John 14:6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me....Any one can believe that Jesus was a god--what is so hard to credit is that He who hung upon the cross was THE ONLY GOD... That is what you are asked as Christians to believe. And it is the sword, glittering but fearful. It must cut your life away from the standards of this world, away from its thought and its measures, no less than its aims and hopes.... Hard and bitter is the separation; and you will be parted from many great and noble men, some perhaps your own teachers, who can accept about Jesus everything but the one thing needful.... The Christian faith, if accepted, drives a wedge between its own adherents and the disciples of every other philosophy or religion, however lofty or soaring.... And they will not see this; they will tell you that really your views and theirs are the same thing, and only differ in words, which, if only you were a little more highly trained, you would understand.... Even among Christs nominal servants there are many who think a little goodwill is all that is needed to bridge the gulf--a little amiability and mutual explanation, a more careful use of phrases, would soon accommodate Christianity to fashionable modes of speaking and thinking, and destroy all causes of provocation. So they would tell you.... But they would destroy also its one inalienable attraction: that of being... a wonder, and a beauty, and a terror--no dull and drab system of thought, no mere symbolic idealism... John Neville Figgis (1866-1919), The Gospel and Human Needs, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911, p. 149- .......WE MUST HUMBLY YET CLEARLY EXPLAIN THE EXCLUSIVITY THAT CHRIST GOD PROCLAIMED ABOUT HIMSELF....THAT HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. WE BELIEVE SUCH BECAUSE HE HAD THE POWER TO RESURRECT IN FRONT OF 500 WITNESSES AT ONE TIME...
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:14:06 +0000
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