Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 109
faith with Yahweh our Creator; for he will consider that, if we
had been his creatures, we should never have been seduced by
the allurements of any other to forsake him. For if any one,
allured by richer promises, shall leave his own father and betake
himself to a stranger, it may be that he will leave him in
his turn, and go to another who shall promise him greater
things, and this the rather because he is not his son, since he
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Chapter LX: The Creator the Supreme Elohim
Then Kefa said:
as you say, he is more powerful than all, it can never be believed
the weaker wrenched the spoils from the stronger. Or if
Yahweh the Creator was able by violence to bring down spirits
into this world, how can it be that, when they are separated
from the body and freed from the bonds of captivity, the good
Elohim shall call them to the sufferance of punishment, on the
ground that they, either through his remissness or weakness,
were dragged away to this place, and were involved in the
body, as in the darkness of ignorance? You seem to me not to
know what a father and an Elohim is: but I could tell you both
whence spirits are, and when and how they were made; but it
is not permitted to me now to disclose these things to you,
that you did not understand me speaking of the ineffable pow-
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yourself a new Elohim, or as having yourself come down from
him, some new sense, by means of which we may know that
new Elohim of whom you speak; for those five senses, which
Elohim our Creator has given us, keep faith to their own Creator,
and do not perceive that there is any other Yahweh, for so