Test the Bible for Yourself “[God] has given you a judgment: judge for yourself too. Say, concerning all that you have [learned about the Bible and Christianity], ‘Well, I will not lightly part with this, for it may be sterling gold; but at the same time, I will not blindly hoard it, for it may be counterfeit coin. I will sit down to the study of the Sacred Book, and I will endeavour, as far as I can, to unprejudice myself. I will read the Bible, just as if I had never heard any preacher, or had never been taught by a parent; and I will there endeavour to find out what God saith, and what God saith, be it what it may, I will believe and espouse, hoping that by his grace I may also feel the power of it in my own soul.’” -- C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)