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existed.
606. No religion but our own has taught that man is born in sin. No sea of
philosophers has said this. Therefore none have declared the truth.
No sect or religion has always existed on earth, but the Christian religion.
607. Whoever judges of the Jewish religion by its coarser forms will
misunderstand it. It is to be seen in the Holy Bible, and in the tradition
of the prophets, who have made it plain enough that they did not interpret
the law according to the letter. So our religion is divine in the Gospel, in
the Apostles, and in tradition; but it is absurd in those who tamper with
it.
The Messiah, according to the carnal Jews, was to be a great temporal
prince. Jesus Christ, according to carnal Christians, has come to dispense
us from the love of God and to give us sacraments which shall do everything
without our help. Such is not the Christian religion, nor the Jewish. True
Jews and true Christians have always expected a Messiah who should make them
love God and by that love triumph over their enemies.
608. The carnal Jews hold a midway place between Christians and heathens.
The heathens know not God, and love the world only. The Jews know the true
God, and love the world only. The Christians know the true God, and love not
the world. Jews and heathens love the same good. Jews and Christians know
the same God.
The Jews were of two kinds; the first had only heathen affections, the other
had Christian affections.
609. There are two kinds of men in each religion: among the heathen,
worshippers of beasts and the worshippers of the one only God of natural
religion; among the Jews, the carnal, and the spiritual, who were the
Christians of the old law; among Christians, the coarser-minded, who are the
Jews of the new
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