THE PROPHETS & "CREDENDA."

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4961, 3 December 1884, Page 3

THE PROPHETS & "CREDENDA."

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib,—" Credenda," it appears, is determined to cast a doubt upon everything Biblical.. His last effusion is simply a tirade of abuse of the Hebrew prophets, and prophecy in general; he classes all who hare borne the name of prophets in the same category—thoroughly one-sided, he professes not to see any difference between the true and the false. "Tested," flays he, " by the condition of fulfilment of prediction, it may be doubted whether any true prophets ever existed." Possessed by the spirit of Baalzebub, or Satan, he is unable to distinguish the prophets of Baal, or the devil's prophets, whom Elijah slew, from the prophets of the Lord God of Israel, of whom Elijah himself was ene. "Credenda" entirely ignores the prophecies regarding Egypt, Nineveh, Babylon, &c, and more especially the numerous prophecies concerning the Jewish people which hare been ful- „ filled to the very letter, and then "again the more numerous predictions relating to all the nations of these last days pf Gentile supremacy, which are now fulfilling before our Tery eyes in a most remarkable manner, in the social, political, and religious condition of the masses. He is too blind and prejudiced against the Bible to see that it is a prophecy from Genesis to Bevelations, and cannot be understood otherwise than as a prophecy. A prophecy of Satanic falsehood and its bitter end, as well as a prophecy of Deity truth and all the glories of a future life for believers in its divino verities. His jaundiced eyes blind him to the truth, and bis " Beience falsely so called " leads him into a sort of Swedenborgeon seventh heaven of his own creating, for such a heaven exists not in fact at all. His excessive ideality warps his better judgment; he is simply nowhere but in dreamland and doubt, and presently despair will follow. All through the S.S. there are two chief spirits recognised by all true Biblical scholars. The Holy Spirit of the Deity and of His Christ, and the unholy spirit of Satan and his Anti christ. Ever since the fall of the first Adam to this day themassesof mankind have been energised by the Satanic Spirit: this is sufficiently manifest by the fruit they have borne. Ae nations, as religious organisations, and what not, the Satanic Spirit is everywhere manifest, and in these last days especially mankind are more or less steeped in that spirit. No wonder then that Satan is affirmed to be by the S.S. the god of this world 4or age. The Spirit of the Deity His Christ is possessed by but very • %i^}W f -and the word Christian, as now generally used, is a misnomer, an alias, nfftndegiterre. We will have to await the next age, when Christ will be personally present, ere we know what is Christianity pore and simple. We will have to wait until then ere men will generally love their enemies and do good to such as despitefully use and persecute them. The S.S. always makes a clear distinction between true and false men, true and false prophets, true and false doctrines, true and false practices, true and false science, etc. The true is the outcome of the Spirit of the Deity, and the false is the outcome of the Spirit of Satan, who prompts his agents to all evil, spiritual and carnal, and with increased energy now, because be knows his time of deceiving is drawing near its close, and will be tolerated no longer. In closing, I cannot pass over the threat of "Credenda" — " Who are the religious hypocrites that are to kiss the rodP" &c, and, "if not, it will be laid on," &e. Methinks that presently the bastinado estrapade will be laid on such as him pretty lustily, and so the boot will be on the other leg. It is all predicted, " Credenda."—l am, &c, William Wood.