“Felix was a naturally violent and headstrong man, used to exercising power, and getting his own way. If men revolted against his authority, he destroyed them. If the High Priest remonstrated with him, he had him put to death. If he fancied another man’s wife, he took her. But if he wanted to be a Christian, he would have to get down off his high horse and learn to control his passions. ‘Except a man be converted, and become as a little child’, the founder of Christianity had laid down, ‘he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven.’ And neither Felix nor anybody else is exempted. There is no place for people on hand-made pedestals in the Kingdom of Christ, and of God”.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One