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THE
MARK
Maurice
Nicoll
Also
available as a set with The New Man and Living Time
This book is a companion
to The New Man. It discusses, in relation to the Gospels, the idea that
real religion is about another man, latent but unborn, in every man. The
end of this transformation of a man is thought of as The Mark to be aimed
at.
The author explains that in the Gospels the word translated as sin means
in the literal Greek missing the mark, as of a spear thrown at some object
and failing to hit it. And from meaning to miss the mark it came to mean
failing one's purpose, and so erring or wrong doing. It is Dr.Nicoll's
contention that when a man is overpowered by outer life and influenced
only by all that acts upon him from outside, and argues, only from what
he can see, he is machine-driven by his senses, and internally, the wrong
way round.
He is dominated by external life and has no life in himself.
That part of him which is truly himself, and from which his own individual
existence and growth can begin is lost. It is in the wrong place. And
this is sin. That is, in this sense, everyone has missed the mark, missed
the idea of his own existence.
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