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To be near unto God - pagina 147
make forms andfigures of idols after themannerheathen nations, but these are contrivances pure and simple. And in this matter of knowing God, which is eternal life, we have no interest in cunningly constructed fabrications. We want reality. Hence we would say that there can b ...
To be near unto God - pagina 148
has also used observable representation, however transient.In the New. as well as in the Old Testament, of angel-appearances and of appearances of the Messiah before his incarnaAnd are not angels spirits like God himtion. self, incorporeal and immaterial? We hear repeatedly that angels app ...
To be near unto God - pagina 149
angel, of the Messiah, or as in Isaiah 6, of the Eternal Being himself, takes place in human form, in human dress, and with the use of human lanWith appearances of angels there is no guage. mention of wings, borrowed from the animal world; of these we read in connection with Seraphs surrounding G ...
To be near unto God - pagina 150
In connection, therefore, with the is eternal life, the imagof our spirit must also be considered.appearances.knowledge of God, which inative lifeto this secret is, that spirit and matter, the world, are distinguished from one in such a way that it can never beThe key ...
To be near unto God - pagina 153
such an extent that the significance of the other activities of the human spirit has suffered The fundamental position of this serious loss. school is that the will alone determines things, accomplishes things, creates reality, and makes itself known as a power and that the more deeply one studie ...
To be near unto God - pagina 152
This forming of images has at last been per"human nature" of Christ. After he had entered into glory, Christ appeared to St. John on Patmos in his human nature and the manner of this appearance has been committed This is the only appearance to writing for us. of Christ, given to the church, that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 151
Wetion. are attacked. And everything real to us that on awakening in fright, itdifficultto believe that the burglarseems sowhowefind threat-ened our life does not stand by our bed. This impression of reality in what is imagined is still stro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 154
to train the will, to develop it, to apply it to deeds, and with this strongly trained human will to maintain ourselves in the face of the Universal- will. Hence everything that is, and everything that is called history, and life itself is reduced to one power, and the only thing that is supremel ...
To be near unto God - pagina 155
extreme was reached in the effort to the Christian spirit in acts of the will. Not the hearer, but the doer of the law shall be holy. Not every one that sayeth, Lord, Lord, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven shall be saved. If any one doeth His will, he shall know of the doc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 156
It inspired a devotion and an energy of faith such as had not been in evidence among us since the daj^s of the Reformation. In theness to give.Salvation Army, which is the most sharply defined exhibition of this tendency and at the same time its crudest expression, there showed itse ...
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