German Ruler Asserts Bible’s Infallibility
On This Day in 1903, Germany’s ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm, wrote a public letter to an obscure archaeologist, Friedrich Delitzsch. What had he done to deserve such treatment public humiliation? He had dared to insinuate, in a grand Berlin lecture hall, that the Bible was not the Word of God, but a literary document which could be examined scientifically, and which borrowed a whole lot from the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia. That meant the Garden of Eden was in some desert backwater, with date palms instead of apple trees, and who wanted that?
Posted on February 19, 2011 by Brook – 
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