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... aspects and features of the living religions of the world and partly to suggest the points of agreement and difference among the different religions . The book very well succeeds in serving both these ends . I am confident that the book ...
... aspects and features of the living religions of the world and partly to suggest the points of agreement and difference among the different religions . The book very well succeeds in serving both these ends . I am confident that the book ...
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... aspect of comparative religion is the most delicate and it is here that tolerance and sympathy towards other religions are most required . Evaluation always requires a standard and one is always naturally tempted towards making one's ...
... aspect of comparative religion is the most delicate and it is here that tolerance and sympathy towards other religions are most required . Evaluation always requires a standard and one is always naturally tempted towards making one's ...
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... aspects of religion is required to undertake and accomplish this task . Yet the task is not impossible . In fact , valuable comparisons and evaluations have been made and they can very well serve as our guides in the stupendous task ...
... aspects of religion is required to undertake and accomplish this task . Yet the task is not impossible . In fact , valuable comparisons and evaluations have been made and they can very well serve as our guides in the stupendous task ...
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... aspect of man is only external and superficial . In his inner and essential being man is a soul . This soul in man is immortal . Nothing can destroy it . It survives man's bodily death . ( 6 ) In continuation of its belief in the ...
... aspect of man is only external and superficial . In his inner and essential being man is a soul . This soul in man is immortal . Nothing can destroy it . It survives man's bodily death . ( 6 ) In continuation of its belief in the ...
Contents
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Ultimate destiny | 36 |
BUDDHISM | 43 |
Life after death | 57 |
Principal sects | 67 |
Life after death | 99 |
CHRISTIANITY | 130 |
ISLAM | 153 |
SIKHISM | 173 |
COMPARISON AND APPRAISAL | 191 |
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Page 136 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 105 - I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 17 - THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 136 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts, And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another) but the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equaL So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
Page 136 - The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.