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

about which she might have only very vague
notions, but in Him. And faith in the Christ, not in
anything about Him, but in EUmself, has eternal
life. Such faith also leads to further inquiry and
knowledge. As it has been the traditional practice
to detect irony in this or that saying of the woman,
or else to impute to her spiritual feelings far in
advance of her possible experience, so, on the
other hand, has her inquiry about the place of
proper worship, Jerusalem or Gerizim, been
unduly depreciated. It is indeed too true that those,
whose consciences are touched by a presentation
of their sin, often seek to turn the conversation into
another and quasi-religious channel. But of neither
the one nor the other is there evidence in the
present case. Similarly, it is also only too true, that
their one point of difference is, to narrow-minded
sectarians, their all-in-all of religion. But in this
instance we feel that the woman has no afterthought,
no covert purpose in what she asks. All
her life long she had heard that Gerizim was tlie
mount of worship, the holy hill which the waters of
the Flood had never covered,' and that the Jews