Sacred vows...sacred books

Some sacred cows exposed here. 

This is one reason I try to focus more of my reading on the Bible and a 

few of the older protestant reformed writers.

2Ti 4:1    I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2Ti 4:2    Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

2Ti 4:3    For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2Ti 4:4    And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2Ti 4:5    But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

BTW there is a good summary of the ends of the early leaders in the church at:

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=14735

Of course no one wants that to play out today......

What does occur more often is described by this blogger...Tim Challies.

http://www.challies.com/christian-living/sometimes-we-all-feel-like-frauds

Even two thousand years ago Solomon could say, “Of making many books there is no end.” There is no end of books that expose our dissatisfaction and propose solutions. None of the solutions last. None of the solutions deliver all we want and all we long for. You could follow every application in every one of those books and you would still be discontent. We will all die dissatisfied, still longing for more. But. But those who die in Christ have the great promise that we will awake to all the pleasures, all the satisfaction we have ever longed for, and so much more besides.

Note: Except for the KJV (available in public domain) 

even Bible sales are a royalty based business.