This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... can make no kind of distinction within his experience between 'knowing God' and 'knowing Him whom He hath sent'--that is, Jesus Christ. Indeed, as Dr. Harnack puts it, 'every relationship to God'--that is, of course, in the things of the gospel--'is at the same time a relationship to Jesus Christ.'1 In all this I do ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... can make no kind of distinction within his experience between 'knowing God' and 'knowing Him whom He hath sent'--that is, Jesus Christ. Indeed, as Dr. Harnack puts it, 'every relationship to God'--that is, of course, in the things of the gospel--'is at the same time a relationship to Jesus Christ.'1 In all this I do not mean anything dogmatic--any doctrine of God and Christ. I am speaking solely of what is found fact in experience; and nothing in Christian experience is so clearly or really fact as this, that to hear Christ's call is to hear God, to know Christ's companionship is to have fellowship with God, to live life under the influence of Christ is to live it with God. If Christianity means anything at all in the soul, it means this. As this is the most surely attested, so is it also the most widely attested fact in what we call Christian experience. The Christian beginner at least recognises that his response to Christ has been just his response to God; while the most experienced saint never 1 Dogmengeschichte, iii. 69. finds that he gets past this relationship to Christ to another and deeper relationship with God beyond. Here, then, is a fact of life about Jesus Christ which we can take as solid and can verify as sure. Let us now place together the central and indestructible thing in the history and this crucial and indisputable thing in our experience. Do they not indeed interlock? There, in history, is One whose personality is assuredly not that merely of one man of the world's population--One, in particular, whose relationship to man was that which no man can take to another, but is indeed the relationship which only God can assume to any of us. And here, in our moral and spiritual experience--no vague emotion in it but its surest fact--is the sa...
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