A Comparison of Three Contrasting Views

Chapter 35

Sentimentalism

a. Christianity is a relationship to the Person of Christ. Much sentimentalism is included.

b. Righteousness by faith, a relationship to the Person of Christ, identical to the Evangelicals. "The flesh profiteth nothing." Emphasis on physical relationship leads to emotionalism, mysticism. Portraits of Christ not helpful. "To talk of Christ without the Word leads to sentimentalism" (EGW).

c. Righteousness by faith is not a relationship to the Person of Christ, for He has personally gone to heaven. But He has sent His Holy Spirit, and it is through Him that we know Christ by His Word. There is no sentimentalism in righteousness by faith.