Excerpt from A Workingman's View of the Bible All accurate knowledge is based on established facts. A conception of mathematics must begin with an idea of a digit or an individual thing. So it must be with the Bible. This fact, it seems to me, is that God, or a First Cause, expressed Himself in the material universe and in the soul; that is, the thoughts and ideas of God are ex pressed in the laws of nature and in the soul, just as the thoughts and ideas of man are expressed in his actions and products. Not that god Is. This is implied. But that God expresses Him self. This is stated. The Bible treats the expression of God in the material universe as completed, while the soul is yet growing and developing under His guidance. The development of this soul is, therefore, the subject of the Bible. Thus I look upon the narratives of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel, as portraying the laws of the soul and showing the process gone through in arriving at certain consequences. The further narratives covering the entire Book show the growth of the soul from that condition to its pres ent development, and the complete compliance with these laws by Jesus Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Biblical View of Man argues cogently that the Bible is more about human beings than about God and insists that, in the biblical view, what human beings need is not so much wisdom or grace but rather their own free will to fulfill the obligations that a loving God has bestowed upon them in order to allow them to prove and improve themselves. According to Rabbi Leo Adler, the exercise of such free will, rather than implying a lack of need for God, actually requires a firm commitment to God. First published in German in 1965, this engaging interpretation of the Bible appears in English for the first time.