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Weakness of material theories
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Weakness of material theories

Strangely enough, we ask for material theories in sup-


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port of spiritual and eternal truths, when the two are so antagonistic that the material thought must become spir- itualized before the spiritual fact is attained. So-called material existence affords no evidence theories of spiritual existence and immortality. Sin, sickness, and death do not prove man's entity or immor- tality. Discord can never establish the facts of harmony. Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit.