Authority.

learning~teaching: who we are

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• "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.

• "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?"