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Are They All From God?
Let us suppose that an evangelist comes to our community to conduct a religious meeting and proceeds as follows:
- At the first service he preaches that salvation is by faith only. But at the next one he contends that it is by faith exercised in obedience to the gospel rather than by faith alone.
- At the third service he declares that either sprinkling, pouring or immersion is baptism, but at the fourth service he plainly shows that immersion is baptism.
- At the fifth service he says that penitent believers are the only spiritual subjects of baptism, but at the sixth service he teaches that babies should be baptized due to 'original sin.'
- At the seventh service he preaches once in grace, always in grace, but at the eighth he tells the people that it is possible for them to fall from grace, that some have fallen, and that the Bible tells how to keep from falling.
- At the ninth service he teaches that it is right to have human creeds, but at the tenth he declares that we should take the Bible as our only guide in religion.
No thoughtful person would continue to listen to ONE preacher like that, but the majority of people 'are perfectly willing for TEN preachers to preach these confl icting ideas. They say that if one man should preach that way he would contradict himself and be inconsistent, but what kind of a God do they suppose we have if He endorses all these confl icting doctrines and has sent out these preachers to present them?
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