Machen on the Word of God

September 20, 2007

“The Christian man…finds in the Bible the very Word of God. Let it not be said that dependence on a book is a dead or an artificial thing. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was founded upon the authority of the Bible, yet it set the world aflame. Dependence upon a word of man would be slavish, but dependence upon God’s word is life. Dark and gloomy would be the world, if we were left to our own devices, and had no blessed Word of God. The Bible, to the Christian, is not a burdensome law, but the very Magna Charta of Christian liberty.

It is no wonder, then, that liberalism is totally different from Christianity, for the foundation is different. Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and it’s life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.”

—J.Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

(HT: Josh Harris)

Helpful links:
J. Gresham Machen’s Response to Modernism
Wiki

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