The Importance of Belief

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 29, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 50.

The Importance of Belief

The doctrine that a man's belief is of no consequence to himself, or to the world, so long as he does what he thinks right, is based upon a self-evident fallacy. Like every other teaching which seeks to disparage God's revealed truth, it assumes too much and breaks down under its heavy load of assumption. It assumes that every man will always think right, when the patent facts are that a great many people never think at all, and need others to do their thinking for them, while a large majority of those that do think are sure to think wrong. That sort of nonsense will not win until men cease to think at right angles to each other, or in directly opposite directions, and become infallible. Then they will have no need of a divine revelation.—Selected.