METAPHYSICAL BIBLE students recognize in the Gospel of John
a certain spiritual quality that is not found in the other
Gospels. Although this is not true of all Bible readers, it
may be said that those who look for the mystical find it in
the language of this book. The book is distinctive in this
respect and is so successful in setting forth metaphysical
truths that little interpretation is necessary. Only in a
few instances does the original writing conceal the deep truths that the student seeks to discern. Written language
is at best a reflection of inner ideas, and even though a
teacher couples ideas and words as adroitly as Jesus does,
elucidation is sometimes difficult.
Nevertheless ideas are catching, and this may be the best
reason for publishing another book about this
spirit-arousing Fourth Gospel. We are all heavily charged
with ideas, and when these ideas are released they spring
forth and pass from mind to mind, being "recorded" as they
fly, and when they are expressed the whole race is lifted
up--if the idea is charged with the uplifting Spirit. Jesus
was God's idea of man made manifest in the flesh; so He was
warranted in making that dynamic assertion, "I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself."
Nowhere in all literature has this truth of the unity of
God, man, and creation been so fearlessly expressed and
affirmed by man as in the Book of John.
Here the question arises as to God's responsibility
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