Article April 2, 1938 Issue

Affirmation of the Spiritual

LESLIE LUTZ ANDERSON

When Christianity was born into the world, the issues between it, on the one hand, and on the other, the Judaic religion, Roman paganism, and Greek intellectualism, were clear cut.

Christ Jesus healed by spiritual means, because he was conscious of spiritual truths which were departures from the materialism and traditional opinions of the world of his day. Christianity was the outcome of the revelation and teaching of Christ Jesus, who continually acknowledged and affirmed that God was his Father.

The philosophy of that day appealed to the educated. Christianity gave new hope to all who were humble and teachable. The Jewish theology centered in a personal God of wrath and vengeance. But the fact of one incorporeal God, who is Spirit, Truth, Love, Principle, permeates the Christian writings of the New Testament. Pagan intellectualists concerned themselves with the development in men of human culture, and had only faint hope, if any, as to a hereafter. Christ Jesus, on the other hand, declared that the son of God—the real man—can do only what he sees the Father do, and that life which expresses the Father—Life—is eternal and indestructible. Christian teaching diverged essentially from materialism. It bore out that "the natural man," as Paul said, "receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." This wrong concept of man must be put off in order that one may be born of Spirit.

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