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• As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this…
• Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
• Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have…
• Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than…
• Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
• Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
• In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is…
• Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has…
• In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
• In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in…
• The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek…
• It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the…
• The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared…
• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which…
• When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
• The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
• Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface…
• We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy…
• The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform,…

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