The Protestant Platform by W. W. P.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

The Protestant Platform

By W. W. P.

It is one thing to accept and repeat as a formula the familiar words, “The Bible, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants,” but it is another thing to apply this principle in practise. It is natural to us to appeal to some kind of visible authority to interpret the Scriptures to us, and without realizing it we may be led step by step to substitute something else for the Bible, and to rest our message upon some other foundation than the Word of God, or at least upon the Word of God and something else.

Every teacher of the truth for this time should so study the Scriptures that for every doctrine presented to the people he will have Biblical proof, and every interpretation which he makes should commend itself to his hearers as being based upon an enlightened understanding of the Word of God itself.

When we seek to win to this movement those who acknowledge the authority of the Scriptures, it is incumbent upon us to present to them clear Scriptural reasons for all that we ask them to accept. In our study of the Word of God we may receive suggestions from many sources, but the material for our teaching should be drawn directly from God's Book.

W. W. P.