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From Here to Forever
Bible Represented as Fiction
The apostles, personated by lying spirits, are made to contradict
what they wrote when on earth. Satan is making the world believe
that the Bible is fiction, a book suited to the infancy of the race,
but now to be regarded as obsolete. The Book that is to judge him
and his followers he puts in the shade; the Saviour of the world he
makes to be no more than a common man. And believers in spiritual
manifestations try to make it appear that there is nothing miraculous
in our Saviour’s life. Their own miracles, they declare, far exceed
the works of Christ.
Spiritualism is now assuming a Christian guise. But its teachings
cannot be denied or hidden. In its present form it is a more dangerous,
more subtle, deception. It now professes to accept Christ and the
Bible. But the Bible is interpreted in a manner pleasing to the
unrenewed heart. Love is dwelt upon as the chief attribute of God,
but is degraded to a weak sentimentalism. God’s denunciations of
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sin, the requirements of His holy law, are kept out of sight. Fables
lead men to reject the Bible as the foundation of their faith. Christ is
as verily denied as before, but the deception is not discerned.
Few have a just conception of the deceptive power of spiritualism.
Many tamper with it merely to gratify curiosity. They would be filled
with horror at the thought of yielding to the spirits’ control. But they
venture on forbidden ground, and the destroyer exercises his power
on them against their will. Let them once be induced to submit their
minds to his direction, and he holds them captive. Nothing but the
power of God, in answer to earnest prayer, can deliver these souls.
All who willfully cherish known sin are inviting the temptations
of Satan. They separate themselves from God and the watchcare of
His angels, and are without defense.
“When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter; should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law
and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:19, 20
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If men had been willing to receive the truth concerning the nature
of man and the state of the dead, they would see in spiritualism
Satan’s power and lying wonders. But multitudes close their eyes to