THE CREED OF THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT 

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  1.  There is NO FINAL AUTHORITY but God.

  2.  Since God is a SPIRIT, there is NO FINAL AUTHORITY that
can be seen, heard, read, felt or handled.

  3.  Since all books are MATERIAL, there is NO BOOK ON THIS
EARTH THAT IS THE FINAL AND ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY on what is right
and what is wrong; what constitutes TRUTH and what constitutes
ERROR.

  4.  There WAS a series of writings one time which, IF they had
all been put into a BOOK as soon as they were written the first
time, WOULD HAVE constituted an infallible and final authority
by which to judge truth and error.

  5.  However, this series of writings was LOST, and the God Who
inspired them was UNABLE TO PRESERVE THEIR CONTENT through
Bible-believing Christians at Antioch (Syria), where the first
Bible teachers were (Acts 13:1), and where the first missionary
trip originated (Acts 13:1-6), and where the word "CHRISTIAN"
originated (Acts 11:26).

  6. So, God chose to ALMOST preserve them through Gnostics and
philosophers from Alexandria, Egypt, even though God called HIS
SON OUT of Egypt (Mat. 2), JACOB OUT of Egypt (Gen. 49), ISRAEL
OUT of Egypt (Exod. 15), and JOSEPH'S BONES OUT of Egypt (Exod.
13).

  7.  So, there are two streams of Bibles:  the most accurate _
though, of course, there is NO FINAL, ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY FOR
DETERMINING TRUTH AND ERROR:  it is a matter of "preference" _
are the Egyptian translations from  Alexandria, Egypt, which are
"almost the originals," although NOT QUITE.

  8.  The most INACCURATE TRANSLATIONS were those that brought
about the GERMAN REFORMATION (Luther, Zwingli, Boehler,
Zinzendorf, Spener, etc.) and the worldwide MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
of the English speaking people:  the Bible that Sunday, Torrey,
Moody, Finney, Spurgeon, Whitfield, Wesley, and Chapman used.

  9.  But we can "tolerate" these if those who believe in them
will tolerate US.  After all, since THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE AND
FINAL AUTHORITY THAT ANYONE CAN  READ, TEACH, PREACH, OR HANDLE,
the whole thing is a matter of "PREFERENCE."  You may prefer
what you prefer, and we will prefer what WE prefer:  let us live
in peace, and if we cannot agree on anything or everything, let
us all agree on one thing:  THERE IS NO FINAL, ABSOLUTE, WRITTEN
AUTHORITY OF GOD ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH.
  

          This is the creed of the Alexandrian Cult.