Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Religion
Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
Defenceless, Brethren in Christ, sixteen kinds of Methodists shown in
comments on Rev. 9:1, Union Moravian, Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene,
Other Pentecostal Associations, twelve kinds of Presbyterians shown in
comments on Rev. 8:10, 11, Christian Reformed, Hungarian Reformed,
Reformed Catholic, Salvation Army, Schwenkfelders, Social Brethren,
Society for Ethical Culture, Spiritualists, Theosophical Society, Old
Constitution Brethren, Unitarians, Universalists, etc.
Their “faiths” are quite as varied as their names, but without exception
they deny the central truth of the Scriptures (1 John 4:2, 3) that when
Jesus Christ came to earth He came as a man only, devoid of immortality or
Divinity, that when He died He was as dead as though He never had lived,
and that by that death He bought for Adam and his race the Restitution of
all things foretold by “the mouth of all the holy Prophets since the world
began.” (Rev. 4:10.) The common ground upon which they stand is this,
their denial of the Ransom, their affirmation of Spiritism, in some form,
and their adherence to the principle of Federation. All of these things
are condemned in the Scriptures but the Scriptures will never be allowed
to stand in the way of those who live by shearing the wool from the sheep.
(2 Tim. 4:3, 4; Deut. 18:10, 11; Isa. 8:9‐22.) The latter passage is full
of the deepest significance at this time.
“Christian Heralds” that refused to publish advertisements of Pastor
Russell’s books now give space to advertisements of godless, Christless,
Buddhist, demoniacal books, glorifying the New Thought system of mind
worship, the boot‐strap system of religion by which men, by cultivation of
the will, lift themselves into money, piety and immortality, and by making
assertions to and demands of the alleged “sub‐conscious mind” invite and
receive the assistance of evil spirits, and finally come under their
control. Modern “Christianity” is Buddhism.
“The Rev. Dr. Day, Chancellor of the Syracuse University, recently, in an
address to the Y. M. C. A., is reported by the public press to have said:
‘Wouldn’t you rather live in America than in Heaven? I would. I’d like to
go to Heaven when I can’t be here. In fact, I think I’d be rather
discontented in Heaven till I got adjusted. You can get anything you want
here. You can live under forty odd governments, meet all the nations of
the world, eat all the fruits of the world and get any kind of climate
that you choose. So America is the beat place to live; but I think when a
man can’t stay here any longer he ought to steer for Heaven,’ ” (Z.
’08‐196.) Having concluded to stay here as long as possible, “Christians”
are now flocking by thousands to the purchase of works which will show
them how to use spiritism to take advantage of their fellow men. The
religious and other periodicals are now filled with advertisements of
these books. We quote a few extracts to show their Satanic character:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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