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The Fundamentals and get the taste of a caramel. You cannot combine moral shadows by any sort of manipulation and produce moral sun shine. b. The morally transformed life proves the deity of Christ also because when the sinner turns to Christ he gets the response. Christ invites him and he responds. He calls and Christ answers. He calls to Mohammed and Mohammed does not come; he calls to Confucius and Confucius does not come; he calls to Buddha and Buddha does not come; he calls to Christ and Christ comes. The whole process is as simple as that. In his outward life also a new force begins to work a new design, a new labor working to an end. But especially within is there Another, one with whom there is fellowship, to whom he becomes passionately devoted, whose presence is happiness and whose absence is sorrow, who can sing with full meaning, “How tedious and tasteless the hours, when Jesus no longer I see,” etc. THE MIRACLE OF EXPERIENCE Thus Christ acts upon the soul in experience as God and manifests all the power of God. Such a life proves Christ’s claim again because intellectual difficulties die in the light of this experience. The mysteries are not all solved. But the difficulties cease to be relevant. Miracles do not trouble him now, because he has a sample of the miracle working power in his own soul. Hume’s argu ment that miracles cannot be true because contrary to ex perience is exactly reversed and the Christian says miracles are true because they accord precisely with his experience. He cannot explain ultimately why the morning glory opens under sunlight and closes under darkness any more than he could before. Nor can he explain life and spirit. He has what is better than explanation of life, life itself. In particular he has moral re-inforcement. This is the final test of any religion, what can it do with a bad man?
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