An Examination Of The Alleged Discrepancies Of The Bible

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... such, can give life to sinners. In brief, we may say that the first series of texts implies that the design and normal tendency of the law is life; the last, that, through man's imperfection and disol)edience, the actual result is death. Hence, there is clearly no discrepancy. II. CHRIST.--His Divinity. Christ is God. He is man. In the beginning waa the Word, and But now ye seek to kill me, a man the Word was with God, and the Word that hath told you the truth, which 1 was God, And the Word was made have heard of God. John viii. 40. flesh, and dwelt among us. John i. Because he hath appointed a day in 1,14. the which he will judge the world in But onto the Son hesailh, Thy throne, righteousness, by that man whom he 0 God, is for ever and ever. Heb. i. 8. hath ordained. Acts xvii. 81. One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. ii. 6. Christ is here presented in two aspects -- in his divine nature, by virtue of which he was God, and in his human nature, in respect of which he was man. On the one hand, he was " God, in substance and essence";1 on the other, he was man, as having taken upon him human nature. One with the Father. Distinct from him. I and my Father are one. John x. 80. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. John xvi. 28. The "oneness" of the first text is unity of essence, attributes, and will, but not unity of person. This is made clear in our Saviour's prayer for his disciples: "That they may be one, even as we are one." 2 Here the petition is, not that the disciples might lose their individual existence and be merged in one corporeal organism, but that, in their great work, they might be " of one heart and of one soul." Again, we read: "I...