STRONGHOLD OF TRUTH
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against the Bible, or proved it untrue. This has been shown by the work of men like Sir William Ramsay, to mention only one out of many. Now, if we have followed the argument so far in sup port of the genuineness and credibility of the New Testa ment, we shall be prepared to take the third step. It is a leap, but I believe it is an inevitable leap. The New First: Supernatural creation. There is that in the Bible which is supernatural in connection with creation. Neither in the ancient world nor in the modern do we Testament is Divine, Supernatural. What are the reasons for this? ever get behind the truth of Gen. 1 :2. There is not one of the accounts of creation in the old world that goes further back than chaos. They start with chaos, but the Bible starts with God. The same thing is true of modern science. Science cannot reach further back than the nebular hypothesis. But that has to assume two things: the existence of nebulre, and the power to rotate; but who created the nebulre, and who gave them the power to rotate? The Bible goes further back and starts from God. Second: Supernatural revelation. There is a revela tion of religion in the Old Testament, whether of the Jewish ecclesiastical system or of the prophets. It is immaterial whether you take one or the other, or both, but no one can doubt that there is a supernatural revela tion. ·A speaker is said to have uttered words, and these words were declared to others and were put down; and whether we have prophets in the later part or the earlier part, there is supernatural revelation. Third: A supernatural nation, the Jews. There is the well-known story of Frederick the Great asking his chaplain for the evidence of Christianity in a word. The man said: "Sire, the Jew!" Here is a little country not larger than Wales, in which a nation is found absolutely unique. A modern German writer ( \Vellhauscn) has said that he could not understand why Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, never developed into the universal god of
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