Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 455

Chap.

SELF-TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURE

II]

431

dominant manwas but natural, therefore, that the theory of accommodation became current a century ago, and that on the ground of these accommodations all value was disputed to these utterances of Jesus. But by accepting the possibility of accommodation with Christ, He eo ipso is which is the more apparent, already forsaken as the Christ which was curinspiration-theory, the when one hears how an essential part of rent at the time and which still forms the confession in all Christian Churches, was execrated as being unworthy of God, antagonistic to the character of the At present, therespiritual, and as barren and mechanical. fore, the opponents of this theory themselves acknowledge that they would do violence to their consciences and commit

original, i.e. not borrowed, application of the

ner of view.

It

;

sin, if for

the sake of the masses they carried themselves as

though they put faith in this theory. This they deem themselves not warranted in doing, /tlow, then, will you accept such a sinful accommodation of what is unworthy of God and in conflict with the character of spiritual

you worship

as the incarnate

Word ?

)

life,

in

Him whom

The accommodation-

still tenable in days when the diverging theologians themselves accommodated, and considered it no evil but duty, became untenable with the Christ from the moment when He all such accommodation was rejected as moral weakness.

theory,

who to

perseveres, nevertheless, in his application of this theory

what Jesus

said concerning the Scrijjture, attacks not the

Scripture, but the Deity of Jesus acter.

Even

faith, while this

matters.

He

and even His moral characcommodated in good

the pretence that Jesus

would be had faith

If Jesus did not

know

for us, does not help

that the conception which

if accepted was untrue, there was no accommodation spite know this, then all such accommodation, ;

m

Jesus did

of letter hioivledge,

To come

was

to the point,

sin also in

Him.

we emphasize

in the first place, that

Jesus looked upon the several writings of the Old Testament To Him they did not constias forming one organic whole.

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