The most
important question in religious thought is, “Is the Bible the Word of God?” If
the Bible is the Word of God, an absolutely trustworthy revelation from God
Himself of Himself, His purposes and His will, of man’s duty and destiny of
spiritual and eternal realities, then we have a starting-point from which we
can proceed to the conquest of the whole domain of religious truth. But if the
Bible is not the Word of God, if it is the mere product of man’s thinking,
speculating, and guessing, not altogether trustworthy in regard to religious
and eternal truth, then we are all at sea, not knowing whither we are drifting,
but we may be sure that we are not drifting toward any safe port.