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Divine inspiration of Scripture. This is
>the strategic center of Christian theology, and must
>be defended at all costs. It is the point at which our
>satanic enemy is constantly hurling his hellish
>battalions. Here it was he made his first attack. In
>Eden he asked, "Yea, hath God said?" and today he is
>pursuing the same tactics. Throughout the ages the
>Bible has been the central object of his assaults.
>Every available weapon in the devil's arsenal has been
>employed in his determined and ceaseless efforts to
>destroy the temple of God's truth. In the first days
>of the Christian era the attack of the enemy was made
>openly—the bonfire being the chief instrument of
>destruction—but, in these "last days" the assault is
>made in a more subtle manner and comes from a more
>unexpected quarter.
The Divine origin of the Scriptures is now
>disputed in the name of "Scholarship" and "Science,"
> and that, too, by those who profess to be friends
>and champions of the Bible. Much of the learning and
>theological activity of the hour, are concentrated in
>the attempt to discredit and destroy the authenticity
>and authority of God's Word, the result being that
>thousands of nominal Christians are plunged into a sea
>of doubt.
> Many of those who are paid to
>stand in our pulpits and defend the Truth of God are
>now the very ones who are engaged in sowing the seeds
>of unbelief and destroying the faith of those to whom
>they minister. But these modern methods will prove no
>more successful in their efforts to destroy the Bible
>than did those employed in the opening centuries of
>the Christian era. As well might the birds attempt to
>demolish the granite rock of Gibraltar by pecking at
>it with their
>beaks—"For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is
>settled in heaven" (Ps. 119:89).
Now the Bible does not fear investigation. Instead
>of fearing it, the Bible courts and challenges
>consideration and examination. The more widely it is
>known, the more closely it is read, the more carefully
>it is studied, the more unreservedly will it be
>received as the Word of God.
> Christians are not a company of enthusiastic
>fanatics. They are not lovers of myths. They are not
>anxious to believe a delusion. They do not desire
>their lives to be molded by an empty superstition.
>They do not wish to mistake hallucination for
>inspiration. If they are wrong, they wish to be set
>right. If they are deceived, they want to be
>disillusioned. If they are mistaken, they desire to be
>corrected. The first question which the thoughtful
>reader of the Bible has to answer is, What importance
>and value am I to attach to the contents of the
>Scriptures? Were the writers of the Bible so many
>fanatics moved by oracular frenzy? Were they merely
>poetically inspired and intellectually elevated? or,
>were they, as they claimed to be, and as the
>Scriptures affirm they were, moved by the Holy Spirit
>to act as the voice of God to a sinful world? Were the
>writers of the Bible inspired by God in a manner no
>other men were in any other age of the world? Were
>they invested and endowed with the power to disclose
>mysteries and point men upward and onward to that
>which otherwise would have been an impenetrable
>future? One can readily appreciate the fact that the
>answer to these questions is of supreme
>importance.
If the Bible is not inspired in the strictest
>sense of the word then it is worthless, for it claims
>to be God's Word, and if its claims are spurious then
>its statements are unreliable and its contents are
>untrustworthy. If, on the other hand, it can be shown
>to the satisfaction of every impartial inquirer that
>the Bible is the Word of God, inerrant and infallible,
>then we have a starting point from which we can
>advance to the conquest of all truth. A book that
>claims to be a Divine revelation—a claim which, as we
>shall see, is substantiated by the most convincing
>credentials—cannot be rejected or even neglected
>without grave peril to the soul. True wisdom cannot
>refuse to examine it with care and impartiality. If
>the claims of the Bible be well founded then the
>prayerful and diligent study of the Scriptures becomes
>of paramount importance: they have a claim upon our
>notice and time which nothing else has, and beside
>them everything in this world loses its luster and
>sinks into utter insignificance.
If the Bible be the Word of God then it infinitely
>transcends in value all the writings of men, and in
>exact ratio to its immeasurable superiority to human
>productions such is our responsibility and duty to
>give it the most reverent and serious consideration.
>As a Divine revelation the Bible ought to be studied,
>yet, this is the only subject on which human curiosity
>does not desire information. Into every other sphere
>man pushes his investigations, but the Book of books
>is neglected, and this, not only by the ignorant, and
>illiterate, but by the wise of this world as well. The
>cultured dilettante will boast of his acquaintance
>with the sages of Greece and Rome, yet, will know
>little or nothing of Moses and the prophets, Christ
>and His Apostles. But the general neglect of the Bible
>verifies the Scriptures and affords additional proof
>of their authenticity. The contempt with which the
>Bible is treated demonstrates that human nature is
>exactly what God's Word represents it to be—fallen and
>depraved—and is unmistakable evidence that the carnal
>mind is enmity against God. If the Bible is the Word
>of God; if it stands on an infinitely exalted plane,
>all alone; if it immeasurable transcends all the
>greatest productions of human genius; then, we should
>naturally expect to find that it has unique
>credentials, that there are internal marks which prove
>it to be the handiwork of God, that there is
>conclusive evidence to show that its Author is
>superhuman, Divine. That these expectations are
>realized we shall now endeavor to show; that there is
>no reason whatever for any one to doubt the Divine
>inspiration of the Scriptures is the purpose of this
>book to demonstrate. As we examine the natural world
>we find innumerable proofs of the existence of a
>Personal Creator, and the same God who has manifested
>Himself thro' His works has also revealed His wisdom
>and will thro' His Word. The God of creation and the
>God of written revelation are One, and there are
>irrefutable arguments to show that the Almighty who
>made the heavens and the earth is also the Author of
>the Bible. We shall now submit to the critical
>attention of the reader a few of the lines of
>demonstration which argue for the Divine inspiration
>of the Bible.