"Our modern critics, with arrogance which rises to daring impiety, deny to Christ the insight which they claim for themselves... The authority of Jesus Christ, God speaking - not from heaven only, but with human lips - has given a sanction to every book and sentence in the Jewish canon, and blasphemy is written on the forehead of any theory which alleges imperfection, error, contradiction or sin in any book in the sacred collection." The Doctrines Of Grace And Kindred Themes |
"Soon after 1885 I went to Europe where I spent nearly three weeks in studying this text, I Tim. iii:16 on the great uncials "C" and "A". Through the kindness of Mr. Albert Le Faivre, Minister Plenipotentiary from France to the United States, I had the Codex "C" for one week under my hands to study the membrane with lenses and under full sunshine. The parchment was also held up by an attendant in front of the great window so that the light could fall through the palimpsest page. I have compared the THEOS of line 14 on folio 119, the one in dispute, with every other THEOS on the page and, out of the five, I find it the plainest one there. All five are written with two letters - OY, OY, OC, OY, OW Two of the five only have the line, the mark of contraction, above. Only one of the two, the plainest, is the only one they deny. Three of the five only have the hair mark in the Theta - one of these three is the one they deny. To put it more plainly - the question is, Is it OC "who" or is it OC with a line over the two letters and a mark in the O, God? It is beyond question the latter. My eyes are as good as any man's." Sheol, The Principle and Tendency |
"The Revised Version of the New Testament is based upon a new, uncalled for, and unsound Greek text - that mainly of Drs Westcott and Hort, which was printed simultaneously with the revision and never before had seen light and which is the most unreliable text perhaps ever printed." The Doctrines Of Grace And Kindred Themes |
"I have been confirmed in what had before been a growing conviction - that the revision movement, dating from the finding of Tischendorf's Aleph, unconsciously to most, but consciously to the Unitarian - to the Messrs Vance Smith, Robertson Smith, etc. - liberal members of the New Testament Company, was running steadily in one direction through three points: First, to weaken and destroy the binding force of inspiration in the very words. Second, to weaken and destroy the five Points of Grace founded on Free Will A Slave. Third, to weaken and destroy the old-fashioned notion of Hell as a place and a state of immediate, everlasting and utterly indescribable torment into which impenitent men go at once the moment they die." The Doctrines Of Grace And Kindred Themes |
"The Revised Version weakens and removes the deity of Christ in many places - one I mention in particular is 1 Timothy 3:16, Great is the mystery of godliness, GOD was manifest in the flesh. The Revised Version [along with almost all modern versions] leaves out THEOS, or GOD... That conviction of Dr. Scrivener is my conviction and on the very same grounds - a conviction so deep that I will never yield it, nor admit as a text of my faith a book pretending to be a revelation from God which leaves that word out. The Holy Ghost has written it - let no man dare touch it." The Doctrines Of Grace And Kindred Themes |
"To employ soft words and honeyed phrases in discussing questions of everlasting importance; to deal with errors that strike at the foundations of all human hope as if they were harmless and venial mistakes; to bless where God disapproves, and to make apologies where He calls us to stand up like men and assert, though it may be the aptest method of securing popular applause in a sophistical age, is cruelty to man and treachery to Heaven. Those who on such subjects attach more importance to the rules of courtesy than they do to the measures of truth do not defend the citadel, but betray it into the hands of its enemies. Love for Christ, and for the souls for whom He died, will be the exact measure of our zeal in exposing the dangers by which men’s souls are ensnared." Sermon, June 7, 1885 |
"God wrote the Bible, the whole Bible, and the Bible as a whole. He wrote each word of it as truly as He wrote the Decalogue on the tables of stone." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
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"Christ everywhere receives the Scripture, and speaks of the Scriptures, in their entirety -- the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, the whole Old Testament canon -- as the living Oracle of God. He accepts and He endorses everything written, and even makes most prominent those miracles which infidelity regards as most incredible... And this position of our Saviour which exalted Scripture as the mouthpiece of the living God was steadily maintained by the Apostles and the apostolic Church." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"We hold, from first to last, that there can be no possible advance in Revelation -- no new light. What was written at first, the same thing stands written today, and will stand forever. The emanation of the mind of God -- it is complete, perfect." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"The Bible is the Word of God, and not simply contains it." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"The Bible, likewise, is the Word of God, because it comes from God; because its every word was penned by God; because it is the only exponent of God; the only rule of His procedure, and the Book by which we must at last be judged." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"It is God's Revelation that faith hears, and it is on God revealed that faith rests." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"What grander proof of literal inspiration can be than in the high-handed method and imperative tone of prophets and apostles which enabled them -- poor men, obscure, and without an influence; fishermen, artisans, publicans, day-laborers -- to brace and boldly teach the world from Pharaoh and from Nero down?" The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"Standing with Uriel in the sun, we launch the proposition that the Scriptures are Divine in their very message because they deal with three Infinites: Infinite Guilt; Infinite Holiness; Infinite Atonement." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"God inspires not men, but language. The phrase, 'inspired men,' is not found in the Bible. The Scripture never employs it. The Scripture says that 'holy men were moved' -- pheromenoi -- but that their writing, their manuscript, what they put down and left on the page, was God-breathed." The Testimony Of The Scriptures To Themselves |
"Would all the united wisdom of men have led them to relate the history of the creation of the universe in a single chapter, and that of the erection of the tabernacle in thirteen?" The Doctrines Of Grace |