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.
How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought by being baptized into Christ?
How did Abraham respond to this command?
How has God revealed to us the hidden things of the kingdom?
When we see all these things, what are we to know?
What great separation will then take place?
If an answer does not come at once, what should we do?
Who will walk in the light of the city?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle