How Do We Know?

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Ask a simple believer how he knows that the Bible is the Word of God. He will tell you that he has felt its power. Has not the Holy Ghost given you to feel the power of the Word of God? If God cannot make me know that it is He who speaks to me in His Word, who else can? Were we merely to believe in the divine inspiration of the Scriptures on human testimony—be that testimony ever so powerful—it would not be faith at all. I believe what God says because He says it, not because of any human authority. If all the fathers that ever wrote, all the doctors that ever taught, all the councils that ever sat, all the angels in heaven, and all the saints upon earth were to agree in declaring that the Bible is the Word of God, and that we were to believe on their testimony, it would not be divinely given faith. And on the other hand, were all to agree in declaring that the Bible is not the Word of God, it should not for a moment shake our confidence in that peerless revelation.