The Divine Origin of the Bible

The eighth proof of the Bible’s divine origin and authority is its inexhaustible depth.

All that is finite is fathomable, but the Bible is unfathomable. Whatever man has produced, man can exhaust; yet no individual, no generation, nor all the tens of thousands of scholars who have devoted their best abilities and years of their lives to studying this book have been able to exhaust it. Men of the best minds the world has ever known—those of widest culture, rarest intellectual grasp, keenest insight, and profoundest ability—have delved into the Bible for years. The more they have dug, the deeper they have seen the depths below them and the richer the golden ore.

Vast libraries have been devoted to the exposition of this book, and still it remains unexhausted. Why can’t men exhaust this book after eighteen centuries of digging? There can be but one fair answer: what man has produced, man can exhaust. The only reason the whole race is unable to exhaust this book is that it is not man’s book, but God’s. In it are hidden the infinite and inexhaustible treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.

A brilliant Unitarian writer, in trying to disprove the divine origin of the Bible, said, “How irreligious to charge an infinite God with having written His whole word in so small a book.”

This is one of the keenest arguments ever uttered from the side of unbelief. However, the writer did not see how his Damascus blade could be wrenched from his hand and its keen edge turned against himself. What a conclusive testimony it is to the divine origin of this book that such infinite wisdom could be packed into such a small pocketbook! Man could never do it. Only God can put such infinite treasures into such a small space that you can carry them around with you in your vest pocket.