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THE MARK IBD

MARTINO FINE BOOKS
03 / 2021
9781684225392
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Sinopsis

2021 Reprint of the 1954 U.S. Edition.ááFull facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.áThis book is a companion to The New Man by the same author.áNicoll discusses, by way of the Gospels, the idea that real religion is about realizing the potential for spiritual change, latent but unborn, that exists in everyone. 'The Mark' is the realization of this transformation.áThe author explains that in the Gospels the word translated as 'sin' means in the literal Greek 'missing the mark', as of a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it. And from meaning to miss the mark it came to mean failing in oneâÇÖs purpose, and so erring or wrongdoing.áIt is Dr. NicollâÇÖs contention that when a man is overpowered by outer life and influenced only by outside agency that person is machine-driven by his senses, but internally on the wrong road.áSuch a person is dominated by external life and has no spiritual life. That part of them which is truly real, and from which their own individual existence and growth can begin, is lost. It is in the wrong place. And this is sin. That is, in this sense, everyone has missed the mark, missed the idea of their own true existence.

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