God & Faith2 min read
There are things in the New Testament just as hard to believe as many things in the Old Testament, and on your principle you should reject much of the New Testament itself. Yet let us act on your admission that you do accept the New Testament. Christ and the Apostles had the same Old Testament as we have today. They treat it alw…
God & Faith1 min read
Radio Replies Volume 1 by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble MSC and Rev. Charles Mortimer CartyThe ritual of the Catholic Church is not intricate, save to those who are unfamiliar with it. It is certainly symbolical of many mysteries “hidden from the ages and generations, but now manifested.” Col. I., 26. It also involves sensible and visi…
The Bible1 min read
Neither intended to give all the generations. The present Prince of Wales could say, “I was born of George V., who was descended from Queen Victoria.” Another writer could say, “The Prince of Wales was born of George V., who was born of Edward VII., who was born of Queen Victoria.” Both accounts would be right, although one woul…
The Bible1 min read
Christ is the one principal Mediator. But He Himself chooses to dispense His mediation through secondary agents. There is but one king of England, but that does not deny the existence of officials to whom the royal power is delegated. If fifty officials act in the name of the king, that does not make fifty kings. Now Christ dele…
God & Faith1 min read
Our speculations as to what would or would not be avail nothing against the fact that He was born into this world as an infant. He could have become man in some other way. But, granted that He wished to be born of the human nature which was to be redeemed, He needed to be born of a human mother. And this necessitated His being b…