King's Business - 1921-08

Extracts from tke Devil’s Bible Here it is— A ll Fixed up to Coincide with, the Modern Theology. Hov? Do You Like it? Bj) K. L. B.

he in his m anner th a t he was consid­ ered almost lamblike, (See John 1: 29.) He cared not for his own repu ta­ tion and made him self a mere servant, and was like unto all men except for his beautiful character. Because of his high ideals which he insisted on airing before rough and uncultured people, he came to an untim ely and unfo rtu ­ n ate death, even th e death of the cross. But God honored his teachings and made his name famous, -so th a t cultured men of every tongue m ight confess him a lordly man, (See Phil. 2 :7 -11 ). Having laid down his life ra th e r th an deny his utterances, (See John 10:18) many believed th a t his death had some strang e efficacy for

is New T estam ent teach- boiled down, censored and e palatable to cultured •alists and "religionists of

all kinds. Many destructive preachers and deluded leaders will h esitate to ac­ knowledge themselves in sympathy w ith it, in spite of th e fact th a t it is in per­ fect accord w ith what they have been teaching. B u t God cannot be trifled w ith ,'a lth o u g h ordination vows may be, and the man or woman who secretly en­ dorses these sentim ents may already consider themselves m arked as the dev­ il’s property. I t is th e devil’s Bible, believed and tau g h t by hundreds of men to-day in the name of Christianity. “A certain Mary, the wife of one named Joseph, a Jew, once had a dream in which she imagined an angel saying to her: Mary, a beautiful child shall be born unto thee and he shall be called a son of God, (See Luke 1 :3 5 ). And behold some months later, Mary and Joseph brought forth a son, and they called him Jesus, signifying th a t he would dem onstrate th e non-existence of sin, (See Matt. 1:21, 23). And divine goodness was manifested in th is child who dwelt among men, and his goodness was beheld, the goodness th a t developed from the spark of divinity w ithin him and he was very gracious and full of tru th fu lness, (See John 1 :1 4 ). This is not to say th a t he was not tempted, ju s t as all men, bu t he m aintained a repu tation th a t was heyond reproach, (See Heb. 4 :1 5 ). Possessing a faculty of calming th e minds of those who fancied themselves sick or possessed of some wicked spirit, the saying went abroad th a t he was a worker of m ira­ cles (See Lk. 4 :4 1 ). So gentle was

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