1732. The Bible, the Very Word of God
The Bible, the Very Word of God
What Christ Taught concerning the Five Books of the Law (Mat_5:18).
What Christ Taught concerning the Major Prophets (Mar_7:6).
What Christ Taught concerning the Minor Prophets (Mat_24:15).
What Moses Claimed for the Pentateuch (Exo_34:27).
What David Claimed for the Psalms (2Sa_23:2-3).
What the Prophets Claimed for their Writings (Jer_1:2).
The Testimony of the New Testament to the Old Testament Writers (2Ti_3:16).
We are living in an age of doubts and of consequent despair, in the spiritual realm.
The spirit of skepticism that pervades the college, is paralyzing the church. The college is sending home to the pulpit and to the pew professed believers who are, in very fact, unbelievers.
The excommunicated and ostracised infidel, parading his blatant denials concerning the Word of God, is no more. Infidelity is just as blatant, but it is neither excommunicated nor ostracised. Infidelity with head erect, stalks around in the assemblies of the saints. It is known today as "culture," "brains," "advanced learning." It wears the college toga. It casts its indignant glare upon everything that is orthodox, as "uncouth," "ancient," "unlearned," and almost as "unclean." It relegates to the realm of stupidity and of decadent and barbaric dogmas, the faith of the faithful.
The main attack of the New Theology is against the Word of God. Modernism is builded on a system that cannot survive the strong light of an infallible and inspired Book. If the Bible is inspired, then evolution, be it Darwinian or Theistic, must hide its face. The two cannot live together. The success of the critic depends on his ability to discount the Bible. Before he can increase, the Bible must decrease. The two, so unalterably disagreed, cannot walk together.
We propose to give, in a brief way, what we are to believe about this Bible, the blessed, holy, God-breathed Book; the Book that is so hated, so maligned, and so misrepresented by the *radical element of the churches.
The critics delight in doing obeisance to the memory of the One whom they call "Jesus." They plant the olive wreath upon His brow; they seek to worship at His shrine; they even applaud His gracious words. To be sure, they deny Him as virgin-born, they reject Him as God the Son, yet, they profess to crown Him as God's master-man.
We do not believe that they can long continue traveling this dangerous path. To admit that Christ was great and good and true, and then to denounce His claims, is incongruous.
Let those of us who still believe in Him as Jesus Christ the Lord, seek to discover what He, in turn, believed about the Book of books. We who trust Him will, at least, be willing to believe what He believed; otherwise, we would be compelled to repudiate Him altogether.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR