Indirect Evidences in the New Testament for the Personal Divinity of Christ (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. IHAPPEN to be one of an increasing number of persons who believe that almost, if not quite, all the great fundamental controversies of to-day must, sooner or later, be determined by what we do really and truly believe about the person of Christ. Many a topic apparently altogether unrelated to Him, and that on the mere surface, would appear to have no possible relation to Him, does, nevertheless, when reduced to a last analysis, oblige us to confront the question, 'What think ye of Christ? whose Son is He?' Behind the phenomena of the material universe, which are cognisable by the senses, there are certain unseen forces which give to those phenomena their existence, vitality, and continuance. In whose hands are those forces? And so with political, philosophical, and moral problems, of so disturbing a kind that men 'go up and down seeking rest' in reference to them, and 'finding none;' it is my assured conviction that, until we have settled, for ourselves at least, this matter of the personality of Christ, we have no sufficient data upon which to go. For these reasons, and some others which will appear in this present course of articles, I ask the attention of my readers to a small contribution towards the object alluded to, which, however simple, may at last find a natural place in the entire mass of evidence. No well-instructed mind can, I think, survey the field of theological warfare, as it has existed for the past hundred years down to the present hour, without feeling that nothing more of ix any vital importance can be said for or against the 'Personal Divinity of Christ, ' as far as the old texts and the old arguments are concerned, which has not been said over and over again by the very ablest disputants on..