Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... read in ii Timothy 3: 16 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." In this connection Paul used a significant word; he reminded Timothy that from a child he had known the holy Scriptures. "Holy" is the same word that is used for the most holy place in the tabernacle; the inner room where dwelt the presence of God. Therefore from the Bible's own testimony we conclude that, in their original form, these writings were Divinely given. How this was done we are not told and it is idle to speculate on theories of the mode of inspiration when the important thing is the fact of inspiration. Now we will take up the second part of the first question: When was the Bible written? We have no record of inspired writings before the time of Moses; that is about twenty-five hundred years after man's creation. God communicated with men but we do not find that He caused them to put the communications into writing. That Moses wrote the Pentateuch, or Five Volume book, is a well attested fact. Ezra refers to it as "the book of Moses" and Nehemiah calls it "the book of the law of Moses." Our Lord quoted from the Pentateuch as the writings of Moses and placed them on a level with His own words: "If ye believe not his (Moses) writings, how shall ye believe My words?" John 5: 47. The testimony of the Bible is clear also that Moses was not a compiler of the books that bear his name: "This is that Moses... who received the lively oracles to give unto us." Acts 7: 38. Indeed the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch was not questioned, except by a few early heretics, until some modern writers advanced a number of ingenious and complicated theories of different authors and redactors, all living many centuries after Moses the servant of the Lord had died in the...
