Koreshanity by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 8, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 10.

Koreshanity

By Editor

“Koreshanity.”—Some one asks us to explain the principles and system of Koreshanity, with its peculiar cosmogony of a concave earth. But we can not do it. We are not here for this purpose. That is not our mission. We are set to preach the everlasting Gospel to this generation so far as in us lies. That embraces all good and all power to do good in Jesus Christ. It does not exalt or honor Dr. Teed, who poses as reincarnated “Koresh,” or Dr. Dowie, who poses as Elijah the prophet, and more; it exalts One only—Jesus Christ. It stands as the genuine, of which there are many counterfeits. To learn to distinguish the counterfeit, the expert must know the genuine. It matters not whether he has seen or studied the counterfeit or not. Of that he need not worry. He will meet them by legion, old and new, with ninety-nine points like the true, but with one different. He who would not be deceived need not trouble himself about the false; but let him know every essential of the true. The true exalts God and Jesus Christ; it exalts the Bible; it places man where he belongs, a poor, sick sinner who must be saved by grace through faith in an atoning Saviour; by that salvation righteous character is developed, and life and habit transformed. Does Koreshanity fail to bear these marks? Then cast it aside forever. It is of man, not of God; and will perish with men. Study, O, study, the true.