ISBN: 9781154267655

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 … Mehr…

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. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... doing we shall find here no contradiction which would oblige us to drag in Gnostic ideas, of which we do not perceive the least trace; there is, indeed, nothing more than what we have already found in 2 Oor. viii. 9; Rom. viii. 3. The idea of the Kingdom of God has also in Paul''s writings an essential reference to a Kingdom of Evil. Altheugh evil carries with it only division and internal contradiction, and forms no unity, and therefore we cannot speak of a kingdom of evil that is constituted for one precise object, yet its opposition against the kingdom of God imparts a unity to all the diversified manifestations of evil. As the kingdom of God, according to the Pauline views, in its most extensive seqse, passes beyond the boundaries of earthly existence, and embraces the totality of the development of the divine life in all those beings who are destined to exhibit a conscious revelation of their Maker, so likewise the opposition against the kingdom of God is represented by the Apostle as of vast extent and diversified relations. He considers the prevalence of sin in mankind to stand in connexion with the prevalence of evil in the higher spiritual world; the principle of sin is everywhere the same,--the selfishness striving against the Divine will in those rational beings who were designed to subordinate their will to God''s with consciousness and freedom. All other evil is traced by Paul to the outbreak of this opposition in the rational creation as its primary source. As all sin among mankind is deduced from the original sin at the beginning of the race, and is considered as its effect, so all evil, generally, is viewed in connexion with that first evil, and as the operation of the same fundamental tendency. This is of importance in... August Neander, Books, History, History of the planting and training of the Christian church by the apostles Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154267655

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 … Mehr…

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. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... doing we shall find here no contradiction which would oblige us to drag in Gnostic ideas, of which we do not perceive the least trace; there is, indeed, nothing more than what we have already found in 2 Oor. viii. 9; Rom. viii. 3. The idea of the Kingdom of God has also in Paul''s writings an essential reference to a Kingdom of Evil. Altheugh evil carries with it only division and internal contradiction, and forms no unity, and therefore we cannot speak of a kingdom of evil that is constituted for one precise object, yet its opposition against the kingdom of God imparts a unity to all the diversified manifestations of evil. As the kingdom of God, according to the Pauline views, in its most extensive seqse, passes beyond the boundaries of earthly existence, and embraces the totality of the development of the divine life in all those beings who are destined to exhibit a conscious revelation of their Maker, so likewise the opposition against the kingdom of God is represented by the Apostle as of vast extent and diversified relations. He considers the prevalence of sin in mankind to stand in connexion with the prevalence of evil in the higher spiritual world; the principle of sin is everywhere the same,--the selfishness striving against the Divine will in those rational beings who were designed to subordinate their will to God''s with consciousness and freedom. All other evil is traced by Paul to the outbreak of this opposition in the rational creation as its primary source. As all sin among mankind is deduced from the original sin at the beginning of the race, and is considered as its effect, so all evil, generally, is viewed in connexion with that first evil, and as the operation of the same fundamental tendency. This is of importance in... August Neander, Books, History, History of the planting and training of the Christian church by the apostles Books>History <