November 25, 1864

 

Benjamin Disraeli

British statesman Benjamin Disraeli declared in a speech delivered at Oxford University: “Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with all the title deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

November 14, 1739

 

George Whitefield

English revivalist George Whitefield explained in his journal: “We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our lives.”

November 12, 1556

 

Menno Simons

 

Dutch Anabaptist (re-baptizer) leader, Menno Simons, explained in a letter: “I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others.  I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.”

November 4, 1646

The Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law making it a capital offense to deny that the Bible was the Word of God.  Any person convicted of the offense was liable to the death penalty.

October 21, 1532

 

Martin Luther

 

 

German reformer Martin Luther declared: “For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year.  If you picture the Bible to be a might tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.