No one who reads the Bible can dissent from
that statement. And pantheism absolutely denies that Bible distinction.
It therefore immediately resolves itself into a question as to whether the
Bible is true.
This brings us straight back to Christ's formula--"If any man wills to do,
he shall know." He who accepts the challenge of this formula will come to
know, beyond all possibility of disproof, that neither pantheism,
evolution, nor any other doctrine that denies or casts doubt on the
infallibility of the Bible is true. He will know it because it is
supernaturally verified to him in answer to his faith.
This formula is the divine challenge to every form of unbelief in an
inerrant Bible. There never has been an hour since Pentecost when the
aggressive hurling of this challenge at defiant and destructive unbelief
was more needed. And the whole Christian Church, backed by the Word of God,
is hurling this challenge back into the teeth of the whole evolutionary
camp today.
Either be fair enough, be scientific enough, be honest enough, challenges
the Church, to act upon Christ's formula and gain for yourselves that
supernaturally verified knowledge which will make further faith in the
evolutionary theory impossible, or else do not assume to pronounce any
further on those truths of which you know nothing because you have been
unwilling to take the means to find out what they are. Go and join the
ranks of the other unbelievers and Bible-rejectors, taking your doubt-born
theories with you as a reinforcement to their warfare against the Bible,
and then the Church can fight you in the open and drive you to defeat with
the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. If you are determined
to destroy faith in the inerrancy of the Bible, at least be fair enough to
come out from under the cover of "Christian education," and stop assuming
to interpret in the light of evolution--a light that is darkness--those
sublime doctrines which are at once the foundation and the message of the
Church. Get out of the Christian schools, which were founded to strengthen,
not to destroy, the faith of young people from Christian homes, and give
place to those who believe the Book. Increasing hosts of Christian parents
are too heart-broken over the invasion of their own homes by this
destroying wolf in sheep's clothing to tolerate this situation much longer.
They are asking, in the words of a Chicago newspaper editorial concerning
the destructiv
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