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. 1897 Excerpt: ...and learned men who adopt one view for a time, and upon further research change about to the opposite hypothesis. And this fact shows the need of greatest care and caution. The main conclusion we should all reach by this survey of the facts of criticism is, that the apologetics of the present day should recognize the ...
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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. 1897 Excerpt: ...and learned men who adopt one view for a time, and upon further research change about to the opposite hypothesis. And this fact shows the need of greatest care and caution. The main conclusion we should all reach by this survey of the facts of criticism is, that the apologetics of the present day should recognize the great difference between questions of literature and those of fundamental doctrine. Whether Paul or Apollos or Barnabas or Luke wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews is a question of literary history, and its determination one wayor another will not affect the value of the epistle nor the essentials of the Christian faith. The great purpose of the Holy Scriptures is to make "the man of God complete, furnished completely unto every good work;" and we are admonished that ' every scripture, inspired of God, is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Tim. iii, i6). Its great purpose and value, then, are not for instruction in geology or astronomy or physics, but for instruction in righteousness. But are there any errors in the Bible?. The very question seems at first to startle. And how shall such a question be answered? Is it a matter that can be settled by a vote? Let me suggest three ways of dealing with this troublesome question: 1. There is the a priori, dogmatic method of affirming that there are and can be no errors in a volume inspired of God. For would it not be as impossible for God to inspire an error as it would be for him to lie? 2. It may be alleged, on the other hand, that there are errors in the Bible. In Josh, x, 40, it is written that Joshua drove out all the Canaanites and utterly destroyed ' all that breathed;" but in Judges we are told that after Joshua's de...
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