Quotes from Kent A. Van Til

readers to consider Jesus as their wise teacher. Jesus the rabbi insists that true faith needs to be shown in deeds of mercy and justice. He sums up his ethic with a revision of Old Testament emphases: "Pure religion, undefiled before God our Father, is this — to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (James 1:27).