CHALLENGES TO RELIGION

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21246, 18 August 1934, Page 20

CHALLENGES TO RELIGION

TO TU* EDITOa Ojf THE PBSS3. Sir, —"Leonis" says he is "trying to unchain the Christ who has been chained up by orthodoxy." What does he mean? In John 8, 32, we read: "And ye shaK know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and in verse 36 Christ says, "If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." In John 14, 6 Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." It is evident from these Scriptures that God's Christ, who is the truth, is not chained up but will deliver from thraldom all who come to Him. If orthodoxy has another Christ, according to "Leonis," it is just as well to leave him chained up. "Leonis" says, "I am all for proj gress and evolution/' but Christ and i evolution have nothing in common. ■ The Bible shows very clearly that J Christ was the great Creator of all things. "He spoke and it was done; he commanded and it "tood fast." "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made." "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?" saith the Holy One. "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; He called them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that Ho is strong in power; not one faileth." Professor Bettcx, in "Science and Christianity," says. "Nowhere are there instances of gradual transition from one species to another." Sir William Dawson, president of McGill University, said: "I know nothing about the origin of man, except what I am told in the Scripture—that God created him. I do not know anything more than that, and I do not know of anybody who does." Professor LlcCready Price, in "The Now Geology" speaks in similar terms. Professor Eng. Warming, of the University of Copenhagen, says: "Science knows no example of living beings which have come into existence out of non-living matter, that is without parents. Science has not disproved the first words of the Bible: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' " I agree with "S.L.P." that the surest guide book available for man in matters of religion is the Bible. There we become acquainted with God and with Jesus Christ, and neither evolution nor ancient mysteries can help in the slightest degree to uplift man or prepare him for his eternal destiny—Yours, etc., August 17, 1934.