New Discoveries in the Origin of Christianity: A Treatise on the Origin of Christianity, Its Causes and Consequences from Original and Most Reliable Sources, Never Published Before ; Also a New Signification of the Words Christ, Eucharist and Aungelion ; Also an Explanation of the Trinity

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1900 - Church history - 128 pages
 

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Page 57 - and they cannot be explained otherwise than by considering Jesus as a military leader. Luke 9, 59, "And he (Jesus) said to another, follow me, but he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father: But Jesus said
Page 85 - freedom and freedman) were to the Romans, hence their persecution. In the New Testament we find that freedom and liberty were the great inducement which both Jesus and Paul offered to their adherents. Jesus said, " If the son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.'" (John 8, 36). "They (the Pharisees) bind heavy
Page 59 - reconcile these sayings to their doctrine. Luke 19, 27, " But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Page 59 - Then he said unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip, and he that has no sword, let him sell
Page 57 - said, I will follow thee, but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said to him, no man, having put his hand to
Page 116 - Have ye received the Holy Ghost," and they said unto him, " We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Page 14 - attachment to liberty, and they say that God is to be their only (Ruler and Lord. They also do not value dying any kinds of death, nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends, nor can any such fear make them call any man lord. And since this immovable resolution of theirs is
Page 46 - the same year John was killed (36 C. E). His description of John is as follows : "John was a good man, and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another and piety towards God.
Page 84 - These men agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions, but they have an inviolable attachment to liberty." And now the secret is out, and we can readily understand the magnetic charm that attracted so many to Christianity, and especially the lower
Page 121 - So that he, as a God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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