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Yesterday on the program, we concluded with a chapter entitled, The Vatican
Ratline.
By the way, we're reading, as my regular listeners are aware, we're reading a book
by Dave Hunt, a very popular book, entitled A Woman Rides the Beast.
And yesterday, we concluded the chapter entitled The Vatican Ratlines.
And we're going to continue now with the 22nd chapter of this book, entitled Sola
Scriptura.
But before I begin, I want to address a particular listener who sent me yesterday
a very long email expressing his concern about many questions that he had,
that he'd been a regular listener for some time.
And the basis of many of his questions was, what church do I go to?
If there's so much deception, what church would you recommend that I go to?
And I intend to respond to that email directly.
But I want to tell my listener that this chapter that we're about to talk about,
chapter 22 in this book, entitled Sola Scriptura, will answer many of your
questions.
It's very timely, the questions that you ask me, with the next chapter in this
book.
And so I will dedicate the reading of this chapter for your benefit, your personal
benefit.
And I hope that you will find in it the answers to the questions that you pose to
me in your very lengthy email, which I intend to answer in detail.
Now, before we continue with the reading of the chapter, we'll read the quotes that
are typical preceding each chapter.
There are several quotes on this page.
The first one is a quote from Psalm 119, verse 9 and verse 105.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, by taking heed thereto according to
thy word.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Another quote from 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 15.
That from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation through faith.
Now this, a quote from one of the many Antichrist Popes of the Roman Catholic
Church.
This one, Pope Pius VII, in his encyclical letter of 1816, addressed to the primate
of Poland.
Listen to the words of Antichrist.
Quote, it is evident from experience that the holy scriptures, when circulated in
the vulgar tongue, that is the tongue of the people, have produced more harm than
benefit.
We have deliberated upon the measure proper to be adopted by our pontifical
authority in order to remedy and abolish this pestilence, this defilement of the
faith so imminently dangerous to souls.
Unquote.
Do you see the papacy's hatred for the word of God?
Do you see Antichrist's loathing of the word of God?
You must understand that if the Antichrist hates the Bible, the word of God,
then there must be something in that word of God for us, right?
Another quote from one of the great Protestant reformers, Ulrich Zwingli,
dated August 13, 1522.
Quote, If I am cast into prison, it will be easier to transport a rock from
our alps than to move me as much as a hand's breadth from the word of Jesus
Christ.
Unquote.
Sola Scriptura.
Scripture alone.
That's the title of the next chapter of this book.
And a direct answer to my listener.
Dave Hunt writes, The well-known axiom that power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely is just as true in religion as in politics.
In fact, religious power is even more corrupting than political power.
Absolutism reaches its ultimate abusive pinnacle when it claims to act for God.
Vatican Council too requires, quote, loyal submission of the will and the
intellect, unquote, to the Roman pontiff, quote, even when he does not speak ex
cathedra, unquote.
No Catholic can presume to obey God and His word directly, but must give the
absolute obedience to the Roman Catholic Church, which acts for God and thus stands
between the individual and God.
So says the Roman Catholic Church.
But that is not what the Scripture saith.
The corruption of power reaches its greatest height in Roman Catholicism's
bold claim that its members cannot understand the Bible for themselves,
but must accept unquestioningly the Roman Catholic Church's interpretation.
Quote, The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the word of God has been
entrusted to the living teaching office of the Roman Catholic Church alone,
unquote.
With that edict, God's word, the one repository of truth and liberty which is
capable of destroying despotism, is kept under Roman Catholic Church
control and shrouded in mystery.
This leaves devout Roman Catholics at the mercy of their clergy.
A clergy which, as we have seen, is all too readily corrupted.
And I will simply say, is all too completely corrupted.
Now under the subtitle, Blind Acceptance, Dave Hunt writes, To escape that
destructive enslavement, the Protestant Reformers urged submission to God's pure
word as the ultimate authority, rather than to the Roman Catholic Church
or to the Pope.
The basic issue that sparked the Protestant Reformation, and which remains
the basic issue today, was whether to continue in blind submission to Rome's
dogmas, even though they contradicted the Bible, or to submit to God's word alone as
the final authority.
Menno Simon's biographer relates the conflict that he faced.
Listen to what he said, quote, The real problem came when Menno,
having dared to open the lids of the Bible, discovered that it contained
nothing of the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on the Mass.
By that discovery, his inner conflict was brought to a climax, for he now was
compelled to decide which of the two authorities was to be supreme in his life,
the Roman Catholic Church, or the Holy Scriptures, unquote.
The Protestant Reformers made that choice in favor of the Scriptures, and their
central cry became, Sola Scriptura!
The Scriptures alone!
That liberating truth was rejected at the Roman Catholic Council of Trent by Roman
Catholic bishops who were unwilling to surrender control of the people under
them.
It was even considered to be harmful for the people to possess the Bible in their
own language, because they might take it literally, which Rome urges even today
must not be done.
From her viewpoint, only a specially trained elite can understand the Bible.
Quote, The interpreter must go back wholly in spirit to those remote centuries with
the aid of history, archaeology, ethnology, and other sciences accurately
determine what modes of writing the authors of that period would likely to
use, and in fact did use.
Unquote.
In other words, you can't understand the Bible unless you are an expert in history,
archaeology, ethnology, and other sciences, and must also be expert in the
languages of the Bible.
Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic.
In other words, you must be a seminarian.
You must be a lifelong scholar before you are able to read and to understand the
scriptures.
In other words, you must be a graduate of a doctorate in divinity of one of the most
prestigious Roman Catholic universities in all the world before you can read and
understand and interpret the Bible.
So it's hopeless.
You just as well not even read it.
You are not simply capable.
Now let me ask the obvious question.
Does God deal so treacherously with His beloved people for whom He died to make
the scriptures inaccessible to His people that they must be spoon-fed by an elite
priesthood who have a monopoly on understanding the scriptures?
Is that what the Bible teaches?
Dave Hunt continues, Transview that the authority of the Roman Catholic Church
excuse me, Transview, that is the Council of Trent its view that the authority of
the authority for the Roman Catholic is the Roman Catholic Church, not the Bible.
And that view remains in force today.
Only scripture scholars trained at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome with
quote, a degree in theology and mastery of six or seven languages including Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek unquote, are capable of understanding the Bible.
Having earned quote, a licentiate in other words, a license in sacred scripture the
Roman Catholic Church's license to teach scripture, unquote, they alone can teach
the Bible.
They alone can teach the Bible.
No layman is qualified according to the official teaching of the Roman Catholic
Church.
Vatican Council too insisted quote, it is for the bishops with whom the
apostolic doctrine resides suitably to instruct the faithful entrusted to them in
the correct use of the New Testament by giving them translations of the sacred
texts which are equipped with necessary and really adequate explanations.
Unquote.
In other words, it's only for the bishops.
They are the only ones who can dispense the Word of God and give adequate
explanation.
But what does the Bible say?
What does the Bible say?
The Bible was given by God to all mankind.
Not to an elite group to explain it to others.
It is to be a lamp on the path that is, Psalms 119 verse 105, it is to be a lamp
on the path of all who heed it.
Moses proclaimed that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
Deuteronomy 8, verse 3.
And not a whisper about that word being interpreted by an elite Roman Catholic
hierarchy.
Psalms 1 speaks of the blessed man who mediates upon God's Word, variously called
the law, the statutes, the judgments, the commandments, etc., day and night.
Quote, man surely includes woman, but cannot possibly be interpreted to mean
only a special class of highly educated experts.
Certainly, it does not include a quote unquote, clergy class.
The Bible was given to mankind.
The Bible was given to God's children to be read by them and to be understood by
them through the Holy Spirit.
You have a teacher within you.
You are a temple of the Holy Spirit.
He resides within you.
And He has the mind of God.
It is the mind of God within you.
Trust me, you have more within you than any Roman Catholic priest.
Dave Hunt says, we get the impression from reading Paul's epistles that those to whom
they were written were expected to understand them.
The epistles are not addressed to a bishop or to a select group of leaders,
but to all the Christians at Corinth, Ephesus, etc.
Each Christian is given an understanding by the indwelling Holy Spirit of the words
which the same Spirit inspired, quote, holy men of God, unquote,
to write.
See 2 Peter 1, verse 21.
All Scripture is given unto men.
Alright?
Scripture that men wrote under the unction of the Holy Spirit.
He says every, excuse me, even a, quote, young man, unquote, is expected to
heed God's word, Psalm 119.
Again, not even a single hint is given that it must be explained to him by a
rabbi.
Christ, quoting Moses, I have a difficulty here with my headset.
Hang on a second.
Okay, obviously, I have a technical difficulty here I'm going to have to live
with.
I guess it's time to get a new headset, but we'll do the best we can with what we
have.
Now, even a young man is expected to heed God's word.
See Psalms 119.
Again, not a hint is given that it must be explained to him by a rabbi.
Christ, quoting Moses, affirm that man is to feed upon the Bible for his very life.
See Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 3 and Matthew 4 verse 4.
Job considers God's word, quote, more than my necessary food, unquote.
See Job 23 verse 12.
Never a word is spoken about consulting a hierarchy for its meaning.
Under the subtitle, trusting the church instead of the Bible, Dave says,
the Pope, in his August 15, 1993 address to representatives of the Vietnamese
community in Denver, told them, quote, the challenge before you is to keep
pure and lively your Catholic identity, unquote.
One seldom ever hears Catholic leaders exhorting the flock to be true simply to
Christ or to God's word, but always to the Roman Catholic Church.
Veritatis splendor, John Paul II's 1993 treatise on morals, refers to the truth
taught by Christ and mediated by the church.
Without that mediation, the Catholic cannot know God's truth simply by reading
God's word according to the teaching of the church.
Only by such a doctrine can Rome keep its adherents blindly following its corrupt
and unbiblical teachings.
Cardinal Ratzinger, watchdog of Orthodoxy, exemplifies this blind faith in Roman
Catholicism.
He tells of a theology professor who admitted that the assumption of the Virgin
Mary, declared a Roman Catholic dog man in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, could not be
supported by scripture, yet decided to believe it anyway because quote,
the church is wiser than I, unquote.
Sadly, he's actually acknowledging the Roman Catholic Church to be wiser than the
Bible and thus capable of contradicting it because it does contradict the Bible and
just like the assumption of the Virgin Mary dogma contradicts the Bible.
Ratzinger has that same unwarranted total trust in Roman Catholicism and pledges,
quote, to follow the Roman Catholic faith and not my own opinions unquote.
Thus he guards the faith not by making certain that what is taught in the Roman
Catholic seminaries universities and pulpits around the world agrees with the
word of God, but that it conforms to Roman Catholic tradition taught by the popes,
the councils, and the church fathers, and much of it within those false
decretals called the pseudo-Isidorian decretals that we talked about,
admitted forgeries.
Vatican Council too says that quote, both scripture and tradition is to be
accepted and honored with equal feelings of devotion and reverence, unquote.
The new universal catechism of the Roman Catholic Church recently released by the
Vatican states quote,
and the Magisterium, unquote.
So in Roman Catholicism, it's not sola scriptura.
It's the Roman Catholic Church, it's tradition, it's Mary, or the saints,
or all the other multitudes of things that the Roman Catholic Church has placed
before, in front of, or instead of, the scriptures.
In answer to my question, to the question posed to me by my listeners about what
church to go to, the answer should be becoming more and more clear as we
continue to reading of this book.
The truth is not found in any church.
The truth is found in the scriptures.
And all men and churches will be judged solely by what is written in the
scriptures.
Don't look to a church to be your guide, and to exempt you from responsibility to
your creator for how you rightly or wrongly divide the word of truth.
That Bible is the truth.
All else is second best.
We've come upon the break, we'll return with the reading of the book A Woman Rides
a Beast by Dave Hunt The church stands in the way of truth.
We'll be back right after this.
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Welcome back to Inquisition Update.
We'll continue where we left off before the break.
The subtitle of this portion of the chapter is The Church Stands in the Way of
Truth.
Don't, and this is particularly to my listener who wrote, don't let anybody or
anything stand between you and your Messiah, Christ Jesus.
Don't let any church or man or group of men or governments or principalities or
powers or any other thing, not even an angel of heaven, stand between you and
your Messiah and His holy book.
Your instruction should come directly from God Himself, without any mediator,
and that can only be done by reading and studying and meditating and praying on the
Word of God.
Jesus Christ declared, quote, if you continue in my word, then are ye my
disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, not a single hint of another source
of truth.
The Bible, the Bible alone, sola scriptura, see John chapter 8 verse 31 and
32.
He did not make that statement to the twelve apostles, but to common people who
had just, quote, believed on Him.
Verse 30, He said nothing of His truth having to be interpreted by the rabbis and
of course the Roman Catholic hierarchy didn't even exist then.
You have to ask yourself, under the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church
about its sole authority to interpret and to teach the Word of God, how was anyone
saved before the third century?
That's just how ridiculous the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is.
The Roman Catholic Church would have you believe that they have a monopoly on the
Scripture and understanding and the imparting of the Holy Spirit or the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The Roman Catholic Church says that it has a monopoly on God and the Scriptures.
How could anybody of sane mind believe such a thing?
And likewise of any other institution on the earth that claims such a thing.
And I can think of many churches even some that I might even recommend that you would
attend.
They all claim that if you're not a member of our church, you can't go to heaven.
That's not what the Bible says.
God's Word was available to and was to be understood, believed and obeyed by even
the newest converts to the faith.
That was what Christ expected of his followers then and it is what he expects
of us today as well.
Rome blocks the individual's access to the truth.
The Roman Catholic Church cannot learn directly from God's Word but only from the
interpretation thereof by the church.
In other words, the Roman Catholic Church is a mediator between God and man.
The church thrusts itself between the believer and the throne of Almighty God.
And we're not to believe such drivel.
Christ said quote, come unto me I will give you rest.
Unquote.
Matthew chapter 11 verse 28 Rome allows no one to come directly to Christ but has set
itself up as the intermediary channel of God's grace necessary for knowing God's
truth and for salvation.
On this point Rome is adamant otherwise she would lose her hold on the people who
could then do without her just like the Protestant reformers did just like I do.
Would God inspire infallible scripture and then deny to all except an elite few the
ability to understand it?
Requiring billions of people to surrender their minds to a Roman Catholic hierarchy
by blindly accepting their interpretation of His word?
If the Holy Spirit can convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of
judgment, John chapter 16 verse 8 then surely He can teach all those in whom He
dwells.
John says that the Christians to whom He writes don't have to look to some special
class of men for teaching but have an anointing within to teach them all things.
First John chapter 2 verse 27 If all Christians are led by the Spirit of God,
unquote see Romans chapter 8 verse 14 then surely all must be able to understand the
scriptures which the Spirit of God has inspired.
Christians, quote have received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God unquote.
First Corinthians 2, 12 There's no hint that a group of clergy must interpret the
scriptures for everyone else and why should they?
All Christians, quote, have the mind of Christ verse 16.
Rome dare not acknowledge this truth for then those under her would be set free.
There's the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free free from men, from
institutions from churches, from governments, from every bondage known to
mankind but the world dare not acknowledge this truth or we would be set free Rome is
still searching for the truth outside God's Word Consider Rome's Pontifical
University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
It's called the Angelicum Pope John Paul II is a graduate It's 1,200 students from
135 countries have made, quote, the search for truth, unquote,
through the thousands of volumes on theology and philosophy in its library and
elsewhere their life objectives.
These people make their entire life the study of these difficult subjects,
non-biblical subjects and call themselves the dispensers of God's truth.
When God made His Word available to every man contrast Christ's statement that by
obeying His Word, one knows the truth with the complexity of the search for truth by
Catholic scholars.
Both can't be right.
Both cannot be right There's a dead spiritual bondage in the Roman Catholic
Church a deadly spiritual bondage and it has been passed down to the ecumenical
churches today.
They're all gearing themselves up, the preachers of the ecumenical churches
are gearing themselves up to follow the model of the Roman Catholic Church
including themselves in that priestly class that clergy class that is going to
rule over the people as though they have no access to the throne of God but through
them My listener asked me with all the deception, what church do I go to?
The true church knows the scripture.
You are the church When God dwells within you you are the church.
You don't need a man to teach you.
He says His ordinary Bereans check Paul's teachings not with a hierarchy in Rome
which didn't even then exist but against the Bible.
Acts chapter 17 verse 11 That practice was commended then and it's still each
individual's responsibility to know God's word and to test every spiritual leader by
it no matter who he may be This is what the Bible declares Roman Catholics
however, just like the Mormons the Jehovah Witnesses and other various cults must
accept not check their church's teachings.
The very book that would bring life, light and freedom to individuals and
nations is spiritually chained out of reach even as it once was literally
chained by the Roman Catholic Church.
Of course such withholding of God's word from the laity is consistent with Roman
Catholicism's persistent suppression of the basic human freedoms of conscience,
religion and the press.
Among the crimes for which believers were committed to the flames in the Spanish
Inquisition, listen to this was the distribution and reading of the Bible
Smuggling Bibles into communist or Muslim countries such as China or Iran is
understandable.
But imagine having to smuggle Bibles into a quote-unquote Christian country such as
Spain and being put to death for doing so yet in an auto-defay in Seville on
December 22nd, 1560 Julian Hernandez, one of those burned at the stake on that
occasion, was declared to be an arch-heretic because quote, through his
great efforts and incomprehensible stealth, he introduced into Spain
prohibited books.
What were those books?
Bibles and New Testaments that he brought from far away places like Protestant
Germany where they gave protection to the ungodly that is Protestants.
He firmly believes that God by means of the Scriptures communicates to the laity
just the same as he communicates to the priests.
Let me tell you, God communicates much, much better through the Scriptures to his
own people than to any Roman Catholic priest.
To believe that God could communicate his truth through the Bible not only to the
clergy but to the ordinary believers was a crime punishable by death in Spain and
other Roman Catholic countries.
Rome has not changed, though the Bible is no longer banned overtly as in the past.
To do so today would be the wrong tactic and likely to create the opposite reaction
to the one desired, especially in Protestant countries.
There's a better way.
Let the people have the Bible in their hands and even encourage them to read it,
but keep it from their hearts.
By insisting that only the Roman Catholic Church can interpret it.
At the same time confidence in Scripture is undermined by Rome's teaching that the
Bible is not trustworthy in its pronouncements on history or science.
Catholicism takes a symbolic meaning from the book of Jonah concerning the quote,
the universality of salvation, unquote, and denies that a literal prophet
named Jonah was swallowed by a literal fish.
The early chapters of Genesis are likewise viewed as symbolic rather than accounts of
actual creation of the world and man, leaving the door open to evolution.
Even the rapture, now my apologies to my listeners, I don't believe the Bible
teaches the rapture.
This is part of Dave's futurism for which he never renounced before he died.
We've dealt with this on previous chapters or on previous programs, but I'll read
what's written in his book.
It says, even the rapture is seen as symbolic and not referring to a literal
catching up of the Christians to heaven, an idea which Catholics consider to be
delusion.
In 1964, instruction of the Biblical Commission declared that the literalist
view of the Bible adopted by fundamentalists, that is Bible readers,
quote, actually invites people to a kind of intellectual suicide.
That's what Rome thinks of those of you out there who are expert in the Word of
God, even you young boys who have been brought up in the Scriptures, that you are
actually committing intellectual suicide by reading and understanding that Bible.
Did the Roman Catholic Church give us the Bible as she claims?
Excuse me, it is claimed that only the church can interpret the Bible because it
was the church which gave it to us.
Now that, my listeners, ought to be absurd on its face.
That we got the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Church?
What fool would believe such malarkey?
He said that's like saying that because Paul wrote his epistles, we need him to
interpret them.
Furthermore, the church did not give us the Bible, certainly not the Old
Testament, for there was no church.
There was no Roman Catholic Church in those days, or any other church.
And if the Roman Catholic Church was not needed to give us the Old Testament,
then clearly it's not needed to give us the New either.
A favorite question of Roman Catholic apologists is, quote, how do you know that
Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke, or that Matthew wrote the Gospel of
Matthew?
Unquote.
They claim that Roman Catholic tradition contains this information.
Yet no tradition proves who wrote Hebrews, Job, Esther, or various Psalms.
Nor does it matter that the authors were inspired by the Holy Spirit is what
matters.
This inspiration bears witness within readers who are themselves indwelt by the
same Holy Spirit who inspired the writing of the Scripture in the first place.
You want to be an authority on the Scripture?
Accept Christ as your Messiah, your teacher, your rabbi, your priest,
your all in all, and believe Him, and He will give you the Holy Spirit to
live within you, so that when you read the words of His book, they are given to you
in direct revelation from the Scriptures.
The meaning will just jump out of the pages, and they won't bounce off your
forehead.
They will sink to the marrow of your bones.
Those words will become a part of you.
No Roman Catholic priest, or any other preacher who does not possess the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit, can speak to the marrow of your bones.
Catholicism's claim that the New Testament comes from the Church by decision of the
councils is false.
No early Roman Catholic Church council even ruled on what was canonical.
Yet in these councils, to support their arguments, both sides quoted the New
Testament, which had obviously been accepted by general consensus without any
conciliar definition on the canon.
Look, we don't need the Roman Catholic Church to tell us what is Scripture and
what isn't.
All we need is the book itself.
It tells us what is Scripture and what isn't.
All we need is the writings of the early church who quoted those Scriptures,
who received them as Scriptures, who believed them to be inspired by the
Holy Spirit of God.
Who needs the Roman Catholic Church to tell us what is inspired and what isn't?
God's book existed long before the Roman Catholic Church or any other church.
He says the Synod of Antioch in A.D.
266 denounced the doctrine of Paul of Samosata as, quote, foreign to the
ecclesiastical canon, unquote.
The Council of Nicaea in A.D.
325 refers to, quote, unquote, the canon.
And the Council of Laodicea in A.D.
363 exhorted that, quote, only the canonized books of both the Old and New
Testament be read in the church, unquote.
Yet none, none of those councils deemed it necessary to list the canonized books,
indicating that they were already very well known and accepted by the common
consent of Christians indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
Look, the Roman Catholic Church, to get the canon of Scripture right for
us, would have had to consult those who were indwelt by the Holy Spirit and knew
in the marrow of their bones what was Scripture and what wasn't.
The Roman Catholic Church would have had to consult them to make up her canon and
then distribute it to the rest of us.
How absurd!
Not until the Third Council of Carthage in A.D.
397 do we have the first conciliar decision on the canon.
That's rather late if without it Christians didn't know what books were in
the New Testament and therefore couldn't use them as Rome claims today.
History proves that the books of the New Testament were known and accepted by
Christians and in wide circulation and used at least 300 years, three centuries
before Carthage listed them.
Historian W.H.C.
Friend writes, quote, the Gospels and Epistles were circulating in Asia,
Syria, and Alexandria, less certainly in Rome, and being read and discussed in the
Christian synagogues there by about 100 A .D.
In Polycarp's short letter, there's an astonishing amount of direct and indirect
quotation from the New Testament.
Books Matthew, Luke, and John, Acts, the letters to the Galatians,
Thessalonians, Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Romans,
the pastorals, 1st Peter particularly, and 1st and 2nd John are all used.
The Christian scriptures were quoted so familiarly as to suggest that they had
been in regular use a long time.
Trust me, it was a long time before the Roman Catholic Church ever drew a breath.
No rabbinical body decided upon the canon of the Old Testament.
The canon was recognized by Israel and available as it was being written.
Daniel, a captive in Babylon, had a copy of Jeremiah, written only a few years
earlier, and was studying it as Scripture, see Daniel chapter 9 verse 2.
We are certain that the entire Old Testament was well known when Christ was
here and undoubtedly long before, for every Israelite was required to
meditate upon it day and night.
God's Word speaks directly to all.
The Old Testament times the common people were expected to know God's Word,
not through rabbinical interpretation, but for themselves, and were able to know
it.
In fact, as well as its availability to all, it is clear from Christ's rebuke of
the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
Here's what he said, quote, old fools and slow of heart to believe all that the
prophets have spoken, unquote.
Luke 24 verse 25, he would not have used such harsh language in holding these two
ordinary people responsible for their ignorance of prophecies had not all of the
Old Testament Scriptures been readily available, familiar, and understandable to
the ordinary Jew.
He then expounded unto them in all the Scriptures, which must therefore have been
known, quote, the things concerning himself, unquote.
Luke chapter 24 verse 25 through 27, all of the Scriptures were even available
to the faraway Bereans who dwelt north of Greece, who as we have seen, quote,
searched the Scriptures daily, unquote.
Acts 17 11.
The same evidence is found in the fact that Timothy knew the Old Testament from
early childhood.
2nd Timothy 3 15, and that it was taught to him not by rabbis in the synagogue,
but at home, at home by his mother and his grandmother.
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Paul, that's where the church is.
It's wherever you are.
It's wherever the Holy Spirit dwells.
You ask me what church do I go to?
That's the one, brother.
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