#7 “THE ‘ORIGINALS’ ”
“DO CHRISTIANS HAVE A PAPER POPE?”
When
critics level this attack on
those who believe the authority of the King James Bible with its
infallibility,
inerrancy and inspiration, what they really mean is that … we have
stopped
listening to their authority!
As
the Reformation progressed, Rome,
mounted their attack on the Textus Receptus (TR), by calling it
a “paper
pope.”
By
this, of course, they meant that
Protestants had abandoned papal authority and had replaced it with a
“pope” on
paper, the Greek New Testament.
Furthermore,
Catholics argued that
there were thousands of textual variations in the Greek manuscripts and
that
Protestants did not have a right to just pick one Bible to follow.
Call
it what you like, but their
bluster and hubris, is nothing but arrogance, conceit, haughtiness,
vanity and
pride.
Suffering
under the myth called The
Textual Differences Syndrome (T.T.D.S.), Rome hoped they could
undermine
the authority of the TR.
But
of course Dear Reader, it’s not
the authority of the TR that really hurts them.
It
is the authority of The King James
Bible that is the death blow to them!
What
really scares the daylights out
of people is that Christians should worship a Book.
Dear
Reader, I ‘worship’ the Book …
Why? It is the final written authority of God
to man.
It
is the closest physical thing we
have of Christ on earth.
It’s
just as if Christ has plummeted
out of heaven and popped himself into a book.
I
mean he did it for Israel didn’t
he?
He
rocketed out of heaven and into
the form of a man!
So
bringing about a perfect book …
would not keep Christ awake for a nanosecond … a mere doddle!
Question:
Which
would be harder … manifesting as a man or
getting his final written authority on paper?
Answer:
Neither.
Now
at the moment, Christ doesn’t do
this anymore … but of course he will … so he has left us his
instructions on
all matters of belief, faith and doctrine.
You
see, what the critics want, is for us to pray more … you know … they
are called
Prayers of Unbelief … such that when you read something written
in the
King James Bible … you are to keep on questioning what you have read …
asking
for another answer as it were.
Are
critics so stupid as to accuse us
of having a King James on a little altar with candles … “Oh Dear Bible
we now
worship you.”
As
it has been said “Clean Bible …
dirty Christian, dirty Bible … clean Christian”.
See
the opposite is true ... critics
have clean Bibles … and that means … it is holy thing to them … they
dare not
smudge it in any way … “It’s The Holy Book … you know!”
And
of course, it would be a mission
impossible … because they have never seen their Bible … because it
doesn’t
exist … it’s a pile of unseen and unread manuscripts.
I
remember showing my Bible to
someone and they were horrified … it was crinkled and creased … had
notes,
finger marks, biro ink (by the way Dear Reader … always use a dry Biro
ink and
not one that ‘leaks’ … as with those highlighters … use the non-bleed
ones that
don’t seep through the paper to obscure the text on the other side of
the
paper).
No,
it is the critics that worship
their Bibles … their invisible Bibles that no-one has ever seen.
Too
right I have a Paper Pope … but
it can be forensically examined at every second of the day … by anyone.
The
critics have their Paper Pope …
they have their Invisible Paper Pope (IPP) somewhere out in
the universe
… unseen and unread … in heaven they say!
Oh
no! What am I to do?
“I’ve
been accused of worshipping a
Paper Pope … what shall I do?
I’m
so upset now! I guess I’ll
swallow a teeny tiny baby Aspirin, drink a warm glass of milk … and
have a good
lie down.”
As
Satan is a master of “Attack Being
the Best Form of Defence” … he uses his earthly ‘originals’ servants to
accuse
others of worshipping a physical Paper Pope … all the while … hiding
their
worship of an unseen Paper Pope.
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#8 “THE
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Winner
winner … Chicken dinner!
