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Okay! :)
"If the Christ of God, in His sorrowful life below, be but a specimen of suffering humanity, or a model of patient calmness under wrong, not one of these things is manifested or secured. He is but one fragment more of a confused and disordered world, where everything has broken loose from its anchorage, and each is dashing against the other in unmanageable chaos, without any prospect of a holy or tranquil issue. He is an example of the complete triumph of evil over goodness, of wrong over right, of Satan over God,-one from whose history we can draw only this terrific conclusion, that God has lost the control of His own world; that sin has become too great a power for God either to regulate or extirpate; that the utmost that God can do is to produce a rare example of suffering holiness, which He allows the world to tread upon without being able effectually to interfere; that righteousness, after ages of buffeting and scorn, must retire from the field in utter helplessness, and permit the unchecked reign of evil. If the cross be the mere exhibition of self-sacrifice and patient meekness, then the hope of the world is gone. We had always thought that there was a potent purpose of God at work in connection with the sin- bearing work of the holy Sufferer, which, allowing sin for a season to develop itself, was preparing and evolving a power which would utterly overthrow it, and... sweep earth clean of evil---moral and physical. But if the crucified Christ be the mere self-denying man, we have nothing more at work for the overthrow of evil than has again and again been witnessed, when some hero or martyr rose above the level of his age to protest against evils which he could not eradicate, and to bear witness in life and death for truth and righteousness,-in vain."
Amazing--we are evolving!
Happy--happy Easter/resurrection too!
ps...
allowing sin for a season to "develop" itself, was preparing and evolving a power which would utterly overthrow it, and...sweep earth clean of evil---moral(atheism) and physical)evolution)...
Oh happy-happy days!
| To: No-Kin-To-Monkeys You don't score anywhere near the points you imagine you're scoring. I'm not imagining anything. The facts stand for themselves. This is not a "game" to me. I don't think FreeRepublic was envisioned as a glorified nintendo. I was not trying to help you either, I was pointing out a misrepresentation which still remains. Whether you like my style or not will not keep me awake at nights. Truth remains. 1883 posted on 3/25/02 3:53 PM Central by AndrewC To: AndrewC I was pointing out a misrepresentation . . . All statements were factual. I could have been doing you. But it was just in a game. 1884 posted on 3/25/02 3:56 PM Central by VadeRetro |
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For an intellectual discussion when I get home from work.
No one can leave till this thread beats the Hobbit Hole thread.
Lurking ...
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