We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.
We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
