22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning
it?
Answer
"Who doubts but what it is better to be led to God by instruction than by fear of punishment or affliction?
But because the former, who will be guided only by instruction, are better, the others are still not to be
neglected. . . . Many, like bad servants, must often be reclaimed to their Master by the rod of temporal
suffering, ere they can attain to this highest stage of religious development. "-Id., pages 214, 215.
What was God's object in making the earth?
How does the death of Christ bear testimony to this?
Of what were the works of Abraham an evidence?
Whose Spirit inspired their utterances?
What did they have in the law?
What will be the final doom of Satan and his angels?
To whom has God given the earth?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle