What is Written?

Mandate

Scripture must be permitted to keep its own order

The mandate of this web edition is the same rule stated in the final book: Scripture must be permitted to keep its own order.

"Why," asked Jesus, in reply to them, "Do you transgress the command of God by means of your own tradition?"

— Matthew 15:3, FFT

"then he need not assist his father or mother': and thus you set aside the command of God by your tradition."

— Matthew 15:6, FFT

No doctrine, tradition, priestcraft, sacramental system, ecclesiastical claim, prophetic construction, national mythology, or coercive power may be permitted to set aside the command of God.

The controlling questions remain: What is written? What is inferred? What is added? What is subtracted? What has Christ commanded? What have men substituted?

"However, there is consolation for the holy; these who keep the commands of God and the faith of Jesus."

— Revelation 14:12, FFT

The web edition therefore tests every article, inference, and doctrinal prosecution by the same court: the written witness of Scripture under the Ferrar Fenton Translation (FFT).