Word of God

There can be no authority save that which is infallible and Divine, that is, God speaking to us directly in His Word.
“O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth?” (Jer 5:3). The word truth in Scripture refers to both doctrine and practice.
It points to both the “error” and the “lie.” It classes both together. It condemns both. False speaking, whether in reference
to teaching or witness bearing, is declared to be abominable to God. His eyes are upon the truth. They watch over it, to
guard it, and to maintain it.
God is now recalling humanity to the book that was written for it. By the very attacks made on it by enemies, as well as
by the studies of its friends, He is bringing us back to this one volume, as the light shining in a dark place. That we may
know the past, the present, and the future, He is bidding us betake ourselves to it. Let us read it, let us study it, let us love it,
let us reverence it. It will guide, it will cheer, it will enlighten, it will make wise, it will purify.
It will lead us into all truth. It will deliver us from the fermenting errors of the day. It will save us from the intellectual
dreams of a vain philosophy, from the vitiated
 taste of a sensational literature, from the specious

 novelties of spiritual mysticism, from the pretentious sentimentalisms of men who soar above all creeds and abhor the name of “law,” from Broad
Church-ism, and High Church-ism, and no Church-ism. It will lead us into light and love, into liberty and unity, imparting
strength and gladness.
This Book is “the Word of God.” It contains “the words of God,” but it is “the Word of God,” the thing that God hath
spoken to man. Being the Word of God, that which it contains must be the words of God.
That He should speak in words of His own choosing is what we should above all things desire, for then we should know
that His thoughts were really presented to us; that He should speak in words of man’s choosing (if such a thing could be), is
altogether undesirable and unlikely; for then we should not know whether the language and the thought were in the least
coincident; nay, we should feel that we had gotten an incorrect and untrustworthy volume, that we had been cheated and
betrayed, that instead of bread we had got a stone, and instead of an egg we had got a scorpion. H.Bonar

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