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Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Association, c1907, 125 pp. 1908 London ed. titled Difficultes and Alleged Errors and Contradictions in the Bible.
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What About the Controversies?Drawing from the questions he has heard from believers and nonbelievers around the world, R. A. Torrey discusses many Bible controversies, including: * Is there an opportunity for salvation after we die?* Did Jonah really live in the belly of a whale?* Did God command Abraham to kill his son?* Did Jesus commend the unjust steward?* Does God send us lying and evil spirits?* Does the Bible contradict itself?* Where did Cain get his wife?* Does God change His mind?* Impure Bible stories* And many more!Those who have questioned the authenticity of the Bible or wondered about certain passages will find here an exploration of the truth and real facts of God's Word.
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LibraryThing member hortonrick
Is a theistic evolutionist, and a couple chapters deal with this. He evidently was writing around the time when many Christians were trying to make Scripture fit inside what was being taught in science....which was evolution. He made the mistake of following "science" instead of Scripture. However,
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the remainder of the book is very interesting and does a good job of clearing up some difficult questions in Scripture. Show Less
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125 p.; 17 cm
ISBN
0524060568 / 9780524060568
Local notes
"There is no need of going in detail into this order of creation as taught by modern science and Genesis 1. For there is grave reason to doubt if anything in Genesis 1 after verse 1 relates to the original creation of the universe. All the verses after the first seem rather to refer to a refitting of the world that had been created and had afterward been plunged into chaos by the sin of some preAdamic race, to be the abode of the present race that inhabits it, the Adamic race."