The Old Testament In Modern Light PDF Download

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. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PATRIARCHS "After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."--Gen. xv. I. THE conditions of the life of men are indeed greatly altered since Adam first lived in Eden in the full and constant intercourse with God, which was as yet undisturbed by sin. But God, we may well believe, has not altered His own purpose. Man was created for free and willing response to Him. It was the inevitable possibility, when man was made capable of uncoerced and freely chosen service, that he might not choose aright. He has made the self-willed choice, and great and increasing harm has come of it. But God does not abandon His design. The conditions are grievously changed for the worse, and response among men to the voice of God is rare, but it is not wholly absent. From the first, it would seem, in the midst of much evil and rebellion, God is not wholly forgotten. Here and there a man is found who, at least in some measure, "walks with God" and knows Him. God is still ready to reveal Himself, still desirous to communicate the knowledge of Himself to man; still He would evoke, wherever man is ready, the response of loyal and faithful devotion. He waits for the answer wherever throughout the whole of humankind it may be found. He "is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to Him." But for a long time there is little or no regard. And, at last, when in course of time some remembrance and desire and response are found, it is mainly in one godly man and his children, and in the people descended from him, who are thus enabled to become a centre of very gradual but growing light to the world. It seems, ...