Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-18

| Gospel and the darkness of the ereeds
that people ''see stars" so to speak,
and are so astonished that they do not
know what to think
| Next the Pastor demonstrated that
the great difficulty with people who
are losing their confidence in the Bible
as the Word of God is that they are
not familiar with it's contents. Many
are still holding to the Scriptures in
blind way, hoping against hope that
they may not lose their faith. They
are afraid to read and afraid to think,
lest they lose the very small amount
of faith which they possess. If only
such knew it. they never really have
had well established faith.
Faith Versus creduity.
The Pastor proceeded to point out
the difference between true faith and
that which is often misnamed faith,
but which in reality is credulity. The
faith commended in the Scriptures Is
that which relates to things which God
has promised. Our forefathers, he de-
clared, had too much confidence in
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the Dark Ages; and the more absurd
the proposition, the more faith they
thought they had. They should have
asked. where has God declared such
things?" He maintains that we should
accept by faith only what the Lord has
assured US of in His Word.
| We have made great mistake as to
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must have basis, and that basis must
have some intelligent presentation. To
believe in the Bible as the Word of
! God merely because our parents did so
is not faith at all; heather peoples do
just as well as that-they believe as
their parents did. without investiga-
ton. But to have faith in the Bible
we must have proof that it is of God;
and to have that evidence we must I'M
derstand the Word.
The Pastor holds that most people
are so perplexed that they do not
know what to believe And yet, he de-
clared, at this very time when Higher
Criticism is undermining the founda-
ton of all faith, and when many intel
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wonderful Book in all the world. God S
Plan for human salvation was never
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learning and in the world
Proofs That the Bible is Inspired.
The Pastor then discussed some of
the so-ca1led findings of Higher Crit
cism-that Moses did not write the
Pentateuch. nor Isaiah the greater part
of the prophecy which bears his name.
etc. These critics. he declared. are try
ing to prove something by the outside
of the Bible Their so-.>allad findings
he believes to be matter of mere
i guesswork, although. as some of them
are very bright men, they put up a
strong argument in some things. They
will undertake to prove that Jesus was
mistaken when He declared that Isaiah
the Prophet said thus and so; that st
faul was aiso 'i'iS.ah',n w'ie'i ne quo,
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