How to be Free from Sin — Page 20
20 married. Is all this because a new verse of the Bible has been discovered which renders all these things lawful, or because the blood of Christ has had the opposite effect and the promise of salvation has not been fulfilled? The fact is that this was never the correct remedy, because the death of one person can have no bearing on the salvation of another; rather all blessings emanate from a Living God, not a dead one; and light shines forth when the sun rises and not when it sets. The failure of this remedy to grant salvation from sin also falsifies the doctrine that the son of God gave up his life for this purpose. We can never ascribe to God a death whereby He sacrifices His own life and yet fails to achieve His purpose. It is also contrary to the eternal law of God that He should submit Himself to death and mor- tality and weakness and abasement and be born from a woman’s womb. There is no precedent which validates this concept—it would be satisfying to know that God has experienced similar births several times before—nor is it substantiated by the kind of Divine miracles which man can never show on his own. Furthermore, this doctrine has not achieved what it was aimed at. Is it not true that the people of Europe excessively indulge in drinking and de- bauchery, the two major sins which satisfy the carnal passions, and is it not true that most men and women in Europe partake their full share of both of these sins? It would not be an exaggeration to say that Europe has sur- passed the nations of Asia in the consumption of alcohol. In Europe, stores which sell wine are so common that