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Unbelief Acknowledged

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20.

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Unbelief Acknowledged

No effort is now made to conceal the fact that the old-time views of religion and the Bible have been superseded by the conclusions of a scientific philosophy. The revolution which has taken place in the theological world is thus stated in a brief paragraph in Current Literature for May:—
Only a few years ago the Bible was regarded by the Christian world as a divine revelation, true in every part and inspired by God working directly through human instruments such as Moses and Joshua, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; but nowadays not one educated man in a hundred accepts this view. The theory of inerrant divine inspiration has been practically abandoned by all the leaders of religious thought.
The time was, in the easy recollection of middle-aged men, when a paragraph like this would have shocked the whole religious world, and would have called out most vigorous and pointed protest from all quarters; but now it hardly commands a passing notice. Well might the Saviour inquire, “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” There is truly the most emphatic need for some one to “contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”