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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it is full of tasteless allegories, ? it has no weight, no substance, ? and evidently it was left out of the New Testament because it was not fit to stay in. What books belong to the New Testament has not been settled even now. The Roman Catholic church puts into the Bible the Old Testament Apocrypha, which most Protestants reject. Criticism has not definitely settled in regard to two or three of the books of the New Testament, whether they are genuine. How, then, can we pretend that every part of the present Bible is infallibly the Word of God? Another objection to this doctrine of verbal inspiration is that it repels many persons from Christianity, and is the cause of much infidelity. There are often honest and intelligent men who cannot receive the geology or astronomy of the Book of Genesis, or many of the miracles of the Bible. They are told that if they do not beh'eve that Joshua stopped the sun in his course, and that the whale swallowed Jonah, they have no right to believe in Jesus Christ. So they are rejected from Christianity. One remarkable illustration of this is to be found in the French philosopher Rousseau, whose name has been identified with infidelity, when he was, in truth, themost religious man among the great thinkers of his own time and land. In his book on education, Emile, he gives his creed in regard to Christ. He puts Christ far above all other teachers the world has seen, and is ready to accept him as his master in religion, because of his wonderful life and death. Do not compare him with Socrates, he cries. Socrates died like a philosopher: Jesus died like a God. As to his miracles, says Rousseau, I can neither receive them as facts, nor can I reject them. I admit my ignorance concerning them, ? they may have been true, ? only I cannot say th...
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