44 • WHY THE BIBLE chosen messengers, but delivered “once for all.” It is not subject to addition or development or modification of any kind. It is the absolute and final authority in all questions of faith and morals. We are not bound to believe or do anything because Buddha, or Mahomet, or Shakespeare, or Goethe, or Spencer says so. While we are bound to believe and do whatever the Bible says we must. “Thus saith the Lord” is an end of all controversy. III. The third ground for taking the Bible
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