Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what are the ear-marks of "godliness"? Do ablution, application of the Urim and Thummin, the wearing of phylacteries, and rhythmic beating upon the breast constitute "godliness"? Perhaps "godliness" is synonymous with regular attendance upon a house of worship. Or "godliness" may be consequent upon acceptance of a creed, say the Athanasian or its antithesis, the Nicene; perhaps even upon subscription to some system of dogma devised a thousand or five hundred years ago by the light of burning fagots...
...outward and visible signs and deliberate subscription to creed or dogma are the ear-marks of "godliness", then all that inward reflection which hopes to place us in harmony with the god of things as they are, all that secret communion with our better selves, and all that conscious adherence to the spirit of great teachers, such as the Nazarene, must be considered devices of the "godless". Just when does a man, and collectively, a university become "godless...
...Literal infallibility of the Bible is not asserted by the Bible nor by the Confession of Faith nor the Apostles' Creed nor the Nicene Creed nor any of the great Reformation confessions. Therefore, the General Assembly of 1923 erred in asserting that "the Holy Spirit did so inspire, guide and move the writers of Holy Scripture as to keep them from error...
...damned it should be. Except for men who include it in their religious creed, pacifism in war time is inexcusable. But pacifism in time of peace is a very different thing. And for the men who wish to impress in the world the utter absurdity of contemplating war there can be nothing but favorable and enthusiastic applause...
...Permissive Creeds," in place of obligatory, is the proposal of the Faculty of the Episcopal Theological School, of Cambridge, Mass., of which Bishop Lawrence was once head. Thus, creeds with and without affirmation of the Virgin Birth, would be accepted by the Church. "The Church is greater than the creeds." This idea coincides with Bishop Lawrence's famous utterance : "I cannot define the Triune God," and, from a different point of view with Voltaire's remark: "I will believe in God if you will stop trying to define him." Liberals contend that the spirit of Jesus cannot be caught...