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GOOD-BYE
Alan E.
Highers
But that is not all. Another
speaker at
But there is still more. ACU
Press has announced the publication of a new one-volume commentary, due to be
released this year. The editor,
Mark Hamilton, is an associate professor of Old Testament at ACU. In an article in the Stone-Campbell Journal (Fall 2006), he
tells us what to expect from this new commentary. He states that “this 800,000 word work
involves more than forty authors from the three streams of the Stone-Campbell
Movement, Churches of Christ (a cappella) and Christian Churches (Independent),
and Disciples of Christ, contributing articles on biblical books and a range of
topics.” It sounds as though this
work is about 799,999 words too long.
Professor Hamilton informs us that “authors typically espouse standard
critical conclusions (multisource Pentateuch, multiple Isaiahs, two-source
hypothesis for the Synoptic Gospels)…”
What do all of these words mean?
They mean that ACU Press is publishing a commentary that takes the
liberal view of date and authorship.
According to this description, the commentary will teach that Moses did
not write the first five books of the Old Testament, Isaiah did not write all of
Isaiah, and Matthew, Mark, and Luke borrowed from an imaginary source named
“Q.” Basically, the commentary will
be primer on infidelity designed to infiltrate and contaminate churches of
Christ with liberal theology. Warning: Do not purchase this commentary for
your children, and do not send them to study Bible at ACU, if you want them to
believe the Bible is the very word of God.
The first five books of the Old Testament are repeatedly styled as “the
law of Moses.” (See, “Did Moses
Write the Pentateuch?” by Jack P. Lewis in the July 2008 Gospel Advocate). “And Moses wrote this law” (Dt.
31:9-11). Jesus attributed the law
to Moses (Jn. 5:46; Mk. 7:10). How
did an associate professor at ACU come to know more about the authorship of the
law than Jesus?
The book of Isaiah claims to have been written by Isaiah (Isa. 1:1). The notion that there were two or three
Isaiahs would undermine the integrity of both the Old and New Testaments (see
“Can the Book of Isaiah Be Trusted?” by David South in the July 2008 Gospel Advocate). In John 12:37-41, there are quotations
from both sections of Isaiah, and all are attributed to the
prophet.
It can bring nothing but sadness to acknowledge that a great school, such
as
Taken from The Spiritual Sword, October 2008 Volume 40, No. 1, pp. 45-47