item: #1 of 113 id: 10866 author: Emmerich, Anna Katharina title: The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ date: None words: 125336 flesch: 65 summary: It is true that I never did see either Jesus or his disciples offer any sacrifice in the Temple, excepting the Paschal lamb; but Joseph and Anna used frequently during their lifetime to offer sacrifice for the Child Jesus. The angels wavered between joy and grief; they desired ardently to fall prostrate before the throne of God, and to obtain permission to assist Jesus; but at the same time they were filled with astonishment, and could only adore that miracle of Divine justice and mercy which had existed in Heaven for all eternity, and was now about to be accomplished; for the angels believe, like us, in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, who began on this night to suffer under Pontius Pilate, and the next day was to be crucified; to die, and be buried; descend into hell, rise again on the third day, ascent into Heaven, be seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and from thence come to judge the living and the dead; they likewise believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. keywords: apostles; blood; body; caiphas; church; cross; day; death; disciples; divine; enemies; eyes; feet; god; hands; head; heart; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; joseph; judas; left; life; lord; man; manner; mary; moment; mother; order; persons; peter; pharisees; pilate; place; priests; right; room; round; saw; soldiers; son; soul; sufferings; temple; things; thou; time; virgin; women; words cache: 10866.txt plain text: 10866.txt item: #2 of 113 id: 10955 author: Sanday, W. (William) title: The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' date: None words: 115267 flesch: 76 summary: |Certainly the third | in Tertullian and | | Gospel, with text | Epiphanius. | quotation. keywords: a.d; account; acts; apocryphal |; argument; author; autou; canonical; case; century; christian; date; document; doubt; endnote; epistle; evidence; exact; form; fourth; god; gospel; greek; hand; iii; instance; john |; kai; latin; legei |; luke |; mae; marcion; mark |; matthew; memory |; order; original; parallel; passage; phrase; place; point; present; q. |; question; quotation |; reading; regard; religion; second; sense; simi |; synoptic; tertullian; testament; text; times; ton; tou; use; version; vii; way; words; work; writers; writings; xii; xiii; | +; | cf; | clement; | deut; | entire; | eusebius; | ex; | ezek; | gar; | gen; | hom; | hos; | i.; | irenaeus; | jer; | justin; | l.; | lev; | m.; | matt; | mss; | ps; | rom; | st; | variant; | vi; | |; | |a.1.16; | |d; | |d.35; | |free; | |i.20.2; | |note cache: 10955.txt plain text: 10955.txt item: #3 of 113 id: 10989 author: Anonymous title: Our Saviour date: None words: 2513 flesch: 54 summary: [Illustration] Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had been quietly living for many years at His father's home in Nazareth when John the Baptist began to preach and prepare the people for His coming, as it had been foretold by an Angel before His birth that he should do, and we are told that all the land of Judea, and the people of Jerusalem, roused by his preaching, went to be baptized by him in the river Jordan, after confessing their sins. This he did till Jesus Himself came from Nazareth to the Jordan, and desired John, the companion of His childhood, to baptize Him also. keywords: disciples; illustration; jesus cache: 10989.txt plain text: 10989.txt item: #4 of 113 id: 11044 author: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- title: The Existence of God date: None words: 40761 flesch: 72 summary: Therefore there is an inward school wherein man receives what he neither can give himself, nor expect from other men who live upon trust as well as himself. This weakness of the soul, turning into unbelief, appears strength of mind to them; and their vanity glories in opposing what naturally strikes and affects the rest of mankind, just as if a monster prided in not being formed according to the common rules of Nature, or as if one born blind boasted of his unbelief with respect to light and colours, which other men perceive and discern. keywords: animals; art; atoms; bodies; body; chance; earth; eyes; god; good; hand; infinite; man; manner; matter; men; mind; motion; nature; number; order; parts; power; reason; sect; soul; sun; universe; work cache: 11044.txt plain text: 11044.txt item: #5 of 113 id: 11083 author: Anonymous title: The Parables of the Saviour The Good Child's Library, Tenth Book date: None words: 4072 flesch: 88 summary: The one, he pray'd, I thank Thee, God, I'm not as other men, I am not an extortioner, Nor as this Publican. The seed that by the wayside fell, Is wisdom in the heart Of him who heareth words of truth, But understandeth not. keywords: children; good; man; saviour; thou cache: 11083.txt plain text: 11083.txt item: #6 of 113 id: 11509 author: Newton, Richard title: The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3 date: None words: 71602 flesch: 87 summary: On his deathbed he said--I have taken much pains to know everything that was worth knowing among men; but with all my reading and all my knowledge, nothing now remains with me to comfort me at the close of life but these precious words of St. Paul: 'This a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;' to this I cling. The ready reply was--Because I have read in the New Testament that our Lord Jesus Christ said that we must forgive our enemies; and therefore I forgive him, and beg that he may not be punished for my sake. keywords: apostles; bible; boy; children; christ; day; disciples; father; glory; god; good; heaven; help; humility; jesus; john; lesson; life; lord; love; man; master; men; mother; people; place; power; prayer; saviour; teacher; thee; things; thou; time; way; words; work; world cache: 11509.txt plain text: 11509.txt item: #7 of 113 id: 12311 author: Brown, John title: Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life date: None words: 125955 flesch: 76 summary: Is there that gospel holiness, tenderness, watchfulness, growing in grace, and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, that growing up in Christ, in all things that heavenly mindedness, that fellowship with the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus, and that conversation in heaven, that the dispensation of grace, we have been favoured with beyond many, and have been long living under, did call for at our hands? Therefore, when faith, as a hand, is carrying the filth of the soul away to Christ to be washed in his blood, let the foul hand go with the foul handful; give Christ faith and all to wash. 2. keywords: believer; case; christ; come; death; end; faith; father; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; heart; help; jesus christ; john; knowledge; life; light; look; lord; man; sin; sins; soul; spirit; strength; things; thou; thy; time; truth; use; way; work; yea cache: 12311.txt plain text: 12311.txt item: #8 of 113 id: 12624 author: Barry, J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) title: Our Lady Saint Mary date: None words: 121758 flesch: 69 summary: But the life that is lived as sacrifice, as a thing perfectly offered to God, is a life growing up in God day by day. Lord God all-powerful! keywords: action; attitude; blessed; body; child; christian; church; day; death; divine; doubt; end; experience; fact; father; god; great; heaven; holy; human; jesus; kingdom; life; lord; lord god; love; man; mary; meaning; means; men; mind; mother; nature; need; new; place; power; religion; s. mary; saints; self; sin; son; spiritual; teaching; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; truth; way; work; world cache: 12624.txt plain text: 12624.txt item: #9 of 113 id: 12809 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks about Jesus date: None words: 71145 flesch: 84 summary: But chiefly in Jesus God came. Man_ likewise is a sovereign in the realm of nature, and over all the lower creation. keywords: bit; church; coming; cross; day; death; earth; eyes; face; father; glory; god; good; heart; hebrew; human; isaiah; jerusalem; jesus; john; kingdom; leaders; life; light; love; man; mark; matthew; men; nation; new; people; peter; place; plan; power; presence; purpose; sin; sort; spirit; temptation; thing; time; touch; use; voice; way; word cache: 12809.txt plain text: 12809.txt item: #10 of 113 id: 13274 author: Mason, John title: A Little Catechism; With Little Verses and Little Sayings for Little Children date: None words: 1995 flesch: 99 summary: The same which God spoke in the twentieth Chapter of _Exodus_, saying, _I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage._ _Quest. _Did Christ bear the Curse of God that was due to Sinners?_ _Answ._ keywords: answ; god; quest cache: 13274.txt plain text: 13274.txt item: #11 of 113 id: 13335 author: Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) title: The Jesus of History date: None words: 72386 flesch: 76 summary: There is greatness in his language--in his reference of everything to great principles and to God; greatness in his freedom from ambition, in his contempt of advertisement and popularity, in his appeal to the best in men, in his belief in men, in his power of winning and keeping friends, in his gift for making great men out of petty. Of God man can form no conception. keywords: chapter; character; children; christian; church; cross; day; disciples; experience; fact; faith; father; god; good; gospels; great; heart; history; human; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; love; luke; man; mark; matt; means; men; mind; nature; new; paul; people; power; prayer; real; religion; right; sin; story; study; things; thought; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 13335.txt plain text: 13335.txt item: #12 of 113 id: 13652 author: Dodds, James title: Exposition of the Apostles' Creed date: None words: 36469 flesch: 74 summary: It is said by Paul to be made up of them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours. Cruelly persecuted by Jew and Gentile, it is no wonder that Apostles and other believers associated the second advent with emancipation and victory, and termed it That blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. keywords: body; christ; church; creed; dead; death; divine; doctrine; faith; father; footnote; ghost; god; heaven; holy; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; lord; man; men; resurrection; sin; son; spirit; things; word cache: 13652.txt plain text: 13652.txt item: #13 of 113 id: 14780 author: Paley, William title: Evidences of Christianity date: None words: 131576 flesch: 64 summary: So, in the present instance, the rule here recited will never fail to make him who obeys it considerate not only of the rights, but of the feelings of other men, bodily and mental, in great matters and in small; of the ease, the accommodation, the self-complacency of all with whom he has any concern, especially of all who are in his power, or dependent upon his will. For, although we should lay aside the authority of our own books entirely, yet when Tacitus, who wrote not twenty, perhaps not ten, years after Josephus, in his account of a period in which Josephus was nearly thirty years of age, tells us, that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome; that they derived their denomination from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death, as a criminal, by the procurator, Pontius Pilate; that the superstition had spread not only over Judea, the source of the evil but it had reached Rome also:--when Suetonius, an historian contemporary with Tacitus, relates that, in the time of Claudius, the Jews were making disturbances at Rome, Christus being their leader: and that, during the reign of Nero, the Christians were punished; under both which emperors Josephus lived: when Pliny, who wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Josephus's history, found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia as to draw from him a complaint that the contagion had seized cities, towns, and villages, and had so seized them as to produce a general desertion of the public rites; and when, as has already been observed, there is no reason for imagining that the Christians were more numerous in Bithynia than in many other parts of the Roman empire; it cannot, I should suppose, after this, be believed, that the religion, and the transaction upon which it was founded, were too obscure to engage the attention of Josephus, or to obtain a place in his history. keywords: accounts; acts; age; apostles; appears; argument; authority; books; case; chapter; character; christ; christianity; christians; country; cred; death; epistle; evidence; following; general; god; gospels; hath; history; iii; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; john; lardner; life; lord; luke; man; manner; matthew; men; miracles; nature; number; passage; paul; people; person; place; present; public; religion; saint; scriptures; sect; state; subject; testament; testimony; things; time; truth; vol; words; world; writers; writings; years cache: 14780.txt plain text: 14780.txt item: #14 of 113 id: 15011 author: Sweeney, Z. T. (Zachary Taylor) title: The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth date: None words: 25253 flesch: 83 summary: [The] Holy Spirit shall come Spirit, returned from the Jordan. So is every one that is born Holy Spirit. of the Spirit. 3:34. keywords: christ; day; gift; god; gospel; holy spirit; jesus; john; lord; man; men; power; things; word; work cache: 15011.txt plain text: 15011.txt item: #15 of 113 id: 15412 author: Randolph, B. W. (Berkeley William) title: The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge date: None words: 9606 flesch: 69 summary: kata gar tou omonatos autou toutou tou huiou tou theou, kai prôtotokou pases ktiseôs, kai dia parthenou gennêthentos kai pathêtou genomenou anthrôpou, kai staurôthentos epi Pontiou Pilatou hupo tou laou humôn kai apothanontos kai anastantos ek nekrôn, kai anabantos eis ton ouranon, pan daimonion exorkizomenon nikatai kai hupotassetai. He who was from all eternity a single Divine Person took upon Him our nature, and was made man; and if this be so, what other entrance into our condition is imaginable save that which we confess in the Creed--that He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary? keywords: birth; christ; church; fact; faith; god; gospel; human; incarnation; jesus; kai; life; lord; luke; man; mary; men; new; son; tou; virgin cache: 15412.txt plain text: 15412.txt item: #16 of 113 id: 15563 author: Rogers, Henry title: Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) date: None words: 29897 flesch: 42 summary: And lastly, he must believe that these same illiterate men, who were capable of so much, were also capable of projecting a system of doctrine singularly remote from all ordinary and previous speculation; of discerning the necessity of taking under their special patronage those passive virtues which man least loved, and found it must difficult to cultivate; and of exhibiting, in their preference of the spiritual to the ceremonial, and their treatment of many of the most delicate questions of practical ethics and casuistry, a justness and elevation of sentiment as alien as possible from the superstition and fanaticism of their predecessors who had corrupted the Law--and the superstition and fanaticism of their followers very soon corrupted the Gospel; and that they, and they alone, rose above the strong tendencies to the extravagances which had been so conspicuous during the past, and were soon to be as conspicuous in the future.--These and a thousand other paradoxes (arising out of the supposition that Christianity is the fraudulent or fictitious product of such an age, country, and, above all, such men as the problem limits us to), must the infidel receive, and receive all at once; and of him who can receive them we can but once more declare that so far 'from having no faith', he rather possesses the 'faith' which removes 'mountains!'--only it appears that his faith, like that of Rome or of Oxford, is a faith which excludes reason. Such men, consistently enough, trouble themselves not at all in ascertaining what residuum of truth, historical or critical, may remain in a book which certainly gives ten falsehoods for one truth, and welds both together in inextricable confusion. keywords: account; case; christianity; day; difficulties; evidence; fact; faith; god; history; human; ignorance; man; men; mind; miracles; nature; objections; philosophy; present; reason; religion; revelation; strauss; system; time; truth; world cache: 15563.txt plain text: 15563.txt item: #17 of 113 id: 15861 author: Goodsell, Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) title: The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers date: None words: 9244 flesch: 70 summary: [Sidenote: Can Not Be Demonstrated.] There is always the question also, which I profess seems to be one not easy of answer, whether the literary judgments as to style when men are dealing with another language than their own, and especially with Greek and Hebrew, can be as worthy of acceptance as their authors and many others hold them to be; whether, in short, their opinions may not, like those of experts in handwriting, come to be so colored by their personality, or their interests, as to be of little evidential value. keywords: christ; christian; doctrine; faith; god; life; man; men; nature; sidenote; sin; spirit cache: 15861.txt plain text: 15861.txt item: #18 of 113 id: 16184 author: Strong, Sydney title: His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels date: None words: 61445 flesch: 86 summary: For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God? keywords: behold; cometh; day; disciples; father; god; hath; heaven; house; jesus; jesus saith; john; kingdom; lord; man; men; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: 16184.txt plain text: 16184.txt item: #19 of 113 id: 16307 author: Bradford, Amory H. (Amory Howe) title: The Ascent of the Soul date: None words: 46969 flesch: 71 summary: One of these is that human souls must vary, at least as much as the bodies in which they dwell. When the soul is finally awakened, when it realizes that it is indissolubly bound to a larger personality in the unseen sphere; when it finds that it is tied to other souls, and that it cannot escape from its responsibility for itself and them,--what then? keywords: awakening; body; consciousness; death; earth; environment; experience; god; growth; history; human; jesus; life; light; love; man; men; order; power; process; progress; sin; soul; spirit; strength; things; time; truth; universe; way; world cache: 16307.txt plain text: 16307.txt item: #20 of 113 id: 16581 author: Renan, Ernest title: The Life of Jesus date: None words: 5750 flesch: 71 summary: Humorous Short Stories 87 Best Russian Short Stories, including Bunin's The Gentleman from San Francisco 18 Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays 94 Famous Ghost Stories 73 Five Great Modern Irish Plays 30 Four Famous Greek Plays 158 Fourteen Great Detective Stories 144 Great German Short Novels and Stories 108 Great Modern Short Stories 168 Great Tales of the American West 238 Outline of Abnormal Psychology 152 Outline of Psychoanalysis 66 But the sentiment introduced by Jesus into the world is indeed ours. keywords: age; aristotle; henry; history; james; jesus; john; life; man; philosophy; plays; poems; religion; stories; thomas; william; works; world; writings cache: 16581.txt plain text: 16581.txt item: #21 of 113 id: 16866 author: Rogers, Henry title: The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic date: None words: 141411 flesch: 56 summary: That it must be faint, indeed, in other men, so faint as to render the pretensions of the certitude of the internal revelation, and its independence of all external revelation, perfectly preposterous, I infer from this,--that they have, for the most part, arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions from those of these interpreters of the spiritual revelation. Have you nothing to say to that? NOTHING, said I, except to point you to the infinitely different estimates of Christ formed by other men who yet think of historical Christianity much as you do. keywords: absolute; answer; argument; belief; bible; book; case; christianity; condition; course; day; divine; doubt; events; evidence; experience; external; fact; faculties; faculty; faith; fellowes; find; form; friend; future; general; god; harrington; having; history; human; left; life; light; like; little; love; man; mankind; matter; men; mind; miracles; nature; newman; parker; point; power; present; principles; question; reason; religion; revelation; scepticism; soul; spiritual; subject; system; testament; theory; things; think; thought; time; truth; universal; way; world; years cache: 16866.txt plain text: 16866.txt item: #22 of 113 id: 17147 author: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von title: Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil date: None words: 190264 flesch: 64 summary: It is this difficulty that has caused two parties to spring up, one of the _predeterminators_, the other of the supporters of _mediate knowledge_. _Metaphysical evil_ consists in mere imperfection, _physical evil_ in suffering, and _moral evil_ in sin. keywords: account; action; acts; answer; author; bodies; body; book; cause; choice; consequence; contrary; course; creatures; difficulties; difficulty; divine; doctrine; effect; end; evil; example; existence; faith; father; force; form; freedom; general; god; good; goodness; grace; great; harmony; human; ideas; indifference; infinite; justice; kind; knowledge; laws; leibniz; life; love; m. bayle; man; matter; means; men; mind; moral; motion; nature; necessity; need; non; objection; objects; opinion; order; people; perfect; perfection; philosophers; philosophy; physical; place; pleasure; point; power; principle; produce; question; reason; regard; relation; reply; right; rules; saying; second; sense; sin; soul; state; subject; substance; system; theologians; theology; things; thought; time; truth; understanding; universe; virtue; way; wills; wisdom; wish; work; world cache: 17147.txt plain text: 17147.txt item: #23 of 113 id: 18168 author: Naville, Ernest title: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism date: None words: 81248 flesch: 69 summary: And it is not the heart only which is concerned here; without God man remains inexplicable to his own reason. Good God! keywords: atheism; author; cause; conscience; creator; day; divine; doctrine; doubt; earth; eternal; evil; existence; experience; fact; faith; god; good; goodness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; infinite; intelligence; law; liberty; life; light; living; love; man; matter; men; mind; nature; object; order; page; people; philosophy; place; power; question; reason; religion; science; society; soul; study; system; things; thought; time; truth; universal; universe; view; way; words; work; world cache: 18168.txt plain text: 18168.txt item: #24 of 113 id: 18377 author: Gwatkin, Henry Melvill title: The Arian Controversy date: None words: 48921 flesch: 70 summary: [Sidenote: Athanasius bishop of Alexandria, A.D. 328.] Athanasius bishop of Alexandria. keywords: alexandria; antioch; arianism; arians; athanasius; basil; bishop; christian; church; churches; constantine; constantinople; council; creed; death; doctrine; east; emperor; empire; essence; eusebius; faith; father; god; julian; life; lord; man; marcellus; men; new; nicene; nicæa; rome; sidenote; son; spirit; time; valens; word; years cache: 18377.txt plain text: 18377.txt item: #25 of 113 id: 18513 author: None title: Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark date: None words: 15770 flesch: 86 summary: For he taught his disciples, and said unto them: The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. keywords: disciples; god; jesus; john; man; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou cache: 18513.txt plain text: 18513.txt item: #26 of 113 id: 18558 author: Anonymous title: The Good Shepherd: A Life of Christ for Children date: None words: 17391 flesch: 91 summary: When Mary and Joseph saw Jesus sitting here, with Rabbis coming all around Him, they were greatly surprised. The Jordan near Bethabara Mount of Olives and Jerusalem Gethsemane Calvary The empty tomb The Sea of Galilee The Mount of Olives CHAPTER I WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD In the beginning, before the world was made, the Lord Jesus lived in heaven. keywords: day; disciples; god; jesus; john; lord; man; mary; people; peter; thou; time cache: 18558.txt plain text: 18558.txt item: #27 of 113 id: 19087 author: Langford, Norman F. title: The King Nobody Wanted date: None words: 33890 flesch: 94 summary: Jesus Goes to Work [Illustration] When Jesus was thirty years old, people began to talk about the great man who had come to Palestine. Now everyone who heard Jesus preach was likely to be surprised. keywords: come; day; disciples; god; good; illustration; jerusalem; jesus; john; king; man; messiah; people; thought; time cache: 19087.txt plain text: 19087.txt item: #28 of 113 id: 19190 author: Smith, Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) title: Men Called Him Master date: None words: 60183 flesch: 93 summary: At last Jesus stopped. In a moment they were shoving and hustling Jesus toward the door, yelling, Over the cliff with him! Carrying Jesus with them, the crowd moved swiftly toward a place outside the town where the hill dropped straight down. keywords: andrew; crowd; day; disciples; god; great; james; jerusalem; jesus; john; judas; kingdom; life; man; master; men; people; peter; philip; right; road; simon; temple; time; voice; way cache: 19190.txt plain text: 19190.txt item: #29 of 113 id: 19566 author: Patterson, Robert title: Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity date: None words: 176449 flesch: 64 summary: God _created_ man in his own image. What an outrage of decency for such men to call themselves philosophers and Christians! keywords: account; animals; apostles; authority; beginning; bible; book; cause; chap; chapter; character; christ; christian; church; city; common; contrary; creation; darkness; darwin; day; days; death; discovery; distinct; divine; earth; egypt; evolution; existence; eye; eyes; fact; faith; fire; form; forth; god; good; gospel; heathen; heaven; history; human; idea; infidel; infinite; instance; jesus; knowledge; land; language; law; laws; life; light; lord; man; matter; men; miles; millions; mind; modern; moses; motion; nations; nature; new; number; origin; people; period; place; planets; power; present; process; progress; prophets; question; reason; religion; revelation; science; scripture; second; soul; space; species; stars; state; sun; system; testament; testimony; theory; things; thou; time; truth; universe; water; way; words; work; world; years cache: 19566.txt plain text: 19566.txt item: #30 of 113 id: 19612 author: Harnack, Adolf von title: History of Dogma, Volume 1 date: None words: 163950 flesch: 62 summary: Hatch (Organization of the early church, and especially his posthumous work The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian Church, 1890, in which may be found the most ample proof for the conception of the early history of dogma which is set forth in the following pages), are in this respect worthy of special note. But it is to be specially noted that as a missionary and an Apologist he made use of Greek ideas (Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians). keywords: account; age; apostles; appearance; author; authority; baptism; basis; beginning; belief; body; book; case; catholic; century; christ; christendom; christian; christianity; christology; church; church history; churches; clem; communities; community; conception; course; death; der; des; development; didache; die; disciples; divine; doctrine; dogma; eis; element; epistle; etc; example; existence; expression; fact; faith; father; flesh; following; footnote; form; formula; future; gentile; gnostic; gnosticism; god; good; gospel; greek; hand; hermas; historical; history; holy; hope; idea; ignatius; iii; importance; influence; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; judaism; justin; kai; kingdom; knowledge; law; life; literature; logos; lord; man; marcion; material; matter; means; messiah; nature; neoplatonism; new; order; origen; original; passages; paul; pauline; people; period; person; philosophy; place; point; position; power; preaching; present; prophets; question; reason; regard; religion; resurrection; revelation; roman; sacrifice; salvation; schools; second; sense; set; significance; sin; special; speculations; spirit; spiritual; system; tertull; testament; testament religion; theology; theory; theos; things; thought; time; tou; tradition; tên; tês; union; value; view; way; words; work; world; worship; writings cache: 19612.txt plain text: 19612.txt item: #31 of 113 id: 19613 author: Harnack, Adolf von title: History of Dogma, Volume 2 date: None words: 178653 flesch: 62 summary: Adeo ubi ecclesiastici ordinis non est consessus, et offers et tinguis et sacerdos es tibi solus. adeo ubi ecclesiastici ordinis non est consessus, et offeis et tinguis et sacerdos es tibi solus, sed ubi tres, ecclesia est, licet laici. keywords: acts; adam; adv; alexandria; apologists; apostles; apostolic; appearance; archôn; asia; assumption; autem; authority; baptism; baptismal; beginning; belief; bishops; body; book; canon; case; catholic; cels; century; chapter; character; christ; christendom; christian; christianity; church; church law; church tradition; churches; clement; collection; communities; community; conception; confession; content; course; creation; creator; cum; cyprian; death; dei; dei et; deity; demons; deo; des; deum; deus; development; die; distinction; divine; doctrine; dogmatic; doubt; e.g.; earth; ecclesia; eis; enim; epistles; essence; etc; euseb; example; existence; expression; extent; fact; faith; fashion; father; filius; fin; flesh; following; footnote; form; formula; freedom; gnostic; god; good; gospel; grace; great; greek; hand; heretics; hippolytus; historical; history; holy; hominem; homo; human; humanity; i. p.; idea; iii; importance; individual; interpretation; irenæus; jesus; jesus christ; john; justin; kai; kata; kind; knowledge; l.c; law; life; logos; logos doctrine; lord; main; man; manner; marcion; matter; means; melito; moral; nature; new; non; novatian; order; origen; original; passages; paul; people; perfect; period; person; philosophers; philosophy; place; point; position; possession; power; practice; principle; problem; process; proof; prophecy; prophets; question; qui; quod; quæ; read; reason; redemption; regard; regula; religion; respect; result; revelation; right; roman; rome; rule; salvation; scriptures; second; secundum; sed; sense; set; shows; significance; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; strom; sunt; system; tatian; teaching; tertullian; testament; theology; theory; theou; things; thought; time; ton; tou; tradition; treatise; truth; tên; tês; tôn; und; union; unity; value; verbum; view; vii; virtue; viz; vol; way; west; wisdom; words; work; world; writings cache: 19613.txt plain text: 19613.txt item: #32 of 113 id: 21496 author: Warschauer, Joseph title: Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive date: None words: 58233 flesch: 53 summary: For the purpose which we have in view we cannot do better than state what we consider the fundamental misinterpretation of this doctrine in the considered words of one of its most popular exponents, who expresses it as follows: God _in_ man is God _as_ man. We do not commit ourselves to the proposition that God _in_ man is God _as_ man. keywords: belief; case; christian; course; divine; doctrine; evil; experience; fact; god; good; human; immanence; individual; life; man; matter; men; mind; moral; nature; personal; personality; place; point; power; prayer; present; question; reality; religion; right; science; self; sense; shall; sin; soul; things; thought; truth; universe; view; world cache: 21496.txt plain text: 21496.txt item: #33 of 113 id: 21814 author: Stalker, James title: The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our Lord's Passion date: None words: 71944 flesch: 73 summary: The Life of Jesus Christ_, the desire has slumbered in my mind to describe on a much more extended scale the closing passages of the Saviour's earthly history; and, although renewed study has deepened my sense of the impossibility of doing these scenes full justice, yet the subject has never ceased to attract me, as being beyond all others impressive and remunerative. Andrew Melville told King James: There are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland; there is King James, the head of this commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the Church, whose subject James VI. keywords: body; case; christ; cross; day; death; dying; face; father; god; great; hands; heart; history; human; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; john; judas; king; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; pain; peter; pilate; place; power; roman; saviour; scene; sense; sin; soldiers; son; soul; spirit; thou; thought; time; trial; way; women; words; work; world cache: 21814.txt plain text: 21814.txt item: #34 of 113 id: 21881 author: Sanderson, R. E. (Robert Edward) title: The Life of the Waiting Soul in the Intermediate State date: None words: 18799 flesch: 77 summary: It was the gift of the divine spirit which caused man's soul truly to live, so that he became then a _living_ soul. Their labours change, but their works indeed do follow with them to that land where other souls of those who knew not Christ here may learn to know Him there, and knowing Him may choose Him, and choosing Him may be His and He theirs even to the end. keywords: body; christ; day; death; earth; god; good; heaven; life; lord; man; paradise; soul; spirit; state cache: 21881.txt plain text: 21881.txt item: #35 of 113 id: 22735 author: Stead, W. T. (William Thomas) title: King of the Jews: A story of Christ's last days on Earth date: None words: 45966 flesch: 83 summary: Urge him on with blows! Said Simon, I hear a tumult--an outcry of a crowd--what has happened in the city? Hearing Jesus speak, the thief who was crucified on his left said unto him, Hearest thou? keywords: annas; caiaphas; cross; death; disciples; father; god; jesus; john; judas; king; law; lord; man; mary; master; people; peter; pilate; priests; sanhedrin; saying; soldiers; thee; thou; thy; time cache: 22735.txt plain text: 22735.txt item: #36 of 113 id: 25826 author: Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson) title: The Gospel of the Hereafter date: None words: 43504 flesch: 80 summary: I have known men who were in Hell here--they told me so--men of brutal character, men in delirium tremens, who saw devils grinning at them from the bed. But they honestly feel that in spite of the indefiniteness of the adjective, our Lord has fixed His meaning beyond question in the one passage that has become so famous as the great proof text in this controversy, These shall go away into _aeonian_ punishment, but the righteous into _aeonian_ life (Matt. xxv. 46). keywords: bible; body; brain; character; christ; church; day; dead; death; earth; god; good; heaven; hell; joy; knowledge; life; lord; love; man; means; men; pain; scripture; sin; soul; things; thought; world cache: 25826.txt plain text: 25826.txt item: #37 of 113 id: 25974 author: Martin, T. T. (Thomas Theodore) title: God's Plan with Men date: None words: 56042 flesch: 78 summary: Second, let the reader remember that with God character counts more than comfort. For this purpose, the Introduction is addressed to them; and the hope is cherished that Chapter I will aid in disarming prejudice against God and the Bible; for while the Bible's teaching of degrees of punishment in Hell does not detract from the horrors of future punishment, but rather adds thereto, it effectually does away with the charge of the injustice of future punishment. keywords: character; children; christ; cor; death; faith; father; god; hath; heaven; hell; jesus; jesus christ; john; law; life; lord; love; man; men; motive; redeemed; right; salvation; saviour; sins; son; thou; word; work cache: 25974.txt plain text: 25974.txt item: #38 of 113 id: 26003 author: Murray, Andrew title: 'Jesus Himself' date: None words: 8703 flesch: 87 summary: And now that blessed Christ Jesus, with His loving, pierced heart; that blessed Jesus Christ, who lived upon earth; that same Christ glorified into the glory of God, can be in me and _Can be with me all the days. And when you look at one characteristic of His after another; and you hear God's word, Let this mind be in you which was also in Jesus Christ, and it tells you He was obedient unto the death; and then you answer, Christ the obedient one, Christ whose whole life was obedience, it is that Christ whom I have received and put on. keywords: christ; god; heart; jesus; life; lord cache: 26003.txt plain text: 26003.txt item: #39 of 113 id: 26397 author: Whiton, James Morris title: Miracles and Supernatural Religion date: None words: 17700 flesch: 53 summary: Those who thus define miracle regard miracles as having ceased at the end of the Apostolic age in the first century. [Note that Incarnation and Resurrection are terms which Dr. Nicoll construes as denoting physical miracles.] keywords: case; christian; death; fact; god; history; jesus; life; man; miracles; nature; new; order; power; present; religion; resurrection; revelation; testament; thought; time; world cache: 26397.txt plain text: 26397.txt item: #40 of 113 id: 26643 author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens title: The Work Of Christ: Past, Present and Future date: None words: 18207 flesch: 84 summary: His Future Work......... THE WORK OF CHRIST THE Word of God reveals, that all things were created by and for the Son of God. No creature of God was fitted or fit to do this. keywords: body; christ; cross; earth; father; glory; god; heaven; holy; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; sin; son; work cache: 26643.txt plain text: 26643.txt item: #41 of 113 id: 26691 author: Byers, J. W. title: Sanctification date: None words: 36954 flesch: 76 summary: 5:23, 24. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.--Jude 1. Sanctified In Christ Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. Oh, let us praise and magnify the Lord for his wonderful grace that he has so abundantly supplied through repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, that he is so willing and ready to remove from our hearts the guilt of all our sins and transgressions, and remember them against us no more forever, and then bestow upon us this blessed inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Christ Jesus! keywords: blood; christ; consecration; experience; faith; god; grace; heart; holy; holy spirit; jesus; life; lord; love; sanctification; sin; spirit; word cache: 26691.txt plain text: 26691.txt item: #42 of 113 id: 26990 author: Murray, Andrew title: Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy date: None words: 84986 flesch: 80 summary: We have seen how God's will is our sanctification; how it is in the will of God Christ has sanctified us; yea more, how He found the power to sanctify us in sanctifying Himself by the entire surrender of His will to God. Holy Lord God! keywords: christ; day; divine; faith; father; glory; god; holiness; holy father; holy god; holy lord; holy spirit; jesus; life; lord god; love; man; power; sanctification; self; sin; thee; thou; thy; truth; word; work cache: 26990.txt plain text: 26990.txt item: #43 of 113 id: 27237 author: Challis, James title: An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality date: None words: 35210 flesch: 56 summary: xii., it is said that there is forgiveness for one who speaketh against the Son of man, which expression may signify, generally, wilful and overt opposition to the law of Christ (Gal. vi. 2); but that there is no forgiveness for one who _speaks_ against the Holy Spirit, i.e. one who by wilful and _overt_ conduct does violence to the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit which he has already partaken of. Abel's offering consisted of the firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof, and was, therefore, proper for expressing, by visible tokens, the character of the covenant in three essential particulars: first, that it is a covenant of _life_, the animals chosen affording _food_, and that of the choicest kind, for supporting life; secondly, that the covenanted life is entered upon after death, the animals being _slain_ {22} for food; thirdly, that pain and death, although, according to law, consequent upon sin, were ordained, not alone for the judicial punishment of sin, the animals that were slain being _harmless_, but for rendering the spirit of man meet to partake of the future life. keywords: argument; christ; death; doctrine; end; faith; god; immortality; judgment; law; life; lord; man; passage; resurrection; rev; righteousness; scripture; sin; spirit; time; words; world cache: 27237.txt plain text: 27237.txt item: #44 of 113 id: 27344 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: The Faithful Promiser date: None words: 8991 flesch: 87 summary: Though thou hast all else beside, bereft of God thou must be bereft indeed. I have in my heart, Thy _comforts_ delight my soul! REMEMBER _THIS_ keywords: day; god; grace; hope; lord; love; servant; soul; thee; thine; thou; word cache: 27344.txt plain text: 27344.txt item: #45 of 113 id: 27349 author: Miller, J. R. (James Russell) title: Personal Friendships of Jesus date: None words: 49361 flesch: 82 summary: How does Jesus comfort his friends who are left? One of these is mentioned several times; the other we meet nowhere until he suddenly emerges from the shadows of his secret friendship, when the body of Jesus hung dead on the cross, and boldly asks leave to take it away, and with due honor bury it. keywords: character; christ; comfort; day; death; disciples; friendship; god; good; heart; human; jesus; john; life; love; man; master; men; mother; new; place; sorrow; things; thomas; thou; time; way; words; work; world cache: 27349.txt plain text: 27349.txt item: #46 of 113 id: 27500 author: Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John) title: The New Theology date: None words: 68605 flesch: 66 summary: The history, even of the most recent civilisations, is, comparatively speaking, only as old as yesterday, whereas the presence of human life on this planet is traceable into the almost illimitable past. According to the received theology the incarnation of God in human life was limited to the life of Jesus only, and through Him to mankind. keywords: atonement; christ; christian; church; consciousness; day; death; divine; doctrine; experience; god; good; history; human; jesus; kingdom; life; love; man; men; nature; new; paul; people; religion; self; shall; sin; soul; spirit; testament; theology; thing; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; world cache: 27500.txt plain text: 27500.txt item: #47 of 113 id: 28103 author: Wallace, Robert title: The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election date: None words: 37371 flesch: 74 summary: In this sense it has equal reference to all events, for God foreordains whatsoever comes to pass: It will thus be seen that the Confession, and the Catechisms, and Hodge, as one of the most eminent expounders of these formularies, uphold the doctrine, that everything which happens was foreordained by God to happen. That without the grace of God man can neither think, will, nor do anything good; yet that grace does not act in men in an irresistible way. keywords: calvinistic; case; chapter; christ; church; divine; doctrine; election; evil; faith; god; good; grace; holy; life; lord; man; men; passage; people; power; predestination; question; reprobation; salvation; spirit; things; truth; words cache: 28103.txt plain text: 28103.txt item: #48 of 113 id: 28401 author: Finch, Richard title: Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. date: None words: 21260 flesch: 61 summary: So that it is _morally impossible_, that God should do an evil Thing, These Truths are so deducible from each other, and in themselves so evident, to all unbiassed and inquisitive Minds, that one would wonder to find Men, of Learning and Integrity, give into the contrary Sentiments; which, in Effect they do, who hold Doctrines _naturally subversive_ of these fundamental Truths, as all certainly do, who depart from the moral Good and Fitness of Things, and resolve all into _mere sovereign Pleasure_ alone, _independent_ of Wisdom and Goodness; which must ever be at hand to _cooperate_ with, and govern the Exertion of, their favourite Attribute, _sovereign Power_ itself; or, if they do not expressly affirm this, they do by another Method the very same thing; and that is, by denying, in Effect, the _intrinsick Difference_ of Good and Evil, which, according to them, has no Foundation in the _ And this latter Assurance, and the Energy and Satisfaction wherewith the Words were pronounced, I take _rather_ to have been the _true Blessing_ than the _other_. keywords: adam; argument; christ; doctrines; god; good; law; man; men; natural; power; reason; sin; state; thing cache: 28401.txt plain text: 28401.txt item: #49 of 113 id: 28507 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: The Mind of Jesus date: None words: 18819 flesch: 78 summary: Yet His was a death of _peace_, nay, of _triumph_! In the school of the world (this _painted_ world), how much is there of what is called policy, double-dealing!--accomplishing its ends by tortuous means; outward, artificial polish, often only a cloak for baseness and selfishness!--in the daily interchange of business, one seeking to over-reach the other by wily arts; sacrificing principle for temporal advantage. keywords: arm; christ; christian; cross; day; disciples; father; god; good; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; man; mind; reader; sin; spirit; thee; thou; thy; world cache: 28507.txt plain text: 28507.txt item: #50 of 113 id: 28547 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: The Words of Jesus date: None words: 18255 flesch: 80 summary: He who reflects the mind of Jesus; imbibes His Spirit; takes His Word as the regulator of his daily walk, and makes His glory the great end of his being; he who lives _to_ God and _with_ God, and _for_ God; the humble, lowly, Christ-like, Heaven-seeking Christian;--he it is who can claim as his own this wondrous heritage of love! Jesus was divinely qualified for this special office of speaking many and _comfortable_ words. keywords: believer; christ; day; father; glory; god; heaven; jesus; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; peace; people; thee; thou; thy; words; world cache: 28547.txt plain text: 28547.txt item: #51 of 113 id: 29288 author: Notovitch, Nicolas title: The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery date: None words: 37423 flesch: 69 summary: Other peoples, who were more sunk in ignorance, seeing that the results of the wind were not always beneficent, and that the rain did not inevitably bring good harvests, and that the animals were not willingly subservient to man, began to seek for direct intermediaries between themselves and the great mysterious and unfathomable power of the Creator. When a child I left my father's house to go and settle among other people. keywords: brahma; buddha; child; country; day; death; father; god; gods; governor; india; israel; israelites; issa; jesus; journey; kachmyr; ladak; lama; laws; left; life; little; man; men; new; order; people; pilate; place; priests; road; spirit; temple; thibet; time; valley; way; years cache: 29288.txt plain text: 29288.txt item: #52 of 113 id: 29557 author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens title: The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ date: None words: 44093 flesch: 86 summary: God speaks in Him, by Him, and he who has made known God, in whom redemption for man was procured is dishonored. For this reason it is impossible to deny the authority of the Old Testament without denying the authority of Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; cross; day; earth; father; glory; god; grace; great; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; joy; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; power; son; spirit; things; world cache: 29557.txt plain text: 29557.txt item: #53 of 113 id: 30119 author: Hodgson, F. (Francis) title: The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted date: None words: 23453 flesch: 66 summary: God is the author of sin_. Either God is, _strictly and properly_, the _author of sin_, or he is a _participant_ keywords: calvinism; calvinistic; confession; counsel; decrees; doctrine; faith; god; good; man; men; new; presbyterian; sin; system; theory; things; time; whatsoever cache: 30119.txt plain text: 30119.txt item: #54 of 113 id: 30219 author: Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston) title: Monophysitism Past and Present: A Study in Christology date: None words: 31006 flesch: 63 summary: Nominally admitting human nature into union with deity, it destroys the reality of that transaction at a stroke by making the two natures identical. He started from the Platonic division of human nature into three parts, rational soul, animal soul, and body. keywords: body; catholic; christ; christian; christology; church; divine; doctrine; experience; fact; god; heresy; human; humanity; life; mind; monophysite; monophysitism; nature; personality; problem; psychology; reality; relation; thought; union; world cache: 30219.txt plain text: 30219.txt item: #55 of 113 id: 30561 author: Strong, Sydney title: His Last Week The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus in the Words of the Four Gospels date: None words: 19386 flesch: 84 summary: Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Jesus saith unto them, Come and break your fast. keywords: disciples; father; jesus; lord; man; saith; saying; thee; things; thou; world cache: 30561.txt plain text: 30561.txt item: #56 of 113 id: 30573 author: Haldeman, Isaac Massey title: Why I Preach the Second Coming date: None words: 30077 flesch: 70 summary: When thus you are face to face with the indisputable fact that every basic doctrine of the Christian faith, every outshining promise of hope, of comfort, of consolation, of abiding peace, every appeal to the noblest and purest life as a Christian, every demand that the Christian shall unceasingly be the light of heaven in the spiritual darkness of earth is bound up inextricably with the fact of the Second Coming, it carries with it the inevitable corollary that the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ as a certified and imminent event is the very sum and substance of all available motives that can lead to a life of practical service to God and man. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. keywords: blood; christ; church; coming; day; dead; death; earth; glory; god; heaven; holy; hour; israel; jesus christ; land; life; living; lord; lord jesus; love; man; men; nations; new; peace; son; time; world cache: 30573.txt plain text: 30573.txt item: #57 of 113 id: 30657 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects date: None words: 34110 flesch: 89 summary: He must warn the openly wicked man that if he persists in his evil courses, the just judgments of God will inevitably overtake him; he must unmask the hypocrite; he must utter no uncertain protest against the crooked and devious ways of the self-seeker and the time-server. But if he enters into the Spirit of his Master, no part of his public work will be more congenial or delightful than the proclamation of the full, free, and sovereign grace of God, manifested towards sinful men in the gift of His Eternal Son, to be the Saviour of the world. keywords: christ; come; day; faith; gift; god; good; grace; heart; jesus; law; life; lord; man; salvation; sin; sins; son; word; work cache: 30657.txt plain text: 30657.txt item: #58 of 113 id: 30876 author: Drummond, Henry title: Eternal Life date: None words: 10857 flesch: 66 summary: This is Life Eternal--that they might know Thee, the True God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent. ONE of the most startling achievements of recent science is a definition of Eternal Life. keywords: correspondence; environment; god; life; man; nature; organism; religion; science; spiritual; world cache: 30876.txt plain text: 30876.txt item: #59 of 113 id: 30882 author: Archer, William title: God and Mr. Wells: A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' date: None words: 29731 flesch: 65 summary: It was in no spirit of irony that I began this essay by expressing the lively interest with which I learned that Mr. Wells was setting out on the quest for God. In the meantime, one would be sorry to seem to write without respect of the depth of conviction which Mr. Wells throws into his account of the supreme spiritual experience of finding God. keywords: believe; course; day; death; doubt; existence; fact; god; good; idea; individual; king; knowledge; life; man; matter; means; men; mind; nature; new; point; power; question; religion; self; sense; things; thought; time; wells; world cache: 30882.txt plain text: 30882.txt item: #60 of 113 id: 32006 author: Muir, Pearson M'Adam title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity date: None words: 41392 flesch: 67 summary: 'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison, 'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with Nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or {73} energy.'[5] Guesses at the Riddle of Existence; Lectures on the Study of History; The founder of Christianity_. keywords: appendix; belief; christianity; christians; church; creed; day; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; humanity; jesus; life; light; living; lord; love; man; mankind; men; morality; nature; pantheism; power; religion; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; universe; way; words; world; worship cache: 32006.txt plain text: 32006.txt item: #61 of 113 id: 32830 author: Alford, Henry title: The State of the Blessed Dead date: None words: 12963 flesch: 76 summary: We all know what lies beneath it; namely, the fact, that though the believer in Christ must undergo the physical suffering of death like other men, yet death has become to him so altogether without terror and curse, that it has been for him deprived of real existence and power. The Christian shall, like other men, undergo the judgment after death; thus one set of Scripture declarations shall be fulfilled. keywords: body; christ; day; dead; death; god; judgment; lord; man; spirit; state; words cache: 32830.txt plain text: 32830.txt item: #62 of 113 id: 33194 author: Hughson, Shirley Carter title: The Warfare of the Soul: Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation date: None words: 50432 flesch: 76 summary: Let us regard a little child just baptized--it is an innocent child of God, but what is innocence? When our Lord was baptized, as He came up {vi} out of the water, the Voice from heaven proclaimed, This is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased, and we read _Then_ was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and the temptation was a testing on the part of the Evil One, whether He were indeed the Son of God. keywords: battle; enemy; evil; god; good; grace; heart; holy; life; lord; love; man; means; mind; power; prayer; satan; sin; soul; spirit; strength; temptation; things; thou; thought; time; victory; warfare; way; work cache: 33194.txt plain text: 33194.txt item: #63 of 113 id: 33341 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work date: None words: 32204 flesch: 85 summary: God turneth the way of the wicked upside down. Oh may there come great joy upon believers everywhere, that we may shout for joy and rejoice in God day and night. keywords: christ; church; day; ghost; god; good; holy spirit; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; people; power; sin; spirit; work; world cache: 33341.txt plain text: 33341.txt item: #64 of 113 id: 34855 author: Jarrett, Bede title: The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul date: None words: 26210 flesch: 70 summary: These do, indeed, enable the soul to be continuously conscious of the divine presence, of God immanent as well as transcendent, God in the heart of the world as well as wholly above the world, and they affect this consciousness by enabling the soul to see Him everywhere. It is to further this development that these meditations have been drawn up, since hardly anything can render us more sensible of our worth and Christian dignity than does the teaching of Our Lord on the indwelling of the Spirit of God. keywords: divine; faith; father; ghost; gifts; god; grace; holy; holy ghost; holy spirit; knowledge; life; love; man; nature; new; presence; son; soul; spirit; things cache: 34855.txt plain text: 34855.txt item: #65 of 113 id: 35839 author: Bledsoe, Albert Taylor title: An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will date: None words: 68402 flesch: 63 summary: To begin then;--if motive is merely the condition on which the mind acts, and exerts no influence in the production of volition, it is certainly improper to say, that it _gives rise to volition_. The younger Edwards himself has spoken of an _efficient, producing_ cause, in such a manner as to show that he regarded them as convertible terms, p. 46. keywords: act; action; cause; doctrine; edwards; effect; existence; influence; liberty; mind; motive; nature; necessity; power; president; question; sense; thing; volition cache: 35839.txt plain text: 35839.txt item: #66 of 113 id: 36891 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Health, Healing, and Faith date: None words: 11974 flesch: 65 summary: The records of many praying churches probably show the same conditions. We must reassert that this fact is not recorded here to sustain any idea that the Temple is a sacred place above many other churches, cathedrals, and holy places, but to sustain the opinion that there are places more sacred than others to certain people, and that burdened hearts and minds would act wisely if they sought some such place when the answer to their prayer seems especially vital. keywords: bible; cases; church; faith; god; home; lord; man; men; number; people; prayer; spirit; temple; work; years cache: 36891.txt plain text: 36891.txt item: #67 of 113 id: 37696 author: Celsus (Platonic philosopher), active 180 title: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix date: None words: 27683 flesch: 71 summary: But why is it requisite to enumerate how many things have been foretold with a divinely inspired voice, partly by prophetesses and prophets, and partly by other men and women under the influence of inspiration? Again: How can we think him to be a God, who, that I may omit other things, performed, as we learn, nothing that was promised? keywords: body; celsus; christians; city; country; death; divine; egypt; emperor; father; god; gods; good; jesus; jews; julian; law; lib; man; men; nature; order; place; porphyry; power; religion; son; temples; things; time; work; worship cache: 37696.txt plain text: 37696.txt item: #68 of 113 id: 37699 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Hell: Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation date: None words: 8182 flesch: 84 summary: Now in order to regain man from the frightful hell of eternity, Christ himself came to this world and took upon himself flesh, and in order that we might know the road to eternal salvation he gave us a book, and that book is called the Bible, and wherever that Bible has been read men have immediately commenced cutting each others' throats. Every religion in this world is the work of man. keywords: bible; devil; doctrine; god; good; hell; man; men; people; religion; world cache: 37699.txt plain text: 37699.txt item: #69 of 113 id: 38380 author: Lisle, Lionel title: The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of Its Own Rules date: None words: 40747 flesch: 70 summary: It has already been shown that the appearance on the way to Damascus had not been thought of when the second epistle was written, and during this appearance Paul _did not see_ Jesus. Jesus states of John, (1.) keywords: acts; angel; belief; child; david; day; dead; disciples; earth; god; heaven; jerusalem; jesus; john; joseph; life; lord; luke; man; mark; mary; matthew; paul; peter; power; resurrection; son; spirit; testament; thee; time; way cache: 38380.txt plain text: 38380.txt item: #70 of 113 id: 38775 author: Willard, J. H. (James Hartwell) title: The First Easter date: None words: 3829 flesch: 78 summary: ] Turning hastily, Mary saw Jesus, and no words can describe her rapturous joy. Quickly the two Apostles set out for the spot where Jesus' body had been laid to rest. keywords: apostles; illustration; jerusalem; jesus; man; pilate cache: 38775.txt plain text: 38775.txt item: #71 of 113 id: 38965 author: St. Paul, Mother title: Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady date: None words: 43226 flesch: 85 summary: One day, if we try to receive our cup of sorrow as Mary did, that is, take it _for_ JESUS and _with_ JESUS, we too shall receive the cup of joy, and we shall be able to say with St Paul as we put the two side by side: The sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory. He knew her well, and he expressed his knowledge in the first _Hail Mary_ that was ever said. keywords: child; children; day; god; grace; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; joseph; joy; life; lord; love; mary; mother; point; prelude; sacrifice; son; soul; thee; things; thy; time; word; work cache: 38965.txt plain text: 38965.txt item: #72 of 113 id: 39052 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels date: None words: 72789 flesch: 62 summary: It is certain Jesus profited by it to extend his mission even to the capital of Judea; only giving time for his miracle to spread, in order to produce its effect. Scarcely is there a history, ancient or modern, which does not possess more method and clearness than that of Jesus; neither do we perceive that the Holy Spirit, its reputed author, has surpassed, or even equalled many profane historians, whose writings are not so important to mankind. keywords: apostles; christians; church; conduct; country; death; disciples; divine; doctors; faith; father; find; god; gospel; great; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; law; life; luke; man; manner; mary; master; matthew; men; messiah; miracle; number; order; people; persons; place; power; priests; religion; son; spirit; time; world cache: 39052.txt plain text: 39052.txt item: #73 of 113 id: 40207 author: Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) title: The Christian Doctrine of Hell date: None words: 5114 flesch: 72 summary: The Christian Father of course accepts the literal meaning of hell fire. And the _Larger Catechism_, A. 29, declares: The punishments of sin in the world to come are everlasting separation from the comfortable presence of God, and most grievous torments in soul and body, without intermission, in hell fire forever. keywords: chap; christian; damned; doctrine; fire; god; hell; punishment; torments cache: 40207.txt plain text: 40207.txt item: #74 of 113 id: 40285 author: Rihbany, Abraham Mitrie title: The Syrian Christ date: None words: 76515 flesch: 73 summary: _See_ Bible. _See_ Bible. keywords: american; bible; book; bread; chapter; children; christ; day; days; east; eat; family; father; god; good; gospel; hand; heaven; home; house; jesus; life; like; lord; love; man; master; means; men; mother; oriental; passage; people; place; saying; sheep; shepherd; social; son; speech; syrian; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; verse; version; water; way; wife; woman; word cache: 40285.txt plain text: 40285.txt item: #75 of 113 id: 40443 author: Mortimore, D. title: The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven date: None words: 49956 flesch: 67 summary: The Psalmist tells us that God is a _Sun_ and a shield, who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire. Now to show the intimate connexion with the _Sun_ and _Heaven_, spoken of in the Scriptures, we will here group together a few of the many passages found written therein. keywords: angels; behold; day; earth; element; faith; fire; glory; god; great; heat; heaven; life; light; lord; man; miles; mind; nature; place; planets; power; revelations; shall; source; space; spirit; sun; thou; time; world; years cache: 40443.txt plain text: 40443.txt item: #76 of 113 id: 40458 author: Atwater, John Birdseye title: The Real Jesus of the Four Gospels date: None words: 46915 flesch: 68 summary: But Jesus' conception of the Heavenly Father was essentially unique in ever realizing the spiritual unity existing between the Father in heaven and His Son Jesus and His other children on earth. XVII:62-66).[46] Mark follows closely the narrative of Matthew, except he says that they offered Jesus wine mingled with myrrh to drink,[47] instead of vinegar and gall (Mark XV:23). keywords: apostles; case; christian; day; death; disciples; evil; father; galilee; god; gospels; hand; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; joseph; judas; law; life; lord; luke; man; mark; mary; matt; matthew; men; miracle; nations; people; peter; pharisees; pilate; place; right; sabbath; saying; son; states; thou; thy; time; war cache: 40458.txt plain text: 40458.txt item: #77 of 113 id: 40460 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old A Complete Life of Christ Written in Simple Language, Based on the Gospel Narrative date: None words: 113049 flesch: 85 summary: This darkness alarmed the people, and those who had been speaking to Jesus words of contempt, now stood still, full of fear. Every day Jesus was drawing nearer to Jerusalem, and his twelve disciples with all the multitude of those who were following him, fully expected that in Jerusalem Jesus would reign as the King of Israel. keywords: city; day; disciples; father; galilee; god; good; great; herod; house; illustration; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; king; kingdom; land; life; lord; man; man jesus; mary; men; people; peter; place; son; temple; things; time; time jesus; words; work cache: 40460.txt plain text: 40460.txt item: #78 of 113 id: 40482 author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson title: The Meaning of Faith date: None words: 126477 flesch: 72 summary: Without faith men collapse into a yielding mass of plaintiveness and fear; with faith they move mountains. Without such faith man feels himself to be, in Goethe's phrase, a troubled wanderer upon a darkened earth. keywords: belief; character; children; christ; christian; church; day; divine; doubt; earth; eternal; evil; experience; face; fact; faith; father; fear; fellowship; find; glory; god; good; goodness; heart; hope; human; jehovah; jesus; joy; knowledge; law; life; light; lives; living; lord; love; man; master; meaning; men; mind; nature; need; new; people; physical; power; prayer; purpose; reality; religion; science; sense; service; set; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; understand; universe; unto; way; week; words; work; world cache: 40482.txt plain text: 40482.txt item: #79 of 113 id: 40929 author: Edwards, Lyford P. (Lyford Paterson) title: The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy date: None words: 38732 flesch: 57 summary: In short, any explanation of early Christian Chiliasm which seeks to bring in the operation of any social principles which cannot be shown to be objectively operative in contemporary society is to be viewed with a certain measure of doubt, if not of suspicion. The writer will, therefore, in the briefest possible manner, try to show some of the aspects of early Chiliasm as they appear in the light of a few of these principles. keywords: a.d; augustine; case; century; chiliasm; christian; christianity; church; concepts; crowd; degree; doctrine; end; fact; form; history; interest; jewish; jews; kingdom; like; mob; movement; new; pagan; people; period; place; power; principle; property; religion; roman; rome; theory; time; world; years cache: 40929.txt plain text: 40929.txt item: #80 of 113 id: 40966 author: Chandler, Walter M. (Walter Marion) title: The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 1 (of 2) The Hebrew Trial date: None words: 108351 flesch: 64 summary: And at the regular trial before the full Sanhedrin Jesus was not asked to give evidence that would serve to exculpate Him. But the reader may object, and with reason, that this is begging the question; and is therefore an inexcusable evasion; since the real issue before the Sanhedrin was this: Is Jesus God? keywords: blasphemy; caiaphas; capital; case; charge; christ; code; court; crime; criminal; day; days; death; evangelists; evidence; examination; fact; form; god; gospel; hebrew; history; human; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; judges; judgment; judicial; law; life; lord; luke; mark; matter; members; men; mishna; morning; mosaic; nature; new; night; people; pilate; place; point; present; priest; prisoner; proceedings; question; roman; rule; sanhedrin; second; son; talmud; temple; testimony; thou; time; trial; witnesses; world; writers cache: 40966.txt plain text: 40966.txt item: #81 of 113 id: 40967 author: Chandler, Walter M. (Walter Marion) title: The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial date: None words: 107529 flesch: 65 summary: The Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian is a text-book in the greatest universities of the world, and Roman law is to-day the basis of the jurisprudence of nearly every state of continental Europe. Again, what Roman law was applicable to the charges made against Jesus to Pilate? keywords: account; accused; acts; augustus; authority; beginning; body; case; character; charge; chief; christ; city; conduct; criminal; cross; crucifixion; cæsar; day; death; emperor; empire; fact; form; general; gods; governor; great; greek; hands; hebrew; herod; history; human; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; joseph; judea; judges; judgment; judicial; jurisdiction; king; law; laws; life; lord; matter; men; nature; new; note; order; people; pilate; place; political; power; priests; prisoner; proceedings; procurator; public; question; rabbi; religion; right; roman; rome; sanhedrin; senate; son; state; subject; talmud; temple; thee; things; thou; tiberius; time; treason; trial; words; work; world; years cache: 40967.txt plain text: 40967.txt item: #82 of 113 id: 41421 author: R. H. title: The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism date: None words: 20115 flesch: 74 summary: {_and made the ground of their Faith against the sense of_ {_the same Scripture declared by the major part of the_ {_Church is examined_. And, of what kind the necessity is of believing those, Dr. _Stillingfleet_ states on this manner keywords: believe; catholick; church; council; error; faith; general; god; heresie; judgment; point; prot; scripture; sense; soc cache: 41421.txt plain text: 41421.txt item: #83 of 113 id: 41500 author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) title: A Layman's Life of Jesus date: None words: 19048 flesch: 84 summary: The one named Herod is at Jerusalem; his brother Antipater, or Herod Antipas, is governing little Galilee in the north end of Palestine. Antipater, the idle and licentious favorite at Rome, still rules over little Galilee as governor, or king. keywords: day; galilean; galilee; god; jerusalem; jesus; john; king; life; man; master; people; pilate; things; time; village; world; years cache: 41500.txt plain text: 41500.txt item: #84 of 113 id: 41650 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society date: None words: 9170 flesch: 76 summary: Indeed, to Jesus heaven meant Abraham's bosom. Suppose Jesus had invited some gentle and devoted woman to the honor of apostleship,--what an example that would have been! keywords: christianity; god; heaven; jesus; life; love; man; morality; people; woman; world cache: 41650.txt plain text: 41650.txt item: #85 of 113 id: 42460 author: Turton, W. H. (William Harry) title: The Truth of Christianity Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in That Religion date: None words: 143987 flesch: 74 summary: And this is confirmed by the fact that even the higher animals do not appear to have any idea of _responsibility_, or any sense of _right_ and _wrong_, which in man are the result of his known freedom. Now the alleged motive, indeed the very foundation of Christianity, is that God _loves_ man; and as a natural consequence wishes man to love Him. keywords: account; acts; argument; body; case; chapter; character; christ; christianity; conclusion; course; design; difficulties; difficulty; evidence; evil; existence; fact; favour; footnote; force; god; good; gospels; history; human; instance; jewish; jews; john; know; life; like; luke; man; means; men; miracles; nature; paul; present; regard; religion; resurrection; revelation; testament; theory; thought; time; way; words; world; writer; | | cache: 42460.txt plain text: 42460.txt item: #86 of 113 id: 43205 author: Wimberly, C. F. (Charles Franklin) title: Is the Devil a Myth? date: None words: 38045 flesch: 69 summary: So long as a man is in sin he has a nature that is not subject to the law of God, and cannot be: carnal mind, old man. Along the march of civilization all that has come down to us are the lives and doings of great men; we know little of the heart agonies of the race--such as cannot be recorded--language is inadequate. keywords: angel; bible; blood; body; character; children; christ; church; darkness; day; days; death; demon; devil; earth; enemy; faith; father; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; holy; human; life; light; lord; man; men; mind; nature; new; people; place; power; prince; religion; righteousness; satan; shall; sin; son; soul; spirit; things; time; way; world cache: 43205.txt plain text: 43205.txt item: #87 of 113 id: 4323 author: Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson) title: The Heart-Cry of Jesus date: None words: 18371 flesch: 79 summary: For what are you weeping, old man? Ah, I am thinking of the black and dastardly crimes you will commit when you have once become king. The object has been to get the truth to the people in plain language, and to do it with despatch, for the time is short, and men are being saved or damned with electric speed. keywords: chapter; christ; church; day; experience; god; heart; holiness; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; people; prayer; rest; sanctification; sin; soul; spirit; success; time; word; work cache: 4323.txt plain text: 4323.txt item: #88 of 113 id: 43328 author: Childs, Thomas S. (Thomas Spencer) title: The Lost Faith, and Difficulties of the Bible, as Tested by the Laws of Evidence date: None words: 14194 flesch: 77 summary: The existence of God cannot be proved, nor can any immortality for man except in the influence he may leave behind him. They are entitled to some weight as against the statements of men who, if they can follow in his footsteps at all, must follow afar off. keywords: bible; christian; colby; fact; future; god; hope; life; man; men; nature; testimony; webster cache: 43328.txt plain text: 43328.txt item: #89 of 113 id: 43373 author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher title: He's Coming To-Morrow date: None words: 2332 flesch: 92 summary: Coming!--The Son of man really coming into _this_ world again with power and great glory? Groups of men stood at the corners of the street, and discussed an impending something with suppressed voices. keywords: christ; coming; man; morrow cache: 43373.txt plain text: 43373.txt item: #90 of 113 id: 44119 author: Anonymous title: Jesus, The Messiah; or, the Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in the New Testament Scriptures, by a Lady date: None words: 61453 flesch: 73 summary: In what light are we to view them, if not as descriptive of the person of the God-man, Christ Jesus? It is to the wonderful person of the Messiah, God united to the man Christ Jesus, that we direct our thoughts, as the glorious object presented to the faith of the patriarchs and ancient Israel of God. keywords: body; chapter; christ; christ jesus; city; day; death; disciples; earth; father; glory; god; hath; heaven; holy; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; king; law; life; light; lord; lord god; man; men; messiah; moses; nation; people; person; power; psalm; sin; son; spirit; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; world; years cache: 44119.txt plain text: 44119.txt item: #91 of 113 id: 44531 author: Anonymous title: The Boyhood of Jesus date: None words: 5311 flesch: 92 summary: I love thee, Lord Jesus; Look down from the sky, And stay by my cradle To watch Lullaby. At last Jesus got to be so old. keywords: god; illustration; jesus; joseph; mary cache: 44531.txt plain text: 44531.txt item: #92 of 113 id: 45540 author: Drews, Arthur title: The Christ Myth date: None words: 94596 flesch: 63 summary: Nevertheless Smith has succeeded in his book, The Pre-Christian Jesus, in showing clear evidences even in the New Testament of a cult of an old God Jesus. And now let us enter into the condition of the soul of such an unhappy one, who as God man suffers death upon the gibbet, and we understand the words of the 22nd Psalm: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? keywords: account; agni; birth; century; christ; christian; christianity; cit; conception; cross; day; death; des; die; divine; earth; existence; fact; faith; father; fire; form; god; god jesus; gods; gospels; heaven; history; human; idea; individual; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; king; life; light; lord; man; man jesus; mark; men; messiah; myth; nature; new; paul; people; personality; place; point; present; redemption; religion; sacrifice; sense; son; spirit; sqq; story; sun; testament; theology; thought; time; view; way; words; work; world cache: 45540.txt plain text: 45540.txt item: #93 of 113 id: 45716 author: Anonymous title: The Life of Our Lord in Simple Language for Little Children date: None words: 19052 flesch: 91 summary: They were not good men generally, and the priests and great men hated them; but some of them were just and honest. I am not come to call good men to be sorry for their sins, but bad men. keywords: disciples; god; good; illustration; jesus; lord; man; men; son cache: 45716.txt plain text: 45716.txt item: #94 of 113 id: 45952 author: Orchard, W. E. (William Edwin) title: The Evolution of Old Testament Religion date: None words: 66669 flesch: 60 summary: 3b; cxxiv. 5; cxxx. 6; cxxxix. 18b); while the so-called Nature Psalms (viii., xix., xxix., lxv., xciii., civ., cxlviii.) yield a conception of creation and of the relation of God to the world that has not sufficiently shaped theology, and as a consequence has made it possible for us to think of a conflict between religion and science. The idea of a nation changing its religion is certainly repugnant to the Semitic mind (Jer. ii. 10, 11), and some more natural connection seems necessary, both from the narrative and from general considerations. keywords: age; baal; book; character; conception; david; exile; fact; form; god; hebrew; history; idea; isaiah; israel; jehovah; judges; kings; land; law; life; man; meaning; moses; nation; people; period; place; prophetic; prophets; psalms; religion; revelation; sam; spirit; temple; testament; thought; time; word; work; worship cache: 45952.txt plain text: 45952.txt item: #95 of 113 id: 46476 author: Fiske, John title: The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge date: None words: 30159 flesch: 58 summary: _guddha_ purus; Heyne: 'als sich verhüllender, unsichtbarer, vgl. _gûdha_ mysterium, oder skr. keywords: action; conception; deity; doctrine; earth; evolution; fiske; god; human; idea; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; nature; new; phenomena; philosophy; physical; power; science; theism; theory; thought; time; universe; work; world cache: 46476.txt plain text: 46476.txt item: #96 of 113 id: 46986 author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title: The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence date: None words: 125779 flesch: 72 summary: Strauss in his work, one of the masterpieces of Freethought literature, endeavors to prove, and proves to the satisfaction of a majority of his readers, that Jesus Christ is a historical myth. Gradually the title took the place of the name, so that Jesus, Jesus Christ, and Christ became interchangeable terms--synonyms. keywords: believe; bible; birth; body; christ; christian; christianity; church; crucifixion; david; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; father; following; galilee; god; gods; gospel; heaven; herod; history; holy; iii; james; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; joseph; josephus; law; life; lord; luke; man; mark; mary; matthew; men; messiah; ministry; miracles; mother; new; old; passage; paul; people; peter; place; religion; resurrection; roman; second; son; sun; synoptics; temple; testament; things; thou; thy; time; unto; virgin; vol; words; world; worship; xiv; years cache: 46986.txt plain text: 46986.txt item: #97 of 113 id: 50349 author: Miller, Mary Christina title: A Basket of Barley Loaves date: None words: 22513 flesch: 86 summary: Ever since, the waiting Church has been gazing steadfastly toward heaven, looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Or, as the apostle expresses it in the Epistle to the Romans, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; come; glory; god; good; heart; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; man; master; soul; thee; thou; thy; work cache: 50349.txt plain text: 50349.txt item: #98 of 113 id: 51655 author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title: The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions date: None words: 60351 flesch: 62 summary: He who would approach with an alert mind such a question as that of the historic actuality of the Gospel Jesus would do well to weigh a preliminary warning. Professor Schmiedel has even avowed that a proof of the non-historicity of the Gospel Jesus would not affect his inner religious opinions; and such high detachment has been attained to by others. keywords: argument; case; chapter; christian; christianity; church; criticism; day; disciples; evangel; fact; god; good; gospel; gospel jesus; historicity; history; jesus; john; kingdom; life; loisy; luke; man; mark; matthew; men; method; moral; myth; narrative; petrie; point; problem; professor; question; record; savonarola; scholars; set; teacher; teaching; theory; thesis; time; tradition; view; way; work; years cache: 51655.txt plain text: 51655.txt item: #99 of 113 id: 51888 author: Pegg, J. G. Broughton title: The New Eschatology Showing the Indestructibility of the Earth and the Wide Difference Between the Letter and Spirit of Holy Scripture. date: None words: 26158 flesch: 72 summary: Since it is believed that the succession of man will cease with _this_ earth, why should _another_ earth be formed? Nor could He be said to descend _from_ heaven; for as heaven, in the literal sense, is the starry region, if He remained stationary in that region, it would not be a descent _from_ heaven, but a descent _in_ heaven. keywords: church; cloth; clouds; destruction; doctrine; earth; god; heaven; lord; love; man; meaning; moon; nature; new; passage; sense; stars; state; sun; wisdom; words; world cache: 51888.txt plain text: 51888.txt item: #100 of 113 id: 52414 author: Leatherbee, E. B. (Ethel Brigham) title: The Christian Mythology date: None words: 25124 flesch: 61 summary: Paul, the real founder of the faith, in his first epistle to Timothy, says: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. ii, 5); and again in his first epistle to John he remarks: No man hath seen God (1 John iv, 12). The expression used in modern orthodox Protestant prayers, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, is merely the concrete expression of the idea of mediation. keywords: belief; birth; christian; christianity; church; cross; dead; death; earth; faith; god; gods; holy; idea; jesus; john; life; london; luke; man; mark; mary; matt; men; miracles; mother; new; power; roman; savior; son; time; virgin; world; worship cache: 52414.txt plain text: 52414.txt item: #101 of 113 id: 53616 author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title: The Jesus Problem: A Restatement of the Myth Theory date: None words: 86458 flesch: 64 summary: He agrees that it exfoliated from a scattered cult of secret mysteries: the notion, then, that it was at the time of its open emergence primarily a gospel of One God, and that God Jesus, is ostensibly in excess of the first hypothesis. Nay, the whole story may be an addition, not from the pen of the writer who makes Jesus God. keywords: acts; apostles; books; c.m; case; century; christian; conybeare; criticism; cult; day; death; doctrine; epistles; fact; father; form; general; god; gods; gospel; gospel jesus; historicity; history; human; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; judaic; life; lord; mark; matter; matthew; messiah; myth; narrative; p.c; pagan; paul; point; professor; religion; rite; ritual; sacrifice; samaritan; simon; son; story; teaching; theory; thesis; thou; time; victim; view; way; work; world cache: 53616.txt plain text: 53616.txt item: #102 of 113 id: 55575 author: Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis) title: The Historical Christ; Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith date: None words: 70829 flesch: 62 summary: The author of the document styles Jesus God, just as Pliny informs us that the Christians sang hymns to Christ as to God--Christo quasi deo. Again, p. 45: What was the essence of this originally secret Jesus cult, that was expressed in such guarded parabolic terms as made it unintelligible to the multitude?... keywords: acts; apostles; birth; book; case; century; certain; christian; christianity; cult; death; documents; drews; early; epistles; evidence; fact; form; gilgamesch; god; god joshua; good; gospels; greek; historical; history; human; hypothesis; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; josephus; joshua; life; luke; man; mark; matthew; messiah; mother; myth; pagan; passage; paul; professor; read; robertson; saviour; secret; sense; smith; story; sun; testament; time; tradition; way; writers cache: 55575.txt plain text: 55575.txt item: #103 of 113 id: 5608 author: Sherlock, Thomas title: Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus date: None words: 29498 flesch: 68 summary: The apostles are not much wronged in this account; and is it likely that such men should engage in so desperate design, as to steal away the body, in opposition to the combined power of the Jews and Romans? To which another replied, I wonder that one of your abilities, and bred to the profession of the law, which teaches us to consider the nature of evidence, and its proper weight, can be of that opinion: I am sure you would be unwilling to determine a property of five shillings upon such evidence, as you now think material enough to overthrow the miracles of Christ. keywords: apostles; body; case; christ; disciples; evidence; gentleman; jesus; jews; men; people; reason; resurrection; time; truth cache: 5608.txt plain text: 5608.txt item: #104 of 113 id: 57330 author: Bates, Joseph title: The Opening Heavens or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of God date: None words: 16402 flesch: 79 summary: (it must have been _open_ to their view, or they could not have looked _into_ heaven) this same Jesus which is taken up from you _into heaven_ shall come again in like manner as ye have seen him go _into heaven_. The glory and effulgence of that sight will so light up the heavens in its majestic course down from the parted skies, that we shall have no further need of the telescope; but in the language of our adorable coming Lord, exclaim I see heaven _open_ and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man! keywords: city; coming; earth; god; heaven; holy; jerusalem; jesus; john; lord; man; paul; people; place; sanctuary cache: 57330.txt plain text: 57330.txt item: #105 of 113 id: 5954 author: Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) title: Religious Reality: A Book for Men date: None words: 48321 flesch: 60 summary: They have felt that in Jesus Christ GOD, the Eternal Source of all things, has expressed and revealed Himself in a human life: that GOD has spoken a Word, a Word which is the expression of Himself: and that the Word is Christ. Reflecting upon the experience which had come to them, Christian men came to see that the Holy Spirit, who was the Spirit of the Father and the Son, was Divine, even as Jesus was Divine. keywords: body; character; christian; christianity; church; communion; evil; experience; father; god; gospel; holy; human; ideal; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; love; man; means; men; need; prayer; religion; self; service; sin; spirit; spiritual; things; time; truth; way; work; world cache: 5954.txt plain text: 5954.txt item: #106 of 113 id: 6038 author: Evans, William title: The Great Doctrines of the Bible date: None words: 82105 flesch: 81 summary: The mysterious purposes and decrees of God touching man and his salvation are beyond all human comprehension. Tit. 2:13--The great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. keywords: acts; angels; believer; body; christ; christian; church; coming; death; divine; doctrine; existence; fact; faith; father; god; heb; holy; holy spirit; human; jesus christ; john; life; lord; lord god; luke; man; matt; men; nature; place; power; resurrection; rom; satan; scriptures; sin; son; spirit; testament; things; thou; truth; word cache: 6038.txt plain text: 6038.txt item: #107 of 113 id: 60669 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Around the Wicket Gate or, a friendly talk with seekers concerning faith in the Lord Jesus Christ date: None words: 21891 flesch: 86 summary: Salvation is not by our knowing our own ruin, but by fully grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus. Faith saves us because it makes us cling to Christ Jesus, and he is one with God, and thus brings us into connection with God. keywords: 12mo; bible; christ; faith; god; good; heart; illustration; jesus; life; lord; lord jesus; man; salvation; sin; soul; thing; trust; way; work cache: 60669.txt plain text: 60669.txt item: #108 of 113 id: 6135 author: Brengle, Samuel Logan title: When the Holy Ghost is Come date: None words: 49764 flesch: 77 summary: But the man who has been thus snared by Satan forgets his own past miserable state, and boasts of his righteousness, and thanks God that he was never as other men, and he begins to beat his fellow-servants with heavy denunciations, and thrust them through with sharp criticisms, and pelt them with hard words. It is this ever-recurring revelation to penitent, believing hearts, by the agency of the ever-present Holy Spirit, that makes faith in Jesus Christ living and invincible. keywords: christ; day; experience; faith; father; ghost; god; good; heart; holy ghost; holy spirit; jesus; joy; life; light; lord; love; man; men; paul; people; power; prayer; sin; soul; things; thou; thy; truth; way; witness; work; world cache: 6135.txt plain text: 6135.txt item: #109 of 113 id: 6657 author: Clark, Dougan title: The Theology of Holiness date: None words: 38214 flesch: 69 summary: It is the science that treats of God and of man in his relation to God. The Theology of Entire Sanctification, therefore, is a systematic presentation of the doctrine of entire sanctification as derived from the written word of God. keywords: blood; christ; christian; experience; faith; father; ghost; god; grace; heart; holiness; holy; holy spirit; jesus; life; lord; love; man; sanctification; sin; sins; son; spirit; truth; word cache: 6657.txt plain text: 6657.txt item: #110 of 113 id: 7786 author: Clayton, Louisa title: The One Great Reality date: None words: 36170 flesch: 89 summary: We have the same assurance when the Holy Ghost says in St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. keywords: christ; day; faith; father; footnote; glory; god; heart; holy; jesus; john; life; light; lord; love; man; sin; son; spirit; voice; word cache: 7786.txt plain text: 7786.txt item: #111 of 113 id: 7977 author: Sadlier, J., Mrs. title: Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical date: None words: 149046 flesch: 73 summary: The souls in Purgatory are _poor_ souls, because they suffer the greatest pain of the senses, which is that of _fire_. Being holy souls, they are grateful souls. keywords: alms; altar; belief; body; brother; catholic; charity; children; christ; christian; church; day; days; dead; dear; death; devotion; divine; doctrine; earth; eyes; faith; faithful; far; father; fire; following; footnote; friends; glory; god; good; grave; hand; heart; heaven; hell; help; holy; hope; jesus; justice; king; lady; left; life; light; living; lord; love; man; mary; mass; masses; means; men; mercy; mother; new; old; order; pain; people; pious; pity; place; poor; power; practice; prayers; present; priest; punishment; purgatory; religious; repose; rest; sacrifice; saints; says; sins; solemn; son; souls; spirit; state; suffering; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; way; words; work; world; years cache: 7977.txt plain text: 7977.txt item: #112 of 113 id: 8191 author: Booth, Bramwell title: Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord date: None words: 36496 flesch: 81 summary: Man sins, of course, against himself. We care nothing for the position of a church or sect; we care everything for a real control over the souls and conduct of living men and women, that we may lead them to God and use them for His glory. keywords: christ; cross; day; dead; death; faith; father; god; heart; hope; human; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; nature; power; salvation; sin; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; things; time; way; work; world cache: 8191.txt plain text: 8191.txt item: #113 of 113 id: 9103 author: MacDonald, George title: Miracles of Our Lord date: None words: 54640 flesch: 78 summary: When, at a word issuing from such a mouth as that of Jesus of Nazareth, the poor, withered, distorted, contemptible hand obeyed and, responsive to the spirit within, spread forth its fingers, filled with its old human might, became capable once more of the grasp of friendship, of the caress of love, of the labour for the bread that sustains the life, little would the man care that other men--even rulers of synagogues, even Scribes and Pharisees, should question the rectitude of him who had healed him. I say that whatever Jesus did or said, he did and said like other men--he did and said as no other man did or said. keywords: believe; body; cure; dead; death; eyes; faith; father; god; good; heart; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; miracle; nature; power; prayer; son; spirit; things; woman; words; work; world cache: 9103.txt plain text: 9103.txt