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When Contrasted With The Much Longer Time That Life Has Been Present, The Course Of Christianity Thus Far Is But A Brief Moment.

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.

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.

Compared With The Thousands Of Years In Which Human Life Has Been On This Planet, Christianity Is A Recent Development.

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.