AT THE CROSS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22877, 25 November 1939, Page 15

AT THE CROSS

TO THE EDITOR QI THE PRESS. Sir, —Not for a moment do I suggest scrapping the Bible. I wonder where your correspondent, “So many Creeds,” got that idea from; but what I would suggest would be a scrapping of some of the mediaeval conceptions and interpretations and a substituting therefor of a teaching much more in conformity with ascertained facts; in other words, I am much more favourable to the idea of a “dynamic” rather than to a “static” conception of Christianity. Your correspondent does not attempt to challenge the validity of either the prophecy (Malachi 4, 5) or that of its fulfilment, in the words of our Lord (Matthew XI, 13, 14) which refer to the reappearance of Elijah as John the Baptist. This, too, is definitely corroborated in Matthew 17, 10-13: “But 1 say unto you that Elias is come already, and they knew him not. . . . Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of John the Baptist.” Strikingly indicative of the fact that people generally took the idea of reincarnation for granted at the beginning of the Christian era, there is this passage from Matthew 16; 13, 14): “Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? And they said; Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; some Elias; and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.” Moreover, would not the reappearance of Christ on earth—evidently one of the articles of belief of your contributor —be quite definitely a "reincarnation”? —Yours, etc RE-INCARNATIONIST. November 24, 1939. [Subject to the right,of reply of “So Many Creeds,” this correspondence is now closed.—Ed., “The Press.”]