When a man of brains speaks well of the Bible and Christ he consciously or unconsciously bears tribute to the inspira tion of the one and the deity of the other. The Bible claims to be a revelation from God, and its char acter sustains its claim. “The Word of the Lord came express ly to Ezekiel.” (Ezek. 1:13.) “The Lord said unto me,” exclaimed Jeremiah. (Jer. 1 :7.) “Hear the Word of the Lord,” says Isaiah. (Isa. 1 :10.) “Thus saith the Lord,” rings through the Old Testament. And the New Testament puts the seal of inspiration upon the Old. “The Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David.” (Acts 1 :16.) “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” (2 Tim. 3 :16.) “The prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2 Pet. 1 :21.) If the men who wrote this Book were not inspired, they were liars, and we have to explain how the Book which con tains the highest morality ever given to earth could be written by a set of liars. And these bad men at the same time wrote their own doom, for there is no vice more severely condemned in the Bible than deception. To claim that good men wrote the Bible, and deny its inspiration, is on a par with the claim that Christ was a good man, while He pretended to be what He was not.
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