The Religion of the Future

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

The Religion of the Future

In the minds of some the standard of religion and religious faith and doctrine rests upon a sliding scale to be determined by the age of the world, the enlightenment of the people, etc. Consequently these theorists speculate upon what will constitute the “religion of the future.” The child of God does not need to spend time or worry in such silly philosophizing. The standard of religion to-day in God’s great plan is precisely what it was yesterday, one thousand years ago, in the days of the apostle Paul, in the antediluvian age. God has had one rule through all the ages by which he has measured right and righteousness; that is the law of the ten commandments. There has been one means, and one only, of salvation in every age of the world’s history, and that is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Scriptures contain to-day, as in past ages, a statement of Christian doctrine. Thankful indeed may we be that this is so. Otherwise we would be left to the wild meanderings of human philosophy and to the finite standards which changeable men might erect. Speaking of this subject, the Western Recorder (Baptist) of August 3 says:—

Of all senseless discussions none is ahead of that on the “religion of the future.” The true religion is as changeless as its God and his infallible Word. The errors and heresies no man can foresee. There may be another “dark ages” before us, when the true religion will hide away in valleys, caves, and catacombs. God is ruling. The thing for each of us to do is to seek the true religion here and now, and having found it, to take care that we do not build wood, hay, nor stubble on the true foundation.

The chief concern of every child of God should be to know how rightly to apply in his own personal experience the principles of the Word of truth.