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The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

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Ancient Israel at Baal-peor might be excused<br />

for their fornication and adultery on the borders of<br />

their Promised Land, but why should this cancer be<br />

allowed to spread in the Seventh-day Adventist<br />

Church today when we are so near the end? This is<br />

the church that claims to "keep the commandments<br />

of God"! <strong>The</strong> apostle says this particular sin must<br />

"not be once named among you, as becometh<br />

saints." What's back of this spiritual abomination<br />

that maketh desolate? <strong>The</strong> rejection of the 1888<br />

message of Christ's righteousness, the truth of a<br />

Saviour who can "succor them that are tempted"<br />

"in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted."<br />

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring: Christ<br />

can save from sin now, and can cleanse and purify<br />

impure hearts now, that His church "may become<br />

blameless,... without fault in the midst of a crooked<br />

and perverse generation, among whom [they may]<br />

shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Catholic dogma of the Immaculate<br />

Conception with its Augustinian Protestant echoes<br />

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