July 1924
T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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Canon Liddon held that one proved error in any matter would be fatal to our Lord’s authority; what then remains of His authority if on none of these points His teaching can be trusted? It requires more than ordinary mental agility to say that such vital matters as the character of God and the validity of the Messianic predictions lie out side the moral and spiritual sphere. But such a distinction between moral and intellectual spheres, even if it were psy chologically sound, and even if the difficulties just men tioned could be avoided, will prove futile in the long run to save even a remnant of authority either to the Bible or to our Lord Himself. For, let it be repeated again, author ity rests upon confidence, which is its correlative term. The authority of Christ must be supreme and absolute, or we must abandon, together with the German school of theol ogy, all idea of His authority in any matters that concern the human intellect. If we accept the authority of Christ we must be prepared to accept as true all that He can be fairly shown to have taught and believed concerning Holy Scripture and its contents. III. The principle of authority must not be used un reasonably to bind our consciences with that ceremonial law which was fulfilled and done away with in Christ, nor (Continued on next page)
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE (Continued from page 413)
There are those who claim that they regard Him as abso lutely infallible as a moral and spiritual leader, but that He did not possess more scientific knowledge than the peo ple of His day. But the question of His knowledge of sci ence is entirely beside the point, for He seldom even re motely referred to any scientific question, and it is easily shown that He never made a scientific mistake. The real question is, whether or not He was mistaken in His1views and teaching regarding The Old Testament, and the God of the Old Testament. The new Testament gives a clear picture of the thought and teaching both of our Lord and His Apostles with re gard to the Old Testament. Broadly speaking, He accepted its narratives as historical, He believed in the Jehovah whose very deeds and words it described, He regarded as binding the moral commandments of the Law, and He saw around Him the fulfilment of the predictions in which He saw the sure prescience of God. According to the dominant school of criticism He was in all these matters misled by the current notions of His own time.
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