What the Word Says

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1883

What the Word Says.

It was a good point which was made by a clergyman, at a recent ministerial gathering in Boston, that all true progress in theology must be secured through a better understanding of the Bible teachings; not through any un-biblical theories as to what God might have taught, or ought to have taught, to man. If any uninspired formulas of the ages are found to be at variance with the letter and spirit of the Bible text, they will have to give way before the pressure of intellectual and spiritual progress. But if any new theology is based only on what uninspired men think is the fair or reasonable view of God's ways of working, without any Bible teachings on which to rest their thinking, that theology will not secure any permanent hold on the Christian mind, whether its advocacy be by European or American professors. There is no better way of finding out what God means than by looking at the Bible record to see what God has said.—S. S. Times.