[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

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...I began to return to the authority of God's Word. Finally the tension became like a tug-of-war inside me. Sometimes I looked to the Roman Church as being absolute, sometimes to the authority of the Bible as being final. My stomach suffered much during those years; my emotions were being torn. I ought to have known the simple truth that one cannot serve two masters.

Amen, you must pick what your final authority is and judge by that. It sure clarifies why some churches hate Sola Scriptura.

One other thing that occurred to me in reading this was the author came to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior over time. It was a process that required serious prayer, thought and critical examination of what he had been taught. He didn't become Born Again by membership in a particular church, or by doing certain rituals.

What a great testimony.

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When I was asked to talk to the prayer group in St. Stephen's Catholic Church, I took as my subject the absolute authority of God's Word. It was the first time that I had understood such a truth or talked about it. I returned to Vancouver, B.C. and in a large parish Church, before about 400 people, I preached the same message. Bible in hand, I proclaimed that "the absolute and final authority in all matters of faith and morals is the Bible, God's own Word."

Three days later, the archbishop of Vancouver, B.C., James Carney, called me to his office. I was then officially silenced and forbidden to preach in his archdiocese.

What a great testimony!

Just thought it might be a nice refresher, this man became Born Again by reading the Scriptures. He recognized the absolute authority in them and believed.