This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI EXPLANATION OF RELIGIOUS TERMS IN A NATURAL AND PRACTICAL WAY 1. God "This is life eternal, to know Thee" THE fault of most of those who have spoken of God has been that they have assumed a knowledge which is beyond us. "No man hath seen God at any time," and in our ignorance we attribute ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI EXPLANATION OF RELIGIOUS TERMS IN A NATURAL AND PRACTICAL WAY 1. God "This is life eternal, to know Thee" THE fault of most of those who have spoken of God has been that they have assumed a knowledge which is beyond us. "No man hath seen God at any time," and in our ignorance we attribute to God actions, feelings, limitations which belong to ourselves. Even when we assert that He is a Person, we have to beware of what is called Anthropomorphism, the framing of an idea of God after the image of man. We cannot, for instance, help speaking of Him as just and loving; but these attributes may easily pass, the one into hardness and want of sympathy, the other into favouritism or easy indifference. "Is He the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles also?" exclaims St. Paul; and the outlook which is given by the answer to this question leads us far beyond the limitations even of our present ideas. In the controversies of the fourth and subsequent centuries concerning the Godhead, each party seems to have supposed that they knew the metaphysical nature of God; and the difficulties of forming a satisfactory theory were those of harmonizing newly perceived facts with preconceived ideas, the Incarnation and divine supremacy of Christ with men's presumed knowledge of the nature of God. Even when we take in the second part of the text above quoted, "The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, hath declared Him," the difficulty is but partially removed. It is one of the advantages which come to us through non-Christian theories, such as pantheism or materialism or even atheism, that they make us more modest in our assertions. It is better for us to begin with what is actual and, in the true sense, natural, with the...
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