The Bible | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 18, 1878

The Bible.

"The only God-given rule of faith and practice is the Bible."—Scripture Manual.

"The Bible contains the whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory; or man's salvation, faith and life."—Westminster Assembly Conf. of Faith.

"The Bible is the Christian's store-house of all supplies; his museum of the greatest rarities and curiosities; his sanctuary and hiding place; his glass, through which are seen all objects, both of time and eternity—and in which the sinner may see reflected, the moral image of the soul."—Butterworth's Concordance improved by Dr. A. Clarke.

"The rule that all must agree in, must be one that is above all. Never will the church have full unity, till the Scripture sufficiency be more generally acknowledged. You complain of many opinions, and many ways; and many you will still have, till the one rule—the Scriptures—be the standard of our religion. Two things have set the church on fire, and been the plague of it above one thousand years, First: Enlarging our creed and making more fundamentals than God ever made, and Second: Composing and so imposing our creeds and confessions in our own words and phrases."—Richard Baxter.

"For my part I adhere to the Holy Scriptures alone."—Milton.

"The Bible. It is all-pure, all-sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting. How that can be called the church of Christ, which is established upon laws which are not his, and which exclude such persons from its communion as he will one day receive into the kingdom of heaven I understand not."—John Locke's Christian Philosophy.

"The first Christians had no written creed—they expressed their belief in the language of Scripture—therefore, their variations were without schism, and their differences without acrimony."—Waddington.