Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lectures on the Truth of the Christian Religion: Delivered Before the Students of the University of Michigan on Sunday Afternoons
"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." - John vii. 17.
There are a great many opinions entertained by us all in regard to human duty, in regard to God and his relation to the world, in regard to a future life and our destination thereto, which rest almost exclusively on the teachings of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.
Were we asked to trace our opinion to its source, and state the fundamental reason for our belief, most of us would appeal to some text of scripture; we would fall back upon some utterance of Moses or Christ. But why do we appeal to the authority of scripture? Why do we quote the words of Moses or of Christ as though they were more reliable than the words of other men? Is it not because we regard the Bible as, somehow, a book sui generis - a book standing by itself - and having a Divine element in it, which sets it apart from other books, and enables it to speak to us with more authority than any other book on earth?
Most men now believe and have believed in all ages, that God does in some way reveal himself to man.
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