THE UNITY OF RELIGION.
Sir,-Your correspondent "Christian? (Auckland), commenting in the Februe ary 13 number of The Listener on my letter on The Unity of Religion, closed with a mis-statement of fact, sayings "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, having na support in the Word of God." Describ ing the destiny of all men, in Ephesians 4.13, St. Paul says: "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto @ perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Other texts amply demonstrate the presenca in the Bible of this doctrine, as also those of the Fatherhood of God and, aq an inevitable consequence, the Brother hood of Man. Assurance of salvation ta all men is made in Luke 3.6 and Titug 2.11. References to "Our Father" areg Deut. 32.6; Isaiah 64.8; Malachi 2.103 Matthew 6.9; Matthew 7.11; Matthew 23.9; Romans 3.29; I Cor. 8.6; Ephes sians 4.6; Hebrews 12.9; and I Epistle of St. John 5.7. Since all men are thug stated to possess one Father, they must therefore all be brothers. I repeat tha these selfsame doctrines, equally wi the others which I enumerated, are to beg found in other World Faiths.
GEOFFREY
HODSON
(Auckland),
(This correspondence is now. closed;-
~Ed.x
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