BRO.
LOUGHBOROUGH. It may with equal propriety be said that we are
patterning after the churches in building meeting-houses. We call the
churches Babylon, not because they covenant together to obey God. I am
still of the opinion I advanced sometime since through the Review:
The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed, telling us what we
shall believe. The second is, to make that creed a test of fellowship.
The third is to try members by that creed. The fourth to denounce as
heretics those who do not believe that creed. And, fifth, to commence
persecution against such. I plead that we are not patterning after the
churches in any unwarrantable sense, in the step propose. Review & Herald, October 8, 1861 p. 149Friday, February 28, 2020
The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed
BRO.
LOUGHBOROUGH. It may with equal propriety be said that we are
patterning after the churches in building meeting-houses. We call the
churches Babylon, not because they covenant together to obey God. I am
still of the opinion I advanced sometime since through the Review:
The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed, telling us what we
shall believe. The second is, to make that creed a test of fellowship.
The third is to try members by that creed. The fourth to denounce as
heretics those who do not believe that creed. And, fifth, to commence
persecution against such. I plead that we are not patterning after the
churches in any unwarrantable sense, in the step propose. Review & Herald, October 8, 1861 p. 149
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