The New Theology says again, “Oh, don’t bother about the Bible too much. We don’t care nowadays whether men believe in the inspiration of the Bible or not, or what kind of inspiration they hold, total or partial, verbal or moral. One man believes the Bible contains truth and no error. Another man thinks it contains both truth and error. We don’t care about those things. To be too much concerned with these things was the old-fashioned religious belief. Christianity does not stand on the inspiration of the Bible. It stands on the unique personality of Christ. As long as we hold on to Christ there is no danger for Christianity.” Very well; it may be so. Christ is our sure foundation. Christianity must stand on this rock of ages. But may I ask a question here? Who is this Christ? Who is this unique personality on which you try to stand as on the sure foundation? Is Christ God, or man? Is he the second person of the Trinity, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father himself? Is he “the only begotten” Son of God, who was in the bosom of the Father from “before the foundation of the world,” and who came down to this world and became flesh himself in order to save this lost world? Is he the Word of God who was “in the beginning,” and “was with God,” and who was God himself, and by whom all things were made, and “without him was not anything made that was made”? In a word, is Christ the Creator or a creature, infinite or finite? To these blunt questions New Theology has no other answer than “No!” Christ, according to New Theology, is not God, but man. He is not the Creator, but a creature. He is not infinite, but finite. He may be a godly man, or a man filled with God, or the Spirit of God, but still man, and not God. He may be the greatest, wisest, and holiest man among men, but still he is a man, and not God. New Theology may exalt Christ as high as possible. It can never exalt him to the throne of God. Between God and man there is an infinite distance, and no goodness or greatness or holiness of mere man can ever bridge this distance. If you look up from the plains below to the top of a very high mountain, you see its peaks almost touching heaven, or kissing the blue sky above, but if you climb the mountain and stand on that summit you find the distance between the mountain top and the blue heaven above is just as great as when you were standing on the plain below. Though a man could ever attain to such a height of greatness, holiness, and goodness as to seem to the common eyes almost beside God himself, yet in reality he is as far from God as we common folks are.