“All Scripture is God-breathed and is
useful for teaching, rebuking, correction and training in righteousness,
so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17
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C. S. Lewis was an atheist who
set out to prove the Bible was a myth and that there was no God.
God won. In spite of Lewis' intellectual prowess, the supposed
non-fulfillment of Christ’s words regarding His soon coming haunted him.
The following quote comes from his 1960 essay titled "The World's Last
Night": "‘Say what you like,’ we shall be told by the skeptic,
‘the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be
false. It is clear from the New Testament that they all expected the
Second Coming in their own lifetime. And, worse still, they had a
reason, and one which you will find very embarrassing. Their Master had
told them so. He shared, and indeed created, their delusion. He said in
so many words, "this generation shall not pass away till all these
things be done." And He was wrong. He clearly knew no more about the end
of the world than anyone else. It is certainly the most
embarrassing verse in the Bible. Yet how teasing, also, that within
fourteen words of it should come the statement, ‘but of that day and
that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither
the Son, but the Father.’ The one exhibition of error and the one
confession of ignorance grow side by side." Unlike many contemporary pastors
and scholars, Lewis had the intellectual integrity to admit what the
scripture clearly teaches - that Jesus and the first disciples
absolutely believed that the coming of the Kingdom, Resurrection,
Judgment, and His appearing would all happen in their generation.
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For these and such-like reasons, the scheme of attaching a double sense
to the Scriptures is inadmissible. It sets afloat all the fundamental
principles of interpretation by which we arrive at established
conviction and certainty and casts us on the boundless ocean of
imagination and conjecture without rudder or compass.'-
Stuart on the Hebrews, Excurs. xx.
'First, it may be laid down
that Scripture has one meaning, -the meaning which it had to the mind
of the prophet or evangelist who first uttered or wrote to the hearers
or readers who first received it.'
' Scripture, like other books, has one
meaning, which is to be gathered from itself, without reference to the
adaptations of fathers or divines, and without regard to a
priori
notions about its nature and origin.'
' The office of the interpreter
is not to add another [interpretation], but to recover the original
one : the meaning, that is, of the words as they struck on the ears
or flashed before the eyes of those who first heard and read them.'
- Professor Jowett, Essay
on the Interpretation of Scripture, § i. 3, 4.
For these and such-like reasons, the scheme of attaching a double sense
to the Scriptures is inadmissible. It sets afloat all the fundamental
principles of interpretation by which we arrive at established
conviction and certainty and casts us on the boundless ocean of
imagination and conjecture without rudder or compass.'-
Stuart on the Hebrews, Excurs. xx.
