In What Is It Belief?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 14.

In What Is It Belief?

In writing, to a gentleman recently, we kindly intimated that it would be useless to bring the Bible as proof to him, because he did not believe the Bible. He replied: “I wish to disabuse your mind in regard to my belief of the Bible. I do believe all in it that is worthy of belief.” The veriest infidel believes he does this. But this is simply making his mind the standard of belief; he believes not God, but self. He believes not in the Bible, but in his opinion of it. Many believe in the same way, and think they are Bible believers. But the Bible believer is the man who believes it all.