"It will be
admitted that if God were in any proper sense the author of the Bible,
it would bear these marks of its own truthfulness. Indeed, if he
inspired its authors, he must have desired that his creatures should
believe its statements and observe its precepts; and he would certainly
impart this very quality to it. The fact, then, that the Bible has the
identical effect on a vast multitude of its readers which its author
must have designed if that author is God, is no mean proof that God is
its author. This evidence can have but little effect on those who are
as yet unbelievers, and who consequently do not receive the impression
we refer to; but it is solid and satisfactory evidence to all those who
have for this and other reasons combined received the book as true, and
studied it for the good that is in it."
--J.M. McGarvey, The Old Faith Restated, ed. J. H. Garrison (St. Louis, MO: Christian Publishing Company, 1891), pp. 11-48.
As The Berean Call states: "While recent apologetics focus on the archaeological proof
confirming Scripture, this entry from 1891 points out a more obvious
and faithful witness to the truth of Scripture."
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