Origins and Faith

Origins and Faith Book Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. At the Back of the Beginnings. Chkistianity looks for a further explanation to a revelation to come. Science anticipates a development of knowledge, but never expects to escape from the undetermined. She places man, a mere speck in the infinity of space, between an immeasurable past and an immeasurable future. Frontiers of She declines to search for an in- Knowledge, telligible Cause in all causation, and has no satisfactory interpretation of the conflict between Good and Evil. But we must not regard the Unknowable as unworthy of curiosity or exploration. Sea and land are not constant quantities, but are continually in process of adjustment. There are ever extending peninsulas of enquiry into that vast ocean. The things that we formerly assumed to be certainties may have to be surrendered to the Unknowable, and fresh acquisitions of knowledge rise like dim shapes out of the night to grow into greater distinctness. Existing impressions of time and space prevent our comprehension of infinitude and eternity, but this incapacity does not preclude our adventurous quest into the Unknown. If we assume the appearance of a creative Being of perfect holiness and goodness?God blessed for evermore?we must also assume that He emergedfrom that antecedent totality in which exist the beginnings of all life. In entering time and space as a personal existence He becomes finite and limited. Such an evolution of God involves dissociation from all imperfection, a separation from anything which, under the primal conditions of the Unknowable, may have shared existence with evil. Out of the void appears this vast Out of the Void, -n ,., -r,- Personality. How He came we know not. With what sublimity of struggle He separated Himself from the antecedents, one or many, we have no recor...

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