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Show RELATIONS OF GOD AND MAN Gradual Readjustment Means a Continual Con-tinual Advance Toward the Higher Life. " In studying the Bible it becomes increasingly in-creasingly apparent that the relations between God and man are not constant con-stant or fixed, but are subject to a. gradual readjustment. In the earlier chapters the ideal held out is for man to "fear" God. Later he learns to trust, to a limited extent, this higher life. Eventually this grudging faith is turned to love, which recognizes God as the father, constantly giving himself, him-self, as life and wisdom, to his children. chil-dren. And beyond this comes that fruition of growth which constitutes real unity; man is merged with God, and comes to realize that "I and the Father are one." God never changes, but our understanding under-standing of him does change. And it is the evolution of this ideal which we have of the great sea of life in which we live, and which lives in and through us, which constitutes real growth and advancement. Life is for that; the everyday tasks tend toward the bringing forth of self-consciousness, which is always a fuller consciousness consci-ousness of God. From the Nautilus. |