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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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's