The Growth of Christianity
The Growth of Christianity
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' The removal of disease was a good work, because all disease was contrary to the divine wilL We may compare every illness to a pebble in the bed of a river, which tends to stop its flow, the removal of which makes the stream in a minute degree faster and smoother. Surely our Lord in thus teaching approved the Greek gospel of health, and at the same time con- secrated it by bringing it into immediate relation to the will of God. How different would have been the history of Christianity if the C...hurch had adopted this view of disease and physical degeneracy, instead of the Digitized by Google THE BAPTISM OF HELLAS 105 view that God finds pleasure in physical pain and suffering !
Perhaps even the teaching of St Paul, prone as he is to he hard upon the body, was not wholly adverse to the passion for physical health and beauty. Is it not St Paul who tells his converts that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, temples which must be kept free from corruption by physical lust ? We have here the true principle, though we could scarcely expect a Hebrew to realize that principle in all its fulness.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' The removal of disease was a good work, because all disease was contrary to the divine wilL We may compare every illness to a pebble in the bed of a river, which tends to stop its flow, the removal of which makes the stream in a minute degree faster and smoother. Surely our Lord in thus teaching approved the Greek gospel of health, and at the same time con- secrated it by bringing it into immediate relation to the will of God. How different would have been the history of Christianity if the C...hurch had adopted this view of disease and physical degeneracy, instead of the Digitized by Google THE BAPTISM OF HELLAS 105 view that God finds pleasure in physical pain and suffering !
Perhaps even the teaching of St Paul, prone as he is to he hard upon the body, was not wholly adverse to the passion for physical health and beauty. Is it not St Paul who tells his converts that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, temples which must be kept free from corruption by physical lust ? We have here the true principle, though we could scarcely expect a Hebrew to realize that principle in all its fulness.
What to read after The Growth of Christianity?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Percy Gardner to read onlineMoreLess
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