As I understand the Christian religion it was and is a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables tales legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
Music I heard with you was more than music And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you all is so desolate; And all that once was so beautiful is dead.
PALACE n. A fine and costly residence particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field or wayside. There is progress.
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation which groans in expectation of the Spirits final harvest may inherit Paradise. If we Christians truly treasure the hope that one day we like Adam and the penitent thief will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers then we must also imitate the Masters art and make the desolate earth grow green.
The efforts of certain Christian factions to cast themselves as the inheritors of Americas Judaeo-Christian tradition find little support in the embarrassing heterodoxy of this Founding Father: But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man; outlines which it is lamentable he did not live to fill up. . . . The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture which has resulted from artificial systems invented by ultra-Christian sects unauthorized by a single word ever uttered by him is a most desirable object. . . .
Following the way of Jesus Christ and doing all we can for His cause and for our fellow men expresses something of our worship in action. But how to give Him a present to express our love is a bit of a problem. How can you give God anything when He owns everything? But does He? How about that power to choose that precious free will that He has given to every living personality and which He so greatly respects? That is the only present we can give our selves with all our powers of spirit mind and body willingly freely given because we love Him. That is the best and highest worship that you and I can offer and I am sure that it is this above all that God most highly appreciates.
If we are honest we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No thoughtful person gives up a position merely because he finds difficulties in it; he does not abandon it until he is able to find other and alternative systems with fewer difficulties. . . . I learned from my professors of philosophy. . . that while philosophy might not provide me with a watertight intellectual defense of the Christian faith it would if used aright help me to reveal the weakness of its enemies. By careful analysis it is possible to see that there are glaring weaknesses and non-sequiturs in atheism naturalism positivism scientism and psychologism. The Christian must be a fighter for he is always under attack. The Church will not be as strong as it ought to be until each local pastor uses his precious freedom from outside employment in order to become a scholarly participant in the intellectual struggle of our day and generation.
Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King; Peace on earth and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled. Christ by highest heavn adored Christ the everlasting Lord Late in time behold Him come Offspring of a virgins womb! Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail th incarnate Deity! Pleased as man with men to ppear Jesus our Immanul here. Hail the heavn-born Prince of peace! Hail the Sun of righteousness! Light and life to all He brings Risn with healing in His wings. Mild He lays His glory by Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth Born to give them second birth. Come Desire of nations come Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise the womans conquering Seed Bruise in us the serpents head. Adams likeness now efface Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above Reinstate us in Thy love. Amen.
Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them I never knew you: depart from me ye that work iniquity.
As I understand the Christian religion it was and is a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables tales legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
Music I heard with you was more than music And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you all is so desolate; And all that once was so beautiful is dead.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
PALACE n. A fine and costly residence particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field or wayside. There is progress.
His Christianity was muscular.
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principle of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ as found in the Bible all of India would be Christian today.
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation which groans in expectation of the Spirits final harvest may inherit Paradise. If we Christians truly treasure the hope that one day we like Adam and the penitent thief will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers then we must also imitate the Masters art and make the desolate earth grow green.
The efforts of certain Christian factions to cast themselves as the inheritors of Americas Judaeo-Christian tradition find little support in the embarrassing heterodoxy of this Founding Father: But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man; outlines which it is lamentable he did not live to fill up. . . . The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture which has resulted from artificial systems invented by ultra-Christian sects unauthorized by a single word ever uttered by him is a most desirable object. . . .
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
Following the way of Jesus Christ and doing all we can for His cause and for our fellow men expresses something of our worship in action. But how to give Him a present to express our love is a bit of a problem. How can you give God anything when He owns everything? But does He? How about that power to choose that precious free will that He has given to every living personality and which He so greatly respects? That is the only present we can give our selves with all our powers of spirit mind and body willingly freely given because we love Him. That is the best and highest worship that you and I can offer and I am sure that it is this above all that God most highly appreciates.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
The moon of Mahomet Arose and it shall set; While blazoned as on heavens immortal noon The cross leads generations on.
Christ is either Lord of all or He is not Lord at all.
If we are honest we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No thoughtful person gives up a position merely because he finds difficulties in it; he does not abandon it until he is able to find other and alternative systems with fewer difficulties. . . . I learned from my professors of philosophy. . . that while philosophy might not provide me with a watertight intellectual defense of the Christian faith it would if used aright help me to reveal the weakness of its enemies. By careful analysis it is possible to see that there are glaring weaknesses and non-sequiturs in atheism naturalism positivism scientism and psychologism. The Christian must be a fighter for he is always under attack. The Church will not be as strong as it ought to be until each local pastor uses his precious freedom from outside employment in order to become a scholarly participant in the intellectual struggle of our day and generation.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be a Christian.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King; Peace on earth and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled. Christ by highest heavn adored Christ the everlasting Lord Late in time behold Him come Offspring of a virgins womb! Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail th incarnate Deity! Pleased as man with men to ppear Jesus our Immanul here. Hail the heavn-born Prince of peace! Hail the Sun of righteousness! Light and life to all He brings Risn with healing in His wings. Mild He lays His glory by Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth Born to give them second birth. Come Desire of nations come Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise the womans conquering Seed Bruise in us the serpents head. Adams likeness now efface Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above Reinstate us in Thy love. Amen.
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan spoiled.
Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them I never knew you: depart from me ye that work iniquity.
When the bier of anyone passeth by thee whether Jew Christian or Muslim rise to thy feet.