| I have been seeing hundreds of pictures of the Last | | | | They each asserted that their God was the greatest. |
| Supper of Jesus Christ, and he is made to sit at a | | | | And they tried to prove it by fighting. The one that |
| table. Now, Christ never sat at a table; he squatted | | | | could do the best fighting proved thereby that its |
| with others,and they had a bowl in which they dipped | | | | God was the greatest. Those races were more or |
| bread -- not the kind of bread you eat today. It is | | | | less savage. But gradually better and better ideas |
| hard for any nation to understand the unfamiliar | | | | took the place of the old ones. All those old ideas are |
| customs of other people. How much more difficult | | | | gone or going into the lumber-room. All those religions |
| was it for Europeans to understand the Jewish | | | | were the outgrowth of centuries; not one fell from |
| customs after centuries of changes and accretions | | | | the skies. Each had to be worked out bit by bit. Next |
| from Greek,Roman, and other sources! Through all | | | | come the monotheistic ideas: belief in one God,who is |
| the myths and mythologies by which it is surrounded | | | | omnipotent and omniscient, the one God of the |
| it is no wonder that the people get very little of the | | | | universe. This one God is extra-cosmic; he lies in the |
| beautiful religion of Jesus, and no wonder that they | | | | heavens. He is invested with the gross conceptions |
| have made of it a modern shop - keeping religion. To | | | | of His originators. He has a right side and a left side, |
| come to our point. We find that all religions teach the | | | | and a bird in His hand, and so on and so forth. But |
| eternity of the soul,as well as that its luster has been | | | | one thing we find, that the tribal gods have |
| dimmed, and that its primitive purity is to be regained | | | | disappeared for ever, and the one God of the |
| by the knowledge of God. What is the idea of God in | | | | universe has taken their place: the God of gods. Still |
| these different religions? The primary idea of God | | | | He is only an extra-cosmic God. He is unapproachable; |
| was very vague. The most ancient nations had | | | | nothing can come near Him. But slowly this idea has |
| different Deities--sun, earth, fire, water. Among the | | | | changed also, and at the next stage we find a God |
| ancient Jews we find numbers of these gods | | | | immanent in nature. To get more information visit : |
| ferociously fighting with each other. Then we find | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business |
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| But the idea differed according to different tribes. | | | | |