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The Gospels in the Second Century

CHAPTER I
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'If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.' The forms of Christianity change, but Christianity itself endures.

And it would seem as if we might well be content to wait until it was realised a little less imperfectly before we attempt to go farther afield.
Yet the work of adaptation must be done.

The present generation has a task of its own to perform.

It is needful for it to revise its opinions in view of the advances that have been made both in general knowledge and in special theological criticism.

In so far as 'Supernatural Religion' has helped to do this, it has served the cause of true progress; but its main plan and design I cannot but regard as out of date and aimed in the air.
The Christian miracles, or what in our ignorance we call miracles, will not bear to be torn away from their context.


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