The Discovery

The author came into contact with the Blood Doctrine while he was a student in Bible college. It was an unexpected meeting. Pastor Rod Bell, of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, said that science has proven that men get their blood from their fathers. The body comes from the mother, but the blood comes from the father. After saying that, Pastor Bell continued with the rest of his sermon, and the author, still smiling and unsuspecting, briefly thought to himself, "I wonder how science was able to prove that, and when did it happen? Why haven't I heard of this before?" The author had been greatly interested in science all his life, and believed that he had heard of most major discoveries. For the time, though, the author's attention returned to Pastor Bell's sermon.

A week or two later, the author attended a preacher's fellowship that was followed by a pot luck. One of the speakers was a young man who repeated Dr. Bell's statement. However, he did something very important in addition to simply citing a statement; he explained what the statement meant. That explanation shocked the author. "Surely," thought the author, "this preacher is mistaken. He is confused. He could not mean what he just said." It was so ridiculous a mistake that the author decided that he should inform the preacher of it. Perhaps it could be corrected before it went any further.

The author spoke to the young man as they stood together in the food line, and mentioned that he would like to discuss the sermon with him sometime. The preacher said that he was ready. The author, feeling uncomfortable in pointing out an embarrassing error in front of several people, replied that another time might be good. The young preacher restated that he was ready at that moment. So, the author began to ask questions that should have guided the preacher to realize the truth.

This lasted for a few minutes, with the responses of the preacher becoming more ridiculous, and the mood of the author becoming more incredulous. Finally, the preacher had enough, and leaned across the dining table where they had seated themselves, and said, "Your problem is that you are saying, 'Show me, show me, show me. That's humanistic and satanic and I don't want to discuss it anymore.'"

The surprises did not end there, though. The other Bible college students supported the preacher, and cornered the author on the matter. They supported the preacher on every point. By this time, the author was in shock. Yet, there were more surprises coming for him. He was summoned into the dean's office, and reprimanded for confronting a preacher on his sermon in public. A Bible college student must never contradict a preacher, especially in public. A teacher in the college, who was present with the author during several visits to the dean, said that even though there were some minor errors in the sermon, it was not right for a student to confront the preacher about them. The author asked what the teacher considered a minor error, but the teacher refused to cite any examples.

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