Attacks on the Bible

Yes, Mrs. White’s writings have been attacked and held up to ridicule, but so has the Bible. Perhaps no book has ever been attacked so viciously, so vehemently, so repeatedly, as the Bible. And how wide a range the attack covers. Some critics describe Bible writers as epileptics, or at least hysterical creatures, who borrowed other men’s thoughts. They ask, for example: Do not Moses’ laws, even the very phrasing of them, sound strangely like the great code of Hammurabi, which appeared long before Moses’ day? Bible writers are accused of having expressed only the thoughts of their day on astronomy, for illustration, and on various other matters. The critics look at the Old Testament permissives in the matter of slavery and plural marriage, to say nothing of the divine order to kill men and women and children in certain of the Palestinian wars, and then level the horrible charge that the Bible is an immoral book. It seems dreadful even to summarize these charges.WBEGW 115.1

But we who are Christians do not see the Bible that way. We approach it from a different viewpoint, with different glasses on, with a different understanding of God and His purposes, and see in the Holy Book what it claims to be—the Book of God that can guide us safely to heaven.WBEGW 115.2

Why then should we be disturbed by seemingly plausible arguments against Mrs. White and her writings, arguments that do not sound half as overwhelming as some of those brought against the Bible? Let us never forget that plausibility is not to be confused with validity. An argument can be plausible and still be wholly untrue.WBEGW 115.3