We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not
make any difference what a man believes if he is only sincere. One
church is just as good as another if you are only sincere. I do not
believe any greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than
that. It is ruining more souls at the present time than anything else.
I never read of any men more sincere or more earnest than those men at
Mount Carmel, those false prophets. They were terribly in earnest.
Some people say, "Why, if these men are holding, as you say, error,
why should they be so in earnest?" Those prophets of Baal were the
most earnest men I ever read of. You do not read of men getting so in
earnest now that they take knives and cut themselves. Look at them
leaping upon their altars; hear their cry, "O Baal! O Baal!" We never
heard that kind of prayer on this platform. They acted like madmen.
They were terribly in earnest, yet did God hear their cry? They were
all slain. "I believe one religion is just as good as another, if you
are only sincere in what you believe." It is one of the devil's lies.