For
had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote
of me. But if ye believe not his writing, how shall ye believe
my words? John 5:46-47
The men who pioneered the
"higher criticism" of the Bible did not believe that
Jesus was who He sad He was: the promise Messiah, the incarnate
Son of God. To transmit their unbelief to their intellectual
peers, and from them to the general public, the higher critics
did their best to remove people's faith in Moses. If they could
prove that the Old Testament is unreliable, they could by
implication demonstrate that Jesus was misinformed about Moses,
and therefore that He was equally unreliable.
The two most successful attacks
on Christianity in the modern world have been biblical higher
criticism and Darwinism. Both
views stem from the same source: a view of man as a social
creature who lives in an evolving society. Both views substitute
a philosophy of autonomous historical process for the biblical
philosophy of creation, fall, redemption, and final judgment.
Biblical higher criticism affects
men's choice of ethics. It especially affects their social
ethics. What is seldom understood is that biblical higher
criticism arose in England in the late seventeenth century as a
reaction to the use of the Old Testament
as a guide for civil law. Higher criticism was an important
tool in the humanists' war against Christian
civilization. They won that phase of the battle. It has
taken three centuries for even a handful of Christians to return
once again to the Old Testament in search of social
guidelines. This quest necessitates a rejection of the
techniques of biblical higher criticism. Until Christians
abandon higher criticism and its evolutionary social
presuppositions (disguised as conclusions), they will remain in
cultural bondage.
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The two must successful attacks on Christianity in the modern
world have been biblical higher criticism and Darwinism. The men
who pioneered the "high criticism" of the Bible did
not believe that Jesus was who He said He was: the promised
Messiah, the incarnate Son of God. To transmit their unbelief to
their intellectual peers, and from them to the general public,
the higher critics did their best to remove people's faith in
Moses. If they could prove the Old Testament is unreliable, they
could by implication demonstrate that Jesus was misinformed
about Moses, and therefore that He was equally unreliable.
Higher criticism is cultic, utterly groundless speculation. This
is a short, clear introduction to the topic.
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