Word of God and have affirmed instead that only Jesus Christ is the Word of God. At the end of the nineteenth century, the influential dean of Canterbury, F. W. Farrar, cited the words of another to express his own opinion: “Take away this persecuting, burning, cursing, damning of men for not subscribing to the words of men as the Words of God; require of Christians only to believe Christ, and to call no man master but Him only.”16 More recently John Barton argues that “it is only in a loose sense