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Infallibility of the head of church....

Every religious doctrine should be examined before it is accepted. God demands this from you in order to reduce the adversary’s influence, because then you will also understand how he works yourselves. His objective is to infiltrate the divine truth with inaccuracies, but the human being can certainly become aware of it if he seriously examines what he is offered with the desire only to accept the divine, the truth. The opponent uses human will, i.e. he influences people to arbitrarily add other teachings to the divine teaching and to pass them on as God-given teachings. But human work is not without error and consequently the pure divine teaching is spoilt too, and even more so the less people scrutinise and think for themselves. And once again it is the opponent’s doing that human doctrines inherently prevent their scrutiny and contemplation.... that people are therefore required to accept each religious doctrine unconditionally and scrutiny of it is made out to be wrong. This furthers the activity of the prince of lies very much indeed. But God requires people to have a living faith, i.e. a faith of heart, a faith which affirms with full conviction what it is taught. Anyone who seriously thinks about it will be able to affirm every divine truth wholeheartedly, however, he will never be able to accept the action of Satan. He will soon recognise it as human work and, having found it to be worthless, thus abandon it with an easy heart. Examine everything and hold on to the best....

And because scrutiny inevitably has to entail the recognition and rejection of every error, the adversary knew how to prevent the examination of religious dogma by establishing a teaching which was intended to eliminate human thought and which thus has resulted in very nasty consequences.... This concerns the teaching of infallibility of the head of church, which apparently relieves the human being of every responsibility yet leads him into deep spiritual darkness if it is accepted and regarded as divine truth. Because any misguided teaching could then be added as divine truth without permitting criticism or rejection. And thus the door was opened to every error.... a field had been made available to the adversary’s activity on which he could scatter his seed widely....

NEZMOTLJIVOST CERKVENEGA POGLAVARJA....

Vsako versko doktrino je potrebno skrbno preučiti (preiskati), preden jo sprejmemo. Bog od vas to zahteva, da bi zmanjšal vpliv sovražnika (Satana), saj boste potem tudi sami razumeli, kako deluje. Njegov cilj je, da z netočnostmi prodre v Božansko resnico, a tega se človek zagotovo lahko zave, če kar najbolj resno preuči (pregleda) tisto, kar se mu ponuja z željo, da sprejme edino Božansko resnico. Nasprotnik uporablja človeško voljo, torej vpliva na ljudi, da božjemu nauku poljubno dodajajo še druge nauke in jih prenašajo naprej kot nauke, ki jih je dal Bog. Toda človeško delo ni brez napak in posledično je pokvarjen tudi čisti božji nauk, še toliko bolj, kolikor manj ljudje preiskujejo in razmišljajo sami. In spet gre za delo nasprotnika (Satana), da človeške doktrine same po sebi preprečujejo njihovo natančno raziskovanje (preiskovanje) in kontemplacijo.... da se zato od ljudi zahteva, da brezpogojno sprejmejo vsako versko doktrino, preverjanje pa je prikazano kot napačno. To zelo podpira (spodbuja) delovanje princa laži. Toda Bog od ljudi zahteva, da imajo živo vero, to je vero srca, vero, ki s polnim prepričanjem potrjuje, kar se uči. Vsak, ki o tem resno razmišlja, bo lahko tudi s polnim prepričanjem potrdil vsako božjo resnico, nikoli pa ne bo mogel sprejeti Satanovega delovanja. Kmalu ga bo prepoznal kot človeško delo in ga bo z lahkim srcem zavrgel, ko bo ugotovil, da je ničvredno. Preglejte vse in ohranite najboljše (1 Tes 5;21)... In ker mora preverjanje neizogibno vključevati prepoznavanje in zavračanje vsake napake (zmote), je nasprotnik lahko preprečil preverjanje verskih doktrin s postavitvijo doktrine, ki je bila namenjena odpravi človeškega mišljenja in je imela zato zelo slabe posledice... To se nanaša na nauk o nezmotljivosti cerkvenega poglavarja, ki ljudi navidezno osvobaja vsakršne odgovornosti, vendar jih vodi v globoko duhovno temo, če ga sprejmemo in razumejo kot Božjo resnico. Kajti vsak zgrešen nauk bi potem lahko dodali kot božansko resnico, ne da bi dovolili kritiko ali zavrnitev. In tako so se odprla vrata vsaki napaki.... Nasprotnikovi dejavnosti je bilo na voljo polje, na katerem je lahko na široko raztrosil svoje seme....

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