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“ I believe and teach that the Bible is a progressive revelation. I insist that it cannot be understood unless studied in this way, as_ a historical development. The revelation was partial, imperfect at first, and grew in clearness and accuracy until it culminated in the person and teaching of the Son of God, Jesus the Christ. * * * I believe and teach that, since the revelation of God was progressive we find imperfections in its earlier forms. Men are imperfect, and if there is a human element in the Scriptures, we should expect to find imperfection. So it does not disturb me when I come upon crude ideas of God, and rules that we new regard as unethical, in the earlier Scriptures. * * * The old method of citing ‘proof-texts’ hit or miss, from Genesis to Revelation, is impossible to one -who really understands the Bible, j$ * * The net teaching of- the Bible, not necessarily the teaching of each single part, is true and authoritative.” -President Barbour says : , "Among the great underlying principles of the Baptists are three: The primary and essential necessity of the birth from, above, the union of regenerated individuals in a spiritual democracy, and the Lordship of Jesus Christ. * * * If any one of us is a stronger man than another, if he has more power, than have others, if he has cofile to the place where he Stands out above other men with somethifig of the eternal strength of the hills, * * * it is because deep down in that man’s life is a supreme allegiance which has transformed him from dark ness into light, from the darkness of a self-centred life into the light of a life which is in the world not to be ministered unto but to minister, to surrender it self in the spirit of its Lord for the ransom of the world. * * * The lordship WE COVET YOUR FELLOWSHIP
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