A mans doubt, if it be candid doubt, may be such a gift of God as other peoples belief, and may ultimately accomplish as [sic] widespread good...and there are times when it may be sinful to shake off such doubt. For men disquieted about the Bible such as I am addressing, it would probably lead to vague uneasiness on a wider subject, and tend to loosen the foundations of all belief in religion and in God. To deny inquiry is but to increase doubt. Blessed are they who have no doubts to disturb their quiet, but blessed still more are they who through doubt and darkness have won their way to a higher knowledge of truth. It is the highest faith to believe that to those who, with humble, honest heart, are seeking the truth at any cost, God will give His assistance to find that truth, and His pardon if they miss it----J. Paterson Smyth, How God Inspired the Bible: Thoughts for the Present Disquiet (1892), pp. 46-47.
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