The Bible is the greatest work of literature, the most accurate record of ancient history, and the most profound book ever written. Great men and women of history have looked to the Scriptures for inspiration, guidance and hope. Napoleon wrote, "The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that opposes it."

George Washington said," It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

Abraham Lincoln believed that "The Bible is the best gift that God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."

Queen Victoria, "That book accounts for the supremacy of England."

Daniel Webster, "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me and early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if our prosperity and we neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

Patrick Hennery," The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible."

U.S.Grant, "The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties."

Horace Greeley, "It is impossible to enslave mentally socially a Bible -reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground-work of human freedom."

Andrew Jackson, "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."

Robert E. Lee, " In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and add strength."

Lord Tennyson, "Bible reading is an education in itself."

John Quincy Adams said, "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children began to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once a year."

Emanuel Kant, "The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."

Charles Dickens, "The New Testament is the very book that ever was or ever will be known in the world."

Henry Van Dyke,"Born in the east and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. The wicked and the proud trembles at its warnings,. But to the wounded and penitent it has a mother's voice. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams, so the Love, Friendship, Sympathy, Devotion, Memory, Hope put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens, and the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley of the shadow, he is not afraid to enter. He takes the rod and the staff of the Scriptures in his hand. He says to friends and comrade, "Goodbye, We shall meet again", and confronted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into light."

Brother Dutch.com "This website believes in the inerrant an infallible Word of God. As far as the principles of higher criticism, this is the only mention of it that will ever be mentioned on this website."

The Bible composed of many authors, over a period of many centuries, yet ONE BOOK, is in itself the outstanding Miracle of the Ages, bearing aloft its own evidence of Superhuman Origin.

Everybody ought to love the Bible. Everybody ought to be a regular reader of the Bible. Everybody out to strive to live by the Bibles teachings. The Bible ought to have a Central Place in the life and working of every Church and in every Pulpit. THE PULPIT'S ONE BUSINESS IS THE SIMPLE EXPOSITORY TEACHING OF GOD'S WORD.


The Bible is God's Word
(from Halley's Bible Handbook)

Apart from any theory of inspiration or any theory of how the Bible books came to their present form; or how much the text may have suffered in transmission at the hands of editors and copyists; apart from the question of how much is to be interpreted literally and how figuratively, or what is historical and what may be poetical; if we will assume that the Bible is just what it appears to be and study its books to know their comments, we will find there a be Unity of Thought indicating that One Mind inspirited the writing and compilation of rhe whole series of books, that it bears on its face the stamp of its Author; that it is in a unique and distinctive sense THE WORD OF GOD.

There is a present day-view held rather widely in certain intellectual circles, that the Bible is a sort of age-long story of man's effort to find God; a record of man's experiences reaching after God, gradually improving his idea of God by building on the experiences reaching after God, gradually improving his idea of Good by building on the experiences of preceding generations. In those passages, so abundant in the Bible, in which it is said that God spoke, God according to this view, did not really speak; but men put their ideas in language professing to be the language of God while in reality it was only what men imagined about God. The Bible is thus reduced to the level of other books and its made to appear, not a Divine book, but a human book, pretending to be Divine.

We reject this view utterly and with abhorrence. We believe the Bible to be, not man's account of his effort to find God, but rather an account of God's effort to reveal Himself to man; God's own record of His dealings with men, in His unfolding revelation of Himself to the human race; the Revealed Will of the Creator of Man, given to Man by the Creator Himself, for Instruction and Guidance in the Ways of Life.

The books of the Bible were composed by human authors; and it is not even known who some of theses authors were. No is it known just how God directed these authors to write. But it is asserted that God did direct them; and these books must be exactly what God wanted them to be.

There is a difference between the Bible and all other books. Authors may pray for God's help and guidance; and God does help and guide, and there are many good books in the world which unmistakably God has helped the authors to write. But even so, even the most saintly of authors would hardly presume to claim for his books that God wrote them. But that is claimed for the Bible. God Himself superintended and directed and dictated the writing of the Bible books, with the human authors so completely under His control that the writing was the writing of God. The Bible is GOD'S WORD in a sense that No Other Book in the World is God's Word.

It may be that some Bible utterances are "ancient thought" for ideas that we would now express in a different way; for they were expressed in language of ancient times. But even so, the Bible contains precisely the things that God wants mankind to know, in exactly the form in which He wants us to know them. And to the end of time the Dear Old Book will remain the one and only answer to humanity's quest for God.

The Bible, composed by many authors, over a period of many centuries, yet ONE BOOK is, in itself, the outstanding Miracle of the Ages, bearing aloft its own evidence of its Superhuman Origin.