Therefore of mercy I shall say little in these pages: it is enough to appeal, when speaking of moral considerations, to that sense of right and wrong which is God’s voice speaking within us
Strong as these words are, they are not strong enough, for the horrors and the contradictions of the popular creed alike defy description. And these horrors are taught, these contradictions are believed in the face of the plainest teaching of God’s two revelations, His primary revelation to our moral sense, His written revelation in Holy Scripture. Of the former and its teachings, it is needless to speak here; of the latter I have spoken at some length, and have tried to show that from its first page to its last the Bible is the story of one who is our Father – one whose ‘wrath,’ and ‘fire,’ and ‘judgment,’ are at once most real, and yet one and all are the expressions of that essential LOVE which HE is – One who being Almighty is sending His Son to assured victory, to reconcile to HIMSELF all things, ‘whatsoever and wheresoever they be.’ I know how eagerly men strive to save the popular creed by various modifications, by diminishing the number of the lost, by softening their torments, by asserting their annihilation, etc. Continuar leyendo «This objection merely shows a complete misapprehension of the views here advocated»