Gold Nugget 225 - A Sympton of Intellectual Feebleness

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      There are babes in Christ among men who are old in years.  A religion of soft sentiment and imbecile intelligence, such as some would commend as a rebuke to our pride, would find no favour with St. Paul.  He was a man of robust intellect and vigorous energy.  The childlikeness of the Christian is far from the childishness of the sentimental religionist.  Many of the greatest heroes have had a singular childlikeness which has only enhanced the manliness of their lives. …

      Stability of belief;  the lack of personal convictions that is so common among us is a symptom of intellectual feebleness.  We do not want rigid dogmatism, but surely as our thinking and experience progress some truths should emerge out of the mist of doubt clear and certain, some ground should be securely won, though much must still be beyond our comprehension.

The Pulpit Commentary, Ephesians p. 204, Ephesians 4: 21, (W. F. Adeney)

Gold Nugget 225

A Symptom of Intellectual Feebleness

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