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The Life of Our Lord: Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849 by Charles Dickens
emotional
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sad
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I inherited a lovely first addition of this small book several years ago, and recently decided to read it, to see if it might be useful during Biblestudy with my children.
This was written by Charles Dickens, for his children, and was never intended for publication. It's written in simple, clear words, and is intended as a summary of the life of Jesus Christ.
Nearly right away, Dickens blatently denies the God-head of Christ. In supposedly quoting the angel's speech to the shepherds, shortly after Christ's birth, he writes: "There is a child born today in the city of Bethlehem near here, who will grow up to be so good that God will love Him as His own Son...and His name will be Jesus Christ; and people will put that name in their prayers, because they will know God loves it, and will know that they should love it too." He clearly states that God will love Jesus AS a son, so denying that Christ IS God.
Later on, describing Christ's adult life, he writes: "And because He did such good, and taught people how to love God and how to hope to go to heaven after death, Jesus was called Our Saviour." Notice that, according to Dickens, we can only HOPE to go to heaven, based on our good deeds. He's not our Savior because his death delivered us from slavery to our sin nature. Instead, he's simply a moral man and good teacher.
There are several other examples of this type of heresy throughout, but I'll end with this final one. The book ends with two prayers Dickens wrote for his children to learn. One contains the following: "...and let me never be cruel to any dumb creatures, for if I am cruel to anything, even to a poor little fly, God, who is so good, will never love me..." There's no mention of forgiveness of sin, only moralizing based on fear of rejection.
Altogether, this book preaches social justice more than Christ ever did, while meanwhile missing who He is entirely.
This was written by Charles Dickens, for his children, and was never intended for publication. It's written in simple, clear words, and is intended as a summary of the life of Jesus Christ.
Nearly right away, Dickens blatently denies the God-head of Christ. In supposedly quoting the angel's speech to the shepherds, shortly after Christ's birth, he writes: "There is a child born today in the city of Bethlehem near here, who will grow up to be so good that God will love Him as His own Son...and His name will be Jesus Christ; and people will put that name in their prayers, because they will know God loves it, and will know that they should love it too." He clearly states that God will love Jesus AS a son, so denying that Christ IS God.
Later on, describing Christ's adult life, he writes: "And because He did such good, and taught people how to love God and how to hope to go to heaven after death, Jesus was called Our Saviour." Notice that, according to Dickens, we can only HOPE to go to heaven, based on our good deeds. He's not our Savior because his death delivered us from slavery to our sin nature. Instead, he's simply a moral man and good teacher.
There are several other examples of this type of heresy throughout, but I'll end with this final one. The book ends with two prayers Dickens wrote for his children to learn. One contains the following: "...and let me never be cruel to any dumb creatures, for if I am cruel to anything, even to a poor little fly, God, who is so good, will never love me..." There's no mention of forgiveness of sin, only moralizing based on fear of rejection.
Altogether, this book preaches social justice more than Christ ever did, while meanwhile missing who He is entirely.