onal faith in God and the Bible. In their desperate attempt to survive
the wreck of their orthodox faith, they have =reasoned= their way to
conclusions about God that harmonized with what they were taught in the
Schools; but the God they arrived at was the god of rationalism and not the
God of Revelation.

They will say to the orthodox man, "You and I go by different pathways, but
we both arrive at the same God." But this is eternally impossible! For
there is only one pathway leading to the true God, and that is not followed
by =reasoning= one's way out of a shattered faith, but first by =believing=
one's way out of darkness into light, and then by believing steadily on in
that divinely imparted faith which always shatters the reasonings and
conclusions of the rationalists.

To be a believer in the Word puts rationalism out of business, for no one
can reason himself into the acceptance of truth he already believes. And on
the other hand, to be a rationalist regarding the Word puts faith out of
business, for faith is the acceptance of the bare Word of God without
further evidence, and the rationalizer is compelled to reject that attitude
toward the Word so that he may have the way left open to reason his way to
what he is willing to accept as evidence. This is why so many of those
students who sit in the classes of the rationalists in our colleges and
seminaries lose their faith. Rationalism makes Scriptural faith impossible.
Rationalizing and believing, when the Bible is in question, are mutually
exclusive.

The reason for this is not that the facts of Scripture contradict each
other, and certainly not that these facts are one thing to faith and
another thing to reason. The antagonism does not arise over the =facts= of
the Word but over the =interpretation= of them. The rationalist, accepting
no interpretation except that furnished by his own puny and incompetent
reason unillumined by faith, reaches conclusions absolutely contradicted by
those arrived at by the man of faith. The fact is, he could not hope to
arrive anywhere else. For how can finite man relate and interpret the few
and scattered facts he discovers in the realm of infinite truth? How can a
man by searching find out God?

"By whose interpretation, yours or mine?" is a favorite question which the
rationalist asks the believer when the meaning of some Scripture passage is
in question. By =no one's= interpretation except the =Holy Spirit's=! He
alone can i