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Reasons for the Hope That Is in Us, Brief Essays on Christian Evidences

Reasons for the Hope That Is in Us, Brief Essays on Christian Evidences

Moule, Arthur Evans

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ISBN10: 115164563X
ISBN13: 9781151645630
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1891 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE BIBLE (S). T PROPOSE to consider in this chapter some of the difficulties connected with Bible inspiration, as well as some of the collateral proofs in its favour; and in my next I shall sum up the subject by showing what the testimony of our Lord Himself is to the Old Testament, and how far the two books bear witness to each other as one great Word of God, settled for ever in heaven. Novum Testament um in Vet ere latet. Veins in Novo 6atet.x It will be of course completely beyond the scope of a short series of essays to attempt the examination of all the difficulties of the Bible. I can consider only a few as typical of the classes to which they belong, and as 1 St. Augustinci 3 suggestive of the possible clue to all similar perplexities. I draw attention first of all, then, to the minute accuracy of the Bible; and that in matters sometimes beyond the reach of mere human knowledge. Thy testimonies are very sure. Take the first chapter of the Bible. Here, as some suppose, instantly and hopelessly, the Bible and science clash. Is it so? It has been shrewdly remarked that those who put scripture and science apart generally know little of either. Now the creation is supposed to be described in Genesis i., as taking place from 6,000 to 7,000 years ago; and science with her careful research and elaborate calculations seems to prove all this a mistake. The stratified rocks, for instance, are estimated at 72,000 feet in thickness. The Laurentian rocks in the remote past Were formed, so we are taught, by the accumulation of the ruins of granite mountains yet more remote. The Cambrian period has an aggregate depth of from four to six miles of slate rocks and hard sandstone, all formed by an immeasurably slow process. The ages on ages of the ...

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