A Reasonable Christianity

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Fb&c Limited, 2015 M06 27 - 280 pages
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"Pele's hair," says the Kanaka, as he sees the smoke and flame streaming from the great chimney of Kilauea. An eruption of lava, says the scientific materialist; and curls the lip at the poor superstition which imagines a God in the wonder. "As if we did not know how it all comes to pass - chemical forces generated in the subterranean laboratory of the earth belch forth these rock-flames; "Pele's hair,' indeed!" Which is the nearer right? Is there no God in the case? If the atom originated the forces that lift and shake that feathery plume of rock, then the materialist has the question. If those forces came forth from a personal Will, immediate or remote, then the Kanaka is nearer the right in both fact and feeling. This raises at once the vital question of religion: Is there a Personal God? The materialist says no. Jesus of Nazareth assumes the affirmative, nowhere attempting its demonstration. The agnostic (whose philosophy is just now the fashion) says we can know nothing positive of an infinite Personality.

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