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Defending the Bible

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 11.

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Defending the Bible

The best possible way for Christians to defend the Bible against the attacks of its enemies is by so obeying it as constantly to exemplify its teachings. It is said of Jesus, “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” It is as true of his followers as of himself that the life conformed to the will of God illumines the darkness of the world around it. The world soon tires and sickens of holiness in the abstract,—holiness as a doctrine or a theory,—but holiness in the concrete never loses its power to excite human interest, and to confound opposers of the truth. When Christians generally shall have come to obey their Bibles in all things, great and small, thus becoming “living epistles known and read of all men,” infidelity will have been dispossessed of its chief vantage ground, despoiled of its most effective ammunition, and rendered powerless in all its enginery of warfare against the Holy Scriptures.—The Free Methodist.