The Fundamentals: Volume 1, Chapter 7: A Personal Testimony

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A Personal Testimony

nor archreology well, and to me, as to many, to pull out one

great prop was to make the whole foundation uncertain.

So I floundered on for some years trying, as some of my

higher critical friends are trying today, to continue to use the

Bible as the Word of God and at the same time holding it

of

composite authorship, a curious and disastrous piece of

mental gymnastics-a bridge over the chasm separating an

older Bible-loving generation from a newer Bible-emanci

pated race. saw in the book a great light and glow of heat,

yet shivered out in the cold.

One day it occurred to me to see what the book had to say

about itself. As a short, but perhaps not the best 1nethod,

took a concordance and looked out Word, when found that

the Bible claimed from one end to the other to be the authori

tative Word of God to man. I then tried the natural plan of

taking it as my text -book of religion, as would use a text

book in any science, testing it by submitting to its conditions.

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I now believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God,

inspired in a sense utterly different from that of any merely

human book.

I believe Je sus Christ to be the Son of God, without human

father, conceived by the Ho ly Ghost, born of the Virgin

Mary. That all men without excep tion are by nature sinners,

alienated from God, and when thu s utterly lost in sin the Son

of God Himself came down to earth, and by shedding His

blood upon the cro ss paid the infinite penalty of the guilt of

the whole world. I believe he who thus receives ]esus Christ

as his Saviour is born again spiritually as definitely as in his

first birth, and, so born spiritually, has new privileges, appe

tite s and affection s ; that he is one body with Christ the Head

and will live with I-Iim forever. I believe no man can save

himself by good works, or what is commonly known as a



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