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The Bible Reveals the Way to Christ, April 28
Love one another fervently with a pure heart, ... because “all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its
flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
1 Peter 1:22-25
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NKJV.
The blessed Bible gives us a knowledge of the great plan of salvation, and
shows us how every individual may have eternal life. Who is the author of the
Book? Jesus Christ. He is the True Witness, and He says to His own, “I give unto
them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out
of my hand.” The Bible is to show us the way to Christ, and in Christ eternal life
is revealed. Jesus said to the Jews and to those who pressed about Him in great
multitudes, “Search the scriptures.” The Jews had the Word in the Old Testament,
but they had so mingled it with human opinions, that its truths were mystified, and
the will of God to human beings was covered up. The religious teachers of the
people are following their example in this age.
Though the Jews had the Scriptures which testified of Christ, they were not
able to discern Christ in the Scriptures; and although we have the Old and the New
Testament, people today wrest the Scriptures to evade their truths; and in their
interpretations of the Scriptures, they teach, as did the Pharisees, the maxims and
traditions of humanity for the commandments of God. In Christ’s day the religious
leaders had so long presented human ideas before the people, that the teaching of
Christ was in every way opposed to their theories and practice.
His sermon on the mount virtually contradicted the doctrines of the self-
righteous scribes and Pharisees. They had so misrepresented God that He was
looked upon as a stern judge, incapable of compassion, mercy, and love. They
presented to the people endless maxims and traditions as proceeding from God,
when they had no “Thus saith the Lord” for their authority. Though they professed
to know and to worship the true and living God, they wholly misrepresented Him;
and the character of God, as represented by His Son, was as an original subject,
a new gift to the world. Christ made every effort so to sweep away the misrep-
resentations of Satan, that the confidence of people in the love of God might be
restored.—
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 308, 309
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