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Reason for Belief

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 20, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 8.

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Reason for Belief

"A good old Highlander gave Claudius Buchanan the following reason for believing the Bible to be from God: 'I know nothing about what the learned men call the external evidences of revelation; but I will tell you why I believe it to be from God; I have a most depraved and sinful nature; and, do what I will, I find I can not make myself holy. My friends can not do it for me, nor do I think all the angels in heaven could. One thing alone does it—the reading and believing what I read in that blessed book; that does it. Now, as I know that God must be holy, and a lover of holiness, and as I believe that book to be the only thing in creation that produces and increases holiness, I conclude that it is from God, and that He is the author of it.'"