How to Read the Bible by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1890

How to Read the Bible

By Editor

WE believe God's word, and that it is all given for a purpose. Our understanding or not understanding a passage does not affect the Scripture or its object. Upon this point we commend the following from the Independent:—

“One who, in reading the Bible, finds it necessary to slur over this passage, to dodge that passage, and to pervert the natural and obvious meaning of a third, and so on indefinitely, may be sure that he does not come to the study of the book divine in a proper state of mind. He makes the Bible an authority when and where it suits him; and when it does not suit him, he virtually disputes or absolutely denies its authority. This is not the way to read the Bible to the highest profit.”