Voices Of The Soul Answered In God Author:John Reid General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: R. Carter Subjects: Redemption Soul Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Theology Notes: Th... more »is is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II, DEEP CONVICTION OF SIN: NEED OF A DIVINE SAVIOUR. The emphatic thought in the present chapter is not the necessity of a Redeemer, but the necessity of a divine Redeemer. Unbelief respecting a doctrine of this kind does not spring so much from the reason, as from the heart. There are many truths which appear quite inexplicable to certain minds, because the affections are in no state to receive them. Yet these same truths are gladly accepted by others, because there is a spiritual want which craves them. The short argument which we here present is purely subjective in its nature. It springs out of the deep consciousness of sin. I would make the oppressive sense of personal sinfulness to be the great receptive state for a divine Saviour. As a general principle, I only want to know what a man's views of sin are, in order to know his views of redemption. If he has low viewsof the one, he will have low views of the other. A whole system of theology will have its peculiar shape from the peculiar opinions held touching the doctrine of sin. And this is reasonable; for sin is the great moral disease of the race, and Christian theology is the statement of the remedy with its antecedents and consequents. The consumptive who flatters himself that his system is but a little injured, will not be very anxious to obtain a remedy suited to the nature of his...« less