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title: 'James Wood: Truth is Immutable'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-11-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-james-wood-truth-is-immutable
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# James Wood: Truth is Immutable

“Truth is immutable. The Bible is, therefore, not to be interpreted by a set of philosophical dogmas, which vary, it may be, with every successive age: but by a careful examination and comparison of its several words and phrases. These obvious way-marks were the same in the time of Augustine and Calvin, and the Westminster divines, as they are now; and it is by a faithful adherence to these, that so much uniformity has been preserved among Christians of every age, in regard to the doctrines of our holy religion.” — [**James Wood**](/authors/james-wood), *Old and New Theology: or, An Exhibition of Those Differences With Regard to Scripture Doctrines, Which Have Recently Agitated and Now Divided the Presbyterian Church* (1838), pp. 12-13