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"When the earth had only a few people,
and they lived a long time, God declared His mind by dreams and visions and by
immediate revelations to
But after the age of man's life was shortened and the population multiplied, God wrote the TEN COMMANDMENTS with His own finger on tables of stone to keep His people from idolatry and corrupt worship. Later He commanded Moses to write the other words he had heard from Him on the mount; and all the while God continued to demonstrate his will by supernatural revelations. Finally, it pleased God for His sacred word to be finished by Christ the great Teacher of the church, and by the apostles, His public notaries, for saints to use until the end time. A curse from Christ's own mouth belongs to anyone who adds to or takes away from God's written Word: 'If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book' (Revelation 22: 18-19 ) This one book of Scripture records all the ways God has directly revealed Himself to man, and we are to receive it as the undoubted Word of God. It contains a perfect way of faith and life. 'God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son' "(Hebrews 1: 1) quote from William Gurnall (THE CHRISTIAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR,1655,abridged1986) |