"When
--Christ rebuked an evil spirit, commanding it to come out of a
man, the people were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, ‘What is this? What new doctrine is this?’ (Mark 1:27).
--When Paul came to Athens and began to preach Christianity, the people inquired, May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? (Acts 17:19).
--In the heart of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the most common argument against the teachings of the Reformers was that they were new.
But did such charges against Christ, the apostles, and the Reformers prove that their teachings were not of God? When Christ or His disciples were confronted with the charge, they always denied it, declaring that they did not preach new, strange doctrines, but that, as Paul affirmed, they preached no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come.
Acts 26:22.
When the charge was made against the Reformers, they proceeded to show from the Bible that the doctrines they preached
*were not new
*but ancient.
--Christ rebuked an evil spirit, commanding it to come out of a
--When Paul came to Athens and began to preach Christianity, the people inquired, May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? (Acts 17:19).
--In the heart of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the most common argument against the teachings of the Reformers was that they were new.
But did such charges against Christ, the apostles, and the Reformers prove that their teachings were not of God? When Christ or His disciples were confronted with the charge, they always denied it, declaring that they did not preach new, strange doctrines, but that, as Paul affirmed, they preached no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come.
Acts 26:22.
When the charge was made against the Reformers, they proceeded to show from the Bible that the doctrines they preached
*were not new
*but ancient.
The Sabbath doctrine is not new;
it is as old as creation."
SabbathTruth