The Scriptural Idea of Man; Six Lectures Given Before the Theological Students At Princeton On the L. P. Stone Foundation
The Scriptural Idea of Man; Six Lectures Given Before the Theological Students At Princeton On the L. P. Stone Foundation
Hopkins, Mark, 1802-1887
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is asked. When the ques- tion. What is ? is asked, the mind should be governed wholly by evidence. To this there is no limitation, except the avoidance of contradiction or absurdity. Whoever is sure he so comprehends the whole sub- ject that the fact or statement in question can be seen to involve a contradiction or an absurdity can- not believe that statement or fact. Short of that, he is to be governed wholly by evidence. But in strict- ness the term, understand, does not apply when we deal w...ith evidence of what has been or is, as it does when we inquire Jiow it came to be. Was my house entered last night } Yes, I have evidence of it, and know it from the absence of my overcoat, and from tracks on the floor; but how it could have been Hosted by Google 58 THE SCRIPTURAL IDEA OF MAN. entered I do not understand. If, then, we apply, as we should, the term know to facts as proved by evidence, and the term tinderstand to modes and causes, there is a sense in which a man may prop- erly say he will not believe what he does not under- stand, in which, indeed, he cannot believe it.
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