Gold Nugget 206 - Corrupted Christianity

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      A corrupted Bible is the worst of all books.  It does more mischief than any infidel productions.  Political tyrannies, slaveries, wars, persecutions, have all been sanctioned and encouraged by a corrupted Bible.  Alas! the millions of Christendom hate the Bible – not the Bible that God gave, but man’s corrupted versions of that Bible.

      A corrupted pulpit is the worst of all ministries.  Popes, archbishops, bishops, and the clergy in every grade in all Churches, have been found amongst the most intolerant despots and the most bloody persecutors of all times.  They consecrate the banners of the warriors, they advocate the cause of slavery, they have ever been the prime obstructers to the promotion of liberty and the advancement of the universal rights of man.  An old expositor has said, “The clergy, when wicked, are the worst of men; none so cruel and bloody.”  It is time for the people to be taught that a pulpit is not necessarily a Christian or a useful thing.  It may be – alas! It sometimes is – the corruptest and the most pernicious thing in the neighbourhood in which it has a place.

      A man is not a saint because he calls himself a Christian; a building is not the “house of God” because it is called a church, a chapel, or a tabernacle; a forum is not sacred to the utterance of gospel truth because it is called a pulpit.  Things called “sermons” may sometimes have more wickedness in them than infidel tracts; places called “houses of God” may sometimes serve more effectually the cause of the devil than the theatres of pleasure-seekers or lecture-halls of skeptics.

      Mere names must not rule our judgment.  It is the policy of the devil in these days to baptize his instruments with Christian titles.  He is never more powerful than when he occupies the sacred desk, writes religious books, and quotes the World of God.  There are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and false prophets now as ever.

The Pulpit Commentary, Hosea p. 194-195, Hosea 6:8, (D. Thomas)

Gold Nugget 206

Corrupted Christianity

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