Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII PROGRESS IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: DIFFICULTIES IN APPRECIATING THIS In the foregoing pages the argument has necessarily had a destructive tendency. With most of us this would be considered fit and proper, were all the religions of the world except our own affected. All, indeed, would probably agree to the destruction of the rest of the creeds of the world, and to the adoption of their own as the creed of all, and thus uniformity might at last be found. The mere statement of this idea is enough to condemn it as Utopian and absurd; and the question comes to be, has the Deity left mankind in ignorance as to His nature and actings, and must man work out his salvation by his own efforts, and with no aid whatever? We have seen that our religion--and the same may be said, more or less, of others--is made in its standards to rest on revelations from the Deity to His servants, men of like fashion with ourselves, but chosen for the express purpose of acting as a medium of communication between Him and His people. The 'word' is often given as coming direct from the Lord, and as such it is usually quoted in our pulpits and understood by the hearers. The same mode of speech is used by the heathen writers in regard to their gods; and in describing the inscription on the famous Moabite Stone discovered in 1868, Professor Sayce quotes Dr. Ginsburg as remarking: 'If the name of Jehovah were substituted for that of Chemosh, this inscription would read like a chapter in the Book of Kings' (On the Higher Criticism, P-374) We have seen that these communications have been mixed up with other supernatural occurrences, which are such that they cannot be received by enlightened reason as credible, and which, in fact, are not believed by any but the prejudiced and ...
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