The Immortality of the Soul, Is it a Scriptural Doctrine? - Alonzo T. Jones

Chapter 4
A Clean Universe
To put away sin and plant righteousness in its
stead, is the mission of Christ to this world. That he
might accomplish this, he had to make the awful
sacrifice of himself, the Creator of the universe.
"Now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself." Heb. 9:26. By the greatness of the
sacrifice we may judge of the enormity of sin, and
how abhorrent it is in the sight of God, and also
how widely contrary it is to every principle of the
government of the King of eternity. To deliver man
from its thralldom he spared not his own Son.
Rather than to see the blight and stain of sin upon
the fair face of his universe, God gave up the "Son
of his love" to die the cruel death of the accursed
tree. John says: "He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For
this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that
he might destroy the works of the devil." 1 John
3:8. The work of the devil is sin; for he says, "He
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