The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 55
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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.
1904.] later origin
that the reports of the creation
;
G85
and of the
are
fall
sacred phantasies; that Daniel was a pious fraud; yea, even that the
word of
the apostles cannot be normative, neither for
our confession nor for the picture which we form for ourselves
To
of the Lord.
cerns
must
all this the laity
Word, apart from every formula sion of the
mean by ly
this the Scripture
" Is
it
what
swer runs,
is
"
" the
in that Scripture."
No,
it
not that.
is
And
this
it
is
is
was
the proper confes-
And when
asks, "
further
The prophets
called
it
all
as
it
feels
pense of the needs of her soul.
well
know
It stings
name
jeering clericalism, and in the
game
all
deeply
sacred
at the ex-
her as the insult of a
of the Lord she resents
that even thus the
and does work an inward and certain witness ated soul, by
own
under the jeers that impugn
the seriousness of her heart, and as under a
I
so in a
the intensity
of her thirst after liberty and zeal of fidelity to a
For, though
asked,
the an-
really the product of their
what the church of God
She smarts under
Do you
it is
word?" again
hurt about, and against which she rebels with
charge.
con-
answer runs, " No, but mere-
there recorded as God's
metaphorical sense, but thoughts."
?
of faith,
it
that God's
told,
And when one
Reformed Church.
God's word
and when
listen;
standard, they are
confessional
the
Holy
it.
Spirit can
in the regener-
this the historic consciousness is
weakened
—and moreover, aside from the regenerated and the redeemed, there are
still
the children of the churches,
blood rush to the face to see
how
bly cruelly these vivisectors of the
and
it
makes the
mercilessly and unpardona-
Holy Scriptures
deal with
the souls of our children.
For of course, when the Scripture they say
it
is,
a
common copy
most worthless volume can explain
it
from
his
;
is
;
to question as
of our version becomes an
the country-pastor
books
open
is
the only one
al-
who
the Orientalist and the Graecist
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