Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE FALL.
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of years-successfully, which meant that they had developed a capacity for faith. For the great virtue of faith is that it secures freedom from mental agitation, and furnishes a stable basis for thought. Faith has nothing in common with the wordy, windy protestations of the present-day man, and indicates a complete saturation of mind with a principle, or idea ; it is a state of belief equalling conviction. If you have faith in a thing, your mind should be utterly incapable of entertaining the condition to the contrary. Faith pre-supposes conviction, and, if destroyed, must be acquired afresh by wisdom.
Such is the fundamental doctrine of faith, the failure to understand which has caused all the wickedness, godlessness and sin in the world.
We shall now enquire into what is meant by the fall of man, and how and why it came about. A very graphic and instructive account of it is given in the first book of Moses, called Genesis, with which many of us are already familiar. Those who have read the account will readily confess that they were not much impressed with it, and simply remember it as a sort of nursery tale in which Adam, the hero of the story, was punished (might be a little too harshly) by the Lord God for a seemingly trivial and insignificant act of disobedience to which considerable importance was attached. This, however, is exactly the reverse of what is actually meant by the story. We ought not to pass by this legend in a summary fashion. Remember, there is a gateway somewhere in this maze through which the powers of darkness crept in once to the ruin of our race, and left a legacy of sin. The importance of the subject.