Chesterton: escape from an old dilemma

Thursday, June 13, 2019
    Commemoration of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Apologist and Writer, 1936
Meditation:
    “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
    —Romans 3:18 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some followers of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and Man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.
    ... Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy, London, New York: John Lane Company, 1909, p. 24 (see the book)
    See also Rom. 3:18; Ps. 36:1; Pr. 16:6; Luke 23:39-41
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You must lead us out of our blindness. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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