it had better be revised or dropped.
But the trouble is that our critical
friend is looking at this man-made
stuff, for the most part, and not at true
Bible teachings at all, when he sees the
need of a new conception of God. Here
is his distorted view of what the Bible
teaches:
“The old view of God as a venerable
and somewhat gigantic being, resem-
bling man in every detail, frequently
taking up his abode upon this earth, and
being at times accessible to call from his
more faithful supporters; the notion of
the earth as the chief product of the
creative endeavor of God and the
supreme object of his divine solicitude;
and the contention that Christ could
have been in any literal sense ‘the only
begotten Son of God,’ offered up as a
vicarious sacrifice for the sins of a small
group of rather backward peoples dwell-
ing at the extreme eastern end of the
Med.terranean Sea — all such con-
ceptio.'s become easily and immediately
recognized as primitive anthropomorphic
[made in the image of man] and geo-
centric misapprehensions.”
We agree that many people believe
this and perhaps some orthodoxies teach
it; but the Bible does not teach it, and
we have never believed it. ‘True, the
Bible pictures God by the attributes of a
man; but we wonder why, in all this
doctor’s study of sociology and history
and religion, he has not studied Hebrew
imagery and literary figures of speech.
No matter what the popular conception
of earth and heaven was at the time
the Bible was written, a sane interpreta-
tion of the Book does not ‘‘conceive of
the cosmos as a small part of the present
earth covered with an inverted blue
bowl a few miles distant.”
Doctor Barnes, and the many school
and professional men who believe more
or less as he does, need first to know just
what the whole Bible teaches before
they criticize it; need also to distinguish
between the pure teachings of God's
word and church traditions and doctrines
that have no mention in Scripture; and
need to get a conception of God and
Christianity that may be new to them,
but is old to divine revelation. We
do not need a new God. We need a
fresh view of the eternal Jehovah.
The worst is that the professorattempts
to remove our God, and gives us no
constructive conception of a god to
take His place who would be satis-
factory to either scientist or religionist.
Romans 1: 21-25 applies here: “When
they knew God, they glorified Him
not as God, neither were thankful; but
became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened. Profess-
ing themselves to be wise, they became
fools, and changed the glory of the un-
corruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, . . . who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped
and served the creature more than the
Creator.”
MAY, 1929
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