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To try to suppress the human side of the Bible in the interests of the purity of the Divine Word is as great a folly as to think that a fathers talk with his child can be best reported by leaving out all that the child said, thought, and felt. This is Gods way of teaching the human spirit. Rightly understood, the presence of the human in the Bible is an increasing and not a lowering of its value as a book of religion for men. But even if it were otherwise, it must be acknowledged all the same. Whenever we attempt to ignore or deny it, or make the truth of Gods teaching depend upon its absence, we give a tremendous advantage to the enemies of religion.---J. Paterson Smyth, How God Inspired the Bible, (1892), pp. 122-23
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:00:00 +0000

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