to life as he was.(G.N.B.)(e) vide. 1Cor. 15: 7(f) vide. Ezek. 37: 7CommentHere is a paraphrase as to what befalls a body at death. Asnoted above earth holds the body; but at the herald of thedooms day, all the departed souls without any exception wouldreunite with their original body and face the retributivejudgement of the Lord. Once the judgement is passed thehumans with their bodies and souls reunited, would go toeternal damnation or eternal salvation. This is the rationalefor keeping the dead bodies in tact without any maiming ormutilation. The doctrine of transmigration as held by theHindus, Buddists, Jains, Sikhs and some others is notacceptable to the S.O.C. One of the reasons for this is thatthe S.O.C. as other sects of Christianity subscribes itself tothe linear computation of time as against the cyclic conceptionupheld by Hindus and other religions of Indian origin.
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