The men who pioneered the "higher criticism" of the Bible did not believe that Jesus was who He sad He was: the promise Messiah, the incarnate Son of God. To transmit their unbelief to their intellectual peers, and from them to the general public, the higher critics did their best to remove people's faith in Moses. If they could prove that the Old Testament is unreliable, they could by implication demonstrate that Jesus was misinformed about Moses, and therefore that He was equally unreliable.
The two most successful attacks on Christianity in the modern world have been biblical higher criticism and Darwinism. Both views stem from the same source: a view of man as a social creature who lives in an evolving society. Both views substitute a philosophy of autonomous historical process for the biblical philosophy of creation, fall, redemption, and final judgment.
Biblical higher criticism affects men's choice of ethics. It especially affects their social ethics. What is seldom understood is that biblical higher criticism arose in England in the late seventeenth century as a reaction to the use of the Old Testament as a guide for civil law. Higher criticism was an important tool in the humanists' war against Christian civilization. They won that phase of the battle. It has taken three centuries for even a handful of Christians to return once again to the Old Testament in search of social guidelines. This quest necessitates a rejection of the techniques of biblical higher criticism.
Until Christians abandon higher criticism and its evolutionary social presuppositions (disguised as conclusions), they will remain in cultural bondage.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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It's wrong because it's wrong,
This review is from: Hoax of Higher Criticism (Paperback)
If you're looking for a scholarly analysis and argument against Higher Criticism, you'll have to look elsewhere. North's "Hoax of Higher Criticism" is hardly worth the pages on which it was printed.
North's argument rarely ventures from quoting 2 Timothy 3:16 and saying that higher criticism is wrong, simply because "it is wrong". Ironically, he then goes on to accuse higher criticism of being "circular" in its logic. At one point, he compares the higher-critics' complaint about the "text of the bible having a hard time keeping characters and events straight" to a novel being written which has character names changed and attributes altered for the final draft. I would consider that to be a self-defeating argument, comparing the bible to a novel that has gone through revisions and editing. If you have read 2 Timothy 3:16 (North makes sure to include a few contextual verses with it), then you know exactly what this book is going to say. Beyond that passage, there is nothing that could even be conceived as "substance".
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Gary North at his best -- recommended without reservation,
This review is from: Hoax of Higher Criticism (Paperback)
Some of Gary North's best writing can be found in the appendices of his (too-) huge economic commentaries on the Bible. This little book was originally an appendix to a much larger volume. A good alternate title might be, "Everything Anyone Needs to Know about Higher Criticism." If you have any interest in higher criticism, reading this book could be a very profitable way to spend an hour of your time.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Analysis of Higher Criticism,
By Taylor Adams (Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hoax of Higher Criticism (Paperback)
Higher criticism is a system of biblical interpretation which believes that the Bible is a bunch of myths and legends which were crammed together into books, which contradict themselves and others. This is then heralded as the reason the BIble is great.
Dr. Gary North takes Higher Criticism to presuppositional task in this slim and very clear volume, demonstrating its origins (socialistic Germany) and discussing its problems. Highly recommended for anyone. Everyone should read this book!
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