The Gospel of Divine Help; Thoughts on Some First Principles of Christianity. Addressed Chiefly to the Members of the Society of Friends (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. On The Functions Of Eeason And Conscience. We propose now to consider the claims of Eeason and Conscience to judge of anything outside themselves, which professes to be or to contain Divine revelation. That they both have some right to do so, all Christians, consciously or unconsciously, allow. For no one could accept Scripture as in any way authoritative, if all of its teachings were contradicted by either of them. Yet in their relation to Scripture the functions usually assigned to reason and conscience seern arbitrary. They are apparently to be consulted only in so far as it pleases the interpreter. He will not, for instance, accept as authoritative " the plain and obvious meaning " of some at least of the following passages: ?Gen. i. 31 ("evening and morning, the sixth day''); Gen. iii. 8 ("walking in the garden"); Gen. vii. 19-23 (" every creeping thing . . . died"); Josh. x. 13 ("the sun stood still"); Prov. i. 26 ("mock when your fear"); Matt. v. 40 (" cloke also"); Mark xi. 23-4 ("this mountain"); Luke xxii. 19 ("this is my body"); Acts xv. 29 ("things strangled"); Eom. REASON. 35 ix. 16-23 (" Pharaoh . . . vessel unto dishonour"); Ifev. xiv. 11 (" smoke of their torment "). Yet, though most Bible readers explain away, or put wide meanings into, many such passages as these, they will refuse to do the same by other passages, which equally call for such treatment. Further, we may note that the denial of the claims of reason and conscience to be for us the final judges of asserted Eevelation, is precisely the apologetic standpoint of the Mohammedan The Koran throws a spell upon him which cannot be broken by things in it which are contrary to his reason and conscience. Such things are difficulties, he admits, but he leaves them, because he thi...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. On The Functions Of Eeason And Conscience. We propose now to consider the claims of Eeason and Conscience to judge of anything outside themselves, which professes to be or to contain Divine revelation. That they both have some right to do so, all Christians, consciously or unconsciously, allow. For no one could accept Scripture as in any way authoritative, if all of its teachings were contradicted by either of them. Yet in their relation to Scripture the functions usually assigned to reason and conscience seern arbitrary. They are apparently to be consulted only in so far as it pleases the interpreter. He will not, for instance, accept as authoritative " the plain and obvious meaning " of some at least of the following passages: ?Gen. i. 31 ("evening and morning, the sixth day''); Gen. iii. 8 ("walking in the garden"); Gen. vii. 19-23 (" every creeping thing . . . died"); Josh. x. 13 ("the sun stood still"); Prov. i. 26 ("mock when your fear"); Matt. v. 40 (" cloke also"); Mark xi. 23-4 ("this mountain"); Luke xxii. 19 ("this is my body"); Acts xv. 29 ("things strangled"); Eom. REASON. 35 ix. 16-23 (" Pharaoh . . . vessel unto dishonour"); Ifev. xiv. 11 (" smoke of their torment "). Yet, though most Bible readers explain away, or put wide meanings into, many such passages as these, they will refuse to do the same by other passages, which equally call for such treatment. Further, we may note that the denial of the claims of reason and conscience to be for us the final judges of asserted Eevelation, is precisely the apologetic standpoint of the Mohammedan The Koran throws a spell upon him which cannot be broken by things in it which are contrary to his reason and conscience. Such things are difficulties, he admits, but he leaves them, because he thi...

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February 2012

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978-1-4588-7782-6

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