FOURTH TALK
THREE KORE REASONS WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE TO BE THE WORD OF GOD IN the three previous addresses I have given you seven reasons why I believe the Bible to be the Word of God. First, because of the testimony of Jesus Christ to that effect. We saw that Jesus Christ set the stamp of His authority upon the entire Old Testament and the entire New Testament, and that if we accepted the author ity of Jesus Christ we were obliged to accept the entire Bible as to divine origin and authority. We next saw that we must accept the authority of Jesus Christ, for He was accredited to us by five unmistakably definite testimonies. First, by the testimony of the divine life that He lived ; second, by the testimony of the divine words that He spoke; third, by the testimony of the divine works that He wrought; fourth, by the testimony of His divine influence upon all subsequent his tory; and fifth, by the testimony of the resurrec tion from the dead, which was God's divine at testation to the claims of Jesus Christ. The second reason I gave was because of its fulfilled prophecies. We saw that the Bible had the 48
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