HERITAGE: Spurgeon on the Bible

                                                                Vol. IX, No. 4, April 1996

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the greatest preacher of the last half of the last century, filling the pulpit for forty years prior to his death in 1892. His complete sermons have been published in 63 volumes. Herewith three brief selections setting forth his view of the Bible reprinted from 2200 Quotations from the Writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Baker Books, 1988, p 24.

"If I did not believe in the infallibility of Scripture -- the absolute infallibility of it from cover to cover -- I would never enter this pulpit again."

"We will not have it that God, in his holy book, makes mistakes about matters of history or of science, any more than he does upon the great truths of salvation. If the Lord be God, he must be infallible. And if he can be described as in error in the little respects of human history and science, he cannot be trusted in the greater matters."

"Men talk of 'the mistakes of Scripture.' I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word He speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest."