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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