Thread: A question on Christian Scripture.

I was zealous at one time and then drifted and went through a crisis of faith so to speak. I read Sam Harris and others, Bart Ehrman's books on the origins of the scriptures and problems with the translations. It was in another thread on this topic that I went back to my copy of the Reverend Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones preaching on the sermon on the mount that I posted the following quote. Mystery of the HS. Posting and re-reading that brought me back to the faith.

In his introduction to "Studies In The Sermon On The Mount" he starts out by saying that,"There is nothing more important in the Christian life than the way in which we approach the Bible and the way in which we read it. It is our textbook, it is our only source, it is our only authority. We know nothing about God and about the Christian life in a true sense apart from the Bible. We can draw various deductions from nature (and possibly from various mystical experiences) by which we can arrive at a belief in a supreme Creator. But I think it is agreed by most Christians and it has been traditional throughout the long history of the Church that we have no authority save this Book. We cannot rely solely upon subjective experiences because there are evil spirits as well as good spirits' there are counterfeit experiences. Here, in the Bible is our sole authority."