Chapter 9: Rationalization of Mankind

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Think back 2,000 years and consider what prospective theologians

had to work with. In those days and under the best of circumstances, you would have been lucky to get your hands on a copy of some Hebrew or Greek text. Therefore, it was a rare individual that could search the word of God for spiritual truth. Next consider how that individual would have

searched the word of God. Did he or she have a concordance? How about some computer software? What about some reference books like this one pointing to various Scriptures?

Two thousand years ago the Bible was searched by hand and read in a sequential way. Connecting the various Scriptures together in a cohesive manner like a Chronological Bible6 or a Parallel Bible7 does today would have been impossible. In fact, one would have to rely mainly upon his or her memory of where various teachings were located. That and any notes

they might have written to guide their teachings. Finding printed reference works such as this to guide their studies would have been impossible.

That is the condition that existed as various doctrines emerged in the

Christian Church. It is the condition that existed when the trinity doctrine emerged. A few select people postulated the trinity doctrine early in the first millennium after Christ taught for purposes I would only consider as Satanic in nature. While that may sound harsh, you will have to keep reading to

fully understand the gravity of what the doctrine represents to mankind. Now fast-forward 2,000 years.

Today there is a fresh dig going on concerning Scripture. God has

many small cells of people armed with incredible resources to search for His truth. As I look at my own resources on my desktop, I find I have at least twenty different Bible translations. Most of these are on computer software for ease of search and study. When I study a word like “understanding,” I

simply input the word into the Bible’s search engine and search away. I can locate every single use of the word throughout the Bible. I can even isolate the study to one of the books in the Bible or even the three major sections of the Old Testament, Apocryphal or New Testament. I can readily compare

what the Word says in any of the books or sections with the others.