Liberalism has “lost all sense of the gulf that separates the creature from the Creator.”6 It has “a supreme confidence in human goodness.”7 The “liberal doctrine of God and the liberal doctrine of man are both diametrically opposite to the Christian view.”8 The liberal view of God and man depends upon the liberal view of authority in religion. What then, asks Machen, is the “liberal view as to the seat of authority in religion?”9 Does it substitute the authority of Christ for that of the
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