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As God is my witness, I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT any such project being
produced. I knew absolutely nothing about it--or that there was
such a project--or what it contained--until some months after it had
been handed out to the Ministry at the January Conference. Prior to
the Conference I asked my son Garner Ted point blank if any doctrinal
matters were to be discussed in any way--as they had been the year
before after I had been maneuvered to fly to Europe the afternoon of the
opening day, after having addressed the Conference at its opening
morning session. My son assured me nothing of a doctrinal nature
would in any way be brought up. But it was brought up, and I find now
that hours were spent in discussing and explaining doctrines in this
"STP".
Now I am told by Dr. Kuhn that the whole project was intended to
bring the Ministry into harmony and unity (so all would speak the same
thing). And BY WHAT METHOD?
That is the crux of the matter! The entire mistake was in, apparently,
assumrng-that what a group of ministers at Headquarters, under my son,
could determine Church doctrine, and if necessary to satisfy certain
ones who did not want to accept what had been Church doctrine all along,
to COMPROMISE, by WATERING DOWN God's Truth!
Dear Fellow Ministers, this is the Church OF GOD, with Jesus Christ
its LIVING Head--not the church of MEN, bargaining, discussing, compro
mising, altering and watering down doctrines to please MEN!
Perhaps I myself should take part of the blame for not sooner
having made CLEAR AND PLAIN precicely H O W God put His Truth and
doctrines into His Church. I simply did not realize that this was
not understood.
Up until this conspiracy was done and an attempt to alter certain
doctrines to please certain ministers, HOW DID God put His doctrines,
beliefs, customs and practices into His Church? ANSWER: THROUGH JESUS
CHRIST AND HIS CHOSEN APOSTLE!
Now was that GOD's WAY? Let the Word of God tell us. And
incidentally, let me first interject here, if any minister does not
wholeheartedly agree with any doctrine, the solution is not to COMPROMISE
or WATER DOWN--but to BE SURE we have what JESUS CHRIST has put into
the Church. The solution, then, is for any such minister to come to
Pasadena--or Tucson if I am there at that time--and prayerfully and
sincerely go over it together. If your mind is as open as is mine,
we will both come to the same mind--the mind of CHRIST! I will never
compromise with God's Truth--but my mind will always be open to PROOF
of what is that truth. I have proved that if, being human myself, I
have been wrong on a point, I WILL CHAN'GE TO THE' TRUTH!
Peter and
and subject to
teachings, and
EXAMPLE OF THE
Paul, and the other origirial Apostles were also human
mistakes. Yet the Church received ALL its doctrines,
practices THROUGH THOSE APOSTLES! THERE IS NOT ONE
CHURCH RECEIVING ITS BELIEFS ANY OTHER WAY!
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Jesus Christ DID NOT APPOINT A DOCTRINAL COMMITTEE"of MEN or
ministers to manufacture and give.the Church doctrine! Jesus Christ
taught Peter and the original twelve IN PERSON, the same Christ taught
Paul IN PERSON! Christ is the PERSONJµ, Word of God. The· Bible is.
that same Word IN WRITING!
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