Christian Churches and Churches of Christ; Lutz, Henry Frey, 1868-1926 -- Biography; Restoration movement (Christianity)
our "think so's" and "feel so's," we should ever be on the alert to
verify or rectify our convictions by the help of experience and facts.
The question as to how much of our intellectual power is intuitive and
innate, or how much is acquired and dependent upon truth learned by
induction, is not so important after all. For the powers of the mind
which enable it to learn truths through induction from facts observed
and experienced come from God just as much as the powers that enable us
to see truth intuitively.
If we take the consensus of all the mental faculties, we have the
wonderful human intelligence created but little lower than the angels
and crowned with glory and honor (Ps. 8:5). Created in the very image
of God himself (Gen. 1:27), man is an intelligence with the threefold
guidance of intellect, conscience and sentiments which give him
abundant light for his daily walk in the fear of the Lord. But even our
so-called "consciousness," including all these powers, is fallible and
subject to deception, perversion and delusion and therefore it needs
the help of the truth revealed in the Bible and the help of all the
truth we can learn from life and science to enable us to fulfill our
highest destiny and to continue to progress Godward and heavenward.
Let us remember that love is the arch that unites and supports all the
mental faculties and all the operations of the mind. On it hang all the
law and prophets, and the gospel as well. Let us rejoice and glory in
our wonderful heritage of intelligence, but, knowing the limitations of
our finite minds, let us walk humbly before God and our fellow-men.
CHAPTER IV.
LOOKING THROUGH COLORED GLASSES.
Differences of Opinion; the Cause and Cure. What Should Be Our Attitude
Toward Those Who Differ from Us?
The above headings will give you some idea of the matter I wish to
bring before you in this chapter. From the previous chapters you will
learn that it was through years of bitter experience that I was
prepared to write this chapter. I write it in love and humility and
pray that it may be blessed in warning many of pitfalls in searching
for truth and may lead to more charity in dealing with those who differ
from us.
I have spoken of the sad and lamentable differences of opinion among
the best people on earth during all times and on all subjects. What was
said in the previous chapter about the fallible, variable voices of the
different parts of the mind blazes the way for a more detailed study of
these factors in leading people to error and therefore into divisions.
Learning of these weaknesses of the mind, that so easily lead to a
perversion of truth, one might hastily conclude that there is no norm
of truth and therefore that people cannot see alike. Indeed, the
differences of opinion in religion and other matters are often condoned
by the assertion that "people cannot see alike." Is this true, and, if
so, how far?
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