The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Chapter 3 summary

What happens

1. The narrator says believers and unbelievers resist understanding Christianity because both assume they already know its meaning.
2. He describes Christ’s teaching as continual movement toward inward perfection and a world united in love.
3. He argues that appeals to miracles turn incomplete interpretations into claims of unquestionable authority.
4. He denies that Christ establishes a church resembling the institutions that claim exclusive possession of truth.
5. Comparing rival churches, he argues that their competing claims undermine the idea of one infallible institution.
6. He examines heresy through Pressensé and Arnold, concluding that claims to perfect understanding contradict Christian growth.

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