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April 1924
A WORD TO THE CRITICS
Was the Key Dependable?
HEN I was a lad at school, I sometimes found that the results of my sums in arith metic failed to correspond
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with the Key which was in the pos session of the master; and I used to wonder if the Key was dependable. But, alas for me! it always turned out that the Key was right, and that my sums were wrong. Is the Bible Reliable? Now, this seems to me to be a good illustration of the position of the crit ics today, with regard to the Bible. They dare to tell us that the Book is wrong in many of its statements and unreliable in its history. But, un fortunately for them, all recent dis coveries in archaeology go to prove the exact opposite; for, in so far as they refer to events recorded in the Bible, they endorse the Bible in all its statements. Thus, the critics are discredited— as false; while the Bible is confirmed— as true. • Some Pertinent Questions. I should like to ask the critics a few questions:—> 1. —-If the Bible merely, here and there, CONTAINS or CONVEYS the. Word of God, how can we Laymen know which parts are to be accepted and which are to be thrown aside? 2. —Will the critics give us the names of any infallible scholars, books, or churches, which we can ab solutely trust to guide us in our quest for the truth? 3. — Is it not a fact that, during the last 50 years, the critics have invented 700 theories about the Bible; that, more than 600 of these theories have had to be abandoned; and that many of the remainder are fast approaching a similar fate? 4. — Is it not a fact that while the critics claim to have reached many so- called “assured results,” nevertheless, in spite of their boasted “advanced scholarship,” the widest divergencies of opinion prevail amongst them with reference to some of these results? 5. —-If there are numerous mistakes in the Bible, of what use can the Bible be to us as a guide to heaven? How can we trust it? If my schoolmaster had found his arithmetical Key wrong in several places, most certainly he would have scrapped it as worthless; since, a faulty Key would have been unreliable for the correction of the boys’ sums. Even so, an unreliable Bible would be, practically valueless as a guide, either to time or to eternity.
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