p. 88 | A JOB FOR SKEPTICS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1873

A JOB FOR SKEPTICS.

When skeptics start up flocks of wild-geese absurdities, they may attend to the wild-goose chase of bringing them down. The following paragraph shows the kind of work they are continually getting on their hands:—

Robert Dale Owen, in a recent work, endeavors to straighten out the Scriptures, and correct ideas which have been entertained by religious men for the last few centuries. Among other things, he makes the statement that the ancient years exactly correspond in length with our present months, so that, when the Scriptures say that Methuselah was 969 years of age, he was only so many months, or something more than eighty years old. Mr. Owen may, possibly, be correct; but will he please look along a little further and explain the following verse: “Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad” By the above standard of Bible dates, Shem would have been a little more than eight years old at the time. Nahor, Abraham’s grandfather, at the same reckoning, became a father at the tender age of twenty-nine months, and died at the age of twelve years, the father of a numerous family. Will Mr. Owen look after this at once?—Boston Globe.