"The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. The true Christianity--a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of men--is lost. None believeth in the soul of man, but in some man or person old and departed."
~An Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson~
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