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Sent: July 27, 2004 20:01
Subject: [TruthTalk] Why listen to voices
from the past.
The excerpt below is part of
the testimony of Finis Dake authored the Dake's Annotated Bible
which IMO is a good
Bible. It's KJV with his study notes. What do you think of these
standards for interpretation? - they are scriptural...
I soon learned that one must either believe what the Bible alone teaches,
or spend his life wrestling with the confusing and varied interpretations of
men. The professors did not agree among themselves on some of the basic
truths, and a number even disagreed with what the Bible plainly stated on
certain subjects.
I thus became acquainted with a perplexing array of doctrines. Some of them
were in agreement with Scripture and could be proved when all passages dealing
with the subject were examined. But others turned out to be “hand-me-down”
theology from a former generation of preachers, many of whom were great in
spite of their doctrinal errors.
I had to decide either to respect my gift and depend on
God and the knowledge of the Word He had given me as a guide to determining
scriptural truth, or go along with the crowd.
My decision was firm. I vowed to the Lord never to teach one thing I could
not prove with two or three plain Scriptures, agreeing with Paul that “in the
mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established” (2 Cor. 13:1). Believing also that “no prophecy . . . is of any
private interpretation” (to be interpreted without
comparison with other Scriptures, 2 Pet. 1:20), I reasoned that the Bible is
God’s Word in human language and means exactly what
it says. Any interpretation which is out of harmony with what is plainly
written must be rejected as the theory of man. (Finis
Dake)
