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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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doctrine of His revelation of God’s heart and will, and
our relation to Him and to the next world. By graft-
ing that life on the world, upon us, He has reconciled
the world and us with God, or, according to the words of
St. Paul: “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
Himself?” When He makes us good, He takes away our
sins. Christ’s justification consists therein, that He makes
us justified. All moments in the life of Christ, His temp-
tation and His transfiguration on Mount Tabor, His death
and his resurrection, are moments of this great work of
atonement, because they all affect beneficently different
moments of our life.

I have frequently been astonished at the innumerable
different ways of understanding and of explaining the
doctrine of the Atonement, ever since the introduction of
Christianity until this day, and at the great number of
sects, each explaining their belief in a different way, and
still all calling themselves Christians, and I have come to
the conviction that this must be so. These disparities are a
consequence of people’s different intellectual capacities
and different experiences in life. There must, in conse-
quence of Nature’s manifold creative powers, be found
turnips and apple-trees, lichens and cedars, in the world
of mankind, as well as in the world of Nature. If only
each species tries to gain the benefit of light, so that its
fruits can ripen and become good, then also is each species
good. [But there are plants and herbs of lower and of
higher degree; and there is also a profound as well as a
superficial way of explaining Christianity. But Christianity
has also this resemblance to the sun, that the little as well
as the great drink life out of it. Nobody can sound the
depths of Christianity without having first dived into the
depths of life; but even the most superficial thinker, the
most shallow natures, can from some one of its rays gain
light and strength enough for life. It is the river “ through
which the lion can swim and the lamb walk.”

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