Editorial November 22, 1982 Issue

How important is the Bible?

DeWITT JOHN

(In the U.S.A., November 21-28 is National Bible Week.)

How true it is: What we think about the Bible shows the direction we're headed in life. It enables us to gauge our overall standpoint. In the words of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, "Our thoughts of the Bible utter our lives." ^{Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 4.}

At first blush those words may sound like a riddle. I used to wonder what they meant. Yet there are ready illustrations in some common attitudes.

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