Show milLi HI ASH AND AGAIN AGAI A couple of years ago no the German scholar startled tho the 1 world by b his bold assertions con on 01 corning r the origin of ot the Old Dill Testa Testament aunt ment In nl He lie maintained that the sacred writings of or tho the Hebrews contain chief chiefly ly uy I matter borrowed from Babylonian sources Even the worship of or Jehovah lie he mid said was 19 borrowed from trout eastern astern nn on lions hiatus According to the nook of at Job Is virtually I full of bias blaH i The Song of Songs Bongs Is l a collee Ion ilon of ot poetry expressive of or carnal carml carn lu lut luti t tho i ho Iho Ten Commandments Commandment ore are borrowed borrow d from hoary hoar antiquity which had n a jet et of ot rules regulating regula tin trade bulnes bu md IId worship and so o nn schol chol scholarship met the tho professor on his own on ground and proved the falsity lt of or this position Now Nosy however n a similar claim Is made maile for tor the New Testament That chat too Is said to be bo largely larely borrow borrowed ed NI from Ideas and traditions traditions Two German scholars have he come out with statements to that effect freet They The find In the tho Apocalypse e of ot John with Its seven ceven spirits Eldora rs four tour living two witnesses seals Beats beasts etc plain evidences of or thought Rut Hut that Is t not nil 1111 The Tho entire New Testament except a n few fen sayings of or Jesus and a I few Cew his luls historical historical Incidents they the assert Is le more or less leM poor plagiarism Such Suet preposterous claims Ire are made maLie by no less leu fa to famous fl scholars than then Prof Prot Zimmer dimmer and Prof Irot We cannot retrain refrain from reminding the critics of or the tho Hook nook of or Mormon of the fact that the BIble Itself Il Is II ns as n savagely attacked In these days as lIS the Hook of at Mormon ever over was Christians who believe In the tho Dible notwithstanding the lima criticism 1 of or selen scientists should not bind fault tault with vIlh tho the Mormons for believing In the tho Hook of Mormon In time the face of or tho the criticism of ot Its enemies With regard to the Bible It should be evident to all that because e It con can contains tame truth It must necessarily con cone contain lain tain much that was common to the records of nil 1111 nations Egyptians Babylonians Assyrians Aztecs AztecA oil nil had I some somo truth In their laws and systems of worship Judaism and Its continuation allon Christianity did dill not lIot drop down Iown among the nations of tho the earth as liS a a II strange religion without connection with anything In existence entirely Lilt dif different I feret ferent from Crom everything ever eer heard oC of o among men It came on the tho contrary IB us a link of or history connected with both the past and the future For Ivor that reason It certainly partook of at the tho na nn nature ture cure of all 1111 that was true truo In other aye SYI systems toms tents Hut But that does not mean that It was II plagiarized The rho Babylonians anti and other ancient great and civilized nations certainly had hall some orn gold gohl among amon their literary and religious treasures though at nt the same samo time they had much valueless material mixed with the genuine Thu Jews Jewa and after them then the tho Christians also aho received r from fromn the Di Divine DIvine Divine vine trea house a I wealth of or gold Hut But It cannot bo be said truthfully truth Cully that this wits was stolen from the scarce sup supply supply ply pI of or the tho nations Tho Time Babylonian worship was wn In fact very different from both Judaism and Christianity The Tho Babylonians recognized recognized recognized the tho lad lid lIu the mini uni universal vernal versal source of or nil existences H Below him they recognized three divine ll persons per persons p r sons one emanating tram front the other In Inthis inthis this orders order Ao to and Del Bel The Tho latter littler was WI supposed to be bo the tha father of tho limo gods goIc while villa Ao 0 was nA the time lord of the visible world worl l the lord of knowledge of or glory glor and light Under these dei del deities deities ties were the sun Hun god ROllI 11 Eln Em In the he moon rod gad and Bin the god of or tho the atmosphere re Then lIden canno gods of or the tho various arlous planets and a other deities Seine Borne of these gods were cre worshipped with barbarous rites rite such an the Immolation of children Others Other were honored with Immoral practices II In the words of ot Bunich Now ye e pee see In Babylon gods of nt silver rind of cold gold and of at wood homo borne upon UIn shoulders which entice causo the nations to fear And nd taking gold as a It were ele for tor a virgin that tint loveth loeth to go IN gay Ka they make crowns cron for Cor the heads of ot their their Rods gods Sometimes also nl o tho time priests convey from rein their gods gold goltl and silver and bestow beetow It upon themselves Yea YI they will give ghe thereof to the time common harlots and deck them lieu as n men Inen with garments So Bo common were Immoral practices In con with pagan worship that In tho time Old Testament adultery Is U often otten ottenus used us 1 ns aK a n I synonym for idolatry If tho tutu huts facts mire lire considered how Illogical ical does docs the statement appear that the Bible l Is g borrowed front from Inch and paganism One might as M well say cay that Protestantism In is borrowed front from I or 01 that Is la borrowed front from sectarianism It H IB is l a n conclusion that disregard de nil facts hots and nil 1111 tales of or reasoning roa son It proves that n man lIln may be authority ns as nn t and yet he ho n poor logician |