Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Religious Questions
DISCUSSED nv
DR.. S. Pdrkes Cddman.

O. Have you single proof thai
Jesus ever accepted that personal
homage which I as q Jew believe be-
longs only to God?
A. Have you considered the scene in
the home of Lazarus at Bethany est
Luke, x. So? There our Lord addressed
imperishable words to Martha when she
resented her sister Mary's absorbing
devotion to Him. For Mary treated
Him as the source of divine light and
wisdom, and He ratified her attitude
Unless He was what she believed Him
to be, how could so perfectly sincere
soul as His have allowed her to re-
main under a delusion?
Here are His words: Martha
Martha, thou art numbered and dis
tracted about many things but one
thing is needful Indispensable, fol-
Mary hath chosen the good part which
shall not be taken away from her.
Jew and Christian have food for re-
Election In this passage and its imlpi-
cations.
Turn now to the great confession at
Caesarea, Philippi, related by the three
evangelists. st. Mark, viii.27-29; st.
Matthew, xvi.13-16, and ST. Luke, tx.
1927. The inspired outburSt of st.
Peter, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son
Of the Living God!" was declared by the
Master to be the revelation of the spirit
of God to the apostle After our Lords
resurrection these tributes increased in
number and magnitude of meaning.
Consult for their later forms the Acts
of the Apostles and the EpistleS.
@. If Christ was co-equal and CO.
our sins?
A. God, considered as the Supreme
Spirit, has lived forever and will for
ever live in the boundless power of His
own life. Therefore. bodily death is
entirely foreign to His nature. Never
theless, according to the Scriptures and
the witness of believers. Christ as the
Son of God died for the sins of the
world.
Christian theology meets your diff
Guilty in two cardinal doctrines of the
Trinity and the Incarnation. The first
formulates Christian consciousness by
holding that while God is eternally one,
His oneness has q threefold manifesto
ton In the Father, the Son and the
Spirit, The second states that in pur-
suance Of the divine will the Son "as-
sumed our flesh and became incarnate
as a man." This dedication OF Himself
involved human birth, existence and
death. Because of the values OF His
significance already mentioned.
II you inquire about that significance,
allow me to refer you to the New Tes-
lament, which records the originating
experiences of the Christian religion.
One of the most characteristic asser-
tons of the gospels and epiStles Is that
Jesus Christ, by the grace OF God,
tasted death for every man." In this
and countless other ways too vast and
sublime for our unaided apprehension
the Eternal Son of the Father died for
the spiritual life Of the race.
@. God, in the sense Of an unknown
power or intelligence, Overwhelmingly
awe-inspiring, accounting for the in
tricate yet orderly working Of all that
is, ever was or ever shall be, seems in
escapably reasonable though hopelessly
ncomprehensible. But the God to
whom we may appeal for assured atten-
ton to our personal needs and desires
does not seem reasonable to me. Any
help that seemed to come as the result
Of prayer appears quite capable Of ex-
PLANTATION on the basis Of known phys
ical laws or accepted principles Of psy-
ci1ology, because Of the peace