p. 3 | The Undue Emphasis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 26, 1907

The Undue Emphasis

UNDUE emphasis upon the love of God to the exclusion of the justice of God prepares the way for Universalism. Undue emphasis upon the omnipresence of God to the exclusion of any true idea of his personality prepares the way for pantheism. Undue emphasis upon righteousness by faith and free grace to the exclusion of obedience as an essential condition of eternal life prepares the way for antinomianism. Undue emphasis upon any doctrine of the Scriptures to the exclusion or to the neglect of other doctrines essentially connected with it results in a distorted view of the truth, and prepares the way for error. We can not place too much emphasis upon the teaching of the Bible as a whole, but we may emphasize portions of it at the expense of other equally important portions, and thus change divine revelation into merely human conception — truth into fanaticism.