Authority.
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Questions to Jesus
- "By what authority do you do these things?"
- "How is it that you appear here in God's house and declare that you have come down from heaven?"
- "Teacher, we would have you give us a predetermined sign that we will agree upon as establishing your authority and right to teach. Will you agree to such an arrangement?"
- "When the seventy related how "even the devils were subject"( ? ) to them, they referred to the wonderful cures they had wrought in the cases of victims of nervous disorders.
Questions from Jesus
- "Will you go back to the easy path of the certainty and intellectual settledness of the religion of traditional authority ?"
- “To honor God-knowing leaders of the past may be worthwhile, but why in so doing, should you sacrifice the supreme experience of human existence: finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls?"
- "But what chance does the Father have to appear as a God of supreme loyalties and divine ideals in the souls of men who give little or no time to the thoughtful contemplation of such eternal realities?"