We can understand the evidence that it is from God and for our good,
and it is reasonable that we should accept its great truths by faith,
although we may not now be able to see how all the truths it reveals
are consistent with each other. "Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the
whole duty of man."

As has often been said, no one can do better than to live the pure,
clean, benevolent life that Jesus inculcated and incarnated. If you
imitate him in goodness and good deeds, you are pursuing the best
possible course, even if the Bible is not true. If, on the other
hand, the Bible is true, and you do not live for Christ, you are
doomed for ever and ever.

Having been delivered from the bondage of rationalism, I found my way
back to Christ with comparative ease. If experience and facts are our
ultimate guides, then we must trust the testimony of history. With
the help of the _Bi-Millennial Telescope on the opposite page_, and
limitless similar testimony, we can trace the existence of the Bible
clear to the days of the Apostles. None ever had better means of
knowing the facts they bore witness to than the Apostles, and none
ever gave stronger proof that they sincerely told the truth as they
knew it. The Gospels being genuine and reliable, the life and words
and miracles of Jesus they narrate, give sufficient proof of the
divinity of Christ to satisfy every reasonable demand of the
intellect. This is especially true concerning the resurrection of
Christ, on which the proof of Christianity hinges. "He showed himself
alive after his passion by many infallible proofs." And if he arose
from the dead, he was demonstrated by it to be the Son of God. And if
he is the Son of God, then the Bible is the Word of God, for he has