However Incompatible The Spirit Of Jesus And

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.

Although When Christianity Appeared The Total Population Of The Planet Was Only A Fraction Of That Of The Twentieth Century, Most Of The Earth's Surface Was Quite Outside The Mediterranean World, Persia, India, And China.

Christians Were Regarded As Separated From Society And Therefore Destructive Of The Greco-roman Way Of Life.

However Incompatible The Spirit Of Jesus And Armed Force May Be, And However Unpleasant It May Be To Acknowledge The Fact, As A Matter Of Plain History The Latter Has Often Made It Possible For The Former To Survive.

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.