The Rule Of Faith
A canon is a footrule, a regulation, or a pattern. In the Church the
canon is Holy Scripture, the books of the Bible recognized by the Church
as authoritative. By recognizing the existence of a canon the Church
declares that . . . her proclamation is connected with something concrete
and that this connection of her proclamation with the Bible constitutes
for her an order received, an. obligation imposed. This bit of the past,
composed of definite texts, is her directions for work, her marching orders,
with which not only her preaching but she herself stands or falls. It
therefore cannot under any circustances, even hypothetically, be thought
away, unless we mean to think away proclamation and the Church itself.
— Gordon H. Clark
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