Winston Churchill on Biblical Truth

                                                                                                                     Vol. VIII, No. 7, August 1995

[This month we have a most unusual source for our Heritage item. Though not a Southern Baptist, our selected author was and is extremely well-known. I believe you will be interested to learn what the WW II English prime Minister, Winston Churchill, believed about the veracity of the Bible. TCP]

“We reject, however, with scorn all those learned and laboured myths that Moses was but a legendary figure upon whom the priesthood and the people hung their essential social, moral, and religious ordinances. We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible story literally, and in identifying one of the greatest human beings with the most decisive leap-forward ever discernible in the human story. We remain unmoved by the tomes of Professor Gradgrind and Dr. Dryasdust. We may be sure that all these things happened just as they are set out according to Holy Writ. We may believe that they happened to people not so very different from ourselves, and that the impressions those people received were faithfully recorded and have been transmitted across the centuries with far more accuracy than many of the telegraphed accounts we read of the goings-on of today. In the words of a forgotten work of Mr. Gladstone, we rest with assurance upon ‘The impregnable rock of the Holy Scripture.”

[Winston S. Churchill, Amid These Storms, Thoughts and Adventures (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1932) p. 293.]