Word: gods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...desire for firm certitude is not always a wholesome one. If it is the outcome of love of truth it is good, but if it comes from a desire to shirk responsibility it is most ignoble. Men who want every question answered, every doubt cleared, lack the heroism God intended to be in life. In Christ's own time, there were men of this same temperament. He was questioned concerning authority. What was His attitude? The Temptation furnishes one answer. Christ would not avail himself of superhuman or supernatural power to attract attention. He used only legitimate and lawful modes...
...hold the complete Christian view yet believe Christ the greatest moral example. But behind all morality is love and God is love. Some religious thinkers have forgotten ethics. For them, religion is but a ceremony. Religion and ethics are inseparable...
...behind all these principles is that of love. To be in moral sympathy with God, the love of God must be within man. Christ showed the true relation between God and man; it is that of a father to his son. He taught the perfect relation between God...
...revivify Christian doctrines and dogmas, we should lay them beside the principles of Christ. Then can we find the truth which the dogma was formed to preserve. Among his principles we find that of inwardness. To the Jews, the "kingdom of God" was a material kingdom which was to come. Christ, however, taught that the Kingdom of God was here, open to all who sought for it. Anyone who aids those in need finds the Kingdom of God an inward kingdom within men's hearts...
Wherever Christ found religion used against righteousness, his indignation was aroused, for religion must rest on a moral basis. Jesus Christ was in perfect harmony with the unseen powers. He is the type of what man can be when he enters into perfect harmony with God...