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قراءة كتاب The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
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heathen went to their oracles, for divination of the future.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible to go to it as an authority in any sphere save the spheres of theology and of religion.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible, for the purposes of theology or religion, to give its language any other meaning than that which similar language would have under similar circumstances.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible to construct a theology out of it, by the mechanical system of proof texts in vogue in the churches.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible to disregard the chronological order of its parts in constructing our theology.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible to cite its authors as of equal authority, even in the spheres of theology and religion.
- It is a wrong use of the Bible to manufacture cut of it any one uniform, system, of theology, as the fixed and final form of thought in which religion is to live.
- Every aid of outward form should be used to make these books appear as living "letters" to us.
- Each writing having an intrinsic unity should, by such aids, be studied as a whole.
- Each great book should, as a whole, be read in its proper place in Hebrew and Christian history.
- The books which are of a composite character should be read in their several parts, and traced to their proper places in history.
- These writings should be read critically, until we can decipher the successive hands working upon them, and interpret them accordingly.
- The Epoch of Moses: B.C. 1300(?).
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