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I have seen some rather prominent Christian leaders who have suffered total moral collapse.
In each case the first sign of impending disaster, the first outward mark of inward deterioration,
was a shift in their view of the authority of the Word of God.
There is a very definite link between moral decline and the authority of Scripture.