Poems and Short Features

Sola Scriptura [Scripture Alone]

“That is not faith in God, which declines to accept a ‘Thus saith the Lord’ save when it bears some trusted human endorsement.”† “We believe it to be a common failing of the present and all times for men to believe certain doctrines because others did so, in whom they had confidence.”‡

† Maria F. Russell, “The Eternal Purpose,” an unfin ished and unedited work recently recovered by Barbara Anderson, p. 9. [Purchasable at http://www.lulu.com/con tent/4681421.]

‡ Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 1, “The Divine Plan of the Ages” [Charles T. Russell], 1886. p.12. [Published by Dawn Publications, http://www.DawnBible.com, among others.]

Doctrines the Bible Requires
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Intellectual

• Believe that God exists, and that he becomes rewarder of those who seek Him. —Heb 11:6

• Confess that Jesus is the Son of God.— Matthew 10:32-33; 1 John 4:15, 5:5

• Jesus is come in the flesh.— 2 John 7; 1 John 4:3

• Jesus is the Christ [Messiah, Anointed] —1 John 2:22; 5:1

• Not under the Law of Moses.— Galatians 5:4

•The resurrection is not past.— 2 Timothy 2:16-18

• In the seed of Abraham all the families of the earth will be blessed.— Genesis 12:3, 18:18, 22:16-18; 26:3-4; 28:14

• God’s other oaths.— Exodus 17:16; Numbers 14:28-30; 32:10-12 (Psalm 95:11); Psalm 89:3-4; Psalm 110:4, etc. (and 8⁺ other times)

• Hear, O Israel: †Jehovah is our God, Jehovah is one.—Deuteronomy 6:4

Practical

• Confess your sins— 1 John 1:8-10.

• Love the Lord.—1 Corinthians 16:22

• Love thy brother.— 1 John 2:9-11, 4:20.

• Do righteousness.— 1 John 3:7-11.

• Take up his cross and follow me.—Matthew 10:38, Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23

• Must have the spirit of Christ.— Rom 8:9

• Righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees.—Matthew 5:20

• Be not angry with thy brother.—Matthew 5:20

• Forgive others.—Matt. 6:9-15, 18:27-35

• A man must provide for his own (or he has denied the faith…).—1 Timothy 5:8

• Put away jealousy, greed, and seizing power.—Jude 11

• Put away fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,… —1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21

• Bridle (control) thy tongue.— James 1:26

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† Or, Jehovah our God, Jehovah is one; or, Jehovah is our God, Jehovah alone; or possibly, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. The Hebrew is less specific than is easily expressed in English.

And Finally
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Every error held obscures and hinders some truth; and we have now come to the time when every child of God needs all the panoply of truth—the Armor of God. He who has not on the “whole Armor of God” is sure to fall into error in this “evil day,” this “Hour of Temp-tation.” … And “judgment must begin at the house of God.” Who shall be able to stand? None except those who are “building themselves up in the most holy faith” with the precious promises and vital doctrines of the Word of God.

—Reprints, p. 5801