What is the difference, if there is any, between Atheism and Infidelity?
Atheism is disbelief in God. Infidelity, as the word is to-day understood, is disbelief in the Scripture; that is, not disbelief in all its records, but refusal to accept the Bible as divinely inspired.
An Atheist must, of necessity, be an Infidel also. If there is no Supreme Being, there can, of course, be no revelation from Him. On the other hand, an Infidel is not necessarily an Atheist. A man may believe firmly in God, yet not accept the Bible, or the Christian Religion, as of divine origin, but insist that they stand on a level with the Koran of the Mohammedans, or the teachings of Buddha,—in fact, that the Christian and Jewish Scriptures and religion are no more inspired than the systems and books of India and China.
