Category — Quotes

S.R.L. Gaussen had some interesting and motivating things to say about the inspired Word of God we have in our language and can hold in our hands:

I will not waste my time in vain questions; I will study the book. It is the word of Moses, the word of Amos, the word of John, the word of Paul; but it is the mind of God and the word of God. We should then deem it a very erroneous statement to say; certain passages in the Bible are from men, and certain others from God. No; every verse, without exception, is from men; and every verse, without exception, is from God; whether he speaks directly in his own name, or whether he employs all the individuality of the sacred writer. . . .

But, thanks be to God . . . [our sacred books] contain no errors, all their writing is inspired of God. . . . none of these words ought to be neglected, and we are called to respect them and to study them even to their least iota and to their least tittle.

Taken from Theopneusty by S.R.L. Gaussen (published in English first in 1842), pp. 36-39 (as quoted in Lewis Sperry Chafer’s Systematic Theology, Vol. VI, pp. 30-31).