The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to MenCowles, Henry
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The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to Men
Cowles, Henry
Bible. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
CREATION, p. 9.
Naturally the first fact revealed; Its moral lessons, 9;
The origin of this record and the manner of its revelation to
men, 12;
Nature and the supernatural, 13;
Theories on the origin of life, 14;
The sense of the word “day” in Gen. 1: 16; Argued
(1) From the laws of language, 17;
(2) From the narrative itself, 18;
Objection from the law of the Sabbath, 21;
(3) From Geological facts and their bearings on the question,
22;
Prominent points of harmony between Genesis and Geology,
25;
(4) Does “Create” (Gen. 1: 1) refer to the original production
of matter? 26;
(5) The relation of v. 1 to v. 2, and to the rest of the
chapter, 29;
(6) The work of the fourth day, 31;
(7) The sense of the record as to the _origin of life_,
vegetable and animal, 32;
(8) On God’s “making man in his own image,” 33;
(9) The relation of Gen. 2: 4–25 to Gen. 1, 35;
(10) Invariability of “_kind_” in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, 37;
The theory of Mr. Darwin, 38;
The issue between Darwin and Moses, 38;
Darwin’s five main arguments, 39;
Brief replies, 40;
Objections bearing generally against Darwin’s scheme, 43;
(1) It requires almost infinite time back of the
earliest traces or possibilities of life, 43;
(2) Requires what Nature does not give――a close
succession of animal races, differing but
infinitesimally from each other, 43;
(3) His argument is essentially _materialistic_ and is
therefore false, 45;
(4) It ignores man’s intellectual and moral nature, 46;
(5) It ignores or overrides the law of nature by which
hybrids are infertile, 46;
(6) This scheme is in many points revolting to the
common sense of mankind, 46;
(7) It is ♦reckless of the authority of revelation, 48.
CHAPTER II.
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, 49;
Two main questions:
1. Is the human family older than Adam? 49;
(1) The argument for man’s high antiquity,
From traces of his skeleton, 50;
From his tools and works, 51;
(2) From the traditions and chronologies of the old
nations, 59.
CHAPTER III.
HEBREW CHRONOLOGY, 60;
2. How far back was Adam? 60;
From birth of Christ back to the founding of Solomon’s
Temple, 60;
First disputed period――that of the Judges, 60;
Second disputed period――that of the sojourn in Egypt, 62;
Third disputed period――between Terah and Abraham, 64;
Fourth disputed period――from the creation to the flood, 66;
Fifth disputed period――from the flood to the call of
Abraham, 68.
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