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. We thank God that regulations concerning such small matters
as the ox and are incorporated in
Trivialities in the Bible? There are none. Pastor E. L. Arndt:
"Der Liebe ist keine Kleinigkeit zu klein. Eben weil sie so gross
ist, kuemmert sie sich urn alles." (Proc., Mich. Dist., 1895, p. 32.)
Every single word of Scripture is important, every single state
ment profitable, 2 Tim. 3: 16. Yes, and everything bears on Christ,
the the one theme of Scripture. Luther: then, the
entire Scripture is throughout nothing but Christ, God's and Mary's
Son; all has to do with this Son that we might know Him." (III:
1959.) To be sure, not everything set down in Scripture is of the
same importance.219) Nor do we in the present state of our knowl-
H. E. Fosdick on the and every part of
for beast and man: believes in God at
he believe that God for universe as a whole ....
'Nothing walks with feet,' says Tennyson. 'There are no acci
dents with God,' says Longfellow. . .. Can God have a purpose for the
whole and not for the parts? . . . God calls us everyone by name. As
an Indian poet sings: 'The subtle anklets that ring on the feet of an in
sect when it moves are heard of Him.' ... Of course, it is not God's
will that 'one of these little ones should perish,' Matt. (The Mean
ing of Prayer, p.51 Why this same man should those who
believe that the Scriptures can be trivial" is our
219) Must we bring evidence to show that the Bible-theologians do
not say that? This is what they "Whilst everything in the Scrip
tures is for man, it does not follow that every part is equally valuable
to every man. The Bible is framed with reference to the average want
of a whole race. Everything in it is there for somebody, although it
may not be specially meant for you. And yet the parts which seem to
the least adapted to may even for him a
less they may inspire of new necessities,
mind and him of himself in a
(Krauth, The Bible It is not our fault
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