The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 had come to close the Old Testament, and give to the world a NEW TESTAMENT. This was necessary because men would be unable to harmonize his teachings with those of the men who wrote the scriptures. His teachings could not be put into the old bottles of thought, neither could his new ideas be successfully used to patch up the deficiencies of the wornout idealisms. The world needed to discard the old, and listen to the new teaching. Because, the words which he taught would be eternally true. They would remain true even though heaven and earth were obliterated. The new teachings were aromatic, changeless, and eternal. had come to close the Old Testament, and give to the world a NEW TESTAMENT. This was necessary because men would be unable to harmonize his teachings with those of the men who wrote the scriptures. His teachings could not be put into the old bottles of thought, neither could his new ideas be successfully used to patch up the deficiencies of the wornout idealisms. The world needed to discard the old, and listen to the new teaching. Because, the words which he taught would be eternally true. They would remain true even though heaven and earth were obliterated. The new teachings were aromatic, changeless, and eternal.
  
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 This simple truth may seem harmless, and even uninteresting, yet it wrecked all the teachings of the priests of the temple ritual. God was not separate from his universe. God was not unapproachable, neither was He afar off. He was working WITHIN man—without Him we could do nothing. In reality, the kingdom of God was WITHIN, and not in some distant heaven or special location. This simple truth may seem harmless, and even uninteresting, yet it wrecked all the teachings of the priests of the temple ritual. God was not separate from his universe. God was not unapproachable, neither was He afar off. He was working WITHIN man—without Him we could do nothing. In reality, the kingdom of God was WITHIN, and not in some distant heaven or special location.
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