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‘By Robert L. Boothby
it? The Bible needs no one to defend it. As one has
nicely illustrated, to try to defend the Bible is like
caging a lion and then putting poodle dogs on the
outside to defend the lion. The lion can defend itself,
if let out of its cage; so can the Bible answer its
critics, when given a chance to speak. The trouble
is that some men do all the talking and give the
Bible no chance to talk.
Isaiah represents God as saying: “For My
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts than your
thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8, 9.
The Bible claims to be a ‘thus saith the Lord.”
(2 Timothy 3:16; Jeremiah 2:1, 4.) As God’s
thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts, so is His
book superior to all the wisdom and the under-
standing of men.
The Bible taught many things that the men of that
day in which it was written did not believe, and today
those teachings are proving to be scientific facts.
Men used to believe that the life was in the air we
breathe. Harvey, the discoverer of blood circulation,
was the first one to prove that the life was in the
blood; but Moses under the inspiration of God wrote
this truth centuries before the wisdom of men’s
thoughts had declared it. He wrote: “The life of the
flesh is in the blood.” Leviticus 17:11. How did
Moses know this when other men did not believe
it? The answer is, God spoke through Moses.
Men for ages had believed the earth to be flat
and the heaven above with its stars to be but a great
dome. Men laughed when it was suggested that
the earth is round. ‘‘The True Story of Christopher
Columbus,” written by Elbridge S. Brooks, comments
as follows: “By this time Columbus was a man.
He was thirty years old and a great sailor. He had
been captain of a number of vessels; he had sailed
north and south and east; he knew all about a ship
and all about the sea. But, though he was so good a
sailor, when he said that he believed the earth was
round, everybody laughed at him and said he was
crazy. ‘Why, how can the earth be round?’ they
cried. ‘The water would all spill out if it were, and
the men who live on the other side would all be
standing on their heads with their feet waving in the
air.” And they laughed all the harder.”— Page 21.
Diving THouGHTS IN HuMAN TONGUE
(CENTURIES before men had discovered the earth
to be round, Isaiah the prophet had written:
“It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.”
Isaiah 40:22. How did Isaiah know the earth was
round? The smart men of the day, the learned men,
the scientists of his day, did not believe it. Did
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Isaiah simply depend on his own thoughts when
he wrote his book? If so, then it would have been
mixed with the errors of the day; but it stated
scientific truths years before men had discovered
them. This book was the result of the omniscient
God speaking through the prophet Isaiah. God
gave the message and Isaiah wrote the book.
Toricelli was almost made a martyr for declaring
that the air has weight and that nature abhors a
vacuum; but Job inspired by God had written,
“God understandeth the way . . . to make the weight
for the winds.” Thus the Bible had declared the
air to possess weight centuries before thinking men
believed it.
God’s thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts,
and likewise the Bible, God’s Book, possesses
thoughts that place it above the wisdom of the
minds of men and give evidence that a divine mind
has given a message clothed in human language.
Prophecies are found in the Bible that predicted
the future, years before the events took place, and
these predictions in every detail have been fulfilled
as the word declared they would be.
In the second chapter of (Continued on page 31)
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