A great deal of the naturalness of the Bible has been lost owing to the rigid theories that have so long prevailed....How touchingly would come to us,m in its pages, the cry of the human spirit in its ever-changing moods if we recognised [sic] it as the cry of a human spirit like out own! With what interest we should watch men struggling with temptation or questioning of the mysteries of life around them if we felt, especially in the Old Testament, they they were ordinary, imperfect men like ourselves, in whim Gods great work of character-making was only in progress--men who were being enlightened and ennobled by the Spirit of God, and who, under His influence, uttered naturally their thoughts and aspirations, and not some mechanically dictated words from on high!--- J. Paterson Smyth, How God Inspired the Bible: Thoughts for the Present Disquiet (1892), p. 127.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:00:01 +0000
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