Article June 4, 1955 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from John B. Nettleship, Stephen J. England

Rev. John B. Nettleship, B.A., B.D. in The Expository Times Edinburgh, Scotland

When a man presumes to talk about religion, whether publicly or privately, we have every right to demand his credentials, to know his authority. I do not mean that he must be a trained theologian, or be well versed in Greek and Hebrew. What I do mean is that the only man who has a right to be heard when he passes opinions about God is the man who has had an experience of God.

Therein lies, surely, part at any rate of the authority of the Bible. Its writers are men with a firsthand experience of God. They would say in the words of Jesus himself: "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen."

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