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 The suggestion immediately comes to mind, a searching question it is, "What would have happened if the Jews had not murdered Jesus?" Had they accepted Him, as He sought to have them do, He could not have saved them, nor the human race. A crime had so be committed in order to permit God to save humanity. Blood had to be shed, innocent blood had to be shed, a sacrifice commensurate with the extent of the human race; Otherwise God. in His Infinite Justice, could not have saved humanity. But even then He did not agree to save them all. only certain ones who would plead that Jesus had died in their place. The rest would perish eternally in the tortures of hell. This is the Plan of Salvation, the idea of an Italian priest whose theory gained universal acceptance. This is still regarded by millions of the human race as identical with Christianity, as the plan of the Bible.

Immediately thousands of good men and women who accept this theory of salvation rise up to condemn a man who would thus enter what is to them as the temple of God and break down their image, their belief, try to discredit what is to them the plain and only teaching of the Sacred Scriptures.

And yet they know in their hearts that if a man will repent and turn from his evil ways, turn to his Heavenly Father, or to the Lord Jesus, which is for Christians, of course, the same, and therafter live a life of love to God and the neighbor, which Jesus said is the summing up of religion, he will be saved. The whole Bible can be brought forward to support this statement. Just one passage in proof of what has been said: "If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done shall he live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" What did Jesus say? "Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out." He did not mention the Plan of Salvation.

Is not what is now being said the evident teaching of the Sacred Scriptures?