ONE of the religious fads of to-day—old in principle as the Fall—is the claim that Christ in our own nature, dwells within, that He is all in all, Guide, Counselor, etc., etc., and that faith is only the recognition of this claim. Yet those who make this claim deliberately set aside the law which Christ kept, the transgression of which is sin. You ask the devotees of this religion their standard, they will tell you it is Christ. You ask them if it is the Christ of the Bible, and they will tell you it is Christ in the heart, Christ reigning and ruling within.
But such is not Christ, it is only the imperfect human conception of Christ at the best. It is not the Christ of the word. It is a human standard, a human god, which may be one thing to-day and another to-morrow. It is purely heathen in origin, the outgrowth of that first falsehood, “Ye shall not surely die; . . . ye shall be as God.” We can not accept such a god. We prefer the great, eternal, unchangeable, merciful, righteous Jehovah.