The Importance of the Bible
Christianity
is the religion of a Book. Christianity is based upon the impregnable
rock of Holy Scripture. The starting point of all doctrinal
discussion must be the Bible. Upon the foundation of the Divine
inspiration of the Bible stands or falls the entire edifice of
Christian truth. "If the foundations be destroyed, what can
the righteous do?" [PSALM
11:3]. Surrender
to the dogma of verbal inspiration and you are left like a rudderless
ship on a stormy sea, at the mercy of every wind that blows.
Deny
that the Bible is, without any qualification, the very Word of God,
and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and
without any supreme authority. It is useless to discuss any doctrine
taught by the Bible until you are prepared to acknowledge,
unreservedly, that the Bible is the final court of appeal.
Grant
that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of
God's own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point
from which advance can be made into the domain of truth. Grant that
the Bible is (in its original manuscripts) inerrant and
infallible, and you reach the place where study of its contents is
both practicable and profitable.
-Gospel report by preacher Arthur W. Pink (1886–1952 A.D.)
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