Excerpt from Christ and the Apostles Stand or Fall With Moses and the Prophets The latest phases of incipient infidelity are wrought out by our mortar-board masters of what President Patton calls, Rip and Tear Theology. These men, departing from the faith and from their covenant vows, make the Genesis of the Bible the Genesis of their destructive work, turning the intellect of the natural man loose on divine Revelation. Next in rank we have conceited and popular pulpi teers, exploiting these pleasing and seductive errors. With a prudent regard for the Seven Great Princi ples - the Five Loaves and the Two Fishes, they employ expert finesse, half revealing and half conceal ing. Their sermons contain some good ethics but apoverty of Gospel truth, and their congregations de cline in evangelical faith and spiritual life. We now have, following in their train, teachers of Men's Bible Classes, retailing these skeptical theories which were fairly and frequently answered in the days of Voltaire, Hume and Paine. Some sincere young men are amazed, confused and confounded by this treatment of the oracles of God, and some who are underdone, think that men who can thus handle the Bible must know everything. Thus the work goes down from the scholastic expert to the bungling imitator. We are told that we must unload the legendary absurdities, unscientific statements and supernatural incidents of the Old Testament before intelligent men will believe it, and hold the later revelation of the New Testament, especially the teachings of Jesus. Where will this destructive criticism lead?' 'will not consistent logic and progressive courage drive the plowshare through the whole Book? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.