THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
Sir-Mr. J. Malton Murray says: "I would first observe that you cannot remove faith from any mind." Would he affirm that mind is will and understanding, or love and wisdom? In God love and wisdom are perfect; in mankind imperfect, capable of perversion, also, fortunately, of conversion by repentance, what Jesus called being born again-a "must." Mr. Murray wrote recently in The Listener: "I am as God made me." This discloses a ‘alse idea of himself, for God is still making him. So we can hope for him’a better future than he appears to foresee. He reminds one of Robert Ingersoll, who said, "There is no darkness but ignorance," overlooking the darkness, of error, a much more serious thing, and the chief ground of human suffering. Can Mr. Murray answer Pilate’s question, "What is truth?" Perhaps he will discover faith and truth to be the same thing. In the N.T. faith is from the Greek "pistis," meaning steadfast. The life of Jesus gives us the supreme example of steadfastness, of faith. He is the truth, the faithful wit‘ness, as He said "to this» end was I "born." Others have trodden this ground before Mr. Murray and have found religious faith, the perception of truth and the acknowledgement of the Lord in His Word as their Daily Bread. Tolerance is shown ‘supremely in the life of Jesus, however Christians have fallen short of their Master’s example. He is, of course, the Light of. the World-the Light which is Truth, Truth which is faith. Swendenborg put-itithus: "Faith is the truth we believe fr the Lord." A careful reading. of the Lord’s parable of the house on the rock and the house on the sand (Matt. 7) shauld help.
ROBERT J.
STKONG
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 5
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