Note 28 — Chapter III · THE DESTRUCTIVE CHARACTER OF MODERN BIBLE CRITICISM
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Listen, again, to the words of a well-known divine of our own Church, spoken but yesterday: “The whole of the teaching of the New Testament is based upon the supposition that God made a covenant with Abraham.”28 “You have our Lord Jesus Christ building His whole life on the Scriptures, and submitting to death in obedience to them.”29 This is the strictly orthodox opinion, and it is consistent with Christian doctrine. Yet, for obvious reasons, the Old Testament is now regarded as an incubus by an increasing number of earnest Christians.