Thomas Williams

Name: The Great Salvation — Proposition 23
Author: Thomas Williams

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“The Great Salvation — Proposition 23”, is a work by Thomas Williams. It explores elements such as devil, diabolos and sin.

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ Such a God-honoring, glorious prospect is shut out from your view by the heathenism that would perpetuate the existence of a personal, omniscient, omnipresent, immortal, fire-proof devil, with countless millions of hopeless and helpless victims. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — 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
Now, dear reader, we come to the question of the devil--a question that you may think of trivial importance, but which we must insist is of great importance. It is very important that we believe no doctrine that will dishonor and blaspheme God. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ On the whole, however, what has been said under the heading of diabolos will apply to the word satan. Any person who is an opposer of right is a satan. Hence our Lord’s words to the Apostle Peter, "Get thee behind me, satan"; from which no reasonable person would infer that Peter was the being superstition supposes the devil to be.
When the grand mission of Christ is completed there will be no satan, diabolos nor demon, for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet; the last enemy shall be destroyed--death.
Sin, the transgression of law, made man a satan--an adversary of right. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ If they had been slanderers or false accusers they would have been devils in the sense that "devil' is used in the New Testament from diabolos.
Literally the word diabolos means that which causes to cross over. Hence that which tempts men to cross the line from right to wrong, or to sin. That which causes man to sin, as well as sin itself in all it’s various phases is personified in the Scriptures in the same way that riches are called the god this world and mammon; and this principle of human nature is what tempts to do wrong. Hence it is the diabolos which causes men to cross over the line. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ To bring forth death sin took effect in man’s nature in the form of disease or mortality; disease multiplied into various forms, and these forms were by the heathen called demons. When our Redeemer brings the time when there will be no sickness or pain there will be no "demons." When our "vile body is changed and fashioned like unto his glorious body", "mortality will be swallowed up of life and there will be no more lust in our natures; hence no more diabolos or satan in us. Being free from lust, we shall not sin and therefore not become diabolos or satan. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ I have often been applied to myself in Syria and other parts to east out a devil; by which I merely understood that I was to cure the bodily ailments of the individuals-not that I was expected to perform a miracle on the occasion, further than that the cure of every disease is ascribed by the natives to talismanic influence. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ Then Christ will have fulfilled His mission in "destroying him that hath the power of death, that is the devil". There being ,no more death, no more demon, no more diabolos, no more satan, the LAST enemy will have been destroyed. Yes, DESTROYED; and then "God shall be all IN ALL". In this, dear reader, you have a prospect that exalts and honors Jehovah’s name, in that it shows us that, while He has permitted man to sin and thus blight and curse the earth for a time, His wisdom, power and glory will put an end to all evil. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ Is not man naturally weak enough in resisting the enticements of the carnal mind? Why should God create, or even allow to exist, a being possessed of such a tempting power over man who is already so weak? ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ If there is such a personal monster as is popularly believed in-one that is immortal and possessed of power to tempt weak humanity in all parts of the world at the same time, and that has the power of an endless life to continue his rebellion against God--the question is, Where did such a being come from? ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 23

“ With them, when a person was afflicted with a disease of any kind, especially disease affecting the mind, it was a disembodied spirit, or, as it would now be called by their disciples, an "immortal soul", had entered the body of the person to punish him. ”

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