That Others Must Interpret for us Baptists through the centuries have shed their blood for the principle of soul liberty … ? Jesus said: “If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself” (John 7:17). AKJB

Baptist History HomepageCunningly Devised Myths
By Rosco Brong

Religious Myths do Not Come from the Bible, but from Depraved Minds.

That Others Must Interpret for us Baptists through the centuries have shed their blood for the principle of soul liberty, the freedom and competence of the individual soul to approach God directly through Jesus Christ as revealed in His word, without the necessity of any other mediator or of any authoritative teacher except the Holy Spirit. But now we hear from so called Baptists the strange Catholic doctrine that ordinary Christians cannot understand the Bible: that some higher authority in the world must interpret for us and we are bound to accept that interpretation. I have heard a Baptist Sunday School “teacher” stumbling through the comments in a “quarterly,” hardly able to read, but practically sure that the comments were inspired and infallible. I have heard a Baptist “preacher” with a seminary degree for whom the answer to any theological question is to be found in what “Dr. Big Name” said. Such “teachers” and “preachers” may be far apart educationally, but spiritually they are equally to be pitied. Jesus said: “If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself” (John 7:17). “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” (I John 2:18-27.)

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