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“Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.”

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We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them…

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In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man…

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The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

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This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

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The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They…

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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians…

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John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral…

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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree…

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We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose…

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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

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The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the…

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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING…

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