Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
Life.” Faith is the first essential; conduct without faith is purposeless and will fail in the attainment of the object aimed at.
The Christian views on the subject will appear from the subjoined quotations :
“Right Faith is ... a comprehensive knowledge of the essentials; and knowledge is the strong and sure demonstration of what is received by faith, built upon faith ... conveying the soul on to infallibility, science, and comprehension . . . the first saving change is that from heathenism to faith ... and the second that from fazth to knowledge. And the latter terminating in love, thereafter gives the loving to the loved."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. pp. 447-448.
“For by whom has truth ever been discovered without God? By whom has God ever been found without Christ? By whom has Christ ever been explored without the Holy Spirit? By whom has the Holy Spirit ever been attained without the mysterious gift of FAITH?"-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xv. p. 412.
"If, therefore, ye wish to be the vesture of the Divine Spirit. hasten first to put off your base presumption, which 18 an unclea spirit and a foul garment. And this you cannot otherwise put off, than by being first baptized in good works ..."-(Clement) A.N. C.L. vol. xvii. p. 147.
"But perhaps some one will say, What does it contribute to piety to be baptized with water? In the first place, because you do that which is pleasing to God; and in the second place, being born again to God of water, by reason of fear you change your first generation, which is of lust, and thus you are able to obtain salvation. But otherwise, it is impossible."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 186.
“But it is necessary in our prayers to acknowledge that we have had recourse to God, and to bear witness, not to the apathy, but to the slowness of the demon. For all things are done to the believer, nothing to the unbeliever. Therefore the demons themselves, knowing the amount of faith of those of whom they take possession, measure their stay proportionately. Wherefore they stay permanently with the unbelieving, tarry for a while with the weak in faith, but with those who thoroughly believe, and do good, they cannot