In the Bible, holiness is not goodness and kindness, nor even morality. Holiness as the Bible sets it before us is the correspondence of the soul with God, the soul reflecting the intent, desire and innermost character of God; so that, were God to enter into the soul, he should find himself as much at home as upon his own exalted throne. Such a definition as that makes human perfection and all its claims to holiness seem no better than a painted wanton dressed in the garb of purity and mouthing the words of virtue and chastity. Whence comes this wisdom of holiness which makes the loftiest ideal of man no higher than the dust of the roadway, his best righteousness criticizable goodness and altogether a negligible quantity? If it is from man, it must arise from two sources--human experience or human imagination. It cannot come from human experience! no natural man in the past has experienced it--none today experience it. It cannot come from imagination; for a man cannot imagine what he has not seen, known or experienced. As he has not experienced holiness he cannot imagine it. In the nature of the case--the Bible concept of holiness did not originate with man, and that much of the Bible, evidently, is not of man. That the Bible is not the word of man is shown by its statements of accurate science, written before men became scientific, and while as yet natural science did not exist. The record of creation is given in the opening verses of Genesis. Whence came the wisdom which enabled the writer in a pre-scientific age to set forth a cosmogony in such a fashion that it does not contradict the latest findings of the geologist? The Bible says the earth was without form and void. Science says the same thing. Over a hot granite crust, an ocean of fire, and beyond that an impenetrable atmosphere loaded with carbonic acid gas. Cuvier, the founder of paleontology, says in his discourse on the revolutions of the globe, "Moses has left us a cosmogony, the exactitude of which is most wonderfully confirmed every day." Quensted says, "Moses was a great geologist, wherever he may have obtained his knowledge." Again he says, "The venerable Moses, who makes the plants appear first, has not yet been proven at fault; for there are marine plants in the very lowest deposit." Dana, of Yale College, has said that the record of creation given by Moses and that written in the rocks are the same in all general features. Whence came the wisdom which kept Moses from hopelessly blundering? Moses places the account of the original creation in the first verse. In the second, he states the earth fell into chaos. "It _became_ (not _was_) without form, and void." Isaiah, the prophet, declares definitely that God did not create the earth without form and void--God never was the author of chaos--he made the earth habitable from the beginning.