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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 96 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=150gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of th… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 96 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=150gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: 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: SERMON I. THE CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE: JESUS THE MESSIAH, OR JESUS THE IMPOSTOR. SOME SAID, HE IS A GOOD MAN: OTHERS SAID, NAY ] BUT HE DECEIVETH THE PEOPLE. JOHN VII. 12. There could be no neutral ground between these parties. It was necessary to take the position, either that Jesus was all he claimed to be, and a good man, or that he was a deceiver and a bad man. There was very much of too positive a character in his pretensions to allow of any other conclusion. So clear, so full, so explicit were his teachings and claims, that his hearers could find no consistent course, save to receive him unreservedly or to reject him utterly. The same necessity is upon us. All those compromises by which men have sought to adjust their favorite views to the character and teachings of Jesus, or rather, in which they have sought to adjust his character and teachings to their views, are vain. He has presented himself beforethe world in too positive a light, and has spoken of his relations to God and man in terms too positive, to allow other alternative than that of cordially receiving him, and yielding implicit assent to his teachings, as infallible truth, or of utterly rejecting him as an impostor. An impostor is one who makes pretension to character and authority to which he has no rightful claim; one who teaches for truth what he knows to be falsehood. Whether these claims or doctrines are set forth in direct language, or are the legitimate inferences from the individual's acls and words, it matters not; if they are false, he is an impostor. The Jews accused Jesus of being a deceiver. It is proposed to notice some of his claims and teachings which must be accepted as divine truth, if we would not assent to the justice of this accusation. That Jesus knew what his own character w...<

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