Defining Commonly Used Terms

Please note that the use of the terms 'Literalist' or 'Fundamentalist' found on this website is never applied in a derogatory sense; such terms are utilised in order to define Biblical interpretation amongst similar-thinking people in order to be able to express a contrasting mode of thought.

Books by Rev. Arthur Chambers:

"Our Life After Death" (Appendix on Universal Salvation)

"Man and the Spiritual World"

"Thoughts of the Spiritual"

"Problems of the Spiritual"

Angel Communicators Explain How A Backward-Thinking
Christendom Requires Angelic Intervention In Christ's Name

Explanation Of How Christ Made Creation And Also Became Man

"Test The Spirits (1 John 4:1)"
"The Discerning Of Spirits (1 Cor. 12:10)"

Some Dangers Of Pedantic Religious Literalism

Some Dangers Of Pedantic Secular Literalism

What Is Assumed By The Word "Saint"?

Limitations And Denigration Unwittingly Attributed
To The True God Of Love By The Sincere Dogmatist

How Religious Bigotry Really Hurts Christ

Shortfalls And Limitations Of The Big Bang Theory

So-Called 'Unanswered' Prayer
And The 'Mystery' Of Suffering

How The Mother And Father God
Is Found In Perfection In Jesus

The Inability Of Many Scientists And Religionists
In General To Lay Down Their Unifying Principles

True Rational Thought Concludes That Man
Is Responsible For Imperfection - Not God

The Bible Came Into Being
Via Christian Spiritualist Methods

"Christian Spiritualism Is A 'Heresy'
Because Of Universal Salvation!"

"If You Follow Israelite Law Then
Christ Has Become Useless To You"

Passion Of Christ - Without The Cross
Man Would Know Little of Jesus

Was Jesus God Or Just A Great Teacher?

The Doctrine Of "Everlasting Punishment" Is A Mistake
And Turns God From A True Father Into A Tyrant

What Is Being Born Again?
Spiritual Body And Physical Body

"But Paul Said That The Dead 'Sleep'
Until They Are Resurrected"? (1 Cor. 15)

"Sleeping" Until The Day Of Judgement?

Did Saul Die For Consulting A Medium
Because It's An Abomination to God?

Looking At Christ's "Second Coming"
Or The "Return Of Jesus" With Spiritual Eyes

Why Have Entries Been Removed From The Visitors Book?

"Reincarnation": Reasons Why People Mistakenly
Think They Have Been Other People Before

Rev. Horsley Explains Why He Is Christian Spiritualist

Rev. Frothingham Explains How
Experience Of The Supernormal Has Given Others
More Knowledge Of God Than He Has

Truth Is Found In Sacred Scriptures Other Than The Bible

Fundamentalists Preach A Different Gospel
To The One Taught By Christ

Faith without works is dead (James. 2:20) -
Fundamentalists Preach Their Own Gospel

"You Are Denying God's Sweetest Gift"

Love Your Neighbour As Yourself,
Not Like Lawyers And Soothsayers

Dogma Dangerously Disguises Divine Law

Lazarus And The Rich Man Parable:
Communication Between The Living And The "Dead"
And Continuity Of Life

But Some Spiritualists Deny Christ Existed?

The "Be Saved Or Be Damned" Doctrine Prevents People
From Knowing About Universal Salvation

"Tongues-Speaking Is In The Bible
But Christian Spiritualism Is Satanic"?

The Only Real Peace, Hope And Joy,
Is To Know That God's Plan Includes Peace,
Hope And Joy For Everyone Else Too

"Because Jesus Said:
'Straight Is The Gate And Narrow Is The Way'
You Must Accept Our Belief Or Perish!"

"I Am The Way, The Truth, And The Life:
No Man Cometh Unto The Father, But By Me"?

The Bible: Inspired Does Not Necessarily Mean Perfect

There Are No Innocent People In The Hells

Soul Communion With God - Divine Union

Deep Trance And "Total Control"

Trance Address (Mp3) Through A Past President Of Our Local Church

The Bible Shows The Continuity Of Life,
Communications Between The Departed And Those On Earth,
And Different Localities Within Which All Life Lives

Some Earlier Admissions To The Reality Of Communication
Between Spiritual Beings And Humans, By Men Of Science

Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Falls
Well Short Of God's Creation Of Life

An After-Death Warning Given By
Charles Darwin At The Zodiac Circle

Explanation (From The World Of Spirit)
Of Charles Darwin's Post Mortem Warning

T.H. Huxley After Death: Shame And Pain
Of Making A God Of The Human Mind

The Appearance Of Some Spiritual
Phenomena Found In The Bible

Christ As Man And Christ As God

A Treatise Concerning Some

Rev. Arthur Chambers Has A Conversation With
A Spiritual Being And Receives Spiritual Instruction

Rev. Arthur Chambers Returns From "Death"
To Speak Through The Zodiac Circle

Universal Salvation By The Rev. Arthur Chambers
Appendix From "Our Life After Death" (1902 Edition)

"Problems Of The Spiritual" (1907 Edition)
By The Reverend Arthur Chambers



Preface

Contents

PART I.

I. Can the Departed be objectively present? If so, in what way can they manifest themselves to us as to be recognizable?

II. Is the fact that trickery and imposture have been associated with Spiritualism, a proof that it is the outcome of falsehood and credulity?

III. Does the prohibition against intercourse with "familiar spirits," as given to the ancient Israelites, imply that all communion with the Spirit-world is forbidden by God?

IV. How can it be explained that many of the communications alleged to come from discarnate beings are unsatisfactory, misleading and untruthful?

V. Is there a danger in attending séances, on the ground that at such meetings evil and deceiving spirits may be attracted?

VI. Will our earthly relationships be maintained in the Other World?

VII. Why do not all the Departed manifest themselves to those whom they have left behind?

VIII. Will the fact that beings in Spirit-life are on different planes of life and experience be an obstacle to re-union?

IX. Apart from direct communications from them, how may we best realize that the Departed are still living and in relationship with us?

X. Are not such expressions as—"The sea gave up the dead, which were in it," "Them which sleep," and "Those that are in the graves"— an indication that the New Testament writers regarded Death as a temporary cessation of conscious being?

PART II.

I. Objections against "The Larger Hope" considered.

"The book—'Our Life after Death' teaches Universalism. It leaves out the strong things Jesus Christ said. What is called 'the strong language of the Athanasian Creed' is our Lord's own teaching."

(From report in "Church Times" of March 9th, 1906, of the Bishop of London's statement. See note at end of chapter.)

II. "The Times of the Restitution of all things."

III. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

IV. "The Saviour of all men."

V. "Our God is a consuming Fire."

VI. What Greek word denoting "never-ending" could the writers of the New Testament have used, if the word (aionios, translated "everlasting" and "eternal") will not sustain that signification?

VII. Is there a danger, in regard to the Universalist belief, of making the Benevolence of God dominate His Holiness and Justice in such a way as to constitute Him the Tolerator of evil?

VIII. Is it right to pray for those who have departed this life as non-Christians? If so, what should be the character of our prayers for them?

IX. If Christians depart this life to be with Christ, how can our prayers benefit them? Does He not know exactly what to do for them without our intercessions on their behalf?

X. On what grounds can we base our belief that Jesus is not only pre-eminently a Son of God, but the Son of God, in the sense of being Divine?

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"Thoughts Of The Spiritual" (1905 American Edition)
By The Reverend Arthur Chambers



Preface

Contents

I. Doubters Of The Spiritual

II. Our Touch Of The Spiritual By Prayer

III. Ourselves In Relation To Those Behind The Veil

IV. On The Mountain Of Spiritual Manifestation

V. A Spiritual World And The Spiritual Faculties To Discern It

VI. Christ's Impartation Of The Higher Spirit-Life

VII. Beggar-Spirits

VIII. Our Hope In God's Judgments

IX. "Excelsior"

X. The Real Gospel

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"Man and the Spiritual World" - 1903 Edition
By The Reverend Arthur Chambers



Preface

Contents

PART I

An Important Question.—WHAT WILL BECOME OF US WHEN WE DIE?

The Question answered in different ways

I. ANSWERS THAT ARE WHOLLY INCORRECT

(a) That of the Materialist

(b) That of the Agnostic

(c) That of the Christian-Materialist

II. ANSWERS THAT FALL SHORT OF THE TRUTH

(a) The general one given by the religions of the world

(b) That of Christians who deny an Intermediate Life

(c) That of those who acknowledge an Intermediate Life, but have no definite idea of it

The Source to which We may look for a True Answer to the Question

How we are to deal with the testimony of the Bible

PART II

What is Man? -The Bible's Testimony

I. MAN IS MORE THAN A PHYSICAL BEING

II. MAN, AFTER DEATH, IS IN BODILY FORM

III. MAN, WHILE IN THE EARTH LIFE, POSSESSES CERTAIN FACULTIES—CLAIRVOYANCE AND CLAIRAUDIENCE—THAT POINT TO AN INTERIOR SPIRITUAL ORGANISATION

What may be deduced from these three Propositions

The Bible's pronouncement concerning Man's constitution confirmed by a very general experience of mankind

(a) As to Appearances after death

(b) As to the facts of Clairvoyance and Clairaudience

PART III

The Spiritual World.—The Bible's Testimony

WHERE IS THAT WORLD?

THE IDEAS OF WESTERN, EASTERN, AND POST-APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANS

THE PRESENT-DAY IDEA

The Spiritual World is everywhere and interpenetrates the Physical

TWO REASONS WHY THE SPIRITUAL MUST INTERPENETRATE THE PHYSICAL

THE BIBLE'S STATEMENTS ON THIS POINT

(a) Spiritual beings have been seen

(b) Spiritual manifestations have been seen

(c) Spiritual voices have been heard

(1) Of visible Angels
(2) Of other visible spiritual beings
(3) Of invisible spiritual beings

(d) Spiritual beings have controlled the bodies and minds of men

(e) The greater number of spiritual manifestations recorded in Scripture took place amid the ordinary surroundings of earthly life

Some of the characteristics of the Spiritual World

I. IT IS A WORLD OF WIDELY DIFFERING LIFE AND EXPERIENCE

TWO CONSIDERATIONS THAT POINT TO THIS CONCLUSION:—

(a) The impossibility of imagining that persons, on leaving this life, can be rigidly divided into only two classes of good and bad

(b) The difficulty of supposing, in the face of the intellectual, moral and spiritual dissimilarity that exists, a uniform experience Beyond, The Testimony of the Bible on this point

THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE ON THIS POINT

II. IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD THE EXPERIENCES OF BOTH BELIEVER AND UNBELIEVER ARE COMPLEXIONED BY, AND CORRESPOND TO, THE CHARACTER FORMED IN EARTH LIFE

POPULAR THEOLOGY PRACTICALLY NEGATIVES THIS TRUTH, AND SO MINIMISES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CULTIVATION OF CHARACTER

THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE ON THIS POINT

III. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD IS AN EDUCATIONAL ONE

POPULAR THEOLOGY HAS DENIED THIS, AND CONSEQUENTLY HAS VIEWED MAN, IN THE INTERMEDIATE LIFE, AS BEING EITHER IN A HOPELESS OR A STAGNANT CONDITION

THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE ON THIS POINT

IV. IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD THERE IS A PRESENCE OF CHRIST

THE IMPORT OF THIS TRUTH

THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE ON THIS POINT

CONCLUSION

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