Infidelity; Its Causes, Consequences and Cure
By R.A. Torrey
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The profession of infidelity is very common in
our day. I am constantly meeting with those who give as their reason for not
being Christians that they do not believe in the Bible. There are many
preachers, most excellent and gifted men, who think that infidelity is not
worthy of attention, that the proper way to treat it is to ignore it. I do not
agree with them. Infidelity is common enough, and active enough, and
destructive enough to demand attention. While I do not for a moment think that
the cause of Christ or the Bible has anything to fear from infidelity, I do
know that individuals and communities are being greatly injured by it, and we
owe it to them to expose its real character, to point out its consequences, and
to show its cure.
I have had no
greater joy now for some years than to be able to lead many men out of the
confusion and wretchedness of infidelity into the clear light and abounding joy
of an intelligent faith in Christ and the Bible.
R.A. Torrey
RUBEN ARCHER TORREY (1856-1928), educated at Yale University and Divinity School, was renowned as an educator, a pastor, a world evangelist and an author. He pastored Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, was the superintendent of Moody Bible Institute for nineteen years, and served as the dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1911 to 1924, when he retired to embark upon full time evangelistic campaigns around the world. Mr. Torrey wrote more than forty books including How to Pray and How to Promote and Conduct a Successful Revival. Mr. Torrey was married to Clara and together they had five children.
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Infidelity; Its Causes, Consequences and Cure - R.A. Torrey
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INFIDELITY: ITS CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND CURE
The profession of infidelity is very common in our day. I am constantly meeting with those who give as their reason for not being Christians that they do not believe in the Bible. There are many preachers, most excellent and gifted men, who think that infidelity is not worthy of attention, that the proper way to treat it is to ignore it. I do not agree with them. Infidelity is common enough, and active enough, and destructive enough to demand attention. While I do not for a moment think that the cause of Christ or the Bible has anything to fear from infidelity, I do know that individuals and communities are being greatly injured by it, and we owe it to them to expose its real character, to point out its consequences, and to show its cure.
I have had no greater joy now for some years than to be able to lead many men out of the confusion and wretchedness of infidelity into the clear light and abounding joy of an intelligent faith in Christ and the Bible.
I. Causes of Infidelity
What are the causes of infidelity?
1. The first cause, and one of the commonest, is misrepresentation of Christianity by its professed disciples. There are two kinds of misrepresentations. (1) Misrepresentations in doctrine. (2) Misrepresentations in daily living. Let us look first at the misrepresentations in doctrine. Take, for example, what has been preached as Christianity for generations in France, Spain, Italy, the Philippine Islands, Mexico, and the South American republics. Of course we know that this is only the grossest caricature of the Christianity of the Bible; but the common people of these lands do not know this. They suppose that the Christianity preached by the priests is the Christianity of the Bible; and is it any wonder that they reject it and become out and out infidels? If what is thus preached as Christianity were Christianity, I would reject Christianity myself. But many so-called Protestant representations of Christianity, if not so grossly false, are still false. There is a wide difference between the God of the Bible and the God of much so-called Protestant teaching, between the Christ of the Bible and the Christ of much of the so-called Protestant teaching, and between the Christian life as set forth in the Bible and the ethics set forth in the pulpit. But the grossest misrepresentation of Christianity on the part of its professed disciples are the misrepresentations in daily living. The life of many professed Christians is so widely at variance with the life taught in the Bible that it leads many observers into rank infidelity. Take, for example, the professed Christian who oppresses his employees in their wages. How many a professed Christian employer there is to-day who grinds his employees almost beyond endurance. Is it any wonder that these employees say that they have no use for Christianity? Look at the professed Christians in business who are dishonest in trade, who misrepresent their goods, who use all manner of dishonorable means to get ahead of their competitors in business and to drive them to the wall. Is it any wonder that people looking