222 The Fundamentals present time abselutely requires, the traditional opm1ons regarding the authorship of the Old Testament books and the degree of authority which attaches to several, if not all of them, must be revised. In order to save the ship, we must throw overboard this cumbrous and antiquated tackling. Much more, we are assured, than points of scholarship are involved ; for intelligent and truth-loving men cannot retain t c h a e r i d r t c h o e nfi o d pi e n n i c o e ns in w t h h i e ch B h ib a l v e e a p n r d ev i a ts ile r d eli a g s io t n o , t u h n e le Ol ss d w T e e d st i a s ment, even though these opinions can apparently plead in their favor the authority of Jesus Christ. I Now mark the posiiion in which the Lord, as our Teacher, is thus placed. We have fol10wed Him in holding opinions which tuna out to be unscientific, untrue ; and so necessary is it to relinquish these opinions that neither the Jewish nor the Christian faith can be satisfactorily defended if we cling to them. Is it not, therefore, quite clear that the Lord's teaching is, in something material, found in error-that His prophetical office is assailed? For the allegation is that, in holding fast to what He is freely allowed to have taught, we are imperiling the interests of religion. The critics whom w tio e n h a a r v e e o i f n n v o iew imp m o u rt s a t n a c d e, m o it r e t i h t a h t er th t e ha L t o t r h d e w p a o s in i t m s p i e n rf q e u c e t s ly q en u c a e lifi f e o d r f t o h r e HBi i b s le pr w op il h l e n ti o c t al ad w m or it k. eit T he h r os p e os w it h io o n. hav F e or re w ve h r y should scholarship so magnify the necessity to apologetics of s c h o i r p re o ct f in th g e t P he en t t r a a t d e i u t c i h on , a a l nd op o i t n h io er n q a u s es t t o ion th s e of ag O e ld an T d es a t u a t m h e o n r t criticism, unless it means to show that the Old Testament requires more exact, more enlightened, handling than the Lord gave it? Should it be replied that the Lord, had He been on earth now, would have spoken otherwise on the i t n o g pic i s s c f o o n r ce a r l n l e a d g , e t s h , e a o n b d vi t o h u a s t a Hns i w s e w r o is r , d th " a c t an th n e ot L b o e rd b 's ro t k e e a n ch ."
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