H�ly Scripture and Modern Negations • 9� LIBLE BIBLE FOR AN INFALLIBLE CHURCH", and the implication is that the one idea is just as baseless as the h ot a h p e s r , . th S at om th e e ti t m ho e u s g t h h t e o id f e a a n is au t t a h k o e r n ity up e , x q te u rn ite al c t o o m o m u o rs n e l h y ,e p s e r to our own reason or conscience or spiritual nature-must be wholly given up; that only that can be accepted which carries its authority within itself by the appeal it makes to reason or to our spiritual being, and thereiin lies the judge for us of what is true and what is false. That proposition has an element of truth in it; it may oe true or may be false according as we interpret it. However, as it is frequently interpreted it leaves the Scriptures-but more than that, it leaves Jesus Christ Himself-without any authority for us save that with which our own minds see fit to clothe Him. But in regard to the INFALLIBLE BIBLE AND THE INFALLIBLE CHURCH, it is proper to point out that there is a considerable difference between these two things-between the idea of an authoritative Scripture and the idea of an infallible Church or an infallible Pope, in the Roman sense of that word. It may be a clever antithesis to say that Protestantism substituted the idea of an infallible Book for the older Romish dogma of an infallible Churcht; b ac u c t u t r h a e cy an a t b it o h u e t si i s t , . th T e h c e on i t d r e a a st o , f un t f h o e rt a u u n t a h t o e r l i y ty ha o s f o S n c e ri f p a t t u a r l e in is r v .o en t ti y o o n un o g f e P r, ro b t u e t st o an ld t e is r m t . ha I n t i R s o n mot an so is mm e . thi I n t g is th n a o t t P a rot la e t s e tan in ts i f n a v ll e ib n l t e ed C a h n u d rc s h u ; bs b t u it t uted for the Roman conception of the in it is the original conception that lies in the Scriptures themselves. There is a great difference there. It is a belief-this belief in the Holy Scripture-which was accepted and acted upon by the Church of Christ from the first. The Bible itself claims to be an authoritative Book, and an infallible guide to the true knowledge of God and l)f the way of salvation. This view is implied in evary reference'
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