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 edition. Excerpt: ...the explanation, e.g. put forward by the ' naturalistic ' school; Christianity agrees with this so far as to pronounce sin an inherited evil, but at the same time it asserts that the ' nature' so inherited is abnormal, and, shaking off the hideous nightmare of Determinism, it sees in the ' natural man' a ...
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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 edition. Excerpt: ...the explanation, e.g. put forward by the ' naturalistic ' school; Christianity agrees with this so far as to pronounce sin an inherited evil, but at the same time it asserts that the ' nature' so inherited is abnormal, and, shaking off the hideous nightmare of Determinism, it sees in the ' natural man' a spiritual prisoner, to whom it offers release. Or, do we, with the social evolutionist, regard sin as the intrusion of selfishness on the general welfare? So does religion, but refuses to identify sin with selfishness, revealing an absolute ethic as the true basis of altruism. Or, again, do we look upon sin as a failure to meet life's liabilities? Here, again, religion has ever regarded it as a ' missing of the mark, ' yet at the same time reveals that mark as the claims of God upon our life, and appeals for confirmation to the consciousness within us, that consciousness which is at the root of the instinct of approach and sacrifice. Or, once more, do we, with the aesthetic school, interpret sin as a displacement of the balance of capacity, an interruption of the beauty and rhythm of life's forces? Religion, both before the Incarnation and since, has insisted on this aspect, though for a very different reason from that of the aesthete, not because of the holiness of Beauty, but because of the beauty of Holiness. In short, what Christian doctrine offers is an interpretation of sin which covers every inch of the ground taken by independent thinkers to-day and in the past, but goes beyond them in supplying the one element for lack of which every other account fails to satisfy human experience. For the Christian doctrine is that sin is a personal estrangement of ourselves from God. Suppose we had never heard of this explanation, suppose it had not..
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