The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 41

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.]

speaks of himself as the searcher of

wisdom

and that, for this reason, every creaturely spirit

;

subject itself in

;

This places us before an absolute

a choice with no

way

For

of escape.

this principle

must either be contested, by doing which return the

wisdom of

and

this gives

the world

With

of our studies.

way

those

who

chose the

ask in

Amen

Scripture which

And

"

absolute

to this "

What

is

announces concerning

way

made

itself as

we

Holy

the

in

Scripture?"

separates itself irrevocably from that of this point, the ethicals say

you

and

in that Scripture;

if

you

find errors there,

but shows, eo ipso, that the Scripture does not pretend to

ing,

and

This, however,

reject

I

it

when one

is

as the case

on

later

in

on these two decisive grounds:

lible

more

judgment

now

stands,

it

is

(1) be-

only conceivable

—

for,

possible that errors have crept in

what was written without error; and (2) because

Holy

Spirit concerning his

indeed,

it

O

fal-

this

work

of the Spirit.

In

would be presumptuous and

he formed conclusions from

own work

judgment which you,

authoritative than the

man, form on the ground of

a child,

is

autographs themselves,

in possession of the

the self-witness of the far

no correct process of reason-

is

cause, sanction to pass such a

if

Scripture-principle,

claim

For when we reach

be infallible."

is

them there

for

This you must determine from the facts as they present them-

selves to it

it

here our

the ethicals. "

:

of this

and who with joy and with an undivided heart

seriousness,

all

member

first

But of those who made the

no longer any Scripture.

better choice,

have said "

to

domain

across the entire

dilemma, we can have no further dealings here exists

made

is

or this principle must be accepted,

;

the right of

it

must

now and

thinking, speaking, and acting,

its

eternally, to that Spirit.

dilemma

things, can teach us

all

his

father's

disrespectful

doings that are

contradictorv to the conscious self-witness of the father; and

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