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... creeds are stationary and conservative , but religious thought can not always be bound nor its progress permanently hindered . Honest Chris- tian men and women will think , and they are now thinking in the terms of a universal ...
... creeds are stationary and conservative , but religious thought can not always be bound nor its progress permanently hindered . Honest Chris- tian men and women will think , and they are now thinking in the terms of a universal ...
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... creeds The formation of creeds tends to create divi- sion and to perpetuate division . Cæsar's maxim illustrates their history : " Sol- diers will raise money , and money will make soldiers . " So creeds will make sects , and sects will ...
... creeds The formation of creeds tends to create divi- sion and to perpetuate division . Cæsar's maxim illustrates their history : " Sol- diers will raise money , and money will make soldiers . " So creeds will make sects , and sects will ...
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... creed framed by human authority and make it the basis of union is but to teach a system - a sect system ; but to rally around the person of Jesus Christ and make him the supreme object of our faith , hope , and love is to contend for ...
... creed framed by human authority and make it the basis of union is but to teach a system - a sect system ; but to rally around the person of Jesus Christ and make him the supreme object of our faith , hope , and love is to contend for ...
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... creeds , has done vio- lence to the conscience of both the clergy and the laity . Conscienceless persons subscribe to the creed without any particular hesitation , but the truly conscientious suffer the greatest embarrass- ment . They ...
... creeds , has done vio- lence to the conscience of both the clergy and the laity . Conscienceless persons subscribe to the creed without any particular hesitation , but the truly conscientious suffer the greatest embarrass- ment . They ...
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... creeds are stationary . No human document , therefore , can serve as a per- manent basis upon which to build our faith . And then , too , we have seen that creeds are in their very nature divisive . Hence they can not be made the basis ...
... creeds are stationary . No human document , therefore , can serve as a per- manent basis upon which to build our faith . And then , too , we have seen that creeds are in their very nature divisive . Hence they can not be made the basis ...
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Page 168 - Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. The image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 155 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page 17 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 157 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Page 25 - But Barnabas took him. and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way. and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
Page 229 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 241 - And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Page 214 - And there followed another angel, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Page 231 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 200 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.