The Simplicity of Christ’s Teaching
THE charm of Christ’s teaching lies in its simplicity. But many theological writers seem to forget that there are people who cannot be edified by huge words and high-flown sentences, or else they think that such people are beneath their notice. As a sample of such writing, we give the following extract from a book entitled “The Transfiguration of Christ”:— “On the resurrection of Christ our cosmology must stand; as on Christ himself, the Logos, must stand all anthropology and theology. The resurrection of the Christ of God is that all-inclusive manifestation of the Logos, which in the beginning moved in chaos toward a cosmos, and which at last through that manifestation abolishes the primeval discord of life and death, thus giving man his (Cosmos-Logos) cosmology.” We trust that there are very few people on earth who could be edified by such reading. How different from the words of Paul, that master logician: “But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise. Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above;) or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Rom. 10:6–10.