Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... PART THIRD. OBJECTIONS. AS we have before remarked, a mathematical or logicallyincontrovertible certainty is, with respect to our subject, impossible. Hence no proofs can be adduced which will absolutely exclude all doubts. Nor are doubts by any means lacking; for while many modern theologians have merely taken up a sceptical position with regard to sinlessness, there are others who have stated reasons which are sufficiently plausible to make a discussion of them needful. Such a discussion we are the more inclined to enter upon in the following pages, because the questions hence arising have not as yet been treated in the full and connected manner which the subject demands.1 The objections which have been raised may, in a general way, be classed as follows: --One class rests on a denial of the actual sinlessness of Jesus; the other on a denial of the possibility of sinlessness at all in the sphere of human life. In the former case the sinlessness of Jesus is impugned, partly on the ground of its being inconsistent with that law of development which is applied to Him in reference both to His character and His work; partly as at variance with the 1 For a more cursory view of these questions, see Lutz. Bibluche Dogmatik, pp. 294-299; and Schumann, Christus, vol. i. pp. 289-296. idea of temptation; and partly on the ground of distinct utterances and facts recorded of Him. In the second case, the objections to the sinlessness of Jesus are drawn, on the one hand, from experience; on the other, from the very nature of the idea of sinlessness and the mode of its realization. These last objections are therefore partly empirical, and partly speculative, in their nature. Adopting this classification, we shall proceed from that which is special to..
