The Baptist Sunday School Standard Manual - nouveau livre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ANTI-PAULINE AND SEMI-PAULINE VIEWS. HPHE Epistle of James and the Apocalypse are the only anti-Pauline documents which have found their way into the canon of Scripture. The one ignores the Atonement altogether, never mentioning the death of Christ, but contenting himself with combating the doctrine of the vain man, whom he discreetly avoids naming, who teaches justification by faith without works. With the Apocalyptist, Jesus is simply the typical martyr, the true and faithful witness; His blood is a martyr's blood. So little is His death a deliverance from the law of Moses, that the song of Moses and the Lamb are supposed to constitute the height of heavenly harmony. In this book it appears that in reward for the obedience of Jesus to the law of God, and for His patient sufferings, ? in other words, as the crown of His martyrdom, ?God gave Him power over the bodies and souls of men, to save those who obeyed and destroy those who resisted Him. The accuser of mankind is violently dispossessed of his office, without any satisfactory reasons being assigned. The conceptions of the writer are gross and material. There is seldom any moral elevation in his tone. His idea of salvation is the privilege of ruling " like kings and priests on the earth." There is no reference to the Atonement as a rescue from spiritual bondage; there is no sense of the glorious " liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free." The only point of agreement between Paul and the writer in question is the bare formal statement that Christ " has purchased us with His blood," and redeemed us from " every kindred and nation, and tribe and language"; but what is meant by said purchase and redemption is nowhere explained. It seems to be a mere phrase borrowed from the Pauline school, whose language...