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

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<strong>Jesus</strong>, properly understood, mark <strong>the</strong> utmost limit<br />

<strong>of</strong> all possible moral conception. But this point<br />

does not come in question. Every moral system is a<br />

road by which, through self-denial, discipline, <strong>and</strong><br />

effort, men seek to reach <strong>the</strong> goal. Christ begins<br />

with this goal, <strong>and</strong> places His disciples at once in<br />

<strong>the</strong> position to which all o<strong>the</strong>r teachers point as <strong>the</strong><br />

end. <strong>The</strong>y work up to <strong>the</strong><br />

' On this point <strong>the</strong>re seems to me commonly called<br />

dogmas—since, besides<br />

some confusion <strong>of</strong> language on <strong>the</strong> part St. Matt.<br />

vii. 22, 23, as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor W€M<br />

<strong>of</strong> controversialists. Those who main has so well<br />

urged, love to God <strong>and</strong> to our<br />

tain that <strong>the</strong> Sermon on <strong>the</strong> Mount con neighbour<br />

mark both <strong>the</strong> starting-poiiit<br />

tains no doctrinal elements at aU must <strong>and</strong> Uie<br />

final oatcome <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong>ologir, mean fjstematio

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