Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 107
He is not evil, but righteous, for He corrects and amends His
own sons. But he who has no concern with us, if he shall punish
us, how should he be good? Inflicting punishments upon
us because we have not been drawn by vain imaginations to
forsake our own Father and follow him, how can you assert
our spirits were made by that good Elohim, the most excellent
of all, but they have been brought down as captives into this
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all, as you said a little while ago; and yet how did the good
Elohim permit his spirits to be taken captive, if he be a power
make the world; and he, when he had made it, gave out that
him
said, unknown to Him who made the world; nor are spirits
ignorant of him, if indeed they were stolen away from him. To
whom, then, can he be unknown, if both the Creator of the
world know him, as having been sent by him; and all spirits
know him, as having been violently withdrawn from him?
Then, further, I wish you would tell us whether he who sent
the creator of the world did not know that he would not keep
faith? For if he did not know it, then he was not prescient;
while if he foreknew it, and suffered it, he is himself guilty of
this deed, since he did not prevent it; but if he could not, then
he is not omnipotent. But if, knowing it as good, he did not
prohibit it; he is found to be better, who presumed to do that
receives those who will come to him,
new in this; for He whom you acknowledge to be the Creator
bestows salvation if he is only acknowledged; but the creator