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they get what they believe out of
the Bible!" So
1
devoted six months
to intensive, almost night and day,
research and study to try to find,
in
the Bible,
what
1
had been taught
in church.
I ,
too, was astounded to
find just the opposite.
1
obtained
the li teratu re of churches support–
ing thei r beliefs.
1
searched the
commentaries, the lexicons, the
Bible encyclopedias. J searched out
the arguments of higher criticism
on these points. 1 tried my best to
overthrow my wife's new Bible
beliefs-but they definitely were in
the Bible.
At last, once 1 swallowed my
pride, admitted defeat, was hum–
bled, had repented, and accepted
the Christ of the Bible-a different
Christ than 1 had previously pic–
t ured-1 had found the t ru e
SOURCE for belief.
What a difference
there is
between professed "Christians"
who are churchgoers, and a t rue
BIBLE Christian!
1
know
that dif–
ference because
1
have been both!
Regardless of whether one has
been
angered
into an honest study
of the Bible, as
1
was, or whether
today's "enlightened" clergy, and
its theologica:l seminaries where
young ministers are educated,
spend more time trying to deter–
mine how much of the Bible they
wish to classify as myth, and how
little as truth-wh..:n only
1
percent
of theological students in the U.S.,
by actual survey, believe in any
Second Coming of Christ which is
stated and affirmed repeatedly in
the Bible- when theologians and
the professional clergy interpret the
Bible to mean the very opposite of
what it plainly says, in order to pre-
tend that it supports
their teac hings–
then you may
know
what is wrong.
I
f you will read
Jeremiah
23,
Eze–
kiel
13,
and
34,
which are prophe–
cies of conditions
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now,
in our day, and
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of Christ's state–
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ment of Matthew
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24 :4-5, 11 , 24,
of the
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false preachers that
; would deceive the
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MANY; and of the
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many s tatements in
1
entered an in–
depth research o f
the theory of evolu–
tion.
1
studied La–
marck, D a rwin ,
Haec ke l , Hux ley,
Spencer , Vogt.
l
almost doubted the
existence o f God,
researc hed science
and philosophy, and
PROVEO irrefutably
that t he a ll- intell i–
gent personal Cre–
ator God does exist.
T hen
1
put the Bible
to test- and by sev–
era! infallible proofs,
PROVEO
Íl
to be the
very revelation of
the living God to
manki nd, carrying
final AUTHORITY.
Now 1 was no lon–
ger carelessly assum–
ing • o r taki ng fo r
granted without
" ... When one is 'saved,' the switch
tn the track at the end of life's journey
is then thrown so that, when he
gets to the end of the line he will be
shot instantly up to heaven,
the Bible that t he
whole world would
be deceived, you wi ll
begin to understand.
It
is, indeed, hard
for one born, reared,
and steeped in this
world's ed ucation,
religion, customs
and ways, to realize
that this is
not
God's
world, but Satan's.
question what
1
had
heard or what others
accepted.
1
was
proving
what was
true. And it was
not
what
1
wanted
to accept. Rather, it wounded my
pride.
It
was humi liating.
It
was
traumatic.
lt
brought meto the most
difficult decision of my life- to
admit not only that
1
had been
wrong-but to see my own self, for
the first time, as
1
really
was-an
abhorrent , rebellious, vain human
who was evil by nature and unworthy
of God's grace and merey and love.
It
was a bitter decision- J now
felt my life was worthless, but
I
told God that if He could use such
a worthless life,
1
would give it to
Him in unconditional surrender.
February 1982
'to be with the Lord.' "
he had never been to church or
heard anything else in the first
place, or WHY he looks into the
Bible for bimself, he will find the
same thing there that
l
fou nd- if
be is honest and will ing.
A person who is born and reared
on a faraway uninhabited island in
mid-ocean, baving never heard
any
religious belief, if he had a Bible
and was able to read, would be a
total stranger to many of these
things
1
was taught in church- he
would see, in the Bible, just what
everybody else does who looks into
it
honestly.
What' s wrong, then? When
shock!
it!
It
comes as a jarring
know. I've experienced
The Bible interprets itself.
It
means what it says, and it says what
it means. T aken as it
is.
it
makes
sense.
Don't be a spir itual coward.
Look into
it for yourself.
lt's full of
surprises- it's full of TRUTH- it's
fu ll of the way to a positive peace of
mind, to happiness, to prosperity,
abundant living here and now and
to salvation in joyous eterna! life–
FOREVER!
God's world is soon coming-the
peaceful, happy WORLO TOMOR–
ROW!
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