In a message dated 3/18/2005 8:31:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL
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Its main theme has always been that the true church and the true gospel as it
was in Jesus' time was restored through a prophet.
Beginning with Pentecost, when did the "true church" and the true gospel stray
from it's established and pure beginnings?
Jd
BLAINE: Briefly, I would say the gospel actually bagan to stray during the
time of Paul, as the "wolves" began coming into the flocks and tearing them
apart. This disarray really didn't get going, however, until the death of the
Apostles, and perhaps as much as 300 years afterwards. Apostacy was fully
blown by the time of the Protestant reformers, who, despite courageous efforts,
especially along lines of making the scriptures available to the common man,
were not able to find common ground among themselves, leading to the present
state of disorder in terms of doctrines, practices, and, most of all,
authority. You can't take a living branch from off a dead tree . . .
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