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To be near unto God - pagina 151
make forms aadfigures 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 152
has also used observable representation, however transient.In the New, as well as in the Old Testament, repeatedly of angel-appearances and of appearances of the Messiah before his incarnation. And are not angels spirits like God himself, incorporeal and immaterial? We hear repeatedly that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 153
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 language. With appearances of angels there is no mention of wings, borrowed from the animal world; of these we read in connection with Seraphs surrounding G ...
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In connection, therefore, with the is eternal life, the imagof our spirit must also be considered.appearances.knowledge of God, which inativelifeto this secret is, that spirit and matter, the world, are distinguished from one in such a way that it can never beTh ...
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Weare attacked. And ever>'thing tion. real to us that on awakening in fright, it difficultto 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 strong ...
To be near unto God - pagina 156
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 157
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 158
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 supremely ...
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another extreme was reached in the effort to reahze 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 ...
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ness to give. 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 the Salvation Army, which is the most sharply defined exhibition of this tendency and at the same time its crudest expression, there showed itself a manysid ...
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