A Test for the Higher Critics

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 6, 1906

A Test for the Higher Critics

In defending the work of the higher critics and in showing how harmless their worst efforts would prove to be, a writer declares:—

If all the Bibles of all the world were to be destroyed, religion would still continue to be. The men of light and of learning would set about framing a new Bible that should contain all the inspiring things of the old Bibles with the additional inspirations of the newer generation.

A happy thought indeed! But why wait until the old Bible is destroyed? Why have not “the men of light” demonstrated their ability to meet such a crisis by giving to the world a book which would contain “all the inspiring things of the old Bibles with the additional inspirations of the newer generation”? This would certainly be a good test of the constructive power of the higher critics. Nothing would bring confusion upon “the men of light” so completely as to compare their “additional inspirations” with the law, the prophets, and the psalms.