This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...but the reverent laborers have done much in sifting the essential from the non-essential and in clarifying the great outlines. We have then only kindly feelings for the present-day method of study. There are some dangers, however, which come to those who merely read about and talk about rather than master the new ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...but the reverent laborers have done much in sifting the essential from the non-essential and in clarifying the great outlines. We have then only kindly feelings for the present-day method of study. There are some dangers, however, which come to those who merely read about and talk about rather than master the new method. The first danger is that of discounting the Book because scholars insist that by modern methods traces of legend and myth are discovered, errors in history and science revealed, and the crude and imperfect nature of the moral and religious notions of the early stages brought to light. It is affirmed that grotesque ideas of God have been held, that these have sometimes been reached through unseemly approaches, that the Divine Being has even been looked upon as using dreams and trances as a favorite method of illumination. Prolonged gazing upon these conclusions rather than careful reflection upon them has begotten in many minds already indifferent toward Christianity a deep prejudice, in some other minds a pathetic and distressed scepticism. The confusion has been increased by the railings of avowed enemies, "Show us thy God in these new revelations," and the frantic shoutings of the conservatives that all modern Biblical research is from the pit. The outcome has been that multitudes of good people who have not time to look into these matters have about concluded that the newer schools of Biblical study have exiled God. The believer in divine immanence is asked repeatedly to show how God can be in the crudity and error which some students profess to find recorded in the Scripture. There ought to be no great difficulty in showing that the newer thought really brings God nearer. In the first place we have godly men approaching the co...
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