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.
Upon what condition may one expect answers to prayer?
Through whom are repentance and forgiveness granted?
What will God allow to come to those who reject truth?
Through Christ, what has been opened to the house of David?
When Christ thus ministers the law in the heart, what does it become?
Whose prayers does Solomon say are an abomination?
What will the ransomed of the Lord then do?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle