Good morning,
The Bible instructs me on how to live my life. It has the answers to all the questions of life.
Dr. Spurgeon challenges us to allow the Bible to shape the way we think and act in this world.
I would rather have a crooked creed and a
straight Bible
(Charles Spurgeon)
My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views, is not great enough to
allow me to knowingly alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect
for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is
far greater. I would sooner a hundred times over, appear to be inconsistent
with myself, than be inconsistent with the Word of God.
If your creed and Scripture do not agree, then cut your creed to pieces and
make it agree with this Book. The Word of God is the infallible chart of faith.
Follow it closely, for this Book cannot lead you astray.
Some want to shape the Scriptures to fit their creed, and they get a very nice
square creed too, and trim the Bible most dexterously. It is astonishing how
they do it, but I would rather have a crooked creed and a
straight Bible, than I would try to twist the Bible
to suit what I believe.
Those who will only believe what they can reconcile in their own minds, will
necessarily disbelieve much of divine revelation.
Those who receive by faith everything which they find in Scripture, will
receive many things which they can never harmonize into a definitive creed.
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Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001