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

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egarded as <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong> God. Thus it was <strong>the</strong><br />

essential contrariety <strong>of</strong> Babbinism to <strong>the</strong> Gospel <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Christ that lay at <strong>the</strong> foundation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir conduct<br />

towards <strong>the</strong> Person <strong>of</strong> Christ. We venture to assert,<br />

that this accounts for <strong>the</strong> whole after-history up to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Cross.<br />

Thus viewed, <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> Pharisaic opposition<br />

appears not only consistent, but is, so to speak,<br />

morally accounted for. <strong>The</strong>ir guilt lay in treating<br />

that as Satanic agency which was <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy<br />

Ghost; <strong>and</strong> this, because <strong>the</strong>y were <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir fa<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>the</strong> Devil, <strong>and</strong> knew not. nor understood, nor yet<br />

loved <strong>the</strong> Light, <strong>the</strong>ir deeds being *- 4 <strong>The</strong>y were<br />

not children <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> light, but <strong>of</strong> that darkness w]y '^<br />

> ^ ^f^^ prehended Him not Who was <strong>the</strong> Light.<br />

And no?t ^^ :" ;f ^^ > .,^ underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> growth <strong>of</strong><br />

active opposition to Chri^ ^' / > .^- j"* -'^^ «sr ^x<br />

at <strong>the</strong> conclusion, that <strong>the</strong> miracles which Chri**' ^<br />

,»'- c-^^ . " ;- ^" j,"^<br />

power <strong>of</strong> Satan, <strong>and</strong> that He was <strong>the</strong> repj^ ^- ' -^ ^^'<br />

* ^' ' c^ .> <strong>the</strong>ir course was rationally <strong>and</strong> mo^'.^ i

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