Sermons & Devotionals by Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson
A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 7: The Cosmogeny of Genesis
I AVOW myself a believer in the Scriptures, and if a personal reference may be pardoned, I would say that my faith is not to be accounted for either by want of thought, or by ignorance of the objections and difficulties which have been urged by scientists and sceptics. But just as the studies which ... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 8: An Agnostic's Apology
"THE natural attitude of a thinking mind toward the supernatural is that of scepticism." Scepticism, not agnosticism. The sceptic halts at the cross-roads to take his bearings; but at sight of a cross-road the agnostic gives up his journey altogether. True scepticism connotes intellectual caution, b... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 9: The Irrationalism of Infidelity.
"CHRIST is still left" is the solace Mill would offer us as we survey the wreck which rationalism makes of Faith. To that life he appeals as supplying a "standard of excellence and a model for imitation." "Who among His disciples," he demands, " was capable of inventing the sayings ascribed to Jesus... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 10: A Sceptic's Plea For Faith.
ONE who is himself a sceptic both by temperament and by training can appreciate the difficulties of the honest truth-seeker. And to such I would offer the assurance of respectful sympathy, and such counsel as my own experience may enable me to give. And first, I would say with emphasis, Ignore the a... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 11: How To Read The Bible
THE preceding chapter opened by quoting words spoken by the most eminent of living scientists: this chapter shall be prefaced by quoting a man of the highest eminence in another sphere - the greatest philologist of our time. The following is an extract from a letter written in one of the later years... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion 12: The "Higher Criticism"
BIBLE students nowadays seem to be haunted by the grim spectre of the "Higher Criticism." But if instead of running away from ghosts we face them boldly, our fears generally give place to feelings of contempt or indignation. And this is the experience of many who have fearlessly examined what are ca... Read More
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A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion Appendix
NOTE I (Chap. VII. P. 88 ante) THE CREATION. As already noticed, if the first chapter of Genesis speaks of "the Creation of the Universe" at all it is in the first verse. The very word "create" is not used again save in verses 21 and 27, which relate to the work of the fifth and sixth "days." And if... Read More
Robert Anderson
A Personal Anti-Christ
From "Things To Come" Nov. 1897 THE word "Antichrist" is not to be found in Holy Scripture, save in the first and second epistles of St. John; but there is such a consensus of opinion in applying the title to the Beast of the Apocalypse, to one at least of the false kings of Daniel, and to the Man o... Read More
Robert Anderson
Christ and Criticism
In his "Founders of Old Testament Criticism" Professor Cheyne of Oxford gives the foremost place to Eichhorn. He hails him, in fact, as the founder of the cult. And according to this same authority, what led Eichhorn to enter on his task was "his hope to contribute to the winning back of the educate... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den Preface
ALTHOUGH this volume appears under an old title, it is practically a new work. The title remains, lest any who possess my "Reply to Dean Farrar's Book of Daniel" should feel aggrieved on finding part of that treatise reproduced under a new designation. But the latter half of this book is new; and th... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 1: The "Higher Criticism"
THE "HIGHER CRITICISM," AND DEAN FARRAR'S ESTIMATE OF THE BIBLE By "all people of discernment" the "Higher Criticism" is now held in the greatest repute. And discernment is a quality for which the dullest of men are keen to claim credit. It may safely be assumed that not one person in a score of tho... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 2: The Historical Errors Of Daniel
"THE historical errors" of the Book of Daniel are the first ground of the critic's attack. Of these he enumerates the following :- (I.) "There was no deportation in the third year of Jehoiakim." (2.) "There was no King Belshazzar." (3.) "There was no Darius the Mede." (4) "It is not true that there ... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 3: Historical Errors Continued
HISTORICAL ERRORS CONTINUED: BELSHAZZAR AND DARIUS THE MEDE PROFESSOR Driver acknowledges "the possibility that Nabunahid may have sought to strengthen his position by marrying a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, in which case the latter might be spoken of as Belshazzar's father (= grandfather, by Hebrew ... Read More
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Forgotten Truths 6: The Lord Jesus' Return
A FRUITFUL cause both of skepticism and of error is ignorance of what may be described as the ground plan and main purpose of the Old Testament Scriptures. "The whole Scriptures are a testimony to Christ: the whole history of the chosen people, with its types and its law and its prophecies, is a she... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 4: Philological Peculiarities
"PHILOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES": THE LANGUAGE OF DANIEL "THE philological peculiarities of the book" constitute the next ground of the critic's attack on Daniel. "The Hebrew" (he declares) "is pronounced by the majority of experts to be of a later character than the time assumed for it." The Aramaic al... Read More
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The Bible or the Church: Chapter 6
THE great religions of the world appeal to sacred writings for their sanction. But the religion of Christendom differs in this respect from the religions of the East, that its pretended appeal to Scripture is but a juggler's trick. It claims our acceptance of doctrines which none but the credulous w... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 5: The Positive Evidence In Favour Of Daniel
THE critics claim a competency to judge whether this portion or that of the canon of Scripture be divinely inspired, and in the exercise of this faculty they have decided that certain passages of Daniel give proof that the book could not have a divine sanction. Their dicta on this subject will have ... Read More
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Forgotten Truths 7: The Gentile Church
ON the subject of the Coming of the Lord the First Epistle to the Thessalonians has an altogether exceptional importance. And the more closely we study the condition and circumstances of those to whom it was addressed, our sense of its importance will increase. The opening clauses of the 17th chapte... Read More
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The Bible or the Church: Chapter 7
IN the Church's name! "Great is Diana of the Ephesians." The only sacred thing on earth is "the Church." As for Holy Scripture, that may be patronised or mangled at pleasure: the dissecting knife of criticism cannot be applied to it too remorselessly. But to question the Divine authority of "the Chu... Read More
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Daniel in the Critic's Den 6: Violent Errors
"THE existence of violent errors as to matters with which a contemporary must have been familiar, at once refutes all pretence of historic authenticity in a book professing to have been written by an author in the days and country which he describes." "By no possibility could the book have been writ... Read More
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Sir Robert Anderson was born in Dublin, Ireland and was of Scottish descent. His father was an elder in the Irish Presbyterian Church and he was raised in a religious home. Anderson's conversion took place after listening to a sermon delivered by John Hall.
Sir Robert Anderson graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1862 and was called to the Irish Bar in 1863. He later became Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard. When he retired in 1901, he was made Knight Commander of the the Order of the Bath. W. H. Smith, on the floor of the House of Commons, said Sir Robert "had discharged his duties with great ability and perfect faithfulness to the public."
Sir Robert Anderson was the chief inspector for Scotland Yard. He was greatly respected for his skill as an investigator. When Anderson wasn't writing on subjects related to crime, he wrote books on Christian prophecy. He helped establish the fact that 69 of Daniel's 70 weeks have now transpired, and that the tribulation will be the 70th week. Sir Robert Anderson's book, The Coming Prince, has become a foundational resource for all dispensationalists.