The Bible has Aggravated and not Settled Our Differences.

And here, before I go a step further, I point to a grave fact that lies right before us at the very beginning. The Bible is said to be the word of God, given on purpose to settle our differences and guide us into all truth. It is a perilous assertion: for it compels the reply that if God gave the Bible to that end He has failed. So far from settling our differences and guiding us into all truth, it has been the cause of division without end. Multitudes who would think and feel alike on all great religious questions have, at what they believed to be the Bible's Ridding, gone as far as is possible page 8 from one another. "See," people say," see how good men and devout men differ. Does not that prove that the human mind needs an infallible authority?" See, I reply, see how this supposed infallible authority has divided men, producing those very differences which you say it was meant to obviate or cure!