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| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1517 Registered: 7-2007 |
Have you noticed how false religions treat the Bible? 1. If they can't twist the Bible to support their doctrine they disregard it altogether. (Islam and LDS which say that the Bible is corrupted [Islam] or "correct in so far as it's been translated correctly." [LDS] So of course their people don't trust it.) 2. They have their own "version" which they claim is the true version. (Jehovah's Witnesses) 3. They say that their prophet/preists interpret the Bible correctly. (SDA and RCC) Of course now the SDA church has their own handy-dandy "version" with the prophetess' interpretation built right in - the Clear Word!!! | ||
| Dljc Registered user Username: Dljc Post Number: 190 Registered: 7-2010 |
I've noticed this too. What's interesting is, God made His Word simple enough a child can have it read to them, and they get it. If they can't read it themselves and get it. We are to come to Him as little children. He warned us time and time again about false prophets and false religions and how to recognize each of them. He never said anything about needing anyone other than the Holy Spirit to teach us. Looks like He would have told us about Muhammad, Joseph Smith and EGW if we needed to know He was sending them. But then again, you have to ask the question, why does He need to send anyone else after His Son? | ||
| Doc Registered user Username: Doc Post Number: 641 Registered: 2-2003  |
Absolutely right! | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 1498 Registered: 3-2009 |
Dljc: "But then again, you have to ask the question, why does He need to send anyone else after His Son?" I think that's one of the lessons in the Parable of the Landoner in Mat. 21:33-41: Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him]. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?"They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons." KJV. After sending the son, the landowner did not send any body else. Hec | ||
| Dljc Registered user Username: Dljc Post Number: 191 Registered: 7-2010 |
That's it exactly Hec. That is the parable I was thinking of when I made the comment. If Jesus couldn't get the message across to us, and God is incapable of keeping His Word pure, then we're just wasting our time. If His Son can't do it, then no one lesser than He can do it. That's the bottom line. |
