7 WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE took notes of what Jesus said in Greek, and that we have in the four Gospels the report of what they took down at the time. But whether this be true or not does not matter for our present ·purposes, for we have Christ's own authority for it that in the Apostolic records we have not the Apostles' recollection of what Jesus said, but the Holy Ghost's recollection of what Jesus said, and, while the Apostles might forget and report inaccurately, the Holy Ghost could not forget. Tum :furthermore to John xvi. I:2, 13, and you will hear Jesus saying, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth." Here Jesus sets the stamp of His authority upon the teach ing of the AFQstles as being given by the Holy Ghost, as coritaining all the truth, and as contain ing more truth than His own teaching. He tells the Apostles that He has many things that He knows to tell them, but that they ax:e not ready yet to receive them, but that when the Holy Spirit comes, He will guide them into this fuller and larger truth. If then we accept the au thority of Jesus Christ, we must accept the Apos tolic teaching, the New Testament writings, as being given through the Holy Spirit, as contain ing all the truth, and as containing more truth than Jesus taught while on earth. There are many in our day crying, " Back to Christ," by
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