The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II..

The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II..

Philo says ’that the just The New Testament makes Jesus to man, when he dies is translated say:  to another state by the Logos, by whom the world ’No man can come to me, except was created.  For God by the Father which hath sent me his said Word (Logos), by draw him; and I will raise him which he made all things, up on the last day.’—­John vi. 44 will raise the perfect man from the dregs of this world, ’No man cometh to the Father but and exalt him near himself. by me.’—­John xvi. 6.  He will place him near his own person.’—­De Sacrificiis.  ’Where I am, there also shall my
                                  servant be ... him will my father
Philo says that the Logos honour.’ is the true High Priest, who is without sin and anointed The New Testament speaks of Jesus by God:—­ as the High Priest: 

’It is the world, in which ’Seeing then that we have a great the Logos, God’s First-born, High Priest that is passed into that great High Priest, resides. the heavens, Jesus, the Son of And I assert that this God, let is hold fast our High Priest is no man, but profession.’—­Heb. iv. 14. the Holy Word of God; who is not capable of either ’For such an High Priest became us, voluntary or involuntary sin, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, and hence his head is anointed separate from sinners.’—­Heb. vii. 26. with oil.’—­De Profugis. 
                                  The New Testament says of Christ: 
Philo mentions the Logos as the great High Priest and ’We have such an High Priest, who is Mediator for the sins of the set on the throne of the majest in world.  Speaking of the rebellion the heavens, a mediator of a of Korah, he introduces the better covenant.’—­Heb. viii. 1-6.  Logos as saying :—­
                                  ’But Christ being come an High
’It was I who stood in the Priest ... entered at once into middle between the Lord and the holy place, having obtained you. eternal redemption for us.’—­Heb.
                                  ix. 11, 12. 
’The sacred Logos pressed with zeal and without remission The New Testament says of John, the that he might stand forerunner of Jesus, that he preached between the dead and the ’the baptism of repentance for the living.—­Quis Rerum Div. remission of sins.’—­Mark i. 4.  Haeres. 
                                  Jesus says:—­
The Logos, the Saviour God, who brings salvation as ’Ye will not come to me, that ye the reward of repentance and might have life.’—­John v. 40. righteousness. 
                                  ’Beloved, we be now the sons of
’If then men have from God; and it doth not yet appear their very souls a just what we shall be; but we know that contrition, and are changed, when he doth appear we shall

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