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The doctrine of Sacred Scripture; a critical, historical, and dogmatic inquiry into the origin and nature of the Old and New Testaments Volume 1 - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...some particular example of its application, is always worthy of being ascribed to God. New truth in the mind of man is not to be accounted for merely by summing up the elements of past belief and experience. The new truth is a new birth within the thinker's soul; it is a newly created star, set in the firmament of thought. After we have enumerated all the past materials and laws of association, we have not yet told why this particular truth, so new, has arisen within the horizon of the human mind. The above analogy is virtually admitted by Morell when he speaks (p. 173) of the work of genius in grasping those conceptions on whose accuracy all scientific research so much depends. We should violate neither the spirit nor the letter of Sacred Scripture, if we ascribed all such suggestions of eternal truth to the eternal Spirit of God. For so close, in this particular, is the likeness between the revelation of the Bible and the revelation of poetic and scientific truth, that we are forced to distinguish the two rather as respects the contents of the truth imparted, and the ethical qualifications for its reception, than as respects the nature of the process by which it arises in the mind. For, just as we reach the central portion of biblical revela FUNCTION OF CONSCIENCE IN REVELATION. 407 tion when we reach the ethico-religious contents of the Bible, so do we touch the central portion of human nature, where this revelation is formed, when we touch the faculties of moral discrimination and choice. As a spirit, as having conscience and free-will, man is made the subject of revelation in the highest sense. Human conscience and free-will are the special organs of the divine self-disclosure; in man's moral personality the divine activity holds its seat,...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...some particular example of its application, is always worthy of being ascribed to God. New truth in the mind of man is not to be accounted for merely by summing up the elements of past belief and experience. The new truth is a new birth within the thinker's soul; it is a newly created star, set in the firmament of thought. After we have enumerated all the past materials and laws of association, we have not yet told why this particular truth, so new, has arisen within the horizon of the human mind. The above analogy is virtually admitted by Morell when he speaks (p. 173) of the work of genius in grasping those conceptions on whose accuracy all scientific research so much depends. We should violate neither the spirit nor the letter of Sacred Scripture, if we ascribed all such suggestions of eternal truth to the eternal Spirit of God. For so close, in this particular, is the likeness between the revelation of the Bible and the revelation of poetic and scientific truth, that we are forced to distinguish the two rather as respects the contents of the truth imparted, and the ethical qualifications for its reception, than as respects the nature of the process by which it arises in the mind. For, just as we reach the central portion of biblical revela FUNCTION OF CONSCIENCE IN REVELATION. 407 tion when we reach the ethico-religious contents of the Bible, so do we touch the central portion of human nature, where this revelation is formed, when we touch the faculties of moral discrimination and choice. As a spirit, as having conscience and free-will, man is made the subject of revelation in the highest sense. Human conscience and free-will are the special organs of the divine self-disclosure; in man's moral personality the divine activity holds its seat,...
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