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SearchJesus‘ Ideals Compromised
Wisely or unwisely, these early leaders of Christianity deliberately compromised the ideals of
Jesus in an effort to save and further many of his ideas. And they were eminently successful. But
mistake not! these compromised ideals of the Master are still latent in his gospel, and they will
eventually assert their full power upon the world.
By this paganization of Christianity the old order won many minor victories of a ritualistic
nature, but the Christians gained the ascendancy in that:
1. A new and enormously higher note in human morals was struck.
2. A new and greatly enlarged concept of God was given to the world.
3. The hope of immortality became a part of the assurance of a recognized religion.
4. Jesus of Nazareth was given to man‘s hungry soul.
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Many of the great truths taught by Jesus were almost lost in these early compromises, but they
yet slumber in this religion of paganized Christianity, which was in turn the Pauline version of
the life and teachings of the Son of Man. And Christianity, even before it was paganized, was
first thoroughly Hellenized. Christianity owes much, very much, to the Greeks. It was a Greek,
from Egypt, who so bravely stood up at Nicaea and so fearlessly challenged this assembly that it
dared not so obscure the concept of the nature of Jesus that the real truth of his bestowal might
have been in danger of being lost to the world. This Greek‘s name was Athanasius, and but for
the eloquence and the logic of this believer, the persuasions of Arius would have triumphed.