If a pound note be exchanged for twenty shillings, such exchange does not in any way

detract from the full value of the pound. This is referred to the category of Quantity.

There are however "entities" as well as "quantities" and "entity" differs from "quantity"

in that it can only exist as a whole, subdivision being, in the nature of the case,

impossible. For instance, while a father may divide his substance among his children

without loss or detriment, he cannot thus divide and distribute himself. However much

he may long to be with John while he is staying with James, the fact that he is an entity

makes that longing impossible of fulfillment. Close and earnest acquaintance with the

Scriptures convinces the believer that they are an entity: they must be taken as a whole,

or not at all

In the course of our dealings with our fellows, we meet with many who, while

rejecting the Scriptures as the inspired Word of God, make the assertion, that in this

aspect or in that, they believe and accept them. One endorses the moral code of the

Bible, while viewing both the record of the creation of man and his redemption with

skepticism. Another revels in the poetic and literary excellence of the Bible, yet accounts

the bulk of its subject-matter as so much myth and folk lore. A third would place "Jesus"

upon the highest pedestal that a "man" can occupy, but denies His deity. Yet another has

room only for what he calls "the eleventh commandment", that of love, while another

accepts the teaching of the sermon on the mount, but rejects the teaching of Paul as to

redemption and justification. Again, to another, prophecy, as such, is simply impossible,

and to another the idea of a miracle is unscientific and absurd.

Let us test the assertion that the Scriptures are an entity, to be taken as a whole or

rejected. First let us consider the difficulty confronting the person. That moral code

revolves around the foci of truth and righteousness. Everything is tested by the

plumb line of unbiased righteousness, and truth is the essential foundation of all its

ethical teaching.

The beginnings of this code coincide with the history of the man Moses.  The

Scriptures give particulars of the birth of Moses, the four generations that intervene

between Abraham and his birth; they record the fact that he was of the line of Levi, and

tell how he was taken into the care of the Egyptian princess, together with numerous

statements of such particular character as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that

Moses did actually live in Egypt, that he did lead Israel out, as God appointed, that he did

ascend Mount Sinai and there received that law, which for ever after was associated with

his name.  Not only so, but subsequent books of the Old Testament are equally

committed to the same teaching. Joshua succeeds Moses, and the people feared Joshua

"as they feared Moses all the days of his life" (Josh. 4: 14). Again, Joshua makes