Every so slowly as we
will note up to what you call the "split" none of the Disciples
approved of instruments. That means that those who added
instruments became the INSTRUMENTAL SECT.
I am afraid that your historians quoting historians quoting historians
with a hidden agenda just didn't get the point. For instance, you don't
know a "scholar" or preacher who can tell you the Purpose of a Christ Driven Church of Christ.
Christ, the Rock, defined the Qahal, synagogue, ekklesia or Church of
Christ in the wilderness both inclusively and exclusively. Of course,
the Church of Christ has no Roles and no Doles as the Jerusalem Council
showed the past, present and future role of the assembly which Paul
calls "synagogue."
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
2Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, t
hat the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ.
2Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,
the vail shall be taken away.
Jesus
used the example of being CONVERTED and BORN AGAIN like a child
Luke recorded the example of BAPTISM to be SAVED and CONVERTED meaning
the same thing.
Until you are CONVERTED you will not be able to read WHOLE THOUGHT
PATTERNS written in BLACK INK on WHITE paper.
Epi-strephô
, pf.
c. Philos., cause to return to the source of Being,
tinas eis ta enantia kai ta prôta
Proteros
and prôtos II. of Time, former, earlier, children
by the first or a former marriage,
Prosthhen
in front, before, formerly, of place and of time;
to
gennêthen
phusei
pros
to
gennêsan
Genn-aô
beget, bring forth, engender, call into existence
Phuo
1 Act.:--bring forth, produce, put forth, 2. beget, engender, get
understanding,
Pros
in the direction of
Genn-aô
beget, bring forth, engender, call into existence
Deut
XXX WEB.
It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing
and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to
mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
[2] and shall RETURN to Yahweh your God, and shall OBEY his
voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your
children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
[3] that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples,
where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
That has the same meaning as BAPTISM.
That has the same meaning as BAPTISM.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SPIRIT?
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
EXODUS 18
Hearken now unto my voice, I will
give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to
God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: Exod 18:19
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk,
and the work that they must do. Exod 18:20
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the
people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: Exod 18:21
DEUTERONOMY 10
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the
Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people
together, and I will make them hear my
words, that they may learn to fear me
all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may
teach their children. Deut 4:10
Qahal (h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble
(selves) (together), gather (selves) together).
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy
stranger
that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear
the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
De.31:12
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Ac.7:38
Ekklesia (g1577) ek-klay-see'-ah; from a comp. of 1537 and a
der. of 2564; a calling out, i.e. (concr.) a popular meeting, espec.
a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Chr.
community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): -
assembly, church.
Thomas Campbell got His views of assembly: ekklesia--synagogue from the Spirit of Christ: Stone contributed nothing.
Of the Yarn Spinners (revisionists) who,
at the same
time are ignorant
of, and even
averse to, the religion it inculcates; and whilst others profess to embrace it as a
system of
religion,
without
imbibing the spirit,
realizing the truth,
and experiencing the power
of its religious institutions; but merely superstruct to themselves, rest in, and are
satisfied with, a
form (acts) of godliness; and that, very
often, a deficient, imperfect form, or such as their own imagination has devised;
See Why Thomas
Paine was a Deist.
"let us, with an
open bible before
us, distinguish and
contemplate that religion which it enjoins and exhibits--I mean the
religion of christianity, for it also exhibits the religion of
Judaism;
...but with this, in the mean time,
...we christians have nothing directly to
do--
...we derive our religion immediately from
the New Testament. TC
After Baptism:
"But that this may
be the case, the next immediate
ordinance of the
christian religion, namely,
the reading, I mean the musing upon, or studying the Holy
Scriptures;
taking them up in their connexion, and meditating
upon the subjects they propose to our consideration,
with a fixed contemplation of the various and important objects which
they present.
This dutiful and religious
use of the
bible, (that most
precious, sacred record of the wonderful works of God,
the only authentic source of all religious information,) is
inseparably connected with, and indispensably necessary to, the
blissful and all-important exercises of prayer and praise.
"And again, 'Be you
filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves, in psalms, and hymns,
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the
Lord; giving thanks always to God and the Father, in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Eph. v.
18-20.
"Hence it is evident, that if
we would be spiritually minded, spiritually exercised in this
delightful and heavenly employment,
we must be filled with
the Spirit;
and if we would be
filled with the Spirit,
we must be filled
with the word;
the word of Christ must dwell in us richly;
- for we have no access to the Spirit but in and by
the word.
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THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN PROPHECY UNDERSTOOD ALL BUT THE PSEUDO-SCHOLARS
Isaiah 50 has Christ clearly defining the Pluckers and Smiters restored by the Disciples/Christians.
Isaiah 55 clearly defines both inclusively and exclusively
of His Words which provide spirit and life. Peter uses many of
the same concepts to dare anyone to teach beyond the written memory of
the Apostles who were eye and ear witnesses. This is a quick study for
today. If that awas not enough authority He defines the true Rest for
the future church to exclude personal pleasure or even speaking your
own words. "Teach that which has been taught" should be warning
enough.
Isaiah 58 has Christ urging a restoration and,
as in the church in the wilderness, and Paul for the assembly
forbidding seeking our own pleasure or even speaking our own words.
IF YOU GATHER THE PEOPLE FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE YOU VIOLATE THE REST JESUS BOUGHT.
Therefore, the ekklesia or synagogue is the
same as Qahal
because both relate to the same event. The Holy Convocation which began
each each First and Seventh day of festivals (for draft age males) was
extended to each Sabbath or REST day. This quarantined the godly people
from the Jacob-Curst tribe of Levi whom God turned over to worship the
starry host. The Disciples--Christian churches follow the
"patternism" of the not-commanded monarchy and the not commanded
sacrificial system. The Levites were Soothsayers with instrumental
noise to warn any godly person that if they came near they would
execute them as they had at Mount Sinai because of musical idolatry.
WHAT IS DIRECTLY EXCLUDED FOR THE
CHURCH
God
only authorized the two silver trumpets: these were reserved for
sending important signals. However, many people had their own
flutes or shofars, tambourines and sistrums: Miriam had here sistrum as
a priestess or prophetess in Egypt. The women especially were
prone to parade around singing, clapping, dancing and beating on
instruments. Therefore, the command:
Num. 10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then
the camps that lie on the east
parts shall go forward.
Num. 10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that
lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an
alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together,
ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
The "alarm" is reserved in Psalm 41 to identify the "familiar friend"
or Judas whose Judas Bag was for carrying the mouthpieces of wind
instruments.
Miqra
(h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something called out,
i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or
the place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
So
they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave
the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Ne.8:8
Isaiah 4: 4 When the Lord shall have
washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the
blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning.
And
the Lord will create upon
every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies,
a cloud
and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for
upon all the glory shall be a defence. Is.4:5
Dwelling: 168. ohel, o´-hel;
from 166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering,
(dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Assembly: 4744. miqra,
mik-raw´; from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the
act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: assembly,
calling, convocation, reading.
The
tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells
over which a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam
used this instrument to accompany the singing and
dancing
on the shores of the Red Sea (Ex. 15).
The
trumpet blown for decampment, at the gathering
of the people and on different cultic
occasions, especially during
sacrifices (2 Chron. 30:21; 35:15; Num 10:2), was the signaling
instrument of the Egyptian army.
The
sistrum, according to 2 Sam
6:5, was used by the Israelites
and bore the name mena'aneim. It
was the same as the Egyptian kemkem
which was employed in the cult of Isis.
The
solemnity celebrated on the
occasion of the transferring of the Ark to Sion, as well as the
dances of the daughters of Israel at the annual
feast of the Lord of Shiloh
(Judg 21:21), were similar in thier musical embellishments to Egyptian
customs in the liturgy and at parades. As
Herodotus reports,
women
sang the praises of Osiris [APIS at Sinai] while likenesses of the gods were born
about and, during the festival
of Diana at Bubastis, choirs
of men and women sang and danced to the
beating of drums and
the playing of flutes." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in
Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 65)
Lest ye
corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure,
the likeness of male or female, Deut 4:16
And lest thou lift
up thine eyes unto heaven, and when
thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the
stars,
even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them,
and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations
under the whole heaven. Deut 4:19
Jesus identified the Scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites: He refers to Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33 which marks speakers, singers and instrument players as PROOFS that the people had no intention of listening to God.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST PRACTICING MASCULINE DISCIPLESHIP
WAS ALWAYS TO QUARANTINE THE GODLY PEOPLE FROM THE "PLAY" AT MOUNT
SINAI AND THE NOT-COMMANDED SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM WHICH WAS BABYLONIANISM
AND THE WORSHIP OF THE BABYLON HARLOT.
Numbers 10.[7]
[7]
quando autem congregandus est populus simplex tubarum
clangor erit et non concise ululabunt
Con-grĕgo
Academia
congregation. Collect into a flock, where plato taught, scholars
are called Academici, and his doctrine Philosophia Philosophia Academica,
in distinction from Stoica, Cynica, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 98; id. Or. 3, 12; id. Fin. 5, 1, 1 al.— ..
Cic. de Orat. 1. [21]
Neque vero ego hoc tantum oneris
imponam nostris praesertim oratoribus in hactanta occupatione
urbis ac vitae, nihil ut eis putem licere nescire, quamquam
vis oratoris professioqueipsa bene dicendi hoc
suscipere ac polliceri videtur, ut omni de re, quaecumque
sit proposita, ornate abeo copioseque dicatur.
ē-lŏquor I.
v. dep. a., to speak out, speak plainly, to utter; to pronounce, declare, state, express: Rhetorical, Eloquent,
When
the Disciples or others such as Tom Burgess collects all of the PSALLO
words they fail to read the context. When an older male (Alexander the
Great) plucks a lyre he is intending to seduce a young man whose hairs
have been plucked. Paul EXCLUDES them as Dogs and Concision.
The philosophy
of the Acadamy, A.
For The philosophy of the Academy: “instaret academia, quae quidquid dixisses,
Dixisses: to say, speak,
utter, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state, assert
THE JESUS ORDAINED PATTERN
Matthew 26.30 When they had 'hymned" they went out to
the Mount of Olives.
Matthew 26.30 et hymno dicto exierunt in montem Oliveti
Hymnus , i, m., = humnos, I. a song of praise, a hymn: “hymnus cantus est cum laude Dei,” Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 148, 17; Ambros. Expos. Psa. 118, prol. § 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 330, 9; Prud. Cath. 37 praef.; 4, 75: “divinorum scriptor hymnorum,” Lact. 4, 8, 14; Vulg. Psa. 60 tit.; id. Matt. 26, 30.
Psalm 60 A
teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram
Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the
Valley of Salt.
There is no SINGING TUNEFULLY involved in hymning:
Dīco, to say, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state; to mean, intend (for syn. cf.: for, loquor stands for the Gr. eipein pros tina,
Ontōs , Adv. part. of eimi A.
(sum), really, actually, verily, with Verb
Alēth-ēs a^, Dor. ala_thēs , es, (lēthō,
I.
Hom., Opposite. pseudēs, in phrases alēthea muthēsasthai, eipein, agoreuein, alēthes enispein
3.
of oracles, true, unerring, “alathea mantiōn thōkon” Pi. P.11.6, cf. S.Ph.993, E.Ion1537; of dreams, A.Th.710. “alēthei logō khrasthai” Hdt. 1.14
Opposite Epos 1.
song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519. b.
generally, poetry, even lyrics 5.
celebrate, of poets, “Aiantos bian
1Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God;
if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom
be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
OTHERWISE PEOPLE WILL SUSPECT YOU AS THEY ALL SUSPECT "WORSHIP LEADERS"
Cyrenaica
pleasure is the only good. Good in a pleasing agitation of the mind or
in active enjoyment. hedone. Nothing is just or unjust by
nature,
but by custom and law.
Cynics Diogenes, in
particular, was referred to as the Dog..
a distinction he seems to have
revelled in, stating that "other dogs bite their enemies, I
bite my friends to save them."
Later Cynics also sought to turn the word to their advantage,
as a later commentator explained:
There are
four reasons why the Cynics are so named. First
because of the indifference
of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like
dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and
at crossroads. The second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal,
and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty,
but as superior to it. The third reason is that the dog is a good
guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. The fourth reason
is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish
between its friends and enemies. So do they recognize as friends those
who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those
unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.
He once masturbated
in the Agora; when rebuked for doing so, he
replied, "If only it was as easy to soothe my hunger by rubbing my
belly."
Augustine stating that
they had, "in violation of the modest instincts of men,
boastfully proclaimed their unclean and shameless opinion, worthy
indeed of dogs." De
Civitate Dei 14.20.
From
the city of God
Human nature, then, is without doubt ashamed
of this lust; and justly
so, for the insubordination of these members, and their defiance of the
will, are the clear testimony of the punishment of man’s first sin. And
it was fitting that this should appear specially in those
parts by
which is generated that nature which has been
altered for the worse by
that first and great sin,—that sin from whose evil connection no one
can escape, unless God’s grace expiate in him individually
that which
was perpetrated to the destruction of all in common, when all were in
one man, and which was avenged by God’s justice.
Phil. 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers,
beware of the concision.
Phil. 3:3 For we are the circumcision,
which
worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ
Jesus,
and have
no confidence in the flesh.
WHAT YOU ARE PERMITTED TO DO IN THE EKKLESIA--SYNAGOGUE OF CHRIST.
Argumentum
I. A..The means by which an assertion
or assumption may be made clear, proved,
an argument, evidence, proof
Presented to the Infirmus to
those less nourishing, weak in mind in character,
superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded. no weight or
consequence
Romans XV. 1
debemus autem nos firmiores imbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Sustinere
A.
In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve with dignity.
Imbecillitas Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9 (and in particular, that which rests upon facts, while ratio is that
which depends upon reasoning
MISSED WORLD-WIDE HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION MOVEMENT
The Necessity of Reforming
the Church (1543) John Calvin 1
- The
Stoneites wanted "union" under one grand organization and doctrine (the
teachings of Christ) could just be ignored in the interest of
organization.
- The Campbells understood the goal and ways to RESTORE the church: Just stop doing what is not commanded.
Calvin's Proposal for the Restoration of The Church of Christ
Congregational singing began after the
Reformation when the Psalms were recomposed to meter. Instruments
were removed primarily because they were most often used for secular
purposes and not playing an "accompanying" role under the Catholics.
At the
request of Bucer Calvin utilized the occasion of the fourth Diet of
Speyer assembled by Charles V in February, 1544, to address to the
Emperor a "Supplicatory Remonstrance" in reference to a General
Council of the Church after the manner of the Early Church. It was
also a powerful justification of the Reformation, and it met
with considerable success in its impact upon the Diet and in
confirming the Emperor in his tolerance toward the movement for reform.
- THE NECESSITY OF REFORMING THE CHURCH.
TO THE MOST INVINCIBLE EMPEROR CHARLES V., AND THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCES AND OTHER
ORDERS, NOW HOLDING A DIET OF THE EMPIRE AT SPIRES,
A HUMBLE EXHORTATION SERIOUSLY TO
UNDERTAKE THE TASK OF
RESTORING THE CHURCH.
PRESENTED IN THE NAME OF ALL THOSE WHO WISH
CHRIST TO REIGN.AUGUST EMPEROR,
For where can I exert myself to
better purpose or more honestly, where, too, in a matter at this time
more necessary, than in attempting, according to my ability, to aid the Church
of Christ, whose claims it is unlawful in
any instance to deny,
and which is now in grievous distress, and in extreme danger?
But there is no occasion for a long preface
concerning myself. Receive what I say
as you would do if it were pronounced by the united voice
of all those who
either have already
taken care to restore the Church,
or are desirous that it should
be restored to true order.
I come now to ceremonies, which, while they ought to be grave
attestations of
divine worship, are rather a mere mockery of God. A new
Judaism, as a
substitute for that which God had distinctly abrogated, has again
been reared up by means of numerous puerile extravagancies, collected
from different quarters; and with these have been mixed up certain
impious rites, partly borrowed from the heathen, and more adapted to some theatrical show than to the dignity of our
religion.
The first evil here is, that an
immense number of ceremonies, which God had by his authority abrogated, once
for all have been again revived.
The next evil is, that while ceremonies ought
to be living exercises of piety, men are vainly occupied with numbers
of them that are both frivolous and
useless.
But by far the most deadly evil of all is,
that
after men have thus mocked
God with ceremonies of one kind or
other, they think they have fulfilled their duty as admirably as if
these ceremonies included in them the whole essence of piety and
divine worship.
Having observed that the Word of God is the test
which discriminates between his true
worship and that which is false and vitiated, we thence readily
infer that the whole
form
of olivine worship
in general use in the present day is nothing but mere corruption.
For men pay no regard to what God has commanded,
or to what he approved, in order that they may serve him
in a becoming manner,
but assume to
themselves a licence of devising modes of worship,
and afterwards
obtruding
them upon him as a substitute for obedience.
By this self-abasement we are trained
to obedience and devotedness to his will, so that his fear
reigns in
our hearts, and regulates all the actions of our lives.
That in these things consists the true and sincere worship which alone God
approves, and in which alone He
delights,
is both taught by the Holy Spirit
throughout the Scriptures, and is also,
antecedent to discussion, the obvious dictate of piety.
Nor from the beginning was there any other method of worshipping God, the only
difference being, that this spiritual
truth, which with us is naked and simple,
was under the
former dispensation wrapt up in figures.
See
our review of the common view that God commanded instrumental
music as worship under the Monarchy. If we miss the fact that God
had abandoned them BECAUSE of musical idolatry we will fall for those
imposing instruments.
The Restoration Movement well under
way in England and Scotland was a result of instruments being added to
the Church of Scotland. As a NATIONAL worship they needed
the same pomp as had Queen Elizabeth when she rejected the vote to
remove instruments. The Campbells were influenced by John Calvin
and not James O'kelly of the Christian church which devolved from the
chain of Methodists-Church of England-Roman Catholic church. No
surprise that the radical rewriters of Reformation history are PAID by
the Disciples of Christ which has moved much closer to the Catholic
Church.
FRATERNAL UNITY EXISTED AMONG THOSE OF THE WILD
FRONTIER TRYING TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE NEO-WITCHCRAFT OF THE
STONE-PROMOTED "AWAKENING" AT CANE RIDGE.
Campbell repudiated what when on.
There was never
"fellowship" which means I endorse you, I assemble with you and I
support you. The 1832 handshake was a few handshakes where John Smith
recorded the "agreement" which would permit agreement on an
intellectual level. The "contract" the few preachers with no
denominational authority signed was a statement perfectly in agreement
with what became Churches of Christ. The ink was not dry before the
Disciples began violating it.
This arrogance by a few preachers was divisive for the masses
of preachers who resented the claim--as Campbell resented-- of Stone's
boasting that "the Reformers have come over to us."
Those who became The Church of Christ repudiated the agreement
and by 1837 Alexander Campbell ridiculed any kind of unity based on a
handshake when the Stoneites had absolutely nothing in common with the
Campbellites: Stone repudiated the Atonement, and did not believe that
baptism was necessary at that time.
THE STONEITES DENIED {Deny} THAT BAPTISM SHOULD BE A TEST OF "JOINING."
See Martin Luther (if the Bible is not clear enough)
No one ever said "baptism does not save" who did not quickly add "without faith." This was ONLY to refute infant baptism
Alexander
Campbell, on the other hand pointed to John Calvin's view of
RESTORATION on baptism. Campbell derived the demand for BAPTISM
when he was convinced that no unity could prevail outside of "teaching
that which is written for our learning." Both Calvin and Luther
defined baptism for ADULTS old enough to believe. See the Whole Institutes on Baptism
Alexander Campbell John Calvin on Baptism.
MY attention was this morning called to the 15th chapter and 4th book
of Calvin's Institutes. From this section I may have given some
extracts on baptism in my former numbers; but I think the following
remarks of this great reformer have not been presented in this work. To
those who think that we are extravagantly fanatical, enthusiastic, or
egregiously astray on this subject, we would recommend the perusal of
the whole of this 15th chapter of book 4; not, indeed, as [543]
altogether orthodox in our view,
but as containing so much clear and
unequivocal testimony in favor of the true intent and meaning of
Peter's opening speech in Jerusalem some 1800 years ago. I say
testimony, for John Calvin's opinions are of the force of
semi-apostolic testimony with many very worthy citizens who may happen
to see the following excerpts.
He uses the same argument in another
place--that we are circumcised, putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh, after we have been buried with Christ in baptism; and in this
sense, in the passage already quoted, he calls it the washing of
regeneration and renewing.
Thus we are promised, first, the gratuitous
remission of sins and imputation of righteousness;
and, secondly, the
grace of the Holy Spirit to reform us to newness of life."
Now let me ask the candid reader of this essay from the pen of John
Calvin himself, how much more orthodox than ourselves was this
celebrated reformer? We have heard him explain himself fully on these
great items, and may we not say that the chief difference between him
and us, is, that we practise what we teach. "There is," says the
reformer Calvin, "one other advantage received from baptism--this is
the certain testimony it affords us that we are not only [546] engrafted into the life and death of Christ, but are so united as to be
partakers of all his benefits"--"All the gifts of God which are
presented in baptism, are found in Christ alone."
We leave it to the good sense of the reader, whether John Calvin ought
not to be called a Campbellite as well as the Apostle Peter.
1831 DISCUSSION OF UNITY
http://www.piney.com/Barton.W.Stone.Alexander.Campbell.Union.html
This is the "pre fabled union" in 1831: the denial of any kind of
"union" in the Lunenburg quote was in 1837. Without passing
judgment one way or another, the Reformers saw the Disciples as just
another denomination, and saw Barton W. Stone bent on forming a NEW
INCLUSIVE denomination. Garrison proposed to include ALL OF
CHRISTENDOM. That is why the Disciples have reached a dead end.
Does he mean a formal confederation of all preachers and
people called "Christians," with all those whom he
calls Reformed Baptists? (rather reforming,
than reformed;) or (as he represents them as
prefering for a sectarianwhat shall be the articles of confederation, and in
what form shall they be ministered or adopted?
Shall it be in one general convention of messengers from all the
societies of "christians" and "disciples," or one general assembly of
the whole aggregate of both people? Shall the articles of agreement be
drawn up in writing like the articles of the "General Union" amongst
the different sects of Baptists in Kentucky? purpose the name)
disciples. If so,
We discover, or think we discover, a squinting at
some sort of precedency or priority in the claims of the
writer of the above article, which are perhaps only in appearance, and
not in reality; but if in appearance only, he will prevent us or any
reader from concluding unfavorably by explaining himself more in detail
than he has done. He says, "The reformed Baptists have received the
doctrine taught by us many years ago." "For nearly thirty
years ago we taught," &c. &c. From what
source or principle these sayings proceeded, we do not pronounce
sentence; but if they are mere words of course, and he intended to
plead nothing from them, we would suggest the propriety of qualifying
them in such a way as to prevent mistake.
I am, as at present advised, far from thinking
that the present advocates of reformation are only pleading, or at all
pleading, for what was plead in Kentucky thirty years ago, after the
dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery. If such be the conceptions
of brother Stone, I am greatly mistaken. That he, with others, did at
that time opposeauthoritative creeds, and some articles in them as
terms of communion, and some other abuses, we are not uninformed; but
so did some others who set out with him.
Our eagle-eyed opponents plainly see the difference between
the radical and differential attributes of this reformation, which they
ignorantly call a deformation, and any other cause, however unpopular,
plead in the land.
"The Christians" in some places, nay, in many places, are
quite respectable in the eyes of those who contemn
"the disciples" as unfit for good
society. And I think the amiable editor of the
Christian Messenger himself told me last winter,
that even he and some
of his brethren were considered by the orthodox as degrading
themselves because they associated with us most "unworthy
disciples?'
Indeed, it was no mean proof of his christian spirit to
see him so condescending to persons of such low degree in the
estimation of the noble christians of the land. His willingness to
fraternize with us in despite of the odium theologicum
attached to our ancient gospel, I must ever regard as an additional
proof of his unfeigned regard to the authority of Jesus as Lord, and
his love to all them who esteem the reproach of the Messiah greater
riches than all the treasures of Egypt.
Historians should understand the difference between Mythological History and True History.
Among the Greeks it was widely taught that rhetoricians, poets and
music must not be permitted to write about true history. It was ok to
lie about history when entertaining (only) but never in the schools or
called assemblies (ekklesia).
THE 1832 UNITY MEETING J.F.BURNETT Stone and the Disciples of Christ (Reformers then)
Morrill, in "History of the Christian
Denomination," says: [6]
"The 'union' itself was consummated
on New Year's day, 1832, in Hill Street
Christian Church, at Lexington,
Kentucky, where representatives of both parties pledged themselves
'to one another before God, to abandon
all speculation, especially on the
Trinity,
and kindred subjects, and to be content with the plain declaration of
Scripture on those subjects on which there had been so much worse
than useless controversy.'
The plain meaning is that they found common
ground to occupy, threw away their divisive teachings and opinions,
and acted as one. The men who at Lexington pledged themselves there
and then gave one another the hand of fellowship,
speaking for themselves, and the
churches
they came from,
but not for all the churches or the denominations in Kentucky or the
United States.
There was no voting, and no attempt at formal union, but merely a 'flowing together' of those like-minded.
In token of that union Elder John Smith, of the Disciples of Christ,
and Elder John Rogers, of the Christians, 'were appointed evangelists
by the churches' to promote that simple unsectarian Christian work,
which was adhered to by thousands; and Stone took Elder J. T.
Johnson, a Disciple, as co-editor of The
Christian Messenger.
"This 'union' did not change the status of any
name or church or minister or piece of property.
At a later time Campbell made some public
invidious remarks about the Christians, and it began to be claimed that
they had joined or united with the Disciples. John [7] Rogers says on this point:
'No one ever thought (at the first)
that the Reformers, so-called, had come over to us, or that we had
gone over to them; that they were required to relinquish their
opinions, or we ours.
We found ourselves contending for the same
great principles, and we resolved to unite our energies to harmonize
the church and save the world. Such are the simple facts in the
case."
The Christian Messenger (1832) says:
"It is common for the Christians to
say, the Reformers have joined us--and no less common is it for the
Reformers to say, the Christians have joined us.
One will say, the Christians have
given up all their former opinions of many doctrines, and have
received ours; another will say, the Reformers have relinquished
their views on many points, and embraced ours.
These things are doing mischief to the
cause of Christian union, and well calculated to excite jealousy, and
to give offense. They can do no good--in fact they are not true.
We have met together on the Bible, being drawn together there by the
cords of truth--we agreed to walk together according to this rule,
and to be united by the spirit of truth.
Neither the Christians nor Reformers professed
to give up any sentiments or opinions previous to our union, nor were
any required to be given up in order to effect it. We all determined
to learn of Jesus, and to speak and do whatsoever He says to us in His
Word. We all profess to be [8] called
Christians, being the followers and disciples of Jesus."
The Campbells and most people at that time defined church as a Society for study of the Word:
- Church as defined by Christ in the wilderness and as Ekklesia or Synagogue was A School of Christ.
- Worship
was reading and musing the Word as is clearly defined by Paul, Peter
and the pre-Constantine periood were singing as an ACT was imposed in c
373 and split the west church from the east.
Any additions would, as definitons demand, mark the imposers as heretics or sectarians.
1833 to 1841 and beyond Stoneites denied the Atonement
Barton W. Stone dened the Atonement and Campbell debated him from 1833 onward: why would there be UNITY between such important "fundamentals>? The Millennial Harbinger 1840-41 the debate still raged.
So be it, say I.
And what have I said, more than this? I have only said, in the
conclusion of my letter, "that, believing as I do, that it was
not possible, that any one of our race could be saved without the
sacrifice of the Lamb of God, I must hold every attempt to explain it
away into a mere moral example, or display of love without regard to
justice, as tending to subvert the basis of the divine government, and
to rob the gospel of all that glorifies the wisdom and power, the
justice and mercy of God in putting away sin, and in saving the
sinner." It is not, then, the degree of importance that my opinion
attaches to the death of Christ, either as it respects the glory of
God, or the salvation of man, in which we differ; but about the express
scriptural reasons of its vast importance. And here, dear brother,
permit me to express, in my turn, my sincere regret, that having lifted
up your voice for a pure scriptural reformation, predicated upon the
Bible alone, you should ever have been led off that divine platform
into the arena of sectarian controversies. MH.NumberVII.VIv.Aug.1833
1837 REPUDIATING THE DISCIPLES / CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
http://www.piney.com/AC.Lunenburg.Orig.html
It is reasonable to say that all of the so-called
Stone-Campbell Movement are liars about this issue: especially about
the
Lunenburg letters.
the lady from Lunenburg to write the editor of the Harbinger
is in an article entitled "Letters to England-No. 1," which was
published in the June, 1837. We use the word liars because people
pick what they want to write their own history and the goal most often
is to driven non-instrumental churches into a guilt complex for NOT
beginning to do what they had NEVER done.
They have never read the Lunenburg correspondence. To Campbell
a "c"hristian was one who lived according to Christian principles. We
speak of a "c"hristian nation. However, a "C"hristian is ONLY one who
has obeyed the gospel.
I. With all despatch, then, I hasten to show that I have neither
conceded nor surrendered any thing for which I ever contended; but that
on the contrary, the opinion now expressed, whether true or false, is
one that I have always avowed.
(Footnote in original reads: It is with us as old as baptism for the remission of sins,
and this is at least as old as the "Christian Baptist." Read the first two numbers of that work.)
1. Let me ask, in the first place, what could mean all that we have written upon the union of Christians on apostolic grounds,
had we taught that all Christians in the world
were already united in our own community?
2. And in the second place, why should we so often have quoted
and applied to apostate Christendom what the Spirit saith to saints in
Babylon--"Come out of her, my people, that you partake not of her sins,
and that you receive not of her plagues"--
had we imagined that the Lord had no people beyond the pale of our communion!
3. But let him that yet doubts, read the following passages from the Christian Baptist, April, 1825:--
"I have no idea of seeing, nor wish to see, the sects unite in one grand army.
This would be dangerous to our liberties and laws. For this the Saviour did not pray.
It is only the disciples dispersed among them
that reason and benevolence would call out of them,
"&c.
&c. This looks very like our present opinion of Christians
among the sects!!!
2d ed. Bethany, p. 85.
4. Again, speaking of purity of speech in order to the union of Christians, we say,
"None of you [Christians] have ever yet attempted to show
how Christians can be united on your principles.
You have often showed how they may be divided, and how each party may hold its own,
but while you pray for the visible unity of the Disciples,
and advocate their visible disunity, we cannot understand you."
March, 1837, vol. 4.
THE MILLERITE CONNECTION: The Society was to make it POSSIBLE for Jesus to return!
William J. Nottingham Global Ministries.
"My point here is that the first
missionary
society
was the product of a long and intense process which generated
considerable soul-searching. There were shared biblical principles and
at the same time fundamental differences in theological opinion.
Disagreement grew
concerning congregational ecclesiology,
commonality in mission with other Christians,
and also perhaps communion of the Holy Spirit.
This tension would eventuate in separate bodies and institutions
of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Disciples and NACC] A full
appreciation is probably hidden from us in the distance from
ante-bellum times. But the nature of the Bible's authority,
the relatively new idea of the autonomy of
the local congregation,
and the centrality of millennialist eschatology
for these men and women,
with
men doing most of the writing which is left to us, seem to me to be
mysteries that can only be observed from different angles and rarely
entered into existentially by later generations like our own.
This is evidenced in the decisions concerning missionaries growing
out of this fervor leading up to the Cincinnati convention:
Dr. and Mrs. James T. Barclay were the first. It was in their parlor in
Washington, D.C., 1843, that the congregation had been organized which
became the Vermont Avenue Church and in 1930 the National City
Christian Church.
They went to Jerusalem, not because of Acts 1:8 "beginning with
Jerusalem" as a popular Disciples legend has it, but
because it was taken for granted by Alexander Campbell and his
followers that the Jews were to be converted before the return of
Christ.
RICHARD HUGES MAKES THIS FALSE ASSUMPTION
That was a false assumption: the Millenial Harbinger's major thrust was
not to SUPPORT Millerism but to defeat it.
Campbell denies that Jesus will return to Canaan. Because the
Church
of Christ did not believe in William E. Miller [Ellen G. White].
You
will notice that it was the Disciples who were tilted by Miller.
The
title of Campbell's journal proclaimed clearly the eschatology of the
pre-Civil War spirituality, so neglected in our denominational memory
by scholars and theologians since then.
Notice that Campbell spoke of THE PROTESTANT THEORY:
not his because he speaks where the Bible speaks and insists on a NEW
HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH and that you could not convert people after the
literal earth was burned up.
In the Millennial Harbinger of
1841,
we read in what is called The Protestant Theory:
"The
Millennium, so far as the triumphs of Christianity is concerned, will
be a state of greatly enlarged and continuous prosperity, in which the
Lord will be exalted and his divine spirit enjoyed in an unprecedented
measure. All the conditions of society will be vastly improved; wars
shall cease, and peace and good will among men will generally abound.
The Jews will be converted, and the fullness of the Gentiles will be
brought into the kingdom of the Messiah."
THIS WAS NOT CAMPBELL'S VIEW AND THEREFORE THE HUGHES VIEWS HAVE NO FOUNDATION.
The founding of the American Christian Missionary Society cannot be
separated from the millennialist eschatology of the period
See Alexander Campbell on the Second Coming to prove that you never believe "the doctors of the Law." This takes careful reading to grasp that Campbell REPUDIATES any speculation.
The Disciples followed the Millerites: not Campbell.
nor from the pragmatism which
required a foreign dimension to keep pace with other denominations
or to outgrow them!
D.S. Burnet's book The Jerusalem Mission and Dr. Barclay's book The
City of the Great King make this clear, along with speeches and
articles by various leaders like Isaac Errett. Barclay wrote in a
journal The Christian Age:
"The ACMS...resolved...
to make the first offer of salvation to Israel.
.
.
for the salvation of the Jews...
for upon the conversion and resumption of Israel
RETROSPECTIVE ACCOUNTS
http://www.piney.com/Unity.Boles.html
In
1849, the first major departure was made. David
S. Burnet was the father of the Missionary Society;
it was organized in 1849.
David S. Burnet was a convert from the Baptist Church
and he brought the idea of the Missionary Society with him from the
Baptist Church. "He was brought up as a Presbyterian but at sixteen
years of age, after careful study of the New Testament, was baptized
into the Baptist Church." ("The Story of the Churches." by Errett
Gates, p. 190.) He said, "I was born into the
missionary spirit, and
did not relinquish it when I associated myself with my present
brethren." (Christian Magazine, Vol. 3, p. 173.
Notice Nottingham's reason why these groups were never
"unioned" because you cannot "union" congregational churches. This also
shows that Hughes lies about the "apocylptic" claim for Alexander
Campbell. That is because he did not care enough to read the original
documents. Historians daisy chain and quoting A BOOK is never
scholarship. Of course they are all defined by John as ANTICHRIST by
their neo-trinity dogma.
Church "scholars" are really a laughing stock and they write
only for other "scholars" totally missing Jesus who said that "doctors
of the law take away the key to knowledge."
I don't write history: I post the actual documents the
RECONSTRUCTIONISTS lie about seing godliness as a means of financial
gain--occupation. Don't be a cultist: never trust anyone who quotes
Mark 1.1 and does not post the text in context.
ALL
religious groups rejected musical instruments because of the persona of
musicians and the fact that a disciple fully understands that
instruments always mark those who refuse to hear the Words of God.
John Calvin on Instruments clearly understood and observed by presbyterians.
Does
any one
object, that music is very useful for awakening the minds of men and
moving their hearts? I own it;
but
we should
always take care that no corruption creep in, which might both defile
the pure worship
of God and involve men
in superstition. Moreover, since the
Holy Spirit
expressly warns us of this danger by the mouth of Paul,
to
proceed beyond what we are there warranted by him is not only, I must
say, unadvised zeal, but
wicked and perverse
obstinacy.
Again,
Calvin notes that: "We
know that our Lord Jesus Christ has appeared, and by His advent has abolished these legal
shadows.
Instrumental
music, we
therefore maintain, was only tolerated on account of the times and
the people, because
they were as boys,
as the sacred Scripture speaketh, whose condition required these puerile rudiments.
But
in gospel times
we must not have recourse to these unless we wish to destroy the
evangelical perfection and to obscure the meridian light which we
enjoy in Christ our Lord." (Calvin's Commentary on the Thirty-third
Psalm, and on 1 Sam. 18:1-9).
"Unto the pure all things
are pure:
but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but
even their mind and conscience is defiled" (Tit. 1: 15.)
For why is a
woe pronounced
upon the rich who have received their consolation? (Luke 6: 24,) who
are full, who
laugh now, who
"lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves
upon their couches;" "join house to house," and "lay field to field;"
"and the harp
and the viol,
the
tabret
and pipe,
and wine,
are in their
feasts," (Amos 6: 6; Isa. 5: 8, 10.)
Certainly ivory and
gold, and riches, are the
good creatures of God, permitted, nay destined, by divine providence
for the use of man; nor was it ever forbidden to laugh, or to be full,
or
to add new
to old
and hereditary possessions, or to be
delighted with music,
or to drink wine.
This is true, but when
the means are
supplied to roll
and wallow in luxury, to intoxicate
the mind and
soul with present and be always
hunting
after new pleasures,
The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543) Calvin wrote
For,
if we would not throw everything into
confusion,
we must never lose sight of the distinction
between the old and the
new
dispensations, and of the
fact that ceremonies, the
observance of which was useful under the law,
are now not only
superfluous, but vicious and absurd.
But
in regard to the former, it
is plain that
they
are destitute of authority from the
scriptures,
as well as of any approved
example of such
intercession;
while, as to the latter,
Paul
declares that
none can invoke
God,
save those who
have been taught by his
word to pray. On this
depends the confidence with which it becomes pious minds to be
actuated and imbued when they engage in prayer.
The instruments were tolerated because God had already turned them
over to worship the starry host and sentenced them back to captivity
and death.
WEST: "Apostasy in music among 19th century
churches that had endeavored to
restore New Testament authority in worship and work
began,
in the main, following the American Civil War'
In 1868,
Ben Franklin guessed that there were ten thousand
congregations
and not over fifty had used an instrument
in worship." (Earl West,
Search for the Ancient Order, Vol. 2, pp. 80, 81)
Following
the
American Civil War
"Staunch
supporters of the
missionary
society and
instrumental
music, the
new look in styles
of work and worship, had been predicting
for years the early demise of
the Advocate. It was unthinkable, as
these men viewed the problem,
that even
the people
in the South
would not want to keep
up with the times.
Lipscomb's simple ways might
have been condoned in the hills
of Franklin County before
the war,
but
the
times were passing
him by. It was only a
question of time until the Advocate would fold up, and when it did,
as these men gleefully
envisioned, it would be
a happy day." (Earl West, Life and Times of David Lipscomb, p.
166)
At
the end of Alexander
Campbell's life the missionary society had grasped rights to
Campbell's song book. Campbell believed that he was putting the
ownership into the hands of a committee of brethren.
"Isaac
Errett who
influenced Campbell to sign over (extorted?) his copyright, had
argued that it
was
absolutely
necessary
to the
unity of the church to have unity of worship,
and the latter could not be
maintained
unless the
brethren all
used one hymn book--Campbell's.
Accordingly,
the
Standard and the
Society opposed
vigorously the publication of any other hymn book. Lipscomb by
selling a hymn book printed in Canada had been visited by some of the
ire of these men." (West,
p. 171)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1877
7.
"Well, the churches
generally are going into it, and it is 'a foregone conclusion that
they will have and use the organ,' and it is useless to stand against
it."
No "the churches
generally" are not gone into it, nor are they
going that way.
We do not know the
number of churches in the United
States;
but doubt not that six thousand would be a low enough
estimate.
How
many of them
use the organ in worship? We do not know this with certainty, but
probably not more than from [431]
one
hundred and fifty to
two hundred, and
certainly not five hundred. [1877]
The
organ party is yet small,
and would amount to but little, had it not found way into
a few
places of note
and prominence. There are still whole
States that have not an organ
in the Church.
We
think there is
not one in use in Canada,
not one in Virginia, Tennessee, nor Texas,
that we have heard of; scarcely any in Kentucky, West
Virginia,
Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, and many other States.
The organ is
still the exception, not the rule; and the party is small.
The main
body are true to the great principles of reformation--to the divine
purpose of returning to and maintaining, the
original practice in all
things.
1883 Nashville
Choate/Woodson
note that like
David Lipscomb, E. G. Sewell worked for the Gospel Advocate to earn a living
and
preached for the Woodland Street Church in
Nashville. He received little for his preaching. A new building was
constructed in 1880 and Sewell was asked to preach there longer and
devote more time.
As well funded by the Standard
"From
the North, where the Society
system was deeply imbedded in the
churches, people moved into Nashville and many filled the Woodland
Street church. By the end of 1882, a woman
from Kentucky asked Sewell about forming an auxiliary society to the Christian Woman's Board
of Missions. Sewel objected, and gave his reasons.
But as
always, when a group in
a congregation wants something, and the preacher stands in their way,
there is only one thing to do: dismiss
the preacher. Sewell was ousted and at the beginning of 1883, W. J.
Loos, son of
C. L. Loos, president of the Foreign Society, was hired. In the fall
of that year young Loos
attended the annual convention at Cincinatti, telling them with some
embarassment that he was
ashamed to admit he was
from Tennessee for the churches of his state were doing
nothing."
When he
returned,
Sewell refuted the false charges about Tennessee churches. Loos was check-mated and was replaced
later by R. M.
Giddens who "fanned the
flames of Societyism."
"The
women were soon busily at
work to form an auxiliary
society. Sewell's pleas to Giddens went unheeded. During the
following summer,
the
women
wrote letters to the churches of the state
asking funds be sent to
them
so they
could hire a
State
Evangelist. Before long, plans
were laid
to
secure the services of A.
I. Myhr.
"Lipscomb
had agreed to publish
information in the Advocate after being assured that evangelism was
the goal. However, Giddens failed to get the work under the Woodland
Street elders. J. C. McQuiddy who had helped raise the money and
Sewell who was an
elder were
not
consulted about Myhr.
Myhr
made his goals clear about promoting
the Society
and Instrumental music
even though it would divide the
churches. Myhr's
goal,
Lipscome believed, was to
"ostracize, boycott, and
starve every preacher that does not APPROVE the
society."
1889 LYING ABOUT SAND CREEK
The church at
Sand Creek was without any of the innovations. When a group
attempted to impose instrumental music there was objection. To
their credit they left rather than steal the property. A Supreme
Court decision declared that the property belonged to the
non-instrumental group which had founded the congregation
People
do not let minimal ethics stop them when they use the law and lying to
take over a church as a defacto Christian Church. People of the
Stone-Campbell Cult love to point to Sand Creek to denounce them for
refusing to be TAKEN CAPTIVE.
Dainel Sommer Addresses Sand Creek.
About 20 decided to force instrumental music and 100 opposed. The 20
discorders took the name Christian Church and filed a lawsuit to take
over the new brick church house. The Illinois Supreme court decided that
the group founded by the principles of Alexander Campbell and existing
since 1834 owned the propert. In his very godly address to Sand
Creek Daniel Sommer concludes:
"When they determined to have their
devices if they had only left the
established congregations in peace and
had gone out into new fields and built up churches, they would have acted with some honor.
But instead of so doing they have thrust their
devices upon congregations established upon primitive simplicity, and
thus have become usurpers of other men's
labors. We were once a happy and a
peaceful and a prosperous people and for peace we pled.
We entreated them for God's sake and for the
love of heaven not to thrust their
devices upon us, but they would not
hearken. WHAT THEN MUST BE DONE? In the language of the Apostle Peter
I answer: "THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGEMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF
GOD."
The Britannica Notes that: Or Click
Here
The
introduction of musical
instruments (reed organs) into Christian worship led to
many
local disputes. Other innovations added
occasion for controversy--the infringement of the "one-man
pastoral system" on the local ministry
of
elders, introduction of selected
choirs, use of the title Reverend, and lesser
issues.
In 1889 several
rural
churches in
Illinois issued the
Sand Creek
Declaration,
withdrawing fellowship from those practicing "innovations and
corruptions."
Contrary
to the instrumental group who got in debt and needed entertainment to
dig them out, Alexander Campbell derived his views of a professional
clergy from John Calvin.
"A
preacher, like
any other man who gets in debt and fails to pay, soon becomes
demoralized, and indifferent about paying--becomes, indeed,
dishonest.
"We
have never been willing,
when not actively engaged in preaching to sit
around on our professional dignity, but have labored at whatever
work presented itself to make
a living." (West, p. 167)
THE RISE OF CORRUPTERS OF THE WORD SELLING LEARNING AT RETAIL.
Without denying support for Evangelists Campbell warned about the mercinary clergy.
Preaching
for pay? "Give money to make poor pious
youths learned clergy, or
vain pretenders to
erudition; and they pray
that they may preach to you; yes, and pay them too.
Was
there
ever such a craft as priestcraft? No, it is the craftiest of all crafts.
It is so crafty that it obtains by its craft the means to make
craftsmen, and then it makes the deluded support them!" (Campbell, Alexander,
Christian
Baptist, Dec. 1, 1823,
Vol. 1, p. 91).
"Those
who lord it over the
people will soon begin to destroy Them. The word Balaam means 'the
destroyer of the people.' If we turn back to the history of this
strange figure as recorded in the book of Numbers we find that which
clarifies three passages in the New Testament where 'the error of
Balaam' (Jude 11), 'the way of Balaam' (II Pet. 2:15) and 'the
doctrine of Balaam' are discussed." (Barnhouse, D.G., Revelation,
Zondervan, p. 54
See
John Calvin on the need for a Restoration Movement excluding
professional preachers.
These
are Paul's words. Let
them, then, show us that they are ministers of the gospel,
and I will have no difficulty in conceding their right to
stipend.
The
ox must not be muzzled that treadeth out the corn [1 Cor. 9:9].
But is it not altogether at
variance with reason that the ploughing oxen should starve, and the lazy asses be fed?
They
will say, however, that
they serve at the altar.
I answer, that the priests under the law deserved maintenance, by ministering at an
altar;
but
that, as Paul
declares, the case under the New Testament is different. And what are those
altar services, for which they
allege that maintenance is due to them?
Forsooth,
that they may perform
their masses
and chant
in churches, for example, partly labor to no purpose, and partly
perpetrate
sacrilege, thereby
provoking the anger of God. See for what it is that they are
alimented at the public expense!
Aeschines Against Ctesiphon
3.[220] And you blame me if
I come before the
people, not constantly, but only at intervals. And you imagine that
your bearers fail to detect you in thus making a demand which is no
outgrowth of democracy, but borrowed from another form of government.
For in oligarchies it is not he who wishes, but he who is in
authority, that addresses the people;
whereas in democracies he
speaks who chooses,
and whenever it seems to him good.
And the fact
that a man speaks only at intervals marks him as a man who takes part
in politics because of the call of the hour, and for the common good;
whereas to leave no day without its speech,
is the mark of a man who
is making a trade of it, and talking for pay.
2 A quiet citizen, as distinguished from the professional political blackmailer, συκοφάντης
su_kophant-ēs became notorious as pettifoggers, blackmailers, professional swindler or confidential agent,
kolax ,
a^kos,
ho,
2.
in later Gr., = Att.
goēs,
Moer. p.113 P.
II.
lisping pronunciation of
korax,
Ar.V.45.
goēs , ētos, ho, A.
sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for boēsi Hdt.7.191.
2.
juggler, cheat, “deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs” Pl.Smp.203d; “deinon kai g. kai sophistēn . . onomazōn” D.18.276; “apistos g. ponēros” Id.19.109; “magos kai g.” Aeschin.3.137: Comp. “goētoteros” Ach.Tat.6.7
sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A.
master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners,
of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” [harp]
with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1;
Ael. NA 11.1
anthrōpōn Hupeboreōn genos kai timas Apollōnos
tas ekeithi hadousi men poiētai, humnousi de kai
suggrapheis, en de tois kai Hekataios, oukh ho Milēsios,
all' ho Abdēritēs. ha de legei polla te kai semna
hetera,
melōdountes, alla hōsper oun
ek tou khorolektou to endosimon labontes kai tois
sophistais tōn hierōn melōn tois epikhōriois sunasantes.
eita tou humnou telesthentos hoi de anakhōrousi
tē pros ton daimona
Clement
of Alexandria, Stromata I
But
he that
speaks through books,
consecrates himself before God, crying
in writing thus:
Not
for
gain, not for vainglory, not to be vanquished
by partiality, nor enslaved by
fear nor elated by
pleasure;
but only to reap the
salvation of those who
read, which he does,
not
at present
participate in, but
awaiting in expectation
the recompense which
will certainly be rendered by Him, who has promised to bestow on the
labourers the reward that is meet.
But
he who
is enrolled in the number of men [Ps. li. 7-12.]
ought
not to desire
recompense.
For
he that
vaunts his good services, receives glory as his
reward.
And he who does any duty
for the sake of
recompense, is he not
held fast in the custom of the world, either as one who has done
well, hastening to receive a reward, or as an evil-doer avoiding
retribution?
We
must, as far as we can,
imitate the Lord. I And he will do so, who complies with the will of
God,
receiving
freely,
giving
freely, and receiving
as a worthy reward the citizenship itself.
"The
hire of an
harlot shall not come into the
sanctuary," it
is said: accordingly it was forbidden to bring to the altar the
price of a dog.
(male
prostitute)
And
in whomsoever the eye of
the soul has been blinded by ill-nurture and teaching, let him
advance to the true light, to the truth,
which
shows by
writing the things that are
unwritten. "Ye that
thirst, go to the
waters," [Isa. lv. 1]
says Esaias, And "drink water from thine own vessels," [Prov. v. 15]
Solomon exhorts. Accordingly in "The Laws," the philosopher who
learned from the Hebrews, Plato, commands husbandmen
not
to
irrigate or take water
from others,
until they have first dug down in their own
ground to what is called the virgin soil, and found it dry.
For it is right
to supply want, but it is not well to support laziness.
For
Pythagoras said
that,
"although it be
agreeable to reason to take a share of a burden, it is
not a duty to take it away."
1890 CHRISTIAN STANDARD PROMOTES A NATIONAL CONVENTION IN TENNESSEE
In 1890 the first
convention was called at Chattanooga to organize the state society. The only churches in the state of
Tennessee were those who had already adopted the organ in their
worship. The Christian
Standard pumped
up the
news and "it is reported that the brethren in Nashville, Tennessee
are desirous of entertaining our National Convention next year."
This of course was just two congregations. A survey showed that out of 2500
members in Nashville, less than one hundred wanted the society.
Lipscomb noted that among the Society people "the Bible is as popular
as last year's almanac."
"The
supporters of the
missionary society organized the Tennessee State Missionary Convention on October 6, 1890,
with one purpose in
mind, as stated by J. H.
Garrison. He said at
that time:
"We
will take Tennessee for organized mission
work...within
five
years."
A.
I. Myhr was dispatched to
Tennessee to head the new state society despite the
protestation of David Lipscomb that
Tennessee was not a
destitute mission territory. Myhr and his supporters moved resolutely
ahead to accomplish their mission.
"Their
efforts met with some
success and the intent
was clear. Myhr was
aggressive and abrasive in his operations. His
actions were of such a
nature, in promoting the missionary society, that he came under the
direct attack of E. G. Sewel and David Lipscomb. And as later event
proved, Myhr was no match for Lipscomb and the Gospel Advocate.
1890 The Plan: "We
will take Tennessee for organized mission
work...within
five
years."
- Why would anyone ENDORSE and accept pay from those always on a hostile path?
Myhr
made his goals clear about promoting
the Society
and Instrumental music
even though it would divide the
churches. Myhr's
goal,
Lipscome believed, was to
"ostracize, boycott, and
starve every preacher that does not APPROVE the
society."
- How could any godly person REBUKE and use all of the RACA words on a people who simply refused to be TAKEN?
BECAUSE OF THE RADICAL ATTACK AGAINST THE NON-INSTRUMENTAL CHURCHES..
Notice that the
use of the organ affected only a few Christian Churches. That did
not prevent the Disciples leadership , prompted by the Standard, to IMPOSE
instruments into the Christian churches. This is proof that Churches of
Christ had no organs.
"As
early as
1882, Sewell and Harding
were urging that a
separation be brought about to identify that part of the
Christian
Church fellowship which
supported the organ
and the society. Lipscomb, at the time,
rebuffed his brethren who
called for such division. He sought no compromise, but hoped that the
church would not suffer division."
That, of Course, proves that they saw the Christian Church Fellowship as not the same as The Church of Christ.
Not until 1878 did anyone in
history MISuse
psallo to justify the massive discord they had already sown by using
the ORGAN and Life Members of even children of the Missionary Society. This has a
foundation beginning in heaven where Lucifer began to TRAFFICK in
some spiritual world we do not understand. Being CAST AS PROFANE (a
musical term) out of heaven he or most often showed up in the garden
of Eden as the serpent meaning a MUSICAL ENCHANTER.
"By
1897, Lipscomb was
reconciled to the fact that division had already occurred and the supporters of
the innovations would be
satisfied with nothing less than a complete take-over of
the churches... (Adron Doran, J.E.Choate, The
Christian Scholar, p. 59
THE NEWBERN HOSTILE TAKEOVER
In 1902 the
church at Newbern
was taken over by society and organ people. The church, against
Lipscomb's advice, sued to retain the property. Of course the society
could muster a majority and won the lawsuit. The decision was handed
down in 1905 that the trouble did not warrant the intrusion of the
courts:
"The
pro-organ
party had said during the trial that
when the organ
was used as a part of the worship, it was sinful;
but they defended it on
the ground that it was an AID to
worship.
Lipscomb,
on the other hand,
had insisted that it was a distinct service,
and when persisted in
always supersedes and destroys congregational singing.
"The
court, passing on this
phase of the question,
said that the claim that
the organ was not a part of the worship
was
untenable
and it could not be considered as merely
an aid to worship."
There is no command, example or
remote inference that any of God's people assembled for congregational
singing with instruments. Of course it comes as no surprise that
Doctors of the Law who take away the key to knowledge do not care
enough to grasp that SPEAK is the direct command for teaching the
written LOGOS of the Living Word. Bringing in an organ as an AID
was grasped by Churches of Christ as a weapon of violent invasion.
The the Logos.Mythos or Word.Music proof that when people move away
from the Logos.Word of Jesus Christ they have fallen into an effeminate
or perverse trap and will never get out.
Logos , Opposite. kata pathos, Arist.EN1169a5 or personal experiences
Logos, verbal noun of lego
Opposite kata pathos
Opposite music, poetry or rhetoric
Opposite human reasoning
Opposite Epagoge bringint in to one's aid, introduction
Alurement, enticement, incantation, spell
Epagōg-ē , hē, 2.
bringing in to one's aid, introduction, 3.
invasion, attack,
5.
process of reasoning, Aristox.Harm.pp.4,53M.
b.
esp. in the Logic of Aristotle, argument by induction (cf. “epagō”
7.
leading away into captivity, captivity, LXX Is.14.17: generally, distress, misery, ib.Si.23.14 (pl.), cf. Hsch.
THE 1906 BIG FAT LIE
The fact that they had almost no success in their hostile takeover of
Churches of Christ, the Disciples of Christ-Christian churches tried to
COUNT the Churches of Christ as their members--all of them.
The Churches of Christ did absolutely nothing sectarian: by definition
the Sectarians or Heretics are those who IMPOSE something not required
over the views held entoto. En toto included almost 100% of the
churches in Tennessee in 1906. Therefore, the Disciples/
Christian churches financed by their denominatal money extorted from
the congregations were not even COUNTABLE in the state and the Society
could not tolerate such a census.
The 1906 Census which was, I believe, the first, saw the
Disciples / Christian Churches attempting to do a body count including
the Churches of Christ in Nashville. The Census taker knew this was
utterly false and consulted Lipscomb who just said NO to the body
snatchers.
The Disciples-Christian churches already had a Denominational
Movement underway and needed the body count to send them vast sums of
money.
As far as the PRESENT CLAIM by the Christian Churches you have
to grasp that they did not begin to hold separate denominational
meetings until 1927 and were still counted as Disciples unto THEY were
removed from the census as late as 1971. That was the time when Garrett
etal began to "cut out" Churches of Christ where "unity" meant you
AFFIRM instruments or you CONFORM and then we can have unity.
Now why would people fall for the NACC effort at "unity" and
claiming that Churches of Christ were legalistic sectarians when the
Christian Church did not BEGIN to SECT out of the Disciples until 1927?
When Churches of Christ denied that they had ever been "joined" even
fraternally since the introduction of instruments among the Disciples
which split that group. At that time the Disciples/Christian Churches
issued a Centennial edition of the Declaration and Address which should
prove to anyone that Churches of Christ could not be counted on.
THIS IS WHY THE ORGAN AND SOCIETY PARTY HOPED TO "TAKE TENNEESSE IN 5 YEARS"
THERE WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF NON-INSTRUMENTAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
I knew people who attended Christian Churches who changed the name to The Church of Christ because they rejected instruments proving that not even Christian Churches (with OKelly input) they were not UNIONED with the Society-Christian church.
The increase
from about 150,000 members in 1906: Ten years later in 1916 the number
of members of churches of Christ would rise to about 317,000. That, of
course, is an increase of more that 100%. By 1926, a decade beyond
that, the numbers in churches of Christ had grown to over 433,000. This
represents an additional 50% growth over the previous census.
... Well, by the 1960s, total membership had grown to possibly as high as 2 ½ million.
This shows that the masses of people
rejected instruments and undoubtedly defected from the Society-Organ
"party" as they called themselves.
You should grasp that what became the NACC was on its way to secting
out of the Disciples for some of the same reasons that Churches of
Christ were never "unioned" with the Disciples of Christ other than
fraternally prior to the move toward becoming another denomitation
(culr).
I have posted the REAL writings between Stone and Campbell.
I showed you that Campbell showed in 1831 there there was nothing in
common to unite. He held Stone in some disdain as a "denomination"
builder.
A few men shook hands in 1932 and the agreement went no
further than the people who met with no authority. The document they
all signed would NOT PERMIT what the Disciples of Christ
(Methodist-Anglican-Catholic derived) did because they got spooked by
Miller and thus are carriers of SDA dogma.
I showed you that in 1937 that Campbell ridiculed the notion of unity among those with nothing in common
In 1943 or so the name MILLENNIAL HARBINGER was adopted to REPUDIATED the Hughes-claimed apocalyptic views of the Disciples.
The Christian Church gradually secting out of the Disciples
always promoted "unity" by twisting all of the instrumental passages.
H. Leo. Boles attended one of them in 1939 and in no uncertain terms
the Disciples/Christian churches had destroyed any "fraternal"
fellowship by introducing music and the society which all Bible
students know is radically outlawed for the Qahal, Synagogue or Church
of Christ in the wilderness.
And I believe that is especially true about those tasked to
REwrite the history of groups always known as The Church of Christ in
every period. The Catholics thought of them as universal (the one true
church) but they called themselves The Church of Christ because Jesus
of Nazareth "whom God made to be both Lord and Christ" purchased it and
is the head of His own kingdom. That kingdom has no other task but to
"use one mind and one mouth" to teach "that which is written for our
learning." The Laded Burden outlaws all "spiritual anxiety created by
religious ceremonialism." Paul used the Greek ARESKOS or Self-pleasure
or Latin Placeo which outlaws the same thing clearly defined in the
literature as "rhetoric, singing, instruments or drama." Jesus would
call them hypocritic arts by pointing to Isaial 6 and Ezekiel 33.
The modern writers of Encyclopedias (smile) and text books
have never read the original resources but as in ALL scholarly settings
rest on the textbooks YOU must follow if YOU intend to get a passing
grade. We will show yoou that Richard Hughes has led many simpletons
down the path by false teaching about Alexander Campbell and the
"apocalyptic tradition." The name MH in fact was to repudiate ALL
millennial speculations and to refute the Disciples organization to
"save all of the Jews to make it possible for Jesus to return." They
fell for the Millerite (SDA) predictions: the Jews didn't want to get
saved--thank you very much--and Jesus didn't return. However, it proved
the radical separation of the Disciples and Reformers whose churches
called themselves churches of Christ. At one time the Stone people
called themselves CHRISTIANS and the Campbell disciples called
themselves DISCIPLES. Of course a baptized believer is a DISCIPLE and
is called a CHRISTIAN but the body bears the name of Christ. Disciples
don't DO worship services: they go to BIBLE CLASS.
I have made it my way-past-retirement task to make these
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS from Clay Tablets onward available for anyone
wanting to get TRUE HISTORY from the writers mouth--and not get fleeced
so you can get a still-bleeding sheep skin. I don't DO dogma and don't
join the ANTICHRISTS in their trinitarian worship.
Funding for this project has been provided principally by Disciples of Christ Historical Society and Chalice Press.
Ken,
I am sorry that you don't completely understand how history works. Here
is a link to a website about the most recent work of the history of the
Stone Campbell movement. It involves scholars from all traditions of
the Stone Campbell movement. I hope you look into this work with an
open mind. Read carefully, order the book, read some more, then repost
your findings. I will do the same with your posts and websites. I will
also pass these along to the authors of this World History of the Stone
Campbell Movement.
http://www.stonecampbellhistory.com/
Blessings in your journey!
THIS EFFORT IS FUNDED BY THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. Of course, not even the NACC could agree with the total departure of the Disciples from the need for Biblical authority.
THE FINAL DEPARTURE being
promoted while being paid by Churches of Christ. Of authority: it is a
fact that the Disciples-Christian churches INVENTED the Law of Silence
and "traditionalism."
Richard L. Hamm: The first is
Scripture, which for Christians means, of course,
the Holy Bible (which is to say the whole Bible: the Hebrew and
Christian testaments).
The second is reason
and the third
is experience. We Disciples are quite appreciative of
these
sources. Our movement was born within the philosophical context of
John
Locke who said that truth can be known
through reason tempered with experience.
In this secular age in which we live, I'm afraid that
many of us
have increasingly depended on these two sources alone, but reason and
experience are two valuable sources for understanding God.
No, John Locke never said
that. What he said was
that Christianity was reasonable once it
was revealed but the
best of human reasoning could never discover or aid the discover of
truth.
John Locke denied that
REASON had ever
contributed anything to
spiritual
religion. However, when
God reveals, then it seems reasonable to the mind which God created.
Locke speaks of HUMAN REASON and concluded that:
1. In this state of
darkness and error, in reference to the "true God" Our Saviour found the world.
But the clear
revelation he brought
with him, dissipated
this darkness;
made the one invisible
true God known to the world:
and that with such evidence and energy,
that polytheism [trinity] and idolatry hath no where been able to withstand it.
But wherever the preaching of the truth
he delivered, and the light of the
gospel hath come, those
mists have been dispelled.
Sense and lust blinded their minds in some, and
a careless inadvertency in others, and fearful apprehensions in most
(who either believed there were, or
could not but suspect there might be, superior unknown beings) gave them up into the hands of their priests to fill their heads with false
notions of the deity, and their worship with foolish rites, as they
pleased; and what dread or
craft once began, devotion soon made
sacred, and religion immutable.
Perhaps both Locke and the
Thomas and Alexander Campbell are hated with a purple passion and
slandered because Alexander Campbell wrote:
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