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Dear Brothers and Sisters in
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(ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father,
Greetings on this day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath. I pray this newsletter finds you in good health and happy in the service of IAUA. This is the 4th day of the 12th month of God's Sacred Calendar in the estimated year 6016 Anno Mundi. The first yearly Sabbath of Unleavened Bread begins the Sacred New Year and the Spring Holy Day season in 5 weeks and 5 days on the evening of the 15th day of the 1st month (Wednesday, March 27th on the 2013, Gregorian Calendar, at sunset on Tuesday, March 26th). The Sacred month begins on the world day after lunar conjunction and the sacred year begins with the Spring Passover Rule dates my research, and others, has determined for the Gregorian Calendar dates of God's Sacred Calendar. Those who follow the Millerite Calendar (Spring New Moon Rule) will be observing the Spring Holy Days a month later and the Jewish Calculated Rabbinical Calendar begins a day early in spring.
I received a welcome response from a newsletter reader about the topic of last week's newsletter. They said: I read articles on the Biblical Research Institute website: Here is one that hit a heart string.... “It Does Not Affect Me” and Other Myths about Religious Persecution John Graz, PARL and IRLA https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/It%20Does%20Not%20Affect%20Me.pdf
My response: It is nice to hear from you. A very good article about our ignorance of problems in the rest of the world but it still ignores problems in churches here in the US. I enjoyed doing some additional reading on the website, which I had not visited in a while.
My additional reading at the Biblical Research Institute website: https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/ sparked some deep thought about church authority: Report on Hope International and Associated Groups that I suspect will be a newsletter topic in the future.
The primary focus of this newsletter is sparked by last weeks Sabbath School Lesson. A Bible Instructor started a discussion on LinkedIn with the title:
It was the serpent who suggested to Eve that all the trees were evil, so calling everything evil is actually evil within itself.
Frank T. Clark • I did not read the link but the title alone provokes comment. The devil never said all the trees were evil. This is completely misleading based on a common semantic difficulty with the King James translation. It would have been absolutely foolish for Satan to make such a suggestion. Satan is no fool. Misleading statements serve the satanic purpose of spreading confusion.
(The following comment was quickly erased.)
William Earnhardt • Satan is no fool but he spends his life making foolish suggestions.
William Earnhardt • So why did Eve correct a question Satan never asked?
William Earnhardt • The Spanish Bible translates it the same as the KJV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=RVR1995
Frank T. Clark • I apologize for anything I said which sounded critical. That was certainly not my intent. I was attempting to draw attention to what is becoming a common misconception. Satan's deception was more subtle than saying all trees/fruit were forbidden. He repeated what God said about the the fruit of the trees being good for food but left off the exception. Eve replied with what Satan had said but added the exception. Satan's words rephrased to improve the confusion of the KJV semantics in translating the Hebrew. Did not God say you could eat [the fruit] of every tree in the garden? He was implying she could eat of the forbidden tree. I hope it is clear that to directly contradict God in the very first words he said would not be 'subtle'. Repeating what God said but leaving off the 'but' is a good opening remark to draw Eve into the conversation and flatter her by being able to correct the error. Then he pounces with his lie. We need to be very careful to study deeply what the Bible says as Paul directs to make sure we are rightly dividing the word of truth.
This is actually a continuation of the thoughts expressed in the newsletter two weeks ago about "Words" and meanings. Similar ideas have been discussed numerous times in my newsletters. In the KJV it reads: 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? There are many other verses where the semantics can be confusing. We need to look carefully at context not only of the text but of the body of knowledge a person can be assumed to have. Another example of semantic confusion leading to error: Sacred Name Error. Finally, I want to repeat the exhortation of Paul. The KJV translation may be awkward but I think the meaning is clear. 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Are you diligent in study to be rightly dividing the word of truth from error? I pray we may all continue to seek love, peace, and unity in truth preparing for the soon coming of IAUShUO (ee-ah-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah, the Son of God.
Frank T. Clark
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