Sublime

The experiences of the Founder of Christianity have perhaps left us in a vague doubt of the infallibility of courts of law.

It is within this perspective that the Marrow Brethren believed that the three-dimensional character and the ongoing significance of the Decalogue were mandated not by “traditionalism,” or by “proof texting,” but by a careful biblical-theological handling of the text of the whole of Scripture.

This question is legitimized by the knowledge that the scholars who produced the Greek version of the Bible, the so-called Septuagint, used an original text that differed from the Masoretic text.

As D. L. Moody said, “The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.”

the context in which the law of God was given, a tracing of its story throughout the whole Bible—in a word, a biblical theological, Christocentric approach to the law—underscored that like all Gaul, God’s law is “divided into three parts”—unified indeed because divinely given, and yet multidimensional in character, function, and historical reach.

“The risen Lord is not the historical Jesus behind the Gospels, but the Christ of the apostolic preaching, of the whole New Testament” (65).

German higher criticism of the Bible called its historical reliability into question. The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch was challenged and the search for the historical Jesus was launched. Believers grew suspicious of the importance of historical study in understanding the Bible and in defending its truthfulness.