The recorded lecture on The New
Testament which we watched this morning before Meeting dealt with the wide
array of Christian faiths which have evolved from centuries of efforts to
ascertain the historical facts of Jesus’s birth, life, death and resurrection; to
discern His purpose and teachings; and to serve that purpose and to apply those
teachings to ever-changing circumstances.
These great efforts have resulted in great differences and great
conviction in the correctness of one’s views and the error of others’ views. The history of conflict among Christians, despite
Jesus’s message of love, suggests that the proverbial tree of the knowledge of
good and evil is better seen as the tree of the perception of the knowledge of good and evil.
