- 8 - A man like Moses still had to communicate with God’s spirit world and to ‘inquire of God’ in order to learn the truth. So also did the great prophets, Christ himself, as well as his Apostles. But nowadays all that is considered old-fashioned and a thing of the past. To be sure, you have made great progress in science, you can all read and write and have millions of books you can consult. And in addition, you have no end of learned theologians, doctors of divinity and professors. They must know what the truth is. Actually, it is precisely these doctors and professors of ‘sacred theology’ who are responsible for the introduction of those doctrines against which Paul utters these words of warning: Colossians 2: 8: ‘See to it that no one captivates you by means of science and vain deception that is grounded in the traditions of men, in the spirit powers that rule the world, but has nothing in common with the teaching of Christ.’ I Timothy 1: 7: ‘They wish to be regarded as scholars, although they do not understand the meaning of the terms they use or the things of which they speak with so much assurance.’ Jude: 19: ‘These are the people who cause divisions, purely sensual people, who have not received a holy spirit.’ The spirit world of God has long since been eliminated from the Christian creeds; the heads of the churches have expelled the holy spirit. But wherever spirits of God have been forced to yield, spirits of another nature presented themselves, like those of which Paul writes to Timothy: I Timothy 4: 1: ‘God’s spirit world declares expressly that in times to come, many will fall away from the true faith and turn to spirits of deceit and doctrines inspired by demons.’ Into the place of the good spirits stepped the Powers of Evil. Their chief concern it is to obscure and to reverse the truth, an end which they seek to accomplish by playing upon every human weakness, such as: • Human vanity and • scholars’ pride, • or the greed for power, distinction, money and luxury. All of these motives are utilized by them to tamper with the truths of God’s wisdom, love and mercy, and to forge these into chains with which the heads of the churches manacle their poor, inexperienced adherents and render them subservient. The root of all evil is g r e e d – the love of money. Money plays an important role also in your Christian churches. Satan knew what he was doing when he used money as bait also in the field of religion. He knew that this was the surest way of binding
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