FIRST TALK
ONE REASON WHY I :BELIEVE THE :BIBLE TO :BE THE WORD OF GOD most important question in religious thought is, "Is the Bible the \Vord of God?,, If the Bible is the Word of God, an absolutely trustworthy revelation from God Himself d Himself, His purposes and His will, of man's duty and destiny of spiritual and eternal realities, then we have a starting-point from which we can proceed to the conquest of the whole domain of religious truth. But if the Bible is not the '\Vord of God, if it is the mere product of man's think ing, speculating, and guessing, not altogether trustworthy in regard to religious and eternal truth, then we are all at sea, not knowing whither we are drifting, but we may be sure that we are not drifting toward any safe port. I did not always believe the Bible to be the Word of God. I sincerely doubted that the Bible was the Word of God. I doubted that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. I doubted whether there was a personal God. I was not an infidel-I was a skeptic. I did not deny-I questioned. I was· not an atheist-I was an agnostic. I did not know, but I determined to find out. If there was a God, I determined to THE
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