Author: R.A. Torrey

What is sanctification? How is it obtained? What does it do for you? Here we have three questions in one and pretty large questions to answer briefly. The questions are answered at length and fully in my book. WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES in the chapter on Sanctification. To answer briefly, to sanctify means to separate…

Question: Which is the more accurate translation of 2 Timothy 3:16, that of the Authorized Version, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” or that of the Revised Version, “Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof,…

Q: How can one distinguish between the leading of the Holy Spirit and a mere impulse of our own heart? A. The most important condition of being able to distinguish the true leading of the Holy Spirit is that we be absolutely surrendered to the will of God. There are many people doing the things…

Q. What do the 27th and 28th verses of First Corinthians 7 mean? i.e., do they release one in such a case from Matthew 5:32? A. They certainly do not. They simply teach that if a man is not under obligation to a wife through having one living, he has a right to marry, and…

Q. Is the present “Tongues Movement” of God? A. It is not. This is clear from the following facts: First–The present “Tongues Movement” makes speaking with tongues the one and only decisive evidence that one has the baptism with the Holy Spirit. The “Tongues” people constantly declare that if one has not spoken with tongues…

I recently received a letter from one who is evidently an earnest Christian woman but who was in a condition of great depression because some years ago, when in college, she felt that perhaps she was called to go to China but did not want to go but became engaged to a Christian man, whom…

“In the January number of “The King’s Business” we read: ‘No pastor need any longer say that he does not know how to train his people for this work (that is for personal work in saving souls), for there are a number of books easily obtained which tell him just how to do it.’ What…

A question for Dr. Torrey: Count Vladimir Gelesnoff says in the December number of his magazine, Unsearchable Riches, ‘the barbarous and heathen dogma of endless torment is refuted by the very passages on which orthodoxy depends for its support.’ Is this statement of Count Gelesnoff’s true? A. This statement of Mr. Gelesnoff is not true. It…