Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 19
February 1, 1968
NUMBER 38, PAGE 12b

Taking A Second Look

Guthrie Dean

1900 Jenny Lind, Ft. Smith, Ark.

In March 19, 1967 issue of the Riverside bulletin in Wichita, Kansas, brother Robert Meyers, the preacher, states' "I began preaching as one who accepted verbal inspiration (that is, the theory that God dictated to the writers the very words they were to write), but years of intensive analysis have left me no choice but to reject this notion...The evidence against verbal inspiration seems to me to be overwhelming and profusely abundant." Logan Fox, former teacher at Pepperdine College and Ibaraki Christian College, says that he has come "to realize that the verbal inspiration theory was killing the message of the Bible." (Voices of Concern, page 19). He further states that our pulpits are filled with men who do not believe what they preach and who do not dare preach what they believe. (Voices of Concern, page 31). In the Restoration Review, February 1967, page 28, he tells of whom he is speaking": "The men I referred to who do not preach what they believe are not young rebels or off-beat revolutionaries. They are the best-known men in our brotherhood, the presidents of our colleges, the editors of our papers, the ministers of our largest churches. These men are my friends and I know their struggles." And so modernism marches on among the liberals.