The Mark

<p>This book is a companion to <em>The New Man </em>by the same author. Nicoll discusses by way of the Gospels the idea that real religion is about realizing the potential for spiritual change latent but unborn that exists in everyone. The Mark is the realization of this transformation. The author explains that in the Gospels the word translated as sin means in the literal Greek missing the mark as of a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it. And from meaning to miss the mark it came to mean failing in one's purpose and so erring or wrongdoing. It is Dr. Nicoll's contention that when a man is overpowered by outer life and influenced only by outside agency that person is machine-driven by his senses but internally on the wrong road. Such a person is dominated by external life and has no spiritual life. That part of them which is truly real and from which their own individual existence and growth can begin is lost. It is in the wrong place. And this is sin. That is in this sense everyone has missed the mark missed the idea of their own true existence. Chapters discuss our spiritual existence the nature of truth the meaning of life human will and individual growth.</p>