When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.