The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
Reasons Why Bible
 Is the Word Of God

ing-point from which we can proceed to the conquesf of the whole domain Of religious truth4 But if the Bible is not the word of cod. fl fk 10 the mere product of mans thinking. speculating. and gueseink. not attpkether trust worthy in regard to religious and eter- nal truth. then ws are all at ssa. not Knowing waifhef ws are drifting, but
 we may bs sure that we are not drift lnR toward any safe port.
 4 believe the Bible to Do the word Of God, first of ell, becauee of the tes- stimouy of Jesps Christ to that fact We live in day In which many men
 say that they accept the teaching of Jesus Christ. but that they de not ac-
 cspt the teaching of the whole Bible;
 that they believe what Jesus Christ sAid to have said. And what Isaiah said or is said to have said. and what Jere-
 miah said. and Paul said. and John
 said. and the rest of fte Bible writer's. they do not know about that This
 position may at the nrek glance seem
 rational. but. In point of fact. 1t is ut teriy irrational. If we accept the teaching Of Jesus Christ, ws must &C., cept the whole Bible, for Jesus Christ on the entire book, and if we accept His authority. we must accept ali that upon which fie sets ths stamp ef Hts
 pr. Torrey now showed by quoting numerous passages, that Christ had put the seal of His full approvai upon both the Old and the New Treatments. He continued: [
 aso, then. if we accept the teaching of Jesus Christ, we must accept tho entire old testament and the, entire New Testament. It ss aithers Christ and the whole. Bible. or no Bible and no Christ. There are some Tn these days who eay that they believe In Christ, but not in the Christ oe the New Testament. But thera is no Christ but the Christ of the New Testament. Any other Christ than tho Christ of the New Testament is . pure ngment of che imagination. Any other Christ than the Christ of the New Tes-
 tament is en idol made by mans own fancy. and whoever worships him Is an 1 idoiator. But we must accept the au- l thoraty of Jesus Christ. He is ae- credited 10 us by i've unmistakable | divine testimonies"
 These testimonies were (t) the
 Divine life that He lived, for He lived as never man lived: (2) the Divine has character that distinguishes it
 from All other teachings ever uttered on earth: (91 by the Divine works that He wrought. not only healing the sick, | but cleansing the leper, opening the eyes of the blind. raising the dead at
 . word. etc; (al by Ills Divine infiu. enee upon all aubsequent history.
 Jesus Christ was beyond perAdven- l1ture one of three things; xke wal either the Son of God . Divine rerAon l inearnate in human form: or else Hs
 was the most daring 1mposeer that ever lived, or else one of the most
 helpless iunatics. Wan Eis tnauencs | upon subsequent history the Influence l of a lhnatic? No one but q luHasiE | would say so. Was His influence upon subsequent history the influence Of an lmposter? No one but one whose owr
 heart was thoroughly cahkered with
 %. Not an impostsr. not ianatte | we have only. ors alternative left
 fEs was what Ixe elaisned Co De- fh' Son of God :" e
 ts) By His rssnrrsction from thu ldead--"The resurrectlon of Christ ii I Gods seal to Christ's elaim. I therefore" said Dr. Tofreys Agtei
 ,sg. sSs lR sss ';: : ess ss Sss' wsrs of
 because. of the testimony of Jesui Christ.
 My second reason for believing thu Bfbfe to be the word of God Is because | of it's fulfilled prophecies continued Dr. Torrey. He thea went on An( l showed that there are in the Btbts
 two kinds Of prophecy--the explicit verbal proph ecies and the prcpheciei of types and symbols. Taking up tns explicit verbal prophecies, he said ther' were three varietieA but he cbobe on' to discuss, the prophecy of the com | ing Messiah. Ke took i've of these Isaiah Hi (the entire chaptef1; Micah h v, 2; Daniel K, 2e-27: Jerentahs xxifi l 5.e; Psalms, xvis s-tt; He said:
 "In the passages cited we have ore. dictions of Q coming King of Israel l We arc told the exact ttnae of His man
 Hesitation to His people, the exact place of His birth. the family of which xzs should be born. the condition of the I family at the time of Ills birth (a con. dition entirely different from that ex. isting at the time the prophecy waf written, and contrary to all the prob. abilities in the casets the manner oi His reception ta reception entirely aif. ferent from that which would natural- II ly bs expected), the fact. method and
 details regarding His death. with n. n. specific circumetanceB regarding HAi I burial. His resurrection subsequent fe A His 6urlal. and Hia victory subsequent to Ills reeurrection.H These predictions were fulfilled with the most minute precision In Jesus Of Nazareth.
 Il In speaking of the prophecies oi I types and symbols, Dr. Torrey said that . profound student of the Bible could show conclusively that every } deep truth revealed in the New Testa'
 ment was prefigured in the types and symbols of the Old Testament--that ne ] one can study the types of the Qle Il Testament thorouehiy, without know
 ing that book of the human authors ti l cod.
 Il AS the third reason for his belief thAl ] the BIbie is the Word of God. pr. Tor ' rey showed the unity Of the Book. Hs Ishowed that although there are sixty six parts CT books in the Bible, writ . ten by at least forty authors, it is thu
 most intensely one book of any booh
 extant. He showed that although thes
 were written in three languages, in [ period extending over at least i,Sel years, in countries many hundreds o'
 miles apart by men in all walks ei Iife,. and dispiay every known form l of prose literature and all varieties 0l poetry, yet instead of discord, the mos
 marvellous unity Is found. Every par | of the Bible fits every other part Ant l fine only way tc account for 4e is tha ft is the Work of Q0d.
 The fourth reason that pr. Tofrey | raye was because of the immeaBure | able superiority of its teachings to thos' 1 of any other or all other booka. w
 have three points of radical difference | between the teachings Of the Bible ant those of any other DOCK. !. Hhea' other teachers. the ethnic philosophers
 contairt truth. but mixed with error
 The Plbio eontains nothlng but truth | s SNthAn 1wrffinra contain part Of thu