Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
Wormwood.—Bitter as gall. “None now would justify Calvin’s course in
sentencing Servetus to be burned. Others burned at the stake usually had
the fuel piled at their feet. The flames were inhaled with the smoke, and
the victim was speedily unconscious to suffering. For Servetus Satanic
ingenuity arranged the burning fagots at a distance. He literally roasted
alive, in horrible torture, nearly five hours—in the name of God, of
Jesus, of Righteousness, Truth, Justice, Love, Christianity and
Civilization.” (P. D.)—Jer. 9:15; 23:15; 9‐40; Deut. 29:18.
And many men died of the waters.—Lost their manhood, reason and common
sense by becoming Calvinists.
Because they were made bitter.—Because the Scriptures were made to appear
to teach what actually they do not. “It seems remarkable that only now are
we realizing that a man so deficient in the spirit of his Master as to
murder his brother, should not be an accepted teacher of the Word of God
and its spirit. Only now are Bible students realizing that Brother Calvin
was not the inventor of the doctrine of election, but merely of the
doctrine that all the non‐elect would suffer everlastingly. Now we see
that the terms, ‘the elect,’ ‘the very elect,’ are Bible terms! and that
those who make their calling and election sure, will be glorified in the
First Resurrection. Now we see that the Elect will be associated with
Jesus in His Kingdom, which will bless the non‐elect—‘all the families of
the Earth.’ ”—P. D.
8:12. And the fourth angel sounded.—The Baptist sectarian movement began,
resulting in Baptist Churches North, Baptist Churches South, Baptist
Churches Colored, Seventh‐Day Baptists, General Baptists, Separate
Baptists, United Baptists, Baptist Church of Christ, Primitive Baptist
Church, Primitive Colored Baptist Church, Old Two Seed in the Spirit
Predestinarian Baptist Church, Church of God and Saints of Christ,
Mennonites, Six Principle Baptist Church, Free Baptist Church, Freewill
Baptist Church—not forgetting the Selfwill Baptist Church, which also has
a large membership, but is not listed.—1 Cor. 3:3.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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