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DEV:The creed of the Alexandrian Cult by Peter Ruckman
1. There is no final authority but God.
2. Since God is a spirit, there is no final authority that can be
seen, heard, read, felt, or handled.
3. Since all books are material, there is no book on this earth that
is the final and absolute authority on what is right and what is wrong;
what constitutes truth and what constitutes error.
4. There WAS a series of writings one time which, IF they had all
been put into a BOOK as soon as they were written the first time, WOULD
HAVE constituted an infallible and final authority by which to judge
truth and error.
5. However, this series of writings was lost, and the God Who
inspired them was unable to preserve their content through Bible-
believing Christians at Antioch (Syria), where the first Bible teachers
were (Acts 13) and where the first missionary trip originated (Acts
13:1-6), and where the word "Christian" originated (Acts 11:26).
6. So, God chose to ALMOST preserve them through Gnostics and
philosophers from Alexandria, Egypt, even though God called His Son OUT
of Egypt (Matthew 2), Jacob OUT of Egypt (Genesis 49), Israel OUT of
Egypt (Exodus 15), and Joseph's bones OUT of Egypt (Exodus 13).
7. So, there are two streams of Bibles: the most accurate--though,
of course, there is no final, absolute authorlty for determining truth
and error: it is a matter of "preference"--are the Egyptian
translations from Alexandria, Egypt, which are "almost the originals,"
although not quite.
8. The most inaccurate translations were those that brought about
the German Reformatlon (Luther, Zwingli, Boehler, Zinzendorf, Spener,
etc.) and the worldwide missionary movement of the English speaking
people: the Bible that Sunday, Torrey, Moody, Finney, Spurgeon,
Whitefield, Wesley, and Chapman used.
9. But we can "tolerate" these if those who believe in them will
tolerate US. After all, since there is NO ABSOLUTE AND FINAL AUTHORITY
that anyone can read, teach, preach, or handle, the whole thing is a
matter of "PREFERENCE." You may prefer what you prefer, and we will
prefer what we prefer: let us live in peace, and if we cannot agree on
anything or everything, let us all agree on one thing: THERE IS NO
FINAL, ABSOLUTE, WRITTEN AUTHORITY OF GOD ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH.
This is the Creed of the Alexandrian Cult