"The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.“

-Kenneth Scott Latourette

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"Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith."

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"Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind."

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"That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise."

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"In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread."

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