FORBEARANCE (Coulter)

The relationship that all the family of Adam bear to each other in our natural life is one of dependence.

FORBEARANCE (ELDER BENJAMIN F. COULTER)

The relationship that all the family of Adam bears to each other in our natural life is one of dependence. We can in no sense stand alone, independent of our fellow man. In the beginning, when God created man in his own image, “male and female created he them” He gave them a law, inherent in their being and indelibly fixed, to be wrought out and manifested in their natural life. In the divine arrangement, man was made a multiple character. In order to carry out and fulfill the law of nature implanted in him. The law is as follows: “And God bless them, And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth”. This law was primary to all laws and preceded the law or commandment that was given to Adam in the garden, and differed from it, in that the first law told him what he must DO, while the other told him what he must NOT DO.