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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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Dr Schaff sat in the Parliament of Religions at<br />

the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893, and was so happy<br />

among the Buddhists, Confucianists, Shintoists,<br />

and other world religions that he said he would be<br />

willing to die among them.[11] The spirit of the<br />

Revisionists on both sides of the ocean was an<br />

effort to find the Word of God by the study of<br />

comparative religions.[12] This is the spirit of<br />

Gnosticism; it is not true faith in the inspiration and<br />

infallibility of the <strong>Bible</strong>.<br />

Modern bibles<br />

How far the new theology has been adopted by<br />

the editors of the many different kinds of modern<br />

<strong>Bible</strong>s, is a question space does not permit us to<br />

pursue. In the main, all these new editions conform<br />

to the modern rules of textual criticism. We have<br />

already mentioned Fenton, Goodspeed, Moffatt,<br />

Moulton, Noyes, Rotherham, Weymouth,<br />

Twentieth Century, the Polychrome, and the<br />

Shorter <strong>Bible</strong>. To these the names of others might<br />

be added. The Fenton Farrar translation opens thus<br />

in Genesis, first chapter:<br />

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