The Epistle to the Galatians was Paul’s reply to the Judiazing teachers who would substitute ceremonials for the doctrine of justification by faith.  His Epistle to the Ephesians was a constructive work, in answer to Jewish prejudice and teaching, in which he set forth the unity of Jews and Gentiles in one Church, which is the body of Christ.  In his Epistle to the Corinthians he answered their false views of marriage.  He shamed their partisan spirit, in which some claimed to be of Paul, some of Apollos, some of Christ.  He labored most earnestly to convince them of their false views concerning the resurrection, and dealt faithfully with the errorists concerning the inquiry that was coming to the Church through their magnifying and perverting the use of the gift of tongues.  He showed them a more excellent way.

There should be no turning aside from preaching a full and free gospel, nor should there be any halting in its defense, or against the effort to eliminate the supernatural from the Word of God.  The critical work that logically leaves us a Savior ignorant of the Scriptures, or, if knowing them, afraid to meet Jewish prejudice by correcting their mistakes, should be kindly, candidly, and manfully met by those to whom the truth has given life.

III.  WAS MOSES “A LITERARY FICTION”?

"God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.  And he said, Here am I....  Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt!’ Exod. iii. 4, 10.

"And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go.”  Exod. v. 1.

"Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover....  And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses....  And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children” Exod. xii. 21, 35, 37.

"And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words:  for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.”  Exod. xxxiv. 27.

"And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee” Deut. xxxi. 24-26.