True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

result, it cannot be said that goodwill produces any good works on its own or that faith produces any good works on its own. The ...

than we would have from eating a piece of burnt toast and drinking filthy water from a pond. 9 There Is Faith That Is True, Fait ...

After that, armies of heretical movements invaded the church—the Donatists, the Photinians, the Acatians or Semi-Arians, the Eun ...

half in such a way that part of it heads left and part of it heads right, and maintain its trueness. In a general sense, faith c ...

in John show the nature of this point of faith: “If any confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them, and they live i ...

identifying gold and silver. They are like stone markers or signposts along the road that show the way to the church building wh ...

acknowledgment that the Lord is the Son of God; acknowledgment that he is the God of heaven and earth; and acknowledgment that h ...

Their inner self has this nature no matter how well their outer self does impressions and pretends to be Christian. I know this ...

feelings to our physical senses. This turns us into earthly, sense-oriented, and physical people. In this state, our mind cannot ...

[ 4 ] Ministers who are hypocrites are skilled comedians, impression- ists, and actors who can impersonate royalty, military lea ...

is the craving of their flesh. Anything that comes from that craving is spiritually evil, however good it may appear from an ear ...

would be profane. No one can serve two lords without hating one and loving the other, as the Lord teaches in Matthew 6 : 24. Var ...

an earthly moral life and an earthly rational mind, and morality and rationality that are earthly are intrinsically dead. Becaus ...

separated from goodwill is, and what faith united to goodwill is? I will express it in visual terms for you.” “Please do!” I ans ...

winter. I told him that for several years spirits with various different types of faith had been walking past me. Every time peo ...

When they reached the lower regions below the heavens, they ran toward one another as if each were trying to be first [to reach ...

“It is absolutely the same,” the angel replied. “Faith is nothing but a formation of goodwill, exactly as speech is nothing but ...

not know, do not understand, and are not wise about. It is hardly any- thing at all. “All the people in this garden paradise who ...

“The same is true for feeling, thought, and work; and also for will, intellect, and action. The will without the intellect is li ...

Then the dragon said to me, “Now you are going to see our form of entertainment.” I saw what looked like bull calves, rams, shee ...