---
title: 'Biblical Examples, Good and Bad'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'J. Gresham Machen'
date: 1936-08-17
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Bible Characters'
- 'Hermeneutics'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 40'
- 'Isaiah 44'
- 'Acts 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/machen-1936-biblical-examples-good-and-bad
---

# Biblical Examples, Good and Bad

Machen warns against misusing biblical characters—distinguishing examples to imitate from those to avoid—and criticizes modernist misreadings of Scripture.

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