away from a belief in the Bible by the
teachings of evolution. ‘The minds of
men have thought out a system of
teaching that discounts the historical
stories of the Bible, but the man who
really examines the evolutionary theory
will see that as William Jennings Bryan
said: “Evolution is only a million of
guesses strung together.”” Paul Rader
of Chicago, a well-known evangelist,
could well afford to make a challenge
accompanied with a $1,000 offer to the
evolutionist who proves that the Genesis
story of creation is untrue, for he knows
that the apostles of evolution must
search in vain for any truth that would
destroy the Biblical record.
The Bible is God’s word, God’s truth,
God’s message to a sinful world, written
by, and in the language of, ‘‘holy men
of God” as “they were moved by the
Holy Ghost.” (2 Peter 1: 21.)
Yes, God wants men to think, He
wants men who will think through
propositions until they have arrived at
the principles of truth. God wants men
who instead of being swept along by
the mass and swayed by some one master
mind will think for themselves; but in
our thinking we are to be governed by
the teachings of the Bible, for this
Book is the truth. ‘Yea, let God be
true, but every man a liar.”
The Bible is to provoke thinking.
It is not to stifle thinking, but to govern
our thinking; so let us “study to show
ourselves approved unto God.” 2
Timothy 2: 15.
Father and Son
(Continued from page 13)
in the passage that we have just read.
The New Testament teaching that
“God is love’ was no different from that
of the Old. The teaching of Jesus that
God is a compassionate Father was in no
sense a departure from the revelation
of Him in the Old Testament. When
the children of Israel were suffering
under the cruelty of the Egyptians,
“The Lord said, I have surely seen the
affliction of My people which are in
Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows.” Exodus 3:7. This
reveals to us a God of love and com-
passion just as Jesus revealed God to
men.
The claim that the Old Testament
represents God as a “tribal” God of
the Jews, and concerned about them
only, is not true. In speaking of God,
in Deuteronomy 10:18 it is expressly
stated, “He . . . loveth the stranger.”
His command to the Jews was: “Love
ye therefore the stranger.” Deuteronomy
10: 19. When God taught the Israelites
His commandments based on love to
God and love to man, He intended that
through them ‘the nations . . . shall
hear all these statutes.” Deuteronomy
4:6. God placed upon the Jewish people
the obligation of imparting a knowledge
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of the true God and His statutes to the
nations about them. This was revealed
in the dedicatory prayer of Solomon
when he said: “Moreover concerning
the stranger, . . . if they come and
pray in this house; then hear Thou
from the heavens, . . . and do accord-
ing to all that the stranger calleth to
Thee for; that all the people of the earth
way know Thy name, and fear Thee,
as doth Thy people Israel.” 2 Chronicles
6: 32, 33. When this temple was finished
God said of it, “Mine house shall be
" called an house of prayer for all people.”
Isaiah 56:7. How clearly do these
Scriptures dispose of the claim that the
God of the Old Testament was “a
tribal god of the Jews,” caring nothing
for other people.
Another proof that God was not “a
tribal god of the Jews” is that when they
departed from Him and became depraved
in sin and rebellion against Him, God
punished them for their sins just as He
did the heathen nations about them.
(2 Chronicles 38: 14-17.) It has always
been true that ‘“God is no respecter
of persons.” Acts 10: 34. It has always
been true that ‘‘in every nation he that
feareth Him, and worketh righteousness,
is accepted with Him” (Acts 10:35),
irrespective of nationality. The ‘God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’; the
God who directed the affairs of the
children of Israel in the wilderness;
the God who commanded the destruc-
tion of nations who were hopelessly
’
steeped in vice and sin; the God who
forgave David his sin and delivered
Daniel from the cruelty of the lions,
is the same loving heavenly Father
whom Jesus came to this world to reveal
more clearly to mankind. It was this
God who “so loved the world that He
gave His only-begotten Son, that who-
soever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.”’ John
3:16.
Eight Ways for Sunday
(Continued from page 22)
and spoke unto the women which re-
sorted thither.”” Acts 16:13. This was
some twenty years on this side of the
resurrection, but they still resorted to
places of worship on the Sabbath.
At Thessalonica, ‘Paul, as his manner
was, went in unto them, and three
Sabbath days reasoned with them out
of the Scriptures.” Acts 17:2. This
makes six meetings on the Sabbath. Then
at Corinth, Paul “reasoned in the
synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded
the Jews and the Greeks. . . . And he
continued there a year and six months,
teaching the word of God among them.”
Acts 18:4, 11.
This makes a record of eighty-four
meetings on the Sabbath, preaching to
both Jews and Gentiles, yet they are
passed by and ignored while the one
meeting on Saturday night is sought
out and repeated over and over, while
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