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Biblesaid : "This people honors mewith their lips, yet their heartsare far removed from me . It isin vain that they keep payingrespect to me, because they teachcommands of men as doctrines." ' " [See Isaiah 29 :13 .]No truth in teachings of menwhen opposed to BibleIsa . 8 :19, 20 "And when theyshall say unto you, Seek untothem that have familiar spiritsand unto the wizards, that chirpand that mutter : should not apeople seek unto their God? onbehalf of the living should theyseek unto the dead? To the lawand to the testimony! if theyspeak not according to this word,surely there is no morning forthem ."Adding to God's Word forbiddenDeut. 4 :2 "Ye shall not addunto the word which I commandyou, neither shall ye diminishfrom it, that ye may keep thecommandments of Jehovah yourGod which I command you ."Prov . 30:5, 6 "Every word ofGod is tried : he is a shield untothem that take refuge in him .Add thou not unto his words, lesthe reprove thee, and thou befound a liar ."Jesus used written word torefute false interpretationby Satan .Matt . 4 :4, 7, 10 "In reply hesaid : 'It is written, "Man mustlive, not on bread alone, but onevery utterance coming forththrough Jehovah's mouth ." ' Jesussaid to him : 'Again it iswritten, "You must not put Jehovahyour God to the test ."'Then Jesus said to him : 'Goaway, Satan! For it is written,"It is Jehovah your God you mustworship, and it is to him aloneyou must render sacred service." 7 "See : Deut . 8 :3 ; 6 :16 ; 6 :13 .42Jesus advised religious leadersto believe God's written wordJohn 5 :39, 46, 47 "You aresearching the Scriptures, becauseyou think that by means of themyou will have everlasting life ;and these are the very ones thatbear witness about me . In fact, ifyou believed Moses you wouldbelieve me, for that one wroteabout me . But if you do not believethe writings of that one,how will you believe my sayings?"See : Gen. 3 :15 ; 12 :7 ; 49 :10 ;Deut . 18 :15 .Jesus gave life to uphold truthof ScripturesLuke 22 :37 "For I tell youthat this which is written mustbe accomplished in me, namely,`And he was reckoned with lawlessones .' For that which concernsme is having an accomplishment."See : Isa . 53 :12 .Jesus magnified God's writtenword above rabbinic schoolsLuke 24:27, 44, 45 "And commencingat Moses and all theProphets he interpreted to themthings pertaining to himself in allthe Scriptures . He now said tothem : `These are my wordswhich I spoke to you while I wasyet with you, that all the thingswritten in the law of Moses andin the Prophets and Psalms aboutme must be fulfilled.' Then heopened up their minds fully tograsp the meaning of the Scriptures."Matt. 16 :6, 12 "Jesus said tothem : 'Be on the alert and watchout for the yeast of the Phariseesand Sadducees .' Then theygrasped that he said to watch out. . . for the teaching of the Phariseesand Sadducees."Followers of tradition becomepersecutors of Jesus'true followersGal . 1 :13, 14 "You, of course,heard about my conduct formerlyin Judaism, that to the point