Systematic Theology (Volume 3 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 3 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
See Diman, Theistic Argument, 380—“As physical science has brought
us to the conclusion that back of all the phenomena of the
material universe there lies an invisible universe of forces, and
that these forces may ultimately be reduced to one all‐pervading
force in which the unity of the physical universe consists; and as
philosophy has advanced the rational conjecture that this ultimate
all‐pervading force is simply will‐force; so the great Teacher
holds up to us the spiritual universe as pervaded by one
omnipotent life—a life which was revealed in him as its highest
manifestation, but which is shared by all who by faith become
partakers of his nature. He was Son of God: they too had power to
become sons of God. The incarnation is wholly within the natural
course and tendency of things. It was prepared for, it came, in
the fulness of times. Christ’s life is not something sporadic and
individual, having its source in the personal conviction of each
disciple; it implies a real connection with Christ, the head.
Behind all nature there is one force; behind all varieties of
Christian life and character there is one spiritual power. All
nature is not inert matter,—it is pervaded by a living presence.
So all the body of believers live by virtue of the all‐working
Spirit of Christ, the Holy Ghost.” An epitaph at Silton, in
Dorsetshire, reads: “Here lies a piece of Christ—a star in dust, A
vein of gold, a china dish, that must Be used in heaven when God
shall feed the just.”
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