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قراءة كتاب The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

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The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Israel's specialty in history was religion.

  • Israel's literature became thus a religious literature.
  • Israel's literature presents us, in the various moods and tenses of her life, with the various phases of religion.
  • Israel's literature presents us with the record of a continuous growth of religion upward through its normal stages.
  • Israel's literature records the forcing forward of this growth of religion, as by some Power back of man, shaping its ends, rough-hew them as it might.
  • Israel's literature thus presents the picture of a nation's patient, insistent pressing forward, through long centuries, toward the fruition of its ideal, the realization of true religion.
  • The literature of Christian Israel records the realization of this long sought ideal, the fruition of this organic growth.
  • This organic growth of a national religion into a catholic ideal, not without parallels elsewhere, is, however unique in respect to the conditions for a truly Universal Religion.
  • Of the literature of the people through whom came this organic evolution of the keystoning religion of earth what can we say but that it records a real revelation coming through genuine personal inspirations from on high!.
  • The Wrong Uses of the Bible.
    1. It is a wrong use of the Bible to set it in its entirety before all classes and all ages.
    2. It is a wrong use of the Bible to accept its utterances indiscriminately as the words of God, to quote every saying of every speaker in its pages, or every deed of every actor in its histories as expressing to us the mind of God.
    3. It is a wrong use of the Bible to accept everything recorded therein as necessarily true.
    4. It is a wrong use of the Bible to consult it as a heathen oracle for the determining of our judgments and the decision of our actions.
    5. It is a wrong use of the Bible to go to it, as the

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