Law and Penalty Endless, in Endless Universe: Showing the Probable Origin of Sin, and the Reasonableness of Endless Punishment from the Light of ... from the Light of Nature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Yet with a greater 'or less degree of intensity Of feel ing on the subject, such is the actual mental condition of the great majority of Christians concerning the ex istence of sin and its penalty. They simply decline the problem. They say that they cannot understand it. In fact they say more than this, and mean more. They mean that the facts, as they exist, do positive] antagonize their profoundest moral convictions. Ft is something more than a mystery about which they know nothing either good or bad. After using to the utmost all the power of judgment and discrimination which God has given them, they are unable to return a favorable response to the question Of their Maker, Are not my ways equal They are compelled to admit that, so far as they can see, God's ways are not equal, but are of such a character as to compel them to say with the candid Mr. Barnes, that there is no case whatever to their tortured minds Let any one imagine how such a horrible necessity Of thought concerning the cruelty of a family govern ment would affect his love and reverence for an earth ly father, and he will form some conception Of the in fluence of similar convictions upon the love and rev erence Of the Christian for his Father in Heaven. The only refuge in such a case is the banishment Of the subject from their thought. And this is in fact the only refuge Of tens Of thousands.

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