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1 | Hysterical, Sensational, Sentimental | Mic 3:11 | DocTrinsograce | 243211 | ||
"The life of many religious people, I fear, in this age, is nothing better than a continual course of chasing after novelties. They are always morbidly craving fresh excitement; and they seem to care little what it is -- if they only get it. All preaching seems to be the same to them; and they appear unable to 'see differences' so long as they hear what is clever, have their ears tickled, and sit in a crowd. Worst of all, there are hundreds of young unestablished believers who are so infected with the same love of excitement, that they actually think it a duty to be always seeking it. Insensibly almost to themselves, they take up a kind of hysterical, sensational, sentimental Christianity -- until they are never content with the 'old paths;' and, like the Athenians, are always running after something new!" --J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) I wonder what dear Godly men like Ryle would say of our day? |
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2 | Hysterical, Sensational, Sentimental | Mic 3:11 | EdB | 243213 | ||
Probably the same since there is nothing new under the sun. The ills that existed then exist today. Perhaps more frequently and perhaps more blatantly, but they are the same ills today as they were then. | ||||||
3 | Hysterical, Sensational, Sentimental | Mic 3:11 | DocTrinsograce | 243223 | ||
Hi, Ed... I agree. This was particularly true of Manichean heresy. Here is what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say: Babylon was still a center of the pagan priesthood; here Mani became thoroughly imbued with their ancient speculations. On Sunday, 20 March, A.D. 242, Mani first proclaimed his gospel in the royal residence, Gundesapor, on the coronation day of Sapor I, when vast crowds from all parts were gathered together. "As once Buddha came to India, Zoroaster to Persia, and Jesus to the lands of the West, so came in the present time, this prophecy through me, the Mani, to the land of Babylonia", sounded the proclamation of this "Apostle of the true God". He seems to have had but little immediate success and was compelled to leave the country. For many years he traveled abroad, founding Manichæan communities in Turkestan and India. When he finally returned to Persia he succeeded in converting to his doctrine Peroz, the brother of Sapor I, and dedicated to him one of his most important works, the "Shapurikan". Peroz obtained for Mani an audience with the king and Mani delivered his prophetical message in the royal presence. We soon find Mani again a fugitive from his native land; though here and there, as in Beth Garmia, his teaching seems to have taken early root. And further... The key to Mani's system is his cosmogony. Once this is known there is little else to learn. In this sense Mani was a true Gnostic, as he brought salvation by knowledge. Manichæism professed to be a religion of pure reason as opposed to Christian credulity; it professed to explain the origin, the composition, and the future of the universe; it had an answer for everything and despised Christianity, which was full of mysteries. It was utterly unconscious that its every answer was a mystification or a whimsical invention; in fact, it gained mastery over men's minds by the astonishing completeness, minuteness, and consistency of its assertions. In Him, Doc |
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