Whose Doctrine? by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 14.

Whose Doctrine?

By Editor

SOMETIMES we hear something like this: "I don't believe a word of your doctrine." Very well, we don't ask anybody to believe our doctrine, if we have any. But we do ask people to believe the doctrine of the Bible. We have a right to ask this, because "the words of the Lord are pure words" (Ps. 12:6); "All his commandments are sure; they stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness." Ps. 111:7, 8. Everything that is taught in the Bible is from God; for even Jesus himself said: "My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me." John 7:16. Then when we quote a plain declaration, as, for instance, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord," we have a right to expect that people will believe. We would not lower the truth by calling it our doctrine; it is the doctrine of the great Jehovah. "See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh; for if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from Heaven." Heb. 12:25.