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SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 3.

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SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE.

By Editor

The Christian Union of December 13 thus draws the comparison between science and the Bible, in a reply to a correspondent: “If the Bible, as interpreted, is at variance with any well-established discovery of modern learning, perhaps our interpretation is at fault; if not, the Bible is at fault. We must not assume that the Bible cannot be at fault in some matters.” In reference to moral matters it says, “The judge in such matters is the Christ in us, i. e., conscience as enlightened by Christ.”
What a conclusion! What a standard! If Darwin’s evolution be accepted as a “well-established discovery of modern learning,” and the Bible does not agree therewith, then “the Bible is at fault”! If in ten years from that time a contrary and equally fanciful theory is accepted by “modern learning” as a “well-established discovery,” then “the Bible is at fault again if it agrees not with the change! And how decide moral matters? “The conscience as enlightened by Christ,” or “the Christ in us”! What “Christian” fanatic ever existed but that had an “enlightened conscience”? The blinded and hypocritical both claim Christ within when transgressing some of the plainest precepts of the word of God. As for us, we prefer the Bible, honored and revered by Christ and his apostles, to the maunderings of the Christian Union or the deductions of “modern learning.” “The Scripture cannot be broken,” said Jesus. We prefer his words to a human conscience.