The Great Salvation

• Preface to 1973 Edition

CONTENTS

PART ONE

• What it is and how to obtain it
  
• Proposition 1 - It does make a difference what we believe
  
• Proposition 2 - There is only one Gospel that will save
  
• Proposition 3 - We must believe in the true God
  
• Proposition 4 - God is not a Trinity of persons, but One God
  
• Proposition 5 - Jesus Christ-Son of God by begettal, Son of man by birth
  
• Proposition 6 - The Holy Spirit not a person, but the effluence proceeding from God
  
• Proposition 7 - The nature of man-mortal, a creature of the dust
  
• Proposition 8 - Man dies, and is dead after he has died
  
• Proposition 9 - In death man is unconscious
  
• Proposition 10 - Resurrection the means of future life for the dead
  
• Proposition 11 - Immortality the gift of God to the righteous only
  
• Proposition 12 - Life as now possessed is not eternal, but a vapor that soon passeth
  
• Proposition 13 - Everlasting life not a present possession, but a matter of hope
  
• Proposition 14 - The wicked and depraved who are not amenable die and remain
  
• Proposition 15 - The wicked who are responsible of the dead and living will be destroyed after judgment
  
• Proposition 16 - The soul not immortal, but is the mortal, bodily being called man
  
• Proposition 17 - Many learned men deny the immortality of the soul
  
• Proposition 18 - The spirit of man not an immortal entity, but the word is used for life, mind and disposition
  
• Proposition 19 - Immortality is God's holy nature; the word "immortal" is never applied to man in his present state
  
• Proposition 20 - Eternal life is not a present actual possession, but is promised to the righteous only
  
• Proposition 21 - The wicked will not be preserved alive in torture, but will be destroyed
  
• Proposition 22 - Hell as employed in the Bible does not mean a place of eternal torture, but the grave and Gehenna
  
• Proposition 23 - The devil is not a personal monster dwelling in "hell" and yet everywhere present tempting all men, but is sin in the flesh
  

PART TWO

• Proposition 24 - God has promised to bless and fill the earth with His glory
  
• Proposition 25 - The earth is to be the everlasting inheritance of the righteous not heaven
  
• Proposition 26 - The Gospel as embraced in the promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is that the righteous through Christ shall inherit the earth for ever
  
• Proposition 27 - The promises to Abraham have never been fulfilled
  
• Proposition 28 - The seed in whom the Abrahamic promises are to be fulfilled in Christ
  
• Proposition 29 - God covenanted with David to establish a universal, glorious and everlasting kingdom on earth ever
  
• Proposition 30 - The covenant with David will be fulfilled in Christ's possession of David's restored throne
  
• Proposition 31 - The fulfillment of the covenants with Abraham and David involves the restoration of the twelve tribes under Christ
  
• Proposition 32 - There will be a personal and literal return of Christ to the earth
  

PART THREE

• What must I do to be saved?
  
• Proposition 33 - In Christ only can we obtain redemption and atonement
  
• Proposition 34 - Baptism is one of the conditions of salvation "What good will water do?"
  
• Proposition 35 - It is our duty after baptism to obey the commandments of Christ
  

PART FOUR

• Objections Answered.
  
• Elijah restores the soul of the child.
  
• "Her Soul was in departing".
  
• "Cannot kill the Soul".
  
• The Souls under the Altar.
  
• "The Spirit shall return to God who gave it".
  
• Stephen's dying prayer.
  
• Paul's desire to depart.
  
• In or out of the body.
  
• "Absent from the body, and present with the Lord".
  
• The spirits in prison.
  
• The thief on the cross.
  
• The rich man and Lazarus.
  

PART FIVE

• Who will "Meet the Lord in the air?"