Subject: Acts 13:1 |
Bible Note: Dear Jamison, The argument is precisely the same. If Jesus says, "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Given the precedent, and the clear instruction of Scripture, we should never believe the assertions of someone simply on the merit of their own word. I'm quite sufficiently familiar with the teachings Joseph Smith, Ellen G. White, and Charles Taze Russell. Study church history and you'll find that what they teach starts out wrong from the very foundations. These heresies get repeated and repeated because people don't know enough to use God's provision. The false teachers gain a hearing because they aren't tossed out on their ear at the beginning. Son, if a man can't add 2 and 2 and get 4, I'll not be very inclined to evaluate what he has to say about Calculus. God carefully and providentially grants us absolutely everything we need "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes" (Ephesians 4:14). "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain." (1 Timothy 6:3-5) Simply amazing how we never seem to learn, but still give the yahoos a platform. Well, at least here in the Study Bible Forum, we have the proper foundation of sola Scriptura. In Him, Doc PS Here's a quote by Joseph Smith: "First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves if you were to see him today, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man. ...Here, then, is eternal life -- to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power." Yeah... right... sheesh! |