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God the invisible King

God the invisible King

Ballin, G-Ph
Wells, H. G.

Paperback

PhilosophyGifts & Stationery GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1542687217
ISBN13: 9781542687218
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 21 2017
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Argument Wells describes his aim as to state as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. He distinguishes his religious beliefs from Christianity, and warns readers that he is particularly uncompromising on the doctrine of the Trinity, which he blames on the violent ultimate crystallization of Nicaea. He pleads for a modern religion or renascent religion that has no revelation and no founder. Wells rejects any belief related to God as Nature or the Creator, confining himself to the finite God of the human heart. He devotes a chapter to misconceptions about God that are due to mistaken mental elaboration as opposed to heresies of speculation, and says that the God in which he believes has nothing to do with magic, providence, quietism, punishment, the threatening of children, or sexual ethics. Positively, in a chapter entitled The Likeness of God, he states his belief that God is courage, a person, youth (i.e. forward- rather than backward-looking), and love. Wells finds in scientific atheists like Metchnikoff beliefs that are equivalent to what he regards as the fundamental proposition of religious translated into terms of materialistic science, the proposition that damnation is really over-individuation and that salvation is escape from self into the larger being of life. In God the Invisible King, Wells regards belief in God as welling up from within the individual: if you do not feel God then there is no persuading you of him; we cannot win over the incredulous. The book argues that God seeks the conquest of death, through a struggle to transform the world into a theocracy that he regards as more and more manifestly the real future of mankind, not through suffering or non-resistance. Sin is seen not as bad conduct but as the product of disharmonies of the inner being that snatch us away from our devotion to God's service and such weaknesses cannot damn a man once he has found God.....

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