Mexborough and Swinton Times October 28, 1927
Bible Attacked
Thurnscoe Parson Takes Up a Challenge
Unknown Sceptic Answered
the Rev H Card, Vicar of St Hilda’s, Thurnscoe, devoted his sermon on Sunday to an anonymous correspondent who had written him during the week invited him to deal with certain doubts expressed in the letter regarding the truth and sanctity of the Bible.
“I should like you,” said his correspondent, “to tell me this: if the Bible is the Word of God, who edited the manuscript from God before it could be read by man? I should like you to confess that you are preaching a dead God or else a living one who is unworthy of the respect and loyalty of decent men. If you say that God is love, I would like you to prove it. If you say the Lord God of the Old Testament is a God of Love, you state a falsehood and you know it. If the Christian does not find his God in the Bible, where does he find Him? If the Bible is a record of God’s doing, we want nothing to do with God. If it is a record of what ignorant men thought of God, leave the book to its fate.
Do Christians in the 20th century believe the dust and rib tail, or worship the God who walk the earth and talks with men, women and snakes, got into a rage and drowned the world, made coats for Adam and Eve, told Abraham to lie and the Israelites to kill?
In your Sunday School you teach that the Bible Is a Holy Book, a good and truthful book.”
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