Article February 5, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from John A. Earl, J. Frank Thompson, Lyman Abbott

[John A. Earl in The Standard]

The growth of revelation should be kept constantly in mind by those who would be students of the Bible. It does violence to the principle of a progressive revelation when we put the books of Chronicles on a par with the epistles to the Corinthians, or when we attempt to compare the book of Judges with the prophecy of Isaiah. The book of Genesis and the gospel of John begin almost identically; but what the gospel of John so clearly reveals is found, if found at all, only in germ in the book of Genesis. The law of Christ is infinitely above the law of Moses. Paul makes a clear distinction on this point in his second letter to the Corinthians, the third chapter. Speaking of the two covenants he says, "God made us fit to be ministers of a new covenant — not a written law, but a spiritual principle" (Twentieth Century Version). Paul saw that revelation had grown from written law to spiritual principle.

[The Christian Intelligencer]

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