Compared With The Thousands Of Years In

That Free Will Was Demonstrated In The Placing Of Temptation Before Man With The Command Not To Eat Of The Fruit Of The Tree Which Would Give Him A Knowledge Of Good And Evil, With The Disturbing Moral Conflict To Which That Awareness Would Give Rise.

Christianity Is Usually Called A Religion. As A Religion It Has Had A Wider Geographic Spread And Is More Deeply Rooted Among More Peoples Than Any Other Religion In The History Of Mankind.

The Nineteenth Century Spread Of Christianity Was Due Primarily To A New Burst Of Religious Life Emanating From The Christian Impulse. . . . Never In Any Corresponding Length Of Time Had The Christian Impulse Given Rise To So Many New Movements. Never Had It Had Quite So Great An Effect Upon Western European Peoples. It Was From This Abounding Vigor That There Issued The Missionary Enterprise Which During The Nineteenth Century So Augmented The Numerical Strength And The Influence Of Christianity.

Christianity Emerged From The Religion Of Israel. Or Rather, It Has As Its Background A Persistent Strain In That Religion. To That Strain Christians Have Looked Back, And Rightly, As The Preparation In History For Their Faith.

In Contrast, Christianity, While Acknowledging The Presence Of Suffering, Declares That Life Can Be Infinitely Worth Living And Opens The Way To Eternal Life In Fellowship With God Who So Loved The World That He Gave Himself In Christ.