Things to Come Vol 6-8 (EW Bullinger)

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with the familiarity which Christendom uses porary authorities, he enables us to see what it was. towards its mythical “ Jesus.” This influence has prevailed Within a century and a half from the apostles, “ Christian j from very early times. •doctrines had become corrupted by the teaching of Greek “ Here are the Lord’s own words: ‘ For the Father paganism. Pagan baptism had superseded Christian bap­ judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto tism . . . Christian thought had become leavened by the the Son ; that a ll mat should honour the Son even as they gnostic philosophy, which regarded everything corporeal as honour the Father ’ (John v. 22, 23). And in view of such evil.” And then we see the strange anomaly, that side by words it is strange that anyone can justify the prevailing side with the corruption of doctrine there was “ an attempt | practice. . . . to set up a more f