We find our Christianity in the spirit of the New Testament--not in the letter.

We have three good reasons for objecting to pin our faith on the words alone, in that book.
First, because we are not sure that the English translation is always to be depended on as accurate and honest.

Secondly, because we know that (since the invention of printing) there is not a copy of the book in existence which is free from errors of the press, and that (before the invention of printing) those errors, in manuscript copies, must as a matter of course have been far more serious and far more numerous.
Thirdly, because there is plain internal evidence (to say nothing of discoveries actually made in the present day) of interpolations and corruptions, introduced into the manuscript copies as they succeeded each other in ancient times.

These drawbacks are of no importance, however, in our estimation.

We find, in the spirit of the book, the most simple and most perfect system of religion and morality that humanity has ever received--and with that we are content.