ng in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them

e and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called, wh

d unto the doctrine; contin

at ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until

domain of mythology the clear and unequivocal historical statements of Scripture. Where the intrusion of their mythological

t promise was given to our first parents immediately after the fall. God said to the serpent (Gen. iii. 15): "I will put enm

Church as a whole. First, that "the seed of the woman" does not refer to the Messiah, but to the human race, which is to bruise

n referring to a person. It is so translated in the Revised Version. "He shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his hee

e also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke i. 35.) The child to be born was to be liter

ise was repeated to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, and to David. The seed of the woman was to be the Messiah, t

made. He saith not, and to seeds, as of many (or, the human race), but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ." On the human si

He ever claimed God as his Father, and in a different sense from that in which men can claim God as Fat

was Satan that inflicted death. He was the first higher critic who changed and denied the word of God, saying to the woman, "Ye shall not die." Through his denial of the word of God, he deceived the woman and brought spiritual death on the race. This was the work of Satan, according to the New Testam

it the word of God. He suggested to Eve that she did not understand God's command; she had taken it too literally, which is a popular form of attacking the Bible today. "Yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden

d the devil and Satan." That promise is now in process of fulfillment, and must reach its final consummation when John's apocalyptic vision is fulfilled, "And the devil that de