The Archive · 1923

Begging the Question

We are all aware that from mediaeval times the idea of ecclesiastical ordination has carried with it ghostly ideas of sacrosanct infallibility, not only in the teaching of the Bible, but of everything else. A more glaring and impudent begging of the whole question as to what is Truth was never heard in the world. The only question is, is this idea of ordinational infallibility supported by the Book, which all the disputants at least claim to acknowledge as authoritative, or is it a grinning imposture?

One of your correspondents, who signs himself "Protestant"

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