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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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absolute Rule, <strong>and</strong> simple submission to <strong>the</strong> Will,<br />

<strong>of</strong> God. What distinguished this so widely from<br />

fatalism was what may be termed Jehovahism —<br />

that is, <strong>the</strong> moral element in its thoughts <strong>of</strong> God,<br />

<strong>and</strong> that He was ever presented as in paternal<br />

relationship to men. But <strong>the</strong> Pharisees carried <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

accentuation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Divine to <strong>the</strong> verge <strong>of</strong> fatalism.<br />

Even <strong>the</strong> idea that God had created man with two<br />

impulses, <strong>the</strong> one to good, <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r to evil; <strong>and</strong><br />

that <strong>the</strong> latter was absolutely necessary for <strong>the</strong><br />

continuance <strong>of</strong> this world, would in some measure<br />

trace <strong>the</strong> causation <strong>of</strong> moral evil to <strong>the</strong> Divine<br />

Being. <strong>The</strong> absolute <strong>and</strong> unalterable pre-ordination<br />

<strong>of</strong> every event, to its minutest details, is frequently<br />

insisted upon. Adam had been shown all <strong>the</strong><br />

generations thsit were to spring from him. Every<br />

incident in <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> Israel had been<br />

foreordained, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> actors in it^—^for good or<br />

for evil—were only instruments for carrying out<br />

<strong>the</strong> Divine Will. What were even<br />

FROM JOBDAN TO THE HOUNT OF<br />

TBASSFtOtHUkllON.

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