Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zisling of the left-wing Socialist United Workers Party objected to the inclusion of any profession of religious faith. Arguments were brief, but warm...
Premier David Ben-Gurion suggested a compromise: Tsur Israel (Rock of Israel). Zisling still objected. Said he: "Let it not be imposed upon those who believe otherwise ... to say faith in the Rock of Israel . . . The present wording forces upon us an expression of belief to which we do not subscribe." Ben-Gurion had the last word: "Each of us in his own way believes in the Rock of Israel as he understands it. I know what is the Rock of Israel upon which I rely. I am sure that Rabbi Fishman knows well in whom he believes...
...Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply announced that she had abandoned her faith and become a Moslem, which automatically dissolved her Hindu marriage. Immediately afterwards she announced that she had been reconverted to Hinduism...
...earth is a spherical surface whose pattern cannot be reproduced accurately upon a plane . . . An atlas meets the problem by giving us two different maps of the world which can be compared . . . They contradict each other to some extent at every point. . . So it is with the paradoxes of faith . . . not because the divine reality is self-contradictory, but because when we 'objectify' it all our judgments are in some measure falsified . . . The higher truth which reconciles them cannot be fully expressed in words, though it is experienced and lived...
First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...