It means exactly what it says. Acts 4:12 reminds us, "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved." Q. Portland, Ore. "/ try to speak the truth in love and yet some people are offended by It. Is not honesty extremely important?" A. The question is the manner in which your "truthfulness" is shared with others. It should always be in love, as well as with good judg ment with which we speak. It could be at times that our very manner of presentation is offensive and ar gumentative. We do not win any one this way. It may be that the occasion is such that it is not con ducive to the individual listening sympathetically. Even such things
Consider, too, the continuity of its existence. Some books have en dured without persecution, but the Bible has endured in spite of un precedented persecution. Next we should consider the scope of its subject matter. It speaks of eter nity and the unseen just as easily as it does of the temporal environ ment. The influence of its power shows that profligates, drunkards, immoral ones and all men can be come the sons and daughters of the living God. Biblical faith has the only rea sonable outline of existence for time as well as for eternity. It is the only true and consistent way of looking at matters of life. Truly could Jesus Christ testify, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." That is not a statement sus ceptible to varied interpretation.
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