The Highway Forums General Discussion Devotional Quotes Human thought is not the arbiter of truth

The thought of tampering with revealed truth is vicious and ought not to be tolerated by any Christian for a second. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a thing which is to be moulded according to the fashion of the period: it is “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for ever.”

It is not ours to say what the truth must be, or what we think it should be, or what we would like it to be, but reverently to sit down with open ear and willing heart to receive what God has spoken.

If an astronomer were to forbear to examine the stars, and teach an astronomy invented in his own brain, he would be an idiot: and those who treat theology in like fashion are not much better.

“Surely,” saith one, “we ought to modify our beliefs by public opinion, and the current of thought.”

I say “no” a thousand times. The incorruptible Word of God liveth and abideth forever, and is incapable of modification. To modify is to adulterate and nullify it, and render it of none effect, so that it becomes another gospel, and, indeed, no gospel...The Lord knows what he is better than we can ever know, and if he has been pleased to speak in His Word plainly and solemnly, it is ours to believe what he says, because he says it.

It may be all very well to prove that such and such a revelation of God is consistent with reason, consistent with analogy, consistent with a thousand things; but the spirit which needs such argument is a spirit of rebellion against God. If there be a revelation, every part of it is of authority, and must be believed. Human thought is not the arbiter of truth, but the infallible Word is the end of all strife.

~ Charles H. Spurgeon

No man was ever led to a saving faith by our meeting him halfway and consenting to his unbelief. No real faith was ever wrought in man by his own thoughts and imaginations; he must receive the gospel as a revelation from God, or he cannot receive it at all. Plain truth is in the wonderful century of small account; men crave to be mystified by their own cogitations…They do not accept God's Word as final, but they judge it and believe what they like of it. This is madness.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon