The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism

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commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever

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, that can deliberately weigh valid testimony, and abide by the decision of intelligent judgment. The history and life of the Church for nearly tw

ructive critics are so enormous, so radically revolutionary, so directly aimed at vital truth, that one's heart is stirred. There is danger of yielding to the heat of a righteous indignat

aid them, are "the same, yesterday, to-day and forever." The Book, with all its precious doctrines, is here to stay. It can not be destroyed. Fire has not burned it, water has not quenched it, the edicts of tyra

riticism, for the purpose of a deeper knowledge of God and his truth. All reverent and helpful study of the Word of God is critical, an

gation, to determine its claims, have been at work on the Scriptures in all the past, seeking to know the mind of the Spirit. There is, and ever has been a legitimate study of the Bible. Hence, there are absolutely no grounds for the assumption of the rationalists. The Church o

nscience, but to eliminate the supernatural from it. The Christian Church should understand this. If atheistic scientists can construct a universe without God, b

Bible would be an invalidation of Christ's claims and testimony. It would place him before the world as a false teacher, a fraud, a charlatan. Loyalty to the Word, and to the Incarnate Word, demands, therefore, that we should clearly understand the end to which this rationalism is drifting. For Christ's testimony concerning the Old Test

did not know the facts of the Old Testament Scriptures, which he believed and w

the professions of the critics. For they affirm to-day that the professed discoveries of the mistaken views of the Bible are of the utm

n darkness for more than eighteen hundred years? Is it to be assumed that he would wait through the long centuries for the coming of critics to enlighten his people? That is what we are logically asked to accept at their hands. It is thus made clear that the issue of this conflict, as in all th