Looking Back: We Are Pointed To The Bible

From April 1955

“The Bible is not out of date. The Bible is the revelation of God. The Bible is the foundation on which we have to build.”

By the Duchess of Hamilton

If modern problems are completely different from those experiences by the people with whom the Bible deals, how relevant is the Bible to us? This is a burning question. It is true our problems are new; it is true they are different; and it is true that they are so complicated that the issues of right and wrong are not easily discernible.

But it is also true that our task in equipping ourselves to meet these problems is the same as it has ever been; for it is to know God and to follow Christ.

We will not find in the Bible a ready-made solution to the latest economic problem or political impasse; we will find the knowledge of God and of Christ Who has overcome this world and everything that this world can do to us and to any future generation.

I believe it is essential that we should not let our inevitable bewilderment at the problems which confront us cloud for one moment our vision of the Word of God as the foundation on which we have to build, and as the foundation from which Christians must go forth in faith to seek and to find in every field of social, political, and economic work, and from which they must approach every aspect of evangelical endeavour.

The Bible is not out of date. It is as relevant to us now as it was for the first Christians;         and it will be in the last days. What we need as laymen is a better knowledge of it; and those of us who are parents, in particular, are deeply conscious of our need to impart it to our children. We are thankful for the Sunday Schools and the Bible classes, but, if we are honest with ourselves, we know they are not enough.

We are talking much about Evangelism in Scotland. Let us remember to give the Bible a central place. I am quite sure to do so is an absolute necessity.

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