Article November 6, 1976 ISSUE

The Way Out of the Matter Trap

BRYAN G. POPE

If Christianity did not mean that there is far more to life than a short span of mortal existence, its teachings would be comparatively worthless. The Apostle Paul put it pungently this way: "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain." I Cor. 15:14;

The question is: How can we recapture that soaring, joyous certainty of spiritual life forever "hid with Christ in God"? Col. 3:3; So much more than hopeful beliefs, this spiritual certainty enabled the apostles to face unflinchingly difficulties of many kinds—even death; it enabled hundreds of others to do likewise in the amphitheaters of Rome. Two words provide the key: spiritual understanding.

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