THE UNITY OF RELIGION
Sir.-May I make a small comment on the letters of Milton Thornton and Geoffrey Hodson. Religion means the acknowledgment of God and obedience to His commandments. It is essentially | a kind of life; therefore, where there is any religion there is unity. Religious | doctrine is quite another matter, as demonstrated by Mr. Hodson, who does not show much understanding of true Christian doctrine. He says "A study of World Faith reveals the following doctrines (enumerated) common to them all, despite difference of nomenclature." However, his statement reveals confusion of ideas, rather than names, and is not Christian at all from his first "The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." Christian brotherhood requires the "hearing of the Word of God and keeping it." Christ spoke of another kind of Father-"Your Father -the devil." Again, Mr. Hodson mentions "Salvation, Liberation, Christhood as the assured destiny of every human being." This reads like foolishness from the point of view of Christian doctrine, havine no support in the Word of God.
CHRISTIAN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 17
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