Different Styles, One Divine Voice

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 1.

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Different Styles, One Divine Voice

It is frequently said the various styles in which the Bible is written, each writer having his own peculiar style, disproves verbal inspiration; for if God gave the very words, the style would be the same in all. But what right have these objectors to confine the Spirit of God to any one style? Very inspiration, as consistent with different styles, has been well illustrated by something like the following: A skilled musician plays many instruments, a piano, an organ, a flagolet, a fife, a violin, a guitar, a cornet. Upon all these he plays "Home, Sweet Home." The style of each instrument is different from all the others, and peculiar to itself, but it is the same tune which is played through all. Each instrument speaks the same thing. So the Spirit of God uses different men of different stations, but it is the same God which speaks through all.