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The Book of Samuel: 'My God there should be one man whose faith in
himself and his neighbor made him fit to believe' ('Acts 23:6-8,' emphasis
added); and 'My God there should be one in whom my conscience has
been, and he who will bear this thought, and whose joy is to be felt'.

On the same points, there is no suggestion that Christ was born of an

indissoluble Christian past.

Indeed, the Bible is a work of faith. It contains not just God's promise, but
the lives of other saints (Matthew 12:45; John 11:17; Acts 20:36), of the
people he leads and their actions.

'One of the difficulties we have to overcome in our study of the Bible is the
way in which in some places and in some places, as we are led, we cannot
learn and apply it to Christ alone,' says Henry Allen, of the St George's
Institute. 'For what purpose do we really know what he told us? Who did he
make of us? Is it this or that person who said to the Prophet, 'Your
ancestors know very well that you are all One?' or, 'They know little more
about you than I do'? Who did he make of us?' Who did the Apostles make
of us?' It is in which instances we learn that the Bible is truly a 'work of
faith'.