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Modernism - William C. Irvine
MODERNISM
Its Origin
MODERN Modernism takes its direct descent from Higher Criticism. It builds its castles on the shifting sands of the so-called assured results
of critical Scholarship.
But the true origin of this deadly heresy can be traced to a garden—which garden all Modernists do their best to legendarize—therein the first tragedy of Modernism took place. As for Modernism,
said the Warden of a Madras College, people make a mistake when they think it is a new fad or that it is of a mushroom growth. Modernism, as a certain mode of thinking, is as old as Mother Eve.
How very true, for Satan was the first of the cult and on his first introduction to—or rather intrusion on—the human race, his first words were: Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Herein lies the very essence of Modernism:—
Yea
—a diplomatic affirmative.
Hath God said
—an artfully expressed doubt immediately negativing the affirmation, presented in the form of a question.
Ye shall not eat of EVERY tree of the garden?
—a falsification of God’s utterance: Thou shalt not eat of IT.
Are any of the germs of Modernism missing?
Its modern revival can be traced. through Spinoza, a Dutchman, who lived towards the end of the 17th century and wrote a book to prove that Ezra was the author of the Pentateuch: through Jean Astruc, who lived in the middle of the 18th century: Eichhorn, who took up his theories, and De Wette the German, soon followed by Julius Wellhausen, of whom it is asserted that, when he was told that British higher critics still believed in the Old Testament Scriptures as inspired, he said: I knew the Old Testament was a fraud; but I never dreamed of making God a party to the fraud as these Scotch fellows do.
Characteristic Marks
The most characteristic marks of Modernism can be clearly traced in some heresy, in well-nigh every century. A reader of The Southern Methodist tabulated some of the chief features of the Gnostic Heresy of the first century, of the Marcionites of the second century, of the Neo-Platonic Heresy and the Manichean Heresies of the third, and the Pelagian Heresy of the fourth century. It is almost a monotonous repetition! If we give one, we practically give all. Here is his outline describing the Gnostic Heresy of the first century:
"Claimed to have a deeper and truer view of Christianity.
"Rejected the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures.
"Belief in one’s self is belief in God.
"Christ delivers men by His coming and not by an atonement.
"Rejected the virgin birth of Jesus.
"Ridiculed orthodoxy.
Salvation by illumination.
Anyone writing a thousand years hence might fairly summarize the teachings of Modernism as found above.
Dr. Ernest Gordon in The Leaven of the Sadducees (p. 221) says:
Strauss gathered up in masterly fashion the whole literature of free thought which preceded his day. It