Post by Lee on May 13, 2014 1:18:47 GMT
Suppose God was to speak from Sinai once a year.
Suppose the day and hour of Christ’s second coming were actually known.
Would the men who are now faithless and unbelieving be faithful and obedient in the face of that knowledge?
I say they would not. They would still be carping about such questions as whether the number of those who fell in the wilderness was 23,000 or some other number?
They fail to appreciate the unquestionable fact that a small amount of clear proof should outweigh a large amount of doubtful objection.
All history and all experience proves abundantly that no miraculous exhibition of power has ever convinced the faithless.
Moses alludes to this in Deut. 29:2–4, where he says:—
“Ye have seen . . . the great temptations . . . the signs and those great miracles. Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear.”
Christ said (John 10:25): “The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not.” The blind man who had been healed, said to the Jews (John 9:27): “I have told you already, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? Will ye also be his disciples?”
All of which shows that a faithless and perverse generation seeking after a sign and professing to desire wisdom, is not convinced when the sign is given, and does not believe, though wisdom lifts up her voice in the streets.
1912 Christadelphian: Volume 49. 1912 (electronic ed.) (122–123). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
Suppose the day and hour of Christ’s second coming were actually known.
Would the men who are now faithless and unbelieving be faithful and obedient in the face of that knowledge?
I say they would not. They would still be carping about such questions as whether the number of those who fell in the wilderness was 23,000 or some other number?
They fail to appreciate the unquestionable fact that a small amount of clear proof should outweigh a large amount of doubtful objection.
All history and all experience proves abundantly that no miraculous exhibition of power has ever convinced the faithless.
Moses alludes to this in Deut. 29:2–4, where he says:—
“Ye have seen . . . the great temptations . . . the signs and those great miracles. Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear.”
Christ said (John 10:25): “The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not.” The blind man who had been healed, said to the Jews (John 9:27): “I have told you already, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? Will ye also be his disciples?”
All of which shows that a faithless and perverse generation seeking after a sign and professing to desire wisdom, is not convinced when the sign is given, and does not believe, though wisdom lifts up her voice in the streets.
1912 Christadelphian: Volume 49. 1912 (electronic ed.) (122–123). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.