Excerpt from Popular Misconceptions About the First Eleven Chapters of GenesisSome of them are due to the teachings of the nursery, and others can be traced to the imagination of poets, the conceptions of painters, the unbridled fancy of theologians, or the glosses of those Jews whom our Saviour accused of making void the Word of God by their traditions.To these we naturally cling with marvellous and often commendable tenacity.The very style, also, of the Bible, especially of the Old Testament, addressed, as it was, to highly imaginative Orientals, who, even now, usually clothe what they have to say in the language of symbol and metaphor, has suggested difficulties to the colder reason of Western believers.Theology, therefore, during the present' century, and especially during the last thirty or forty years, has had to go through the same process as that to which many other branches of human knowledge have been subjected, and with a similar result - the removal of many popular errors and the establishment of the truth upon more solid and enduring foundations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.