Christendom Astray

by Robert Roberts (Christadelphian)

Publisher:

Logos Publications

, 1984

Contents

Top Highlights

“The suggestion that this Unknown Centre is the source of all power is in significant harmony with what the Scriptures reveal concerning God. There is a source—there must be a source—and this source must be a centre, because all power is manifested at centres. The earth draws every object on it to its centre, and pulls the moon round it as well. The earth in its turn is attracted towards the sun and drawn around it; and the sun itself with the whole framework of creation is drawn round a centre. These are facts in the economy of things, and they are therefore divine facts, because the economy of things is the handiwork of God.” (Page 137)

“Something of it is doubtless due to a wrong conception of the object of the commandments. It is commonly imagined that the commandments of Christ apply, and are intended to supply, the best modes of life among men—that is, those modes that are best adapted to secure a beneficial adaptation of man to man in the present state of life upon earth.” (Page 433)

“Is it possible to believe the truth concerning Christ, and be ignorant of the nature of the devil that he was expressly manifested to destroy with his works?” (Page 174)

“Hence, ‘sin,’ which has become an obscure and unintelligible term, is simply disobedience. It is, in fact, so styled by Paul in the very chapter in which he describes Adam’s act as ‘sin.’ He says, ‘By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners’ (Rom. 5:19). If it is used in any secondary sense (such as when Paul speaks of ‘sin that dwelleth in me’) that secondary sense is covered by, or included in, the major sense of disobedience. Sin being disobedience or transgression (agreeable with John’s definition, ‘Sin is the transgression of the law’—I John 3:4), we are enabled to understand the relation of death to it.” (Page 167)

Product Details

• Title: Christendom Astray from the Bible
• Author: Robert Roberts (Christadelphian)
• Publisher: Logos Publications
• Print Publication Date: 1984
• Logos Release Date: 2002
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology, doctrinal
• Resource ID: LLS:58.110.8
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:47:35Z

About Robert Roberts (Christadelphian)

Robert Roberts (April 18, 1839 – September 23, 1898) is the man generally considered to have continued the work of organising and establishing the Christadelphian movement founded by Dr. John Thomas. He was a prolific author and the editor of The Christadelphian Magazine from 1864–1898.