The European War and Its Crowning Result (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The European War and Its Crowning Result When I was a barefooted boy walking alone through an almost unbroken forest, a problem came sud'denly into my mind and has remained to the pres ent time and has become the nucleus about which my theology has clustered, and which is this: Why are you in conżict with yourself, your spirit and your żesh at war with each other? To begin with, I was. Fully conscious that I was not a moral unit, and I was equally certain that it was: not the result of my crea tion by a God that was not in conżict with himself. These assurances were followed as an inevitable with the impression that the conżict in me was the result of Adam's fall. Then I concluded that if I could find what Adam was on trial for I would also find What effect his failure had on his moral economy. Reach ing this point, my next chance to find the truth that I was seeking was in analyzing the garden or test law by the use of the sentence that God passed upon Adam in its vindication, knowing that it was the true con struction of that law, and which I found to be physical death as the direct effect and the moral imprisonment of the intellect and spirit, or inward man, which is Isaiah's lawful captives - capltives in the disabled physical or outward man of the devil - but not oth erwise disabled, having a will to do and a faculty to believe, which left man savable. This made man as' an inevitable dual, morally, having an outward man4 The European War and I ts Crowning Result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.