Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-05-27
WHE0CE CAME
THE BIBLE?

EullOT NoWs.
"Aunt Adaline," your question has
not been answered and is not likely 10
be. Sectarian denominationalism 10
too false to the truth to ans YER such
question. These great Greek Bible
scholars are very mum about how we
got the Bible. They prefer to pose as
what they are not. Any honest man
can inform himself on the matter.
Christ, himself, never left any writ
ings and so far as we can learn, never
authorized anyone to write his gospel.
His apostles were commanded TO
preach and teach it TO every creature.
Not a single line Of the New Testa-
ment was written until six years aftel
the church was established and tue
last gospel was written go years after
the establishment of the church. For
six years the church was without any
written Scripture at all, and for 90
years without any complete scripture
and then four hundred years passed
before we got them in the form we
now have them and declared anthem
tioally to b3 the written revelation OF
the New Testament.
Now, aunt" for six years there
was no writing and then so years
passed before they were completed,
and 400 years before they were gather
ed and put into book form. They
were written by hand and we're rec
ognized as the revelation of the New
Testament and guaranteed to be the
true words of Christ and His Apostles
by the !. Roman Catholic Church.
Aunt" in studying this subject, |
find the church existed and fiourished
under the preaching and teaching Of
the Gospel, and the people accepted
the gospel by faith, which proves to
me that the propagation of the gospel
was by the foolishness of preaching,
and not by the written word. In stud
wing the subject of "How we came
BY the Bible" l find that there is
but the one church and to repudi ate
that church certainly weskens faith
in the Bible. Here is an argument in
favor of the Roman Catholic church
hard to overcome and no honest pro-
testant can ignore it. A man must
have wonderfully inconsistent Mid
to jump over twelve hundred years to
the time of Luther, before he can fad
any real christianity. The whole pro.
testant world seems to be arrayed
against the Roman Catholic church
and when they are not fighting the
Roman Catholic church, they are try
Ing to devour each other. Such is
professionalism as see it. The world
is not indebted to the protestant
churches for the Bible at all. All the
world owes the protestant denomina-
tions is for the strife and COMMISSIONS
that exist, both in church and state.
Why, they had rather quarrel and de-
bate questions non essential to saliva
ton than anything else.
Well, the monks of Rome wrote the
New Testament from the manuscript
preserved by the Christians, and the
Roman Church declared the first day
of the week to be the Lords day.
This authority was given the church
by God. Acts 20:29. Many other
passages can be found comforting pow
er upon the church, to-wit. Matt
1918. 1t is wonder the protestants
don't cut all such passages out and re-
pudiate them as they do the church.
Some actually repudiate infant hap
tism, while others haven't got the
courage to repudiate the acceptance OF
children in the church by baptism
Now, IL the church was good enough
to preserve and canoniZe the Bible,
why not accept her teachings regard
ing infants.
"Aunt Adaline," you caused me tt
seek information about the Bible. AND
in doing so learned whole lot about
false teachers. The world has sur
plus of false teachers and not single
denomination is the church for none
has an apostolic origin and succession
People have been and are being delud
ed and blinded and the devil reign
supreme to all appearances. TO an
swer your whole query would re
quire lot of space. Please give u
UNCLE TOM.
Daylight, Tenn, May 81, 1915.