The Foundations a Series of Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity
The book The Foundations a Series of Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity was written by author Gibson, John Monro, 1838-1921 Here you can read free online of The Foundations a Series of Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Foundations a Series of Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity a good or bad book?
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You, and I, and everybody can ap- preciate a thousand things that we never could have oriirinated; and what is true of each individual of the race cannot but be true of the race as a whole; and therefore it is absurd to say that because the hu- man mind can appreciate what Christ has revealed, * therefore the human mind could have originated it. Do you think so acute a man would have set aside the internal evidences in such a fashion, if he had been able fairly to deal with them? And now we hav...e seen, that the life of Jesus of Xazareth was such as fully to correspond with His claim, and further, that the words which He spoke, as well as the way in which He spoke them, were also in fullest harmony — the one exhibiting a char- acter beyond the range of human virtue, and the other a wisdom beyond the range of human genius. Is there anything more? Is there anything else that such an one as He claimed to be could offer as ♦It may be said that in the department of " moral doctrines" our pow- ers of appreciation are not so far removed from our powers of origina- tion ; but it must be remembered that the internal evidences are not confined to the superior ethics of the doctrine of Christ, and it does not look very ingenuous to set them aU aside by a carefully worded state- ment applicable only to a part of the whole, and very doubtful even in that limited application.
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