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1 84 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
liver the genuine faith to the true congregation
of God . The apostolic command is, "Do not treat
prophesyings with contempt. Make sure of all
things ; hold fast to what is right ." And the apostle
Paul himself submitted to having the message
he delivered subjected to proof by the already
written Hebrew Scriptures of the ancient prophets
. His listeners at Beroea received Paul's word
with the greatest readiness of mind, but "carefully
examining the Scriptures daily as to whether
these things were so" . In urging Christians in
later times to go back always to the original for
the pure, true faith Paul wrote : "There are certain
ones who are disturbing you and wanting to
pervert the good news about the Christ. However,
even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare
to you as good news something beyond what
we declared to you as good news, let him be accursed
."-1 Thessalonians 5 :20, 21 and Acts 17 :11
and Galatians 1 :7, 8, NW.
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The apostles fought hard to uphold the common
faith of the congregation of the first century.
Now for us to get away from the sectarian
creeds and religious confusion of this century we
must turn back to their common faith that was
delivered once for all time . It is contained unchanged
in the inspired Scriptures of the Bible .
Both Moses, the writer of the first books of the
Bible, and the apostle John, the writer of the last
books of the Bible, wrote down God's warning
against adding uninspired religious traditions of
men to God's Word once delivered to his people .
-Deuteronomy 4 :2 ; Revelation 22 :18 .