# 4 of Ten Reasons Why I Believe The Bible Is The Word Of God by R. A. Torrey
On the ground of the immeasurable superiority of the
teachings of the Bible to those of any other and all other books.
It is quite fashionable in some quarters to compare the
teachings of the Bible with the teachings of Zoroaster, and Buddha, and
Confucius, and Epictetus, and Socrates, and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and a
number of other heathen authors. The difference between the teachings of the
Bible and those of these men is found in three points-
First, the Bible has in it
nothing but truth, while all the others have truth mixed with error. It is true
Socrates taught how a philosopher ought to die; he also taught how a woman of
the town ought to conduct her business. Jewels there are in the teachings of
these men, but (as Joseph Cook once said) they are "jewels picked out of
the mud."
Second, the Bible contains all truth.
There is not a truth to be found anywhere on moral or spiritual subjects that
you cannot find in substance within the covers of that old Book. I have often,
when speaking upon this subject, asked anyone to bring me a single truth on
moral or spiritual subjects, which, upon reflection, I could not find within
the covers of this book, and no one has ever been able to do it. I have taken
pains to compare some of the better teachings of infidels with those of the
Bible. They indeed have jewels of thought, but they are, whether they knew it
or not, stolen jewels, and stolen from the very book they ridicule.
The third point
of superiority is this: the Bible contains more truth than all other books
together. Get together from all literature of ancient and modern times all the
beautiful thoughts you can; put away all the rubbish; put all these truths that
you have culled from the literature of all ages into one book, and as the
result, even then you will not have a book that will take the place of this one
book.
This is not a large book. I hold in my hand a copy that I
carry in my vest pocket and yet in this one little book there is more of truth
than in all the books which man has produced in all the ages of his history.
How will you account for it? There is only one rational way. This is not man's
book, but God's book.
No comments:
Post a Comment