"When the earth had only a few people, and they lived a long time, God [Alohim] declared His mind by dreams and visions and by immediate revelations to faithful witnesses, who in turn instructed others. They lived so long that three holy men were able to preserve the purity of religion by tradition from Adam's death until the time just prior to the Israelites going down to Egypt. Thus God [Alohim] delayed committing His will to writing because it was safely kept by a few trustworthy men. But after the age of man's life was shortened and the population multiplied, God [Alohim] 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 [Alohim] continued to demonstrate his will by supernatural revelations.
This one book of Scripture records all the ways God [Alohim] has directly revealed Himself to man, and we are to receive it as the undoubted Word of God [Alohim]. It contains a perfect way of faith and life. God [Alohim], 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 (LINK:THE CHRISTIAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR,1655,abridged1986) |