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      {JAHWEH} YAHWEH

       THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

      "The Holy Scripture shall be accepted as

      an authoritative, infallible revelation

      of God's will.

      It is the benchmark for all doctrines and for the

      character: the enunciator of principles,

      the touchstone of experience.

      The Bible and the Bible alone should be our

      basis of faith, the only bond of unity.

      God's word is infallible!

      Hold the banner high, on which the Bible

      is written, our faith and education scale."

      Ellen G. White

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      The seal of ELOHIM (G-d) can be found in the fourth commandment of the Ten Commandment, the Sabbath commandment:

      His name is “YAHWEH”,

       His territorial dominion is “Heaven and Earth”

       and His title is “Creator”.

      If the seal is removed

       from the fourth commandment of ELOHIM,

       the whole law then becomes invalid!

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       The Bible.

       Its Origin, History, and Place in the World.

      The Bible contains proof in itself of its divine origin. No other book can answer the questionings of the mind or satisfy the longings of the heart as does the Bible. It is adapted to every age and condition of life, and is full of that knowledge which enlightens the mind and sanctifies the soul.

      In the Bible we have a revelation of the living God. Received by faith, it has power to transform the life. During all its history a divine watch-care has been over it, and preserved it for the world.

       How, When, and Why Written?

      After the flood, as men became numerous, and darkness was again settling over the world, holy men wrote as they were moved by the Spirit of God. Thus God spoke to His people, and through them to the world, that a knowledge of God and of His will might not perish from the earth.

      For centuries this work went on, until the Messiah, the promised Seed, came. With Him, and the blessed message of light and salvation proclaimed by Him and by His apostles, the Scripture record closed, and the Word of God was complete.

       Printing and the Bible.

      Printing, however, being yet unknown, copies of the Bible could be produced only by the slow, laborious, and expensive process of handwriting. Tnhis necessarily greatly limited its circulation. Worse still, its illuminating and saving truths were largely hidden for centuries by the errors, superstitions, and apostasy of the dark ages. During this time the common people knew little of its contents.

      But with the invention of the art of printing about the middle of the fifteenth century, and with the dawn of the reat Reformation in the century following, the Bible entered upon a new era, preparatory to the final proclamation of the gospel [good tidings] throughout the world.

       The Bible in Native Tongues.

      Thus far, however, the Bible had been published only in ancient tongues, now little understood by the common people [in Aramaic, {in Greek} and in Latin]. Without the Word of God in their hands, the good seed sown among them was easily destroyed. "O", said the advocates of its pure teachings, "if the people only had the Word of God in their own language, this would not happen! Without this it will be impossible to establish the laity