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THE STORY OF THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT
Article One
The twentieth century Christian is constantly being
bombarded with material on apostasy and modernism. Every
Fundamentalist or Conservative group in America has writers
or collators of material dealing with liberalism, neo-
evangelicalism, ecumenism, neo-orthodoxy, etc. Strangely
enough, one can find no material on HOW all of this
infidelity started.
In vain one will search the History of Fundamentalism in
America by George Dollar or Outside the Gate by Carl McIntyre
or any of the conservative literature from the Ecumenical
Movement (even the material by Webber from Tulsa, Oklahoma)
to find out HOW American Christianity got into the position
it now occupies. There is an abundance of material available
about the "apostates" (Blake, Niebhur, Tillich, Pike,
Sockman, Weigle, Potest, Kagawa, etc.) and the "compromisers"
(Campus Crusade, Wheaton College, InterVarsity Fellowship,
Fuller Seminary, etc.), but a tomb-like silence descends on
the historians and authors when they are called upon to tell
us HOW these groups and individuals got to their terminus--
INFIDELITY to the word of God.
When one reads this mass of literature (I have examined
over 2,000 pamphets, 1,000 books, 1,000 magazines, and 300
church bulletins dealing with these matters) listing and
exposing the apostates, he is struck with the singular
thought that none of them dare tell HOW any of the apostates
BEGAN their apostasy. Evidently we are dealing with an
international "conspiracy" in the Biblical realm that would
put the Illuminiati and the Free Masons to shame. Neither
Stuart Crane nor Johnny Todd is able to tell us HOW a
Bilderberger or a witch STARTS down the road to humanism or
Satanism. How does it begin?
It must begin somewhere! How is it that we can find
nothing in the writings of Warfield, Machen, and Wilson (even
where they deal with liberalism) that identifies the starting
point of the apostate? Of course these men reject the Virgin
Birth--why? Of course these men reject the Deity of Christ--
why? Of course they deny the "verbal plenary inspiration of
the unread originals"--why? Does a man just suddenly pop up
at the North Pole after reading an almanac and say, "I DON'T
BELIEVE IN THE VIRGIN BIRTH"? Before Bishop Pike began to
fool with necromancy and seances, did he just decide when he
was ten years old that the "originals" couldn't have been
"verbally inspired"? Of course not. Sin starts somewhere.
Where does the sin of BIBLE REJECTION start? Never mind how
it ends or where it is NOW. What we are interested in is
potting its ORIGIN so that we can avoid ever getting on its
track.
Is that last sentence clear?
The Japanese say, "A journey of a thousand miles begins
with one step."
What then is the FIRST step to religious liberalism or
neo-evangelicalism? Never mind wasting paper and shooting
off your mouth about your "stand" against something that is
already here (and has been here nineteen centuries). If you
don't know HOW it started, how do you know that you or your
church (or school) has not already taken the FIRST step in
that direction? How are you so arrogantly "cocksure" of your
position when you don't know what the first THREE steps are?
The first three steps are discussed nowhere in George
Dollar's HISTORY OF FUNDAMENTALISM IN AMERICA. They are
discussed nowhere in eight volumes of Philip Schaff's HISTORY
OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, and there is nothing in the church
histories of Lagarde, Newman, Latourette, Eusebius, or
D'Aubigne that would clue us in on HOW a professing Christian
becomes an apostate. If one reads these histories, he will
be told that the cause is:
1. They become formal and sacramental and ceased to
practice the Bible in their lives. (Why did they do this?)
2. They wereimpressed by German Rationalism and English
Deism and ceased to believe the Genesis account of creation.
(Why were they impressed?)
3. They became lax in morals and fell away from the
Catholic faith. (Why did they become "lax in morals"?)
4. They followed a man who questioned the New Birth and
the Blood Atonement. (Why did they do this?)
5. They tried to build a kingdom on this earth and to
control the state by the church. (Why would anyone who
studied the Bible do this?)
6. They ceased to study the Bible and became occupied
with art, literature, and the "humanities." (What led them
to do THAT?)
No major historian, living or dead, has ever answered
the questions.
There seems to be a "bond of dialogue" between saved
historians and unsaved liberals and apostates when it comes
to pinpointing the BEGINNINGS OF APOSTASY IN ANY AGE OF THE
CHURCH.
Charles Reese, a columnist for the Pensacola (Fla.)
News-Journal, says that he is often accused of using
defamatory and libelous language in referring to Jimmy Carter
as a "LIAR." Reese's defense is simple: He says that a man
who says something that is untrue and WHO KNOWS THAT IT IS
NOT TRUE WHEN HE SAYS IT, IS A LIAR, whether he is a
President or a jail bird.
With this truism in mind we shall list how the modern
Christian educator and scholar can be located in relation to
the SOURCE and CAUSE of apostasy. The modern Christian
educator or scholar ("godly" and "separated" of course)
inherits 1850 years of infidelity preserved through
"Christian" scholarship and passed faithfully on from one
generation to another through what we call the "Scholars
Union" or more accurately "THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT." Cult
members can be spotted easily by the fact that they repeat in
their generation three or more of the following LIES.
1. The original Greek text says...
2. THE Greek text says...
3. The BEST manuscripts say...
4. II Timothy 3:16 applies only to the "original
manuscripts."
5. Erasmus' Greek text is a Roman Catholic Greek text.
6. Westcott and Hort were brilliant Biblical scholars.
7. If "good men" correct the Bible, you may correct it
too, providing you do it "reverently" and "prayerfully."
In our next article we will discuss these matters more
fully, and we will also list the seven implications that are
used by members of the Alexandrian Cult to put doubt into the
Christian's mind about the authority of the Authorized
Version. Direct lying (see above) and innuendo (see our next
article) are the means of inculcating UNBELIEF into the mind
of the born-again, soul-winning, separated Christian. Any
reader of Genesis 3 would have spotted the SOURCE AND ORIGIN
OF ALL APOSTASY without half trying, for both tactics appear
in the chapter, and they succeed in misleading two people who
were more "godly" and "separated" and "consecrated" than any
man or woman reading this page.
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