The Christ in Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It seems to me, Socrates, even as it doth to thee, that to ascertain the truth concerning such questions is either impossible or very difficult in the present life; yet not to investigate in every way what has been affirmed concerning them - to abandon the search entirely before inquiry in every direction, - indicates a very weak man. For if it is possible to attain to any knowledge of such questions; we must acquire it from others or discern it for ourselves: if both are impossible, then we must take the best human statement, and that which is most difficult to be refuted - upon this embarking as upon a dangerous raft to sail through life; unless we can be borne over more safely and with less damage upon a stauncher conveyance - some divine statement. - Phæào.

Each man, so far as he is a reasoning being, must find his intellectual anchorage in the harbor not for which he sails, but towards which he drifts - as it seems to me, guided by the winds and tides of constitution, temperament, education, external circumstances and the like.

Taking Christianity in its primary and true sense as we find it embodied in the words and life of Christ, this supposed conflict of its dictates with reasonable inquiry after truth is nothing else than an ecclesiastical fiction... He came to bear witness to the Truth, and which appealed to the reason and conscience of mankind... It may be doubted, whether the chiefest and most mischievous propensities of our times are not dogmatic rather than skeptical... Skepticism is always found in proportion to the extent of the dogmatism - that has engendered it. - Evenings with Skeptics. - John Owen.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed plot of all other virtues. - Locke.

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