Excerpt from Principles of Biblical Criticism HE first point to which our attention will naturally be directed is the evidence on which we accept the Scriptures as the Word of God. And first of all, we are confronted with the fact, to which we shall afterwards refer more fully, that these books have been handed down for more than years, and some of them, if the View everywhere held until the close of the last century be correct, for a far longer period, as books of an entirely unique character and authority. How far that authority is to be supposed to extend is a question which will be discussed in a future chapter. Many Christian teachers have denied that Christianity can be fairly described as a book revelation, however much of late years it may have come to be regarded as such. It has been much debated whether the Bible can more properly be asserted to be, or to contain, the revelation Of God's will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.