The Folly of Unbelief
H. W. Beecher., C. C. Liddell. John 8:38-47 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.… What would you think if there were to be an insurrection in a hospital, and sick men should conspire with sick men, and on a certain day they should rise up and reject the doctors and nurses? There they would be — sickness and disease within, and all the help without! Yet what is a hospital compared to this fever-ridden world, which goes on swinging in pain through the centuries, where men say "we have got rid of the Atonement and the Bible?" Yes, and you have rid yourselves of salvation. (H. W. Beecher.)Can you tell me anything about the revision of the Bible? asked an intelligent working man the other day. "Because I've been told they're taking out all the contradictions in it." The same man another day expressed his inaptitude for faith in these words: "Why, to look at them stars and think they're all worlds, and to believe there's something beyond all that again — it's more than I can believe." Could the attitude of unbelief have expressed itself better? The very sight that to some minds forces home the conviction that a God exists — the sight of the star-sown fields of heaven — was to this man only a stumbling block and rock of offence. (C. C. Liddell.) Parallel Verses KJV: I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. WEB: I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."