The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 44

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

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the wiping out of God's name,

had to be

passed away in a Darwinian evolution

;

[Oct.

distilled until creation

went hid-

the miracle

ing; inspiration was reduced to an unobservable touch of a soul unconscious of that fact

;

human author

and, finally, the

appeared so one-sidedly in the foreground that at length there

remained no higher honor for the Divine Author (Auctor

pri-

marhis) than the service of a laudatory editor with the people

who

(4)

and

believe.

still

It

it is

nations religion

Jesus.

has ever been a

this especially in

who do

not

trait of the

wisdom of

know God,

forms of

as very honorable

under the self-same category with the Its

the world,

our days, to class the idolatries of the

philosophical principle, that there

religion of

no wall of sep-

is

and

aration between the sacred and the profane, compelled

compels

still

to do this.

it

was bound of necessity

this

overthrow the whole Scripture-study, especially that of the

to

The simple change

Old Testament. henceforth

however

idolatry,

all

be to the only true God,

Old Covenant

the

so

But

it

of

came

that

its

sprung from the same root

finally,

the nobler idolatrous nations

work

character might is

a criticism on

entire world-view.

development was

to have

operators in the

its

name by which

And

wholly contradictory to the teachings

religious

Israel's

defiant

called " religion,"

condemns

to pass, that,

Scripture,

is

of the

explained

as that of the heathen, and,

were represented as co-

of establishing

what

Israel, yes

what

Jesus, confessed.

Thus we

see that this irresistible spiritual impulse of the

philosophy of our age to transpose in every

homo "

into the

either disdainfully to cast off the

piety refrained that

way

the "Deus-

"Homo-deus," was bound of an iron necessity

from

this,

Scripture and put

it

whole Scripture

or,

to take apart the joining differently

together

when

map

again,

till

of at

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