1.D 02. Faith in a Living Saviour

Faith in a Living Saviour In the last analysis Luther is right. The great test of any book of Scripture is In it do we find Jesus Christ? For in the last analysis it is not upon any book that our faith is built but on a living Saviour. The story of the making of the Bible is a story which enables us to see the supreme value of the books of the Bible as nothing else can or does. It enables us to see that these books did not become Scripture by the decision of any Church or any man; they became Scripture because out of them men in their sorrow found comfort, in their despair hope, in their weakness strength, in their temptations power, in their darkness light, in their uncertainty faith, and in their sin a Saviour. That is why the Bible is the word of God. When the Church did make its canonical lists, it was not choosing and selecting these books; it was only affirming and attesting that these already were the books on which men had stayed their hearts and fed their souls. And that is why there never can be a time when the Church or the Christian can do without this Bible which has always been the word of God to His people, and the place where men find Jesus Christ. FOR FURTHER GUIDANCE Edward Reuss: The History of the Canon of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Church, 1891.