PROGRESSIVE REVELATION:
The
fact needs to be continually remembered that the Bible was not written at one
sitting or even during one generation. Its composition covered a period of over
fifteen hundred years. The Bible grew somewhat as the plants do: “first the blade,
then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear” (Mark4:28). There was, therefore, progress in revelation. But what do
we mean by progressive revelation? Does it mean that the early writings were
filled with superstitions and myths which needed to be refined and perfected in
a sort of evolutionary process, so that when we come to the New Testament we
have progressed from the crude, semibarbarous ideas of Deity to the true
concept of a God of love and mercy? Or does it mean that each step in the
unfolding of God’s plan and purpose was perfect in itself and that each step
combined to produce a flawless and complete whole?
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