Irenics (Volume 6); A Series of Essays Showing the Virtual Agreement Between I. Science and the Bible. II. Nature and the Supernatural. III. the Divine and the Human in Scripture. IV. the Old and the New Testaments. V. Calvinism and Arminianism. VI. Divine (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ANALYSIS. I. Statement Of The Question. II. Alleged Historical Discrepancies. 1. Between the various parts of Scripture itselt 2. Supposed contradictious between the sacred and profane historians. III. Scientific Difficulties. 1. Geology. 2. The Flood. 3. The Resurrection. 4. Natural History. 5. Difference between scientific and popular statements of truth. TV. Philosophical Problem& 1. Some misapprehension here to be expected. 2. The earlier dispensation necessarily preliminary. 3. Alleged atrocities of Mosaism. 4. Falsehood nowhere countenanced. V. Conclusion. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF SCRIPTURE. This position may be stated as a question. Is there any error in the Bible? or, more exactly, thus: Do the writers of the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments anywhere make statements, either by way of assertion or of doctrine, contradictory to well authenticated history, the established deductions of science, or the sound conclusions of philosophy? This is a question, not of theory, but of fact; and therefore while, on the one hand, theologians are not entitled to argue the negative from the admission of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, on the other hand, modern savants are not authorized to assume the affirmative without explicit and satisfactory proof. As the allegations of the latter are somewhat numerous, we here have space to examine only specimens of the more decided ones, which we take up in the order indicated by the above classification. We begin with alleged historical discrepancies. These may be divided into two classes, which we will consider separately. First, let us take up the variations among the Scripture writers themselves. nationalists have made a great parade of these, especially of the differences between the several Evangelists' acco...