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IS THE BIBLE AN INSPIRED BOOK?

From the September 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal

S. S. Times


The evidence that the Bible is a revelation from God is in the book itself. It could not fairly be elsewhere, so obviously as there. The profoundest scholars and the purest men of the ages who have examined that book for evidences of its authority as from God, have been convinced, beyond all doubt, on this point.

And those men who know most concerning all other sacred books of the ages, and concerning all other books of human composition merely, are surest that this book is as truly distinct from them all, and is as truly far above them all in its revealings and in its spirit and teachings, as the very sun in the heavens is different from and superior to the electric lights that glare and flicker in our city streets.

The Bible itself, studied in its text and compared with all else that the world has to offer as bringing to us direct messages from God, furnishes ample and irrefragible evidence that only the Author of our own being could have been the Author of that Book of books, with all that it shows us of ourselves, and with all that it discloses concerning our needs, our duties, and our destiny.

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