The Christian Point of View Three Addresses
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We must apply ourselves independently to a fresh inquiry as to the religious authority and worth of the Old Testament. It would, I suppose, be found true that the severities of the Old Testament, both in the history of extermination and other violence, and in the lyrics of exultation over foes, have fostered the austere grim- ness of some phases of Christianity, as well as the easy human tendency to iden- tify one's own enemies with those of God. All competent students would agree that the fanc...iful interpretations, by which alone large parts of the Old Testament could be made spiritually fruitful, have corrupted the simplicity of the gospel. Now we are learning to understand things more natu- rally; we refuse to allegorize, because that is impertinent, since it means reading our own notions into the Bible, instead of seeking in it the ideas of God and his ser- OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 59 vants ; we see that the prophets were preachers, whose predictions of the future were born of moral earnestness and spirit- ual insight, and were conditioned, in the form of them, by the environment of those who uttered them.
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We must apply ourselves independently to a fresh inquiry as to the religious authority and worth of the Old Testament. It would, I suppose, be found true that the severities of the Old Testament, both in the history of extermination and other violence, and in the lyrics of exultation over foes, have fostered the austere grim- ness of some phases of Christianity, as well as the easy human tendency to iden- tify one's own enemies with those of God. All competent students would agree that the fanc...iful interpretations, by which alone large parts of the Old Testament could be made spiritually fruitful, have corrupted the simplicity of the gospel. Now we are learning to understand things more natu- rally; we refuse to allegorize, because that is impertinent, since it means reading our own notions into the Bible, instead of seeking in it the ideas of God and his ser- OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 59 vants ; we see that the prophets were preachers, whose predictions of the future were born of moral earnestness and spirit- ual insight, and were conditioned, in the form of them, by the environment of those who uttered them.
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