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Show Adelbert 1. Hudson Faith in God 6 October 1895 MR. "Faith in God," (following the He said that the a yesterday afternoon at Unity Hall upon taking as his text John iv, 24, "God is spirit" marginal reading in the Revised Version). much confusion of thought had arisen from HUDSON PREACHED assumption of limited and his a false and personality, nature narrow conception of God as whose attributes could be summed up by a doctrinal statement formulated defined by the mind of man. This, he contended, was as much idolatry as the setting up of wooden images to be worshiped. Both alike have been made by man. The words of Jesus to the woman by the well are the best answer to this narrow and unworthy conception of God. "God is not a person to whom a special habitat can be assigned. He is [not] a local deity to be worshiped either in Mt. Gerizim or in Jerusalem. God is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" [cf. John 4:20-24J. It was not the teachings of Jesus, but medieval theology, which for centuries imposed on Christendom that low conception of Deity which would drag God down to the level of a jealous tyrant, demanding human sacrifices. It is this false notion which has driven so many thinking minds out of the 1 86 fellowship of the church. of honest, people regarded by others so many as It is this which has caused upright, infidels. It reverent lives to be is this which has led to the |
