DISCUSSION OF RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23718, 27 January 1939, Page 5

DISCUSSION OF RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS

TO THE EDITOB Sir, —I take it that the letter signed by “ Cricket,” which appeared in your issue of the 16th inst. was meant as a reply to mine of the 7th inst. One thing is certain, that “Cricket” failed to grasp the main contention of my letter. < I had no intention of putting him “ wise ” to anything, for I knew that that was a hopeless business from the start, but I did challenge his statement that a man’s faith can be ewrested from him by another man. All “ Cricket ” does is to reiterate his stupid statement. From this, one can only conclude that it is “ Cricket ” and not I who has the “Modernist’s” conception of Jesus Christ. Evidently he thinks that a group of theological professors is more powerful than our Lord and Saviour when he speaks of them being able to wrest a man’s faith from him. From this I can only deduce that “ Cricket ” thinks that a man’s faith rests in himself and is something he can take up or drop at will. I say that this is entirely a humanistic view of faith, and is not in accordance with th,e Word of God; for once a man has accepted God’s gift of salvation then he has received something which neither man nor devil can wrest from him. Therefore, I repeat, Sir, that if a man went out of our Theological Hall without a living faith in what God has accomplished for him through Jesus Christ, he never had such a faith when he entered.—l am, etc.. Country Minister. [The correspondence under this heading is now closed. —Ed O.D.T.]