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wrote the Old Testament before He became a Christian!” Why use the word "revelation” at all, progressive or other wise? For what such an Interpretation of the Bible means la that the Bible is .largely made up of the guesses or opin ions of fallible men about God, and is not the Word of God. True “ Progressive Revelation!" There is a true and Scriptural idea of revelation, but it is remote from what I have Just sketched. The true revelation in the Bible marks a progress from the partial to the com plete, from the transient to the abiding, from what was suit ed for a people hardly touched by the gracious rays of rev elation to what could be received by a people who had been trained for centuries to hear the voice of God, from the law to grace, from patriarchs and prophets to Jesus Christ Himself. This is the progressive revelation to which John referred when he said the Law came by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ. And this was the progressive revelation the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews had in mind when he said in the sublime prologue, “ God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.” But the progressive revelation of the Modernist would compel a revision of the passage in Hebrews, making it read something like this: "God who at sundry times and in divers manners deceived mankind in times past, giving them false and cruel and'ridiculous notions of Himself, of man, and of the history of the earth, Anally decided to tell the truth in Jesus Christ.” But has He told the truth in Jesus Christ and in the New Testament? Progressive revelation at once raises that ques tion. Does progressive revelation stop with the New Testa ment? Or will it go on indefinitely? And will the unknown revelation of centuries hence make obsolete the revelation of the New Testament as, according to this theory, the revela tion of the New Testament has negatived the revelation of the Old Testament? Let no one imagine that the Old Testament difficulties are the only ones which are to be treated with this theory. By it the idea of Abraham offering up Isaac is disposed of; but so also is the idea of God offering up His own Son for the sins of the world. The great New Testament idea of the Atonement, as explained and proclaimed by St. Paul and the other apostles, is Just as repugnant to the Modernist as the sacrifice of Abraham. One distinguished theologian goes so far as to brand the Pauline idea of the satisfaction of Christ as comparable to a “ frame up” in the criminal courts, where, for evil purposes, or to satisfy the demand for the punishment of a crime, the perpetrator of which has not been apprehended, the police “ frame” an innocent man! A Fading Glory And so this theory would deal with other New Testament ¿acts and doctrines. According to it the story of the Incarna tion is not a revelation, but Just man’s way of trying to ac count for the preeminent personality of Jesus; the story of the Resurrection does not represent an actual historical fact, but merely represents the only way in which the minds of that day could account for the continuing personality of Christ; and so His Second Advent is only the phrasing of man’s hope for the triumph of righteousness. Thus the glory of revelation fades from the pages of the New Testament as well. That great and tremendous music, “ Thus saith the Lord!” shaking the earth with its echo, casting down kingdoms and empires, ushering in the glory
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Cyclopedia o f Pastoral Methods By G. B. F. Hallock
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