HOW monstrous are the reasonings or rather the ravings of infidelity! Infidel teachers begin by throwing overboard the word of God, that peerless and perfect revelation; and having thus deprived us of our divine guide, they with singular audacity present themselves before us, and undertake to point out to us a more excellent way; and when we inquire what that way is, we are met by a thousand and one fine-spun theories, no two of which agree in anything but in shutting out God and His word.
True, they talk plausibly about a God; but it is a God of their own imagination; one who will connive at sin; who will allow them to indulge in their lusts, and passions, and pleasures, and then take them to a heaven of, which they really know nothing.
They talk of mercy, and kindness, and goodness; but they reject the only channel through which these can flow, namely, the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. They speak not of righteousness, holiness, truth and "judgment to come.”
They would fain have us believe that God put Himself to needless cost in delivering up His Son.
They would ignore that marvelous transaction
which stands alone in the entire history of the ways of God; namely, the atoning death of His Son. In one word, the grand object of the devil,
in all the skeptical, rationalistic, and infidel theories that have ever been propounded in this world, is to completely shut out the word of God, the Christ of God, and God Himself.
'We solemnly call upon all our readers, especially our young friends, to ponder this warning. It is our deep and abiding Conviction that the harboring of a single infidel suggestion is the first step on that inclined plane which leads straight down to the dark and terrible abyss of atheism, down to "the blackness of darkness forever." (Jude 1313Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jude 13).) “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of His power, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God', and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power." (2 Thess. 1:7-97And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; (2 Thessalonians 1:7‑9).)