in Scripture to show that the Church of the Living God has been in existence from the days of Eden, when righteous Abel became its first member. This institution, the Church, made up of ‘God Believers’ is referred to by many different names and designations, but in substance the Church has always been the same.”3 Some are not as careful as Hanke to limit the church in the Old Testament as being coextensive with Israel. Oswald Allis, for instance, labels as extreme literalism the concept that Israel