Four Grand Arguments

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

Four Grand Arguments.

There are four grand arguments for the truth of the Bible. The first the miracles on record, the second the prophecies, the third the goodness of the doctrine, and the fourth the moral character of the penman. The miracles flow from divine power, the prophecies from divine understanding, the excellences of the doctrine from divine goodness, the character of the writers from moral purity. Thus Christianity is built upon these four immovable pillars—the power, the understanding, the goodness, and the purity of God.

The Bible must be one of these things—either an invention of good men or angels, or of bad men or bad angels, or a revelation from God. But it could not be the invention of good men or angels; for they neither would nor could make a book telling lies, and at the same time saying, "Thus saith the Lord," when they knew it all to be their own invention. It could not be wicked men or devils; for they could not make a book which commands all duty, which forbids all sin, and which condemns them to all eternity. The conclusion is irresistible: the Bible must be given by divine revelation.—Religious Telescope.