Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 483

FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT

Chap. II]

459

it is

But even if we pass this second suggestion by, alleged that in the centrum of the religious and moral

life

there

Testament.

yawns an abyss between the Old Testament and

Notwithstanding all this the attempt is being it appear as though it had merely been an innocent mistake in Christ that for eighteen centuries by precept and example He has bound His followers and conthe Christ.

made

make

to

fessors to the authority of that Old Testament. But is it not absurd to qualify in the Founder of your religion, as Jesus is called, as of no importance a mistake which for ages

has led millions upon millions astray, and

We may

do this ?

still

continues to

safely prophesy that after not

the stress of the dilemma, which

we here

many days

face, will

be real-

and generally acknowledged. Either Jesus' view of the Scripture is the true one, and then we should kneel in His presence or Jesus' view of the Scripture is one enormous mistake, in which case the Rabbi of Nazareth can no longer ized

;

be the absolute guide along the

We most

way

of faith.

accept this dilemma the sooner since

definitely our point of departure.

of people, thus

genesis,

we

it

determines

There are two kinds

wrote, in or outside of the circle of palin-

and connected therewith there are two kinds

of con-

sciousness, subjectively with or without illumination,

and Applied to the above-named dilemma, this affirms: That if by palingenesis you stand vitally related to the Christ as "the head of the body," the relation between your consciousness and the Holy Scripture is born from this of itself. But if that relation of the palingenesis does not bind you to the Christ of (xod as head of the body of the new humanity, you cannot kneel before Him in worship, neither can the Scripture be to you a Holy Scripture. The scientific form, in which your confession of the Scripture will cast itself, we do not consider here. No one, able to think and to ponder, has ever come either to objectively with or without

Holy

Scripture.

palingenesis, to faith in the Christ as the Son of God, or to the acceptance of the Scripture, as the result of scientific investigation. Faith is of a different kind, and can never

be plucked as fruit from the branches of science.

Faith

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