Show GENESIS discredited dr emit G hir night in chicago the congregation ia the temple of israel advised his hearer to to believe in genesis and to discard it as an article of faith lie the bookis book is out of harmony with science and true religion and he speaks of the impossibility of the world having been created in six days geologist do not interpret the six days to diurnal hut to mean six periods aad defenders of the biblo have accepted that interpretation hence dr hirsch brings no new argument to bear on the subject the students of the higher thought aa the rationalist call their analysis of the bahie do not claim that moses had the etory of genesis revealed to o 0 but he simply made a record aa would a historian of the legends which creation icv lynian abbott in his higher criticism gays it is not a question of whether the world was made in til liter alday of twenty four hours each or periods the greek says the earth ani 1 l the dark night and out of the earth the god and out of the earth love that Is black damnable matei ulily baye the noted biblo student the hebrew bays first god and from god the creation and organization of matter in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth god and it stood fast god fashioned the heavens above cod framed the earth beneath and god made man in lis own image and said bo thou tha master of this world for I 1 have made it and I 1 have made you to rule and meter it as my child that is the difference according to the greek the world makes god according 1 the hebrew god makes the world let run quickly through thi book of gene eia and see what it teaches thie first god in the beginning the eternal one god a living ian il is true the hebrew were not metaphysicians meta physicians they did not dicus personality they diu not deal with attractions but to them god ua no natural 1 force he was no mere power throughout the book of genesis he is revealed a god who i commands and expects to be obeyed a god who has will a god who w ho carea fur men and protects them ft god who is a lather a god who loves hie children and wants beir love III turn thie is the god story ia written in genei borc than dramatic illustration of adam and eve or noah or abraham or joeph is the apic or poetic interpretation of jehovah himself this god command men punishes them when they disobey rewards them when alicy are when he find them in dark WM as he found abraham cal of the that he may il and lead him into the light finds u like jacbo unworthy to be his son detill broods ana for him and makes a eon out of watches at josephs side leads him forward into egypt and lays there through joseph the foundation of a future empire for the epic quality of genesis the religious lesson for cheso legends were written is the revelation of thia A righteous god who walks tipon the earth lice among men cares for men loves men rules over men Is their king and saviour father god and this other that so walking with them and living with them lie Is preparing them for the brighter better clearer revelation of his presence that in future time this is alie book of genesis not a treatise on geology or astronomy or any such thing net a book of chronicles not a factual history minutely and microscopically accurate in date and in detail but a gathering together of the legends of the ancient time rewritten with god and law and love written into them there are many edories of the creation aside from that given in genesis syrian tablets hundreds of years antedating moses have been found with legends of the deluge inscribed thereon in genesis there is interwoven the cloist and accounts one is factual the other prophetic in chich the poetic and epic i found if dr is to discredit the story of creation u of the reference to days he must with consistency refuse to believe in the escape of the people of israel through the parted waters of the red sea and that deliverance is one of the great stories of hebrew pride ae signifying a chosen people yet the exodus is not literally accepted je hovane cloud waa a fog the wind blew from the northwest and an ebbing tide bared the of the red sea and the israelites crossed their pursuers were engulfed by the merging waters as the wind went down to read the etory of the exodus as it is given in alie bible and to attempt to apply to it the same critical interpretation pre tation dr hirsch gives to alie first chapter of genesis is to make it also decem improbable |