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and facts that are above mere human comprehension. Must be ready to “apprehend much that we cannot comprehend.” (1) Regarding God; His nature and attributes. (2) That God has His own lexicon, arithmetic, mathematics, gram mar, calendar, weights and measurements. Here is where rationalism fails. Isa. 55:7, 8 . 2. How the Scriptures have come down to us in their present form. Method of tracing the process: (a) Printed copies of the Bible from , the present down to 1488 (Old ' Testament in Hebrew) , 1516 and 1514 (New Testament, Greek and Latin). (b) The Manuscripts of the Scrip tures : Their number; nature; date; importance. Can the origi nal manuscripts be produced? Have we the original text ? (c) Quotations from the Church fathers, the Apostolic fathers, and the Apostles themselves. (d) Testimony of Jesus Christ as to the Old Testament: ' (1) Referred to them in matters of daily life and prcatice; Matt. 4 : 4 ,’ 7 , 10 ; 9:13^21:12. (2) In-social and domestic matters; e. g., marriage, Matt. 19:4. ■ (3) In matters of doctrine, e. g., the resurrection, Matt. 21:32; Luke 24 :27, 44. (4) The way of salvation, Luke 10:25. (5) His own deity, Matt. 22:41-46; John 10:34.
of the Final and Complete Revela tion of God to Man for This Pres ent Age, it is Incumbent upon Us to Know Them. 1. For Edification: an intelligent under standing of the will of God. 2. To satisfy the conscience and heart. 3. To furnish an authoritative standard for faith and practice. 4. To comfort and sustain in the trials of life, r 5. To inform us as to our future destiny. That the Scriptures are sufficient for all these purposes is evident from the-use of them made by Christ Himself, by the saints and eminently good meh of all ages, and because they satisfy, when rightly under stood and applied, the deepest longings of the human heart. IV. What , We Should Know About the Scriptures. 1. The sense in which they are' referred to as “The- Word of God.” (a) Not every word written or spoken by God Himself.. (b j A sense in which the Bible is a human document. But every word written by Inspiration: (1) Meaning of “Inspiration:” 2, Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:9-21. (2) Mode of inspiration (inscruta ble; John 3 : 8 ). (3) What inspiration really vouches fo r: Accuracy and authority; inspiration with" disapproval and no sanction; inspiration without either . approval or sanction; inspiration with both approval and sanction of God. (4) The question of verbal inspira tion. (5) Inspiration affirmed of course only of the original docu ments. To what extent are transla- ' i'tions dependable? Higher criticism. (c) It is natural, then, in view of these
What was sufficient for the Church’s Master should surely be sufficient for the Church. What is sufficient authority for the Redeemed and the Christ, should be for the redeemed and the Christian, should it not?
facts, that we expect to find in the Bible, things and thoughts
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