A Statement of Faith
By Norman Hoyle DeBruhl
December 14, 2015
One has to go back in history to make things fit.
History is important because it teaches one just how clever we are not!
Sliding back one, two, or twenty generations the same old human frailties come shining
through. The sins of our fathers, are the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow.
The one constant, the one redeemable virtue, the one truth that has survived for two
thousand years is the message delivered in the Sermon on the Mount.
Contained in that memorable message was the perfect "truth." The guide for an individual or a whole population.
A guide that needs not the armies of theologians, or those with the "calling" to explain
or teach the true meaning of those spoken words in the sermon spoken so long ago.
Those words have distilled for me the essence of the Christian Faith. Reading those words
convinced me why I am therefore a Christian. A believer in that Sermon on the Mount.
My Christianity begins and ends with those two realities, the man Jesus, and his
teaching. Norman Hoyle DeBruhl
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
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