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only once in a while, in small measures, does not help it. To reach full development it must constantly be fed with food convenient for it. This is "eternal life" for the soul. Not only life hereafter, but an unfolding here of the inner self, according to its disposition, nature and destim-. In t ...
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entrance of the Holy One into our life, not merely to live forever, but to have a life which in its own nature is eternal. When something stirs in a secret place and something proceeds therefrom, there is life. The pregnant mother feels life when she is aware of motion within, and then knows that ...
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else. to be different from the nature of everything With charming clearness the Scripture defines the nature of the soul in this single phrase: that we are created after the image of God. This includes everything. From this everything explains From this it comes that the soul can never itself. ha ...
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one time.Therefore we come back towill presentlyitnow anddo so again.We have tried to explain what We did not undertake to reduceeternal life is. it to a single definition, neither have we subjected the idea to close analysis. All we essayed to do ...
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whenthereisno more fragranceof Hfe percept-anywhere, the reward of this barren, dead knowledge is eternal life. All this falls away when The the saying of Jesus is taken as it reads:ibleknowledge of Godisitselfeternallif ...
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are in part controversial. In the Gospel the distinction occurs between the sermon on the Mount and Jesus' controversy with the scribes. The first period of the Reformation was better than the What rapture marks the language of later one. the Confession and the Office of Holy Communion in distinc ...
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All interests center in God, in the living God, to see him, to behold him, and ardently toreality.rejoice in this life-giving look. When, therefore, Philip asked: Lord, show us the Father, he made the right beginning, and it sprang fiom his burning thirst after the living God. ...
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Theydid not worship him. As long as their eyes were closed against the Divine majesty of Jesus they could not do otherwise. Their sin was not that they cast out Jesus, but that they did not see God in Him. They talked a good deal about God. But when God appeared to them in Jesus they knew ...
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They thoughtthat they had thereby broughtGodcloser to the people, while in fact the miserable image had caused all knowledge of God to be lost to them. With every representation of God, God himself is gone. Hence the searching warning of Little children, keep yourselves from ...
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26HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER. There are sayings of Jesus that make one tremble and stand back unless he believes on him. One of these is: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me (Matth. 10:37). Imagine a man who would dare to say anything like this i ...
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