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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 429
before thyself that they can be kept, thou wilt easily keep them.” But “if thou keep them
not but neglect them thou shalt not have salvation, neither thy children nor thy
household…”
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Remission of sins can only be achieved by keeping the commandments.
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“[T]here is but one repentance for the servants of God. If we sin after that, “repentance is
unprofitable.”
1365
The commandments are seventeen pages and among other things include: Though shall
trust righteousness, never wavering.
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“[T]hou shalt have the mastery over all evil
deeds, and shalt work all righteousness.”
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Abstain from all “adultery and fornication,
from the lawlessness of drunkenness, from wicked luxury, from many viands and the
costliness of riches, and vaunting and haughtiness and pride, and from falsehood and evil
speaking and hypocrisy, malice and all blasphemy;”
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“Remove from thyself all evil
desire…‘for extravagance of wealth, and for many needless dainties, and for drinks and
other luxuries, many and foolish. For even luxury is foolish and vain for the servants of
God.”
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And “Put away sorrow from thyself.”
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By asking us to give ourselves up to the beast, to bear the name of the son and the twelve
virgins, Hermas appears to be preparing us to accept the mark of the beast. Gale Riplinger,
author of New Age Bible Versions, agrees; she also discusses many other heretical teachings
from Hermas.
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The commandments of Hermas are so grievous that not even Jesus Christ could
keep them all. This is not because Jesus was not perfect but because sorrow is not a sin. Jesus
cried when Lazarus died. Aside from this, no man or woman could keep these commandments
and even if they could, it would not bring remission of sins. The fact that Sinaiticus and
Vaticanus contained Apocryphal writings alone should exclude them as authentic biblical
manuscripts.
Sinaiticus
Sinaiticus is believed to have been written in the vicinity of Alexandria, Egypt. It consists
of 346 ½ folios.
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Sinaiticus is unique in that it is the only manuscript that has preserved all of
the New Testament books not accounting for textual revisions. It also contains the Epistle of
Barnabas and The Shepherd of Hermas. “Tischendorf's edition of the manuscript enumerates
some 14,800 places where some alteration has been made to the text.”
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Vaticanus
The Vaticanus manuscript was discovered in the Vatican Library in 1481. Vaticanus is
bound and written on vellum, which literally cost a fortune to produce. It is dated to the first half
of the fourth century. This was the same time period when the Roman Emperor Constantine
commissioned 50 copies of the Bible to be produced in Egypt. Some experts’ claim that
Vaticanus was one of these 50 Bibles commissioned by Constantine.
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Constantine became emperor in 312 A.D. and embraced Christianity soon after that. He
was of the heretical variety of Christianity and sought to bring about an “amalgamation of
paganism and Christianity” in order to bring peace to his empire.
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His efforts would require a
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