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ter they may, but not in a human life or soul. We are agnostics, atheists, or Christians through faith, not reason; we are Baptists or Presbyterians through faith, not reason. We have here used the word “faith” with other than a Scriptural meaning. In the physical realm, reason holds a large place. In the spiritual realm it is faith. We cannot apply natural laws to supernatural problems. In our expe rience parallel lines never meet, and the circumference of k circle is a curved line. In higher mathematics this is all changed. Here, parallel lines meet at infinity, and the circumference of a circle with infinite area is a straight line. This is a good illustration of the difference between the natural and the supernatural. If one had never studied higher mathematics it would be difficult for him to believe that a quarter of something is equal to the whole of it, hut we leairn that a quarter of infin ity equals infinity. Therefore, the natural mind cannot com prehend the supernatural. It isn’t difficult for one who has had miracles performed in his own life to believe the Bible miracles. In talking with an aged man about the Virgin Birth he said, “I can’t understand it, therefore I can’t believe it.” He was trying ,to understand the supernatural in terms of the natural. He didn’t know that “The world by wisdom knows not God.” Reasonable Faith vs. Faithless Reason A young Christian is often helped in his discrimination between faith.and reason by knowing that faith is higher than reason. Faith is here used as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” My extension ladder, consisting of two ladders, illustrates this. One can climb into an upstairs window by either one, but the two must be put together to climb to the roof. The lower one is compared to reason; the upper, to faith. One climbs first by reason and then by faith into a belief in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of our Lord. A belief in miracles comes through a “reasonable faith” not a “faithless reason.” Men are born again through a “reasonable faith,” not a “faithless reason.” • Expert Evidence Who or what then is authority? This is a question of great import and one difficult to answer. Mere learning is not enough. The highly trained man is just as liable to error outside his own narrow field as is the untaught man. Expert evidence may be true or it may be false. To know and catch the spirit of farm life, one has to live with a farmer on a farm. One cannot get it from a teacher or a book. To know and catch the spirit of Christianity, one has to believe and accept Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour— to be born again. An authority in things Chris tian, therefore, is one who is a Christian and has had experience in Christian living, not an unbeliever though he has several university degrees. It pays, therefore, to measure and weigh articles and books as we read them. It pays to study men and their messages before believing fully in either. It pays to read carefully and critically before forming our own conclusions, whether they be in the field of finance, history, science, or religion. The question of authority is a vital question. (Continued in November)
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P R A Y E R “Prayer is the Christian’s vital breath, The Christian’s native air; His watchword at the gate of death— He enters Heaven with prayer.”
B I OL A B O OK R OOM Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cal.
— James Montgomery (1819)
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