The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65
Bible Difficulties
Bible Difficulties.
Why, it may be asked, should not weeds be found among the words of God, written words in man's keeping, and words which refer, in many cases, to ages that have passed away? In the material world weeds exist which exercise the labour of the hand. Weeds may have been permitted to creep into the book of God to exercise the labour of the head. If experience and observation, and the resultant knowledge, can guide and deal in one case, it may do the like in the other. If the eye of the body can detect a good fruit from a bad one, the eye of the soul should detect truth from error the more easily if aided by what is manifestly of Divine inspiration placed in company with it. I allude to the smaller difficulties and discrepancies which are common in the narratives of the writers of the Scriptures. Colenso, however, manifestly goes too far when he condemns all the five books of Moses.