The Christian System - Chapter 9
RELIGION FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR RELIGION.
I. Religion, as the term imports, began after the Fall; for it indicates a previous apostacy. A remedial system is for a diseased subject. The primitive man could love, wonder, and adore as angels now do, without religion; but man, fallen and apostate, needs religion in order to his restoration to the love, and worship, and enjoyment of God. Religion, then, is a system of means of reconciliation--an institution for bringing man back to God--something to bind man anew to love and delight in God.1
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I. Religion, as the term imports, began after the Fall; for it indicates a previous apostacy. A remedial system is for a diseased subject. The primitive man could love, wonder, and adore as angels now do, without religion; but man, fallen and apostate, needs religion in order to his restoration to the love, and worship, and enjoyment of God. Religion, then, is a system of means of reconciliation--an institution for bringing man back to God--something to bind man anew to love and delight in God.1
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posted by Ken | 8:34 PM
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Interesting thougth on man's choice being a "condition of enjoyment" instead of a "condition of merit".
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