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What evidence for the truth of the Holy Scriptures arises from this harmony of the whole? Ans. (1.) Truth is but one; error is manifold. The truth must harmonize; error cannot. And truth, as the character of the whole Scriptures, and coming from God, the infallible Source of truth, can alone account for this. (2.) All other systems and theories of doctrines and morals differ, in different ages, by increasing light, or by change of taste or fancies. If divine truth were not from God, the infallible source, it also would have varied in different ages.
(3.) The sacred writers were of very different ages of the world—under very different circumstances—and of very different natural talents, tastes, and acquirements; all which produce discord in human theories, but they produced none in the doctrines, or narratives, or morals of the Bible. (4.) Although the early ages of the world were necessarily less intelligent, of less experience, and less opportunity of enlarged and correct views, yet the first writers are fully sustained by the latter. Now, nothing but Infinite Wisdom, as the source of Bible revelation, can account for this. Therefore, the writings of the early ages were communications from God, and not the discoveries of human wisdom; and the latter also were from the same God, to sustain and approve the first writers. ...
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(3.) The sacred writers were of very different ages of the world—under very different circumstances—and of very different natural talents, tastes, and acquirements; all which produce discord in human theories, but they produced none in the doctrines, or narratives, or morals of the Bible. (4.) Although the early ages of the world were necessarily less intelligent, of less experience, and less opportunity of enlarged and correct views, yet the first writers are fully sustained by the latter. Now, nothing but Infinite Wisdom, as the source of Bible revelation, can account for this. Therefore, the writings of the early ages were communications from God, and not the discoveries of human wisdom; and the latter also were from the same God, to sustain and approve the first writers. ...
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Abraham Anderson on the harmony of scripture as evidence for its truth
What evidence for the truth of the Holy Scriptures arises from this harmony of the whole? Ans. (1.) Truth is but one; error is manifold. The truth must harmonize; error cannot. And truth, as the ch…
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