Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 480

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§ 70.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESULT

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upon a lying conception, then He Himself had no instinct for the truth, was not God manifest in the flesh, and could not even have been the purely sinless man or, if He was " the Christ, the Son of the living God," in all things like our;

selves, sin excepted,

then whatever

He

sealed as true in the

must also be true to him who Nothing can here be put in thus believes in his Saviour. between. As long as the effort was prosecuted to prove that Jesus shared the view of the Scripture of the Old Testament held by the more liberal tendency at the beginning of this century, inspiration could be abandoned without the Since, on the other hand, this effort loss of one's Christ. has suffered total shipwreck, and since it is, and must be, historically acknowledged that Christ viewed the Scripture in about the same way in which the Church of all ages has centrum of what was

holj^

done this in her symbols, the

conflict against this

view of

the Scripture has become directly a conflict against the Christ

Himself.

He who

breaks in principle with that ancient view

which bound him Lord and his God. And he who cannot refrain from kneeling low before his Saviour cannot break with the ground of faith in the Scripture, as Jesus Himself of the Scripture cuts the cord of faith,

to that Christ as his

has sealed

it.

The tendency, which becomes more and more

manifest, to

withdraw oneself from the Scripture into an individualistic mysticism and from the Christ to go back to the Holy Spirit, cannot be maintained for one moment by a worshipper of Christ in the face of the fact that Jesus acknowledged the For, even though we take them as historical Scripture. witnesses merely, the Scriptures of the New Testament afford abundant proof that Christ knew this mysticism of the Holy Spirit and honored it, but even in the Gospel of John, in which this mysticism is most often mentioned, almost more strongly than in the S3'noptics, you find the conviction of Jesus expressed that He is bound to the Scriptures bound not only for His conceptions, but bound for His person, for the program of His life and passion, and for the Hence the desire to future of glory which awaits Him. ;

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