Skepticism and Fanaticism Against the Bible
By The Free Methodist
The two great enemies of the Bible are skepticism and fanaticism. The first repudiates the supreme authority of the word, hence recognizes other authority as equal and in some cases superior to it. The second repudiates the efficiency of the word and looks for something to be added. The one regards scientific induction and the teachings of reason of at least equal authority with the Bible; while the other regards feelings, emotions, visions, ecstasies and deductions from these as supplementing the word, and in extreme cases as to be relied upon rather than the word in its simplest and plainest interpretation. Each of these are against the “more sure word;” though the one, as a parasite growing upon, and clinging to, the word as its foundation, has a show of piety which the other does not care to assume and thus passes more readily among God's people as true piety. —The Free Methodist.