| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: else. The question here is: "What is or is not the Word of God?
What is not the Word of God does not make Christendom.
We read that in the days of Elijah the prophet there was
apparently no word from God and not worship of God in Israel. For
Elijah says, "Lord, they have killed your prophets and destroyed
your altars, and I am left totally alone" [I Kings 19]. Here King
Ahab and others could have said, "Elijah, with talk like that you
are condemning all the people of God." However God had at the
same time kept seven thousand [I Kings 19]. How? Do you not also
think that God could now, under the papacy, have preserved his
own, even though the priests and monks of Christendom have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: sides; and soon we were away from all signs of the sea's
neighbourhood, mounting an inland, irrigated valley. A great
variety of oaks stood, now severally, now in a becoming
grove, among the fields and vineyards. The towns were
compact, in about equal proportions, of bright, new wooden
houses and great and growing forest trees; and the chapel
bell on the engine sounded most festally that sunny Sunday,
as we drew up at one green town after another, with the
townsfolk trooping in their Sunday's best to see the
strangers, with the sun sparkling on the clean houses, and
great domes of foliage humming overhead in the breeze.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: from their Lord,- we will make no distinction between any of them,-
and we are unto Him resigned. Whosoever craves other than Islam for
a religion, it shall surely not be accepted from him, and he shall, in
the next world, be of those who lose.'
How shall God guide people who have disbelieved after believing
and bearing witness that the Apostle is true, and after there come
to them manifest signs? God guides the unjust folk.
These, their reward is, that on them is the curse of God, and of the
angels, and of men together; they shall dwell therein for aye- the
torment shall not be alleviated from them, nor shall they be respited;
save those who repent after that, and act aright, for verily, God is
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