Nine times in the first chapter of Genesis, God said that everything should bring forth after its kind. A watermelon seed from the first century planted in the twentieth century will bring forth a watermelon and nothing else.

Jesus said, “The seed is the Word of God” (Luke 8:11). This seed was planted in Antioch of Judea by men of Cyprus and Cyrene and it produced “Christians,” and nothing else (Acts 11:26). Paul planted this seed in Corinth, it fell into good soil (hearts) germinated and produced obedient faith, for the Scriptures declare that “many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized” (Acts 18:8). If this seed (the Word of God) that was planted in the first century of the church produced “Christians” and nothing else, it will do the same today. There were no creed books, church manuals, prayer books, confessions of faith or catholicism in the first century. The seed was not polluted with such additions then, therefore, it will not produce such additions today.

Suppose there were found an intelligent tribe of people in the deepest portion of some country who had never heard of God’s Word and by chance a Bible should fall into their midst. These people, being intelligent and able to understand, read it, study it, and investigate it. They become convinced that there is a God in heaven who sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth. They learn that He taught people about the church, His kingdom, and how He suffered and died on the cross to purchase the church with His blood. They realize that he arose from the tomb the third day and He taught His disciples to “go into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16:15,16).

They continue to read the facts of all the conversions in the book of Acts. They learn from Paul that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23),