Horne said on page seven hundred and ninety-eight of volume two of his great work:

           Eichhorn, one of the German scholars, denied that Moses received inspiration.

 And on page eight hundred and eighteen:

           Scholz, Noth, Rosenmuller and Dr. Geddes are of the opinion that Moses did not receive inspiration, and that all the five books of the Pentateuch were simply a collection of verbal traditions current in that period. This concept is making its way rapidly among the German scholars.

 He also said:

           Eusebius and several latter theologians have pronounced that the book of Genesis was written by Moses, in Midian, when he was pasturing the goats of his father in law.

           We may be allowed to remark that, in this case, this book cannot be an inspiration because, according to Eusebius, this was before Moses was entrusted with prophethood. Therefore the book of Genesis also must be a collection of current local verbal traditions. If the writings of the Prophets, written by them as Prophets, were not books of inspiration, a fact admitted by Home and other scholars, how then could a book written by Moses long before his prophethood be a revealed book?

          The Catholic, Ward, has on page thirty-eight of the 1841 edition:

           Luther said in vol. 3 of his book on pages 40 and 41 that: "Neither do we hear Moses, nor do we turn to him, for he was only for the Jews; we have nothing to do with him."

           In another book he said: ’We believe neither in Moses nor in the Torah, because he was an enemy of Jesus, and said that he was the master of executioners, and said that the Christians have nothing to do with the ten commandments.’

           Again he said that he would discard the Ten Commandments from the books so that heresy was abolished forever, because these are the root of all heretical ideas.

           One of his pupils, Aslibius, has said that no one knew the ten commandments in the churches. The Christian sect called the Antinomians was initiated by a person who believed that the Pentateuch did not have any such qualities as to be considered the word of God. It was their belief that any one committing sins like adultery and other evil deeds deserved salvation and would be in eternal happiness if only he had faith in Christianity. Those who turned to the ten commandments were influenced by Satan, and they were the ones who crucified Jesus.

           These remarks of the founder of the Protestant faith and his pupil are certainly of great importance. They mean that all Protestants must be disbelievers in Moses and the Pentateuch, since, according to them, Moses was the enemy of Jesus, the master of the executioners, and the Pentateuch was not the word of God. Having nothing to do with the ten commandments, they must turn to paganism and multitheism. They should also disregard their parents, trouble their neighbours, commit theft, murder and perjury because, otherwise, they would bc acting according to the ten commandments which ”are the root of all heretical ideas”.

           Some Christians belonging to this sect have said to us that they did not believe in Moses as a Prophet but only as a man of wisdom and a great legislator, while some others said to us that Moses, God forbid, was a thief and a robber. We asked them to fear God, they answered that they were right in saying this as it had been said by Jesus himself:

           All that ever came before me are thieves and robber: but the sheep did not hear them.[1]

           Now we can see why the founder of the Protestant faith, Luther, and his pupil reproached Moses; they must have been guided by the above statement.

 

 THE EPISTLE OF JAMES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION

         Luther said regarding the epistle of James:

           This is the word not suitable to be included in the books, as the disciple James said in chapter five of his epistle, ”Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. [2]

           Luther, raising objection on the above statement, said in volume Two of his book:

           If this is what James has said, I answer him that no disciple has the right to define and issue religious injunctions on his own account, because it was only Jesus who possessed that status.

           It is clear from the above that the epistle of James is not, according to Luther, inspired, and that injunctions given by the disciples are not supported by inspiration, otherwise the above statement would be absurd and meaningless.

         Ward stated in his book printed in 1841:

           Pomran, an eminent scholar of the Protestants and a pupil of Luther, says that James has written false and absurd events at the end of his letter. He has copied from other books events which cannot be associated with the Holy Ghost. Such a book therefore must not be considered as inspired.

           Vitus Theodore, a Protestant preacher in Nuremberg, said that they had intentionally given up the Book of Revelation and the Epistle of James. He said that the Epistle of James is not to be censured where he has stressed the necessity of good deeds along with faith, but that this latter contains contradictions. The Magdeburg Centuries said that the Epistle of James, at one place, is unique among all the accounts of the disciples because he says that salvation does not depend on faith alone but that it also requires good deeds. He also says that the Torah was the Law of Freedom.

            It is clear from the above that these elders, like Luther, do not believe in the Epistle of James being inspired by the Holy Ghost.

[1]John 10:8.

[2]James 5:14.