Ernest William Barnes citáty
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Ernest William Barnes
Dátum narodenia: 1. apríl 1874
Dátum úmrtia: 29. november 1953
Ernest William Barnes bol anglický matematik, vedec, anglikánsky teológ.
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Citáty Ernest William Barnes
„Our own attitude to intercourse with "spirits" must be determined not by the authority of great teachers of the 13th or any other century, but by our examination in the light of the best secular knowledge of our time of the revelation of spiritual truth given by Christ.“
Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)
„A perfectly evil human society is unthinkable: it would be self-destructive. We therefore deny that any society of absolutely evil spirits could be permanent. Evil in short, cannot be a unifying spiritual principle: to put it colloquially, there must be some good in the Devil or he must ultimately destroy himself. It is certain that the Devil cannot be the creative source of evil in the same way that God is the creative source of good.“
p, 125
Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)
„The conclusion seems to be irresistible that such laws of nature as the principle of conservation of energy, the principle of conservation of momentum and the law of gravitation are necessary consequences of our modes of measurement. They are, in fact, elaborately disguised identities which could have been predicted a priori by a being of sufficiently powerful analytical insight who fully understood all that is implied in the way we measure space-time intervals.“
As quoted by Gerald James Whitrow, The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)
„We see in man three elements; the material body, the life principle and the element of human personality. The last has only slowly reached its present complexity and is still far from the power and perfection that we can imagine it will some day possess.“
p, 125
Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)
„The astonishing thing about Einstein's equations is that they appear to have come out of nothing.“
As quoted by Gerald James Whitrow, The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)
„Revelation can be supplemented by reason. Christ Himself gave reasons for His belief, and put in modern form, these reasons are, to my mind, conclusive. You remember the passage in the earliest Gospel: "But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the place concerning the bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err" (Mark xii, 26 R. V.) Herein, in a form adapted to Jewish thought is "the one great argument which has made most sincere believers in God believers in Immortality also.“
citing H. Rashdall: Doctrine and Development, Methuen, 1898 p. 177.
Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)
