The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 30

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Hence, according to the

church of our day there

is

Word,

the living divine revelation, it

Concerning

this ethical representation

my

:

The

This certainly applies to

God, and equally to

means hold true of

thing that the

is

its

to present

central origin

its

upon persons

effect

but can by no

;

historical process of manifestation

its

He who

organs.

its

me

allow

radical mistake in this representation

opinion, the assertion that " the truth ever bears an

ethical character."

of

which continues to operate

did in earlier days.

three observations

in

by the

it

ethicals, for the

alongside of and above the written

just as

in

[July>

and what we can obtain from

lation in those books,

criticism of faith.

is,

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

not ethical

first ;

makes

kingdom of God," and

away from

takes

" truth " to

mean a "seeing

then quotes the text "

not born again cannot see the

Kingdom

of God,"

Whosoever

since the sensorium of " truth "

sciousness,

and

truth,

we

is

life

maiming of the

The

thelamatic and

form indeed two separate spheres, whose ming-

ling together beclouds our all

But

boundary-lines between con-

ceptions which are so specifically different. the noetic

is

not the Will, but the con-

object most strenuously to this

this obliteration of the

of

— such an one

can very easily maintain so incorrect a representation. ,

nor

the truth every-

whole representation, and confuses

our thoughts.

The

representation derived from the foregoing, that " in-

spiration "

This also

is is

bound

to

" regeneration,"

from and

is

melted

after

ment, which

equally

faulty.

an effort to render an altogether different con-

ception ethical, by which that which

distinguished

is

down

regeneration

falls to

is

beautiful, ordered,

chaotically. is

and

That which follows

illumination,

the

enlighten-

the portion of every child of God, but

which, as the case of Balaam clearly shows, differs specifically

from

inspiration.

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