Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence
Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence
Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram
The book Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence was written by author Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram Here you can read free online of Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence a good or bad book?
What reading level is Reasons for Faith And Other Contributions to Christian Evidence book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Is there nothing in remorse to justify a comparison with the ** fires of Gehenna" outside Jerusalem? Do we never see a self-will so stiflfnecked as to justify the warning that if self-will continues self-will, there is no place for it in Heaven? "When self-will ceases, Hell ceases," says St Bernard j but how do we know that it will cease in every case ? If God made it arbitrarily cease, He would break His own image in us, for part of His image is our freewill; in creating freewills, God has sel...f-limited His own Omnipotence; to will against the good eternally is to be guilty of an "eternal sin" (Mark iii. 29), and eternal sin is its own punishment ; it is the loss of God. NECESSITATED BY THE DANGER. Is there nothing in such a possibility to justify strong language ? Dr. Pusey quotes with approval Digitized by VjOOQ IC HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC. 2$ Faber's sentence, ** No one ever has been or ever can be lost by surprise or trapped in his ignorance ; and as to those who may be lost, I confidently believe that our Heavenly Father threw His arms round each created spirit, and looked it full in the face with bright eyes of love, in the darkness of its mortal life, and that of its own deliberate will it would not have Him." Even if only a few should be in danger of doing anything so awful, would the Saviour of the world be likely to lose a chance of saving them by warn- ing them in time?
User Reviews: