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THE STORY OF THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT
ARTICLE THREE
Now, as we have said, as soon as a man presents a
Christian with conflicting "final authorities," we have a
right to question his "goodness" as well as his motive. Why
would any man do such a thing?
God told Adam "thou shalt surely die"; the Devil said
"ye shall NOT surely die"--two conflicting authorities. Were
they both "reliable"? Would you have been safe if you had
"preferred" one over the other because it was "reliable"
ACCORDING TO YOU?
Now we cannot be too emphatic about this point,
because it is much more important than ANY fundamental of the
faith, and far more important than the salvation of any soul
on this earth: God would not do wrong to SAVE a soul. God
is the final authority. The subject matter of the Bible is a
KINGDOM AND A THRONE (see "The Sure Word of Prophecy") and
alongside that monumental, eternal issue, individual
salvation is an afterthought with God. Don't misunderstand
me: Thank God we were saved. Thank God we get in on the
blessings of the kingdom. Thank God we have access to the
"THRONE." But from GOD'S STANDPOINT (and the Bible's
standpoint) the issue is AUTHORITY (Gen. 3:1-3). There isn't
one issue or doctrine anywhere in the Bible that doesn't
hinge on what God SAID or what He did NOT say (Jer. 23). To
be quite brutal about it, there isn't one "fundamental of the
faith" that is anything more than pagan superstition if THE
BOOK THAT THAT FUNDAMENTAL CAME FROM IS FULL OF ERRORS.
All the "fundamentals" of R.D. Wilson, and A.T.
Robertson can be found in the mystery religions of Rome,
Greece, India, China, and Babylon before the birth of Christ
(see "The Two Babylons" by Hislop). A fundamentalist who has
a phony Bible or a Bible full of errors is a bigger fool than
Tom Paine or Bob Ingersoll. A Bible teacher who is paid $100
a week to make infidels out of Christian young men and women
is a deluded idiot: Ingersoll and M.M. O'Hare got more than
that in one night for doing THE SAME JOB.
Final authority in the Universe is not a "hobby
horse" or a "non-essential" fundamental. Wheneverit takes
"second fiddle" to soul-winning and monument-building,
apostasy has STARTED. And this explains why no one can find
one word in the history books (written by Modernists or
Fundamentalists) discussing the subject of the SOURCE AND
ORIGIN of the apostates. Final authority has always been the
issue in every country on this earth: in the home, the
school, the church, the library, the laboratory, the Army,
the Navy, the government, and the newscasts. ALL
FUNDAMENTALS ARE SECONDARY TO THE FINAL AUTHORITY, FOR THEY
ARE SUPPOSEDLY DERIVED FROM THAT AUTHORITY.
Now what happens when TWO AUTHORITIES that contradict
each other are recommended? (I did not say "variation in
editions." I didn't say "word changes" in updated spelling.
I said "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO AUTHORITIES THAT CONTRADICT
EACH OTHER ARE RECOMMENDED?)
Now if a Cult member is reading this, he will
immediately avail himself of every aid at hand to continue to
put doubt into the mind of the Bible believer about the AV
(1611). For example, as soon as the above has been stated
the Alexandrian Cultist will go to great lengths to prove
that if there are VARIATIONS in the Receptus or in editions
of the AV that they MUST BE CONFLICTING AUTHORITIES. We will
discuss this subtle and Satanic "sleight of hand" (Eph. 4:14)
very thoroughly in the next studies.
Now observe what happens when two CONFLICTING
authorities are recommended (or even "TOLERATED") by the Body
of Christ.
1. The traditions of the Church "fathers" versus the
New Testament.
2. The Church councils verses the New Testament.
3. The Popes ex cathedra utterances verses the New
Testament.
But why stop here? This merely explains how apostasy
began after the book of Acts and eventually took the Body of
Christ into the Dark Ages. It all hinged on Genesis 3:1. If
God said it, then that was the final authority; if God didn't
say it, then one must look to some other authority. Simple,
isn't it? No apostasy begins with denying the "verbal
inspiration" of something nobody can see, read, hear, or
teach. All apostasy begins with QUESTIONING WHAT GOD SAID BY
RAISING UP A SECOND AUTHORITY EQUAL OR SUPERIOR TO IT.
Shall we try again:
1. The textual theories of Westcott and Hort versus
the New Testament.
2. The textual theories of Astruc and Kuenen verses
the Old Testament.
3. The Greek Grammarians versus the New Testament.
Do you see how it is done?
What began as "EQUALLY RELIABLE" winds up as a
SUPERIOR CRITIC.
No need to stop here.
1. The Mormons have Joe Smith's book versus the New
Testament.
2. The Jews have the TALMUD verses the Old
Testament.
3. The Charismatics have "personal experience" versus
the New Testament.
All right, as long as none of this CONFLICTS, it is
not "versus" (against), but that is how it works out. What
begins as "DID GOD SAY IT?" (Gen. 3:1) winds up as "NO HE
DIDN'T--LISTEN TO ME" (Gen. 3:1-4).
Then we should have no trouble at all in guessing the
MOTIVE of any Fundamentalist who recommends or tolerates more
than one authority. He WANTS YOU TO LISTEN TO HIM)at the
expense of God.
Every member of the Alexandrian Cult--from Origen to
Bob Jones, Jr.--reasons in this fashion, and that is why
every member of the Cult will accuse a Bible believer of
"following a MAN." They want you to follow THEM.
Again, the reason why the modern apostate
Fundamentalist will accuse a Bible believer of idolatry (see
Cliff Robinson's correspondence, appendix I) is that he has
put an INSTITUTION ahead of what God SAID. He, therefore,
can interpret BELIEF IN WHAT GOD SAID ONLY AS IDOLATRY. That
is, if the Bible is placed above his institution (from which
he feeds his belly), then OBVIOUSLY the Bible must have
become a "god" in the eyes of the man who placed it there.
This is the "sick thinking" of every apostate fundamental
Christian educator in America.
Dual authorities are recommended to overthrow the
final authority.
Every apostate Fundamentalist (before he became an
apostate Liberal) followed EXACTLY THE SAME PROCEDURE: He
elevated SOMETHING or SOMEONE to a chair of equal authority
with the Bible, and when that someone or something came into
conflict with the Bible, HE ABANDONED THE BIBLE ON THAT
POINT. This means every recognized Christian college in
America, while "using" the AV (1611) because they "prefer" it
(not "believe it"!!), must TOLERATE OR PROMOTE some other
version that conflicts with the AV text in 30,000 places.
The versions that do this are the ASV of 1901, the New ASV of
1959 and the International Version of 1977. The MOTIVE for
recommending (or tolerating) these is to allow the scholar or
school to be the FINAL AUTHORITY where these apostate
corruptions conflict with the Authorized Text.
So said; so done.
Without batting an eye the modern Fundamentalist
accepts the first step to apostasy, justifies it, practices
it, and CONDEMNS THOSE WHO WILL NOT TAKE IT WITH HIM. No
Liberal ever became a Liberal if he had one Bible as his
final authority. No Neo-evangelical ever got that way before
he questioned the authority of the Bible that he HAD--not the
originals which he did NOT have.
In short, no attack by any "bastion of orthodoxy"
against any Liberal or Neo-evangelical is honest, sound,
safe, reliable, or scriptural if it does not show HOW THEY
GOT INTO THE MESS THEY GOT INTO. The reason why the faculty
members at Hyles-Anderson, Bob Jones, Dallas, and Moody never
discuss the subject is that they have already taken the first
TWO STEPS IN THAT DIRECTION:
1. To set up equal authorities that conflict bringing
confusion, indecision, mistrust, and uncertainty about FINAL
AUTHORITY.
2. To lie continually (see the seven lies used by all
Cult members given in our first two articles) about the
WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE BIBLE.
The Bible says "and call no man your father upon the
earth." An equally "reliable" translation which "some
PREFER" says "Go on and do it." The Bible says, "For there
is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus." Another "godly" authority whose "unquestioned
loyalty to the fundamentals" is "recognized" says: "Go on and
pray `Blessed Mary, Blessed Joseph, Blessed John the
Baptist.'"
The Bible says that New Testament redemption and
forgiveness of sins is only through the blood of Jesus Christ
(Col. 1:14, AV). An equally reliable "authority"--
recommended by many "godly dedicated scholars"--says that
"redemption" is equal with "remission" (see any blasphemous
"bible" such as the ASV or New ASV or International Version).
The Bible says that God was "manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim.
3:16, AV), but you can "prefer" another "reliable"
translation that simply knocks God slap out of the passage.
Where two authorities conflict, the deciding
authority is the THIRD AUTHORITY. Is that clear? Do you
have any problem with it? That truth is not dependent upon
your age, race, sex, education, state, standing, salvation or
damnation, politics, creed, school, church, belief or
unbelief. That is a scientific fact which is proved in court
every day, 365 days a year. In a courtroom where TWO
CONFLICTING AUTHORITIES have told "the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth," the THIRD AUTHORITY
BECOMES THE FINAL AUTHORITY: HE IS CALLED A "JUDGE."
Therefore, opinions to the contrary by "good, godly,
dedicated soul-winners" are not to be taken seriously where
they deal with final authority.
If a man recommends more than one final authority to
you HE HAS A MOTIVE FOR DOING IT. And according to church
history ("by their fruits ye shall know them") there is
nothing "good" or "godly" about his MOTIVE.