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Show Frank 1. Hunt The Relation of c. 1929-30 A SIGNIFICANT teaching Thought FACT and Action in connection with the character and of Jesus is that he transferred from outward religious requirements inner condition. subscription change was resented by his fellow Jews, their religious experience to crystallize whose thought had become stereotyped, to had become formalized. There an was a fresh If This who had allowed into convention, and whose action noticeable absence of life into finer spiritual impulses directing relationships. aspirational thoughts were entertained they never found their way into better modes of action. Sensing the essential place of the inner life in human experience, Jesus saw the danger of conformity to externals emphasized an attitude oflove to God and Man, which compassed more true religion than the endless legal system the people were so zealous to obey. They were taught by Jesus that the thought is father to the deed. If avarice were and not harbored, one murder would Jesus was more the outside. not steal. If anger were not present, be committed. concerned He stressed the the inside of the cup than necessity of personal morality as to morality that clothed itself with respectability. It was to be expected of one who had the religious welfare of the people close to his heart that he should fearlessly warn them of the danger of valuing outward observance above inner principle and conviction. He was fully aware of the rather than 244 would not a |
