Part # 2: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and The Council of Nicea.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and The Council of Nicea.

Rev. John O'Brien, The Catholic World, March 1994, p. 809, "The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom 70; The sun has worshipers at this hour in Persia and other lands70; There is, in truth, something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the Son of Justice. Hence the Church in these countries would seem to have said 'keep that old pagan name. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.' And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus."

Rev. John O'Brien, The Faith of Millions, pp. 421, 422, "But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the Church observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent, but the change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born70; They have continued to observe custom even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church, and not upon an explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains the reminder of the Mother Church from which non-Catholic sects broke away - like a boy running away from his mother but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair."

"Letter from C.F. Thomas, October 28, 1895, "Of course the Catholic Church claims the change was her act70; And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters."

Changing the Laws God gave to Israel to keep the Christians in roman under the control of the Roman Emperor.

It is interesting to mention that a very similar thing happened to the Northern tribes of Israel during the ninth-eighth century BC. Because of the sins of King Solomon that went into idolatry, the Kingdom of Israel was divided into two kingdoms: The kingdom of Judah in the South and the kingdom of Israel, also called Ephraim, in the North. The king of Ephraim was Jeroboam. Jeroboam was not from the kingly lineage of David. He feared loosing the 10 tribes that were under his rule, so he abandant the Mosic Law and interduced the Oman made Aeasis. He divorced the Northern tribes of Israel from their roots in the same way that Constantine officially divorced the Church from its Jewish roots, replacing the Holy Feasts and the Holy Laws of God for pagan customs.

The "Sin of Jerboa" in the Church can have the same outcome as God said that he will relict those that are arrogant against the natural branches", the Jews. And therefore repenting for the sin of Jeroboam in the Church is a matter of life and death.

The divorce from the Jews and the Jewish roots of the Faith of the Jewish Christ has born children of disobedience, ignorance, lawlessness and paganism. The Bible says: A false prophet is recognised by his fruit. The fruit of institutionalised Christianity has been murder, hatred and massacres; (Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Holocaust). But what about the Protestants and the Spirit filled Christians?

Martin Luther and other reformers were greatly used by God in the 16th Century to restore some of the truths from the Jewish Bible, both Old and New Testament. These Truths were lost to the Church in the Dark Ages. Constantine rejection of God's Holy Sabbath and the Biblical Jewish Roots were the cause of this. The Reformers restored the original truth of salvation by Grace through obedience to the Faith of Jesus Christ. At the beginning Martin Luther and others tried to win the Jews to the Lord, as they understood that the Jews were still the people of God and that the Gentile Christians had alienated them. However, the Jews by then had suffered through the Spanish Inquisition and several Crusades and they totally rejected Luther's attempts to win them to the gospel. Due to that, Luther became bitter and developed a vehement hatred against the Jews. He issued a series of articles and pamphlets including 'On the Jews and Their Lies'. In those he labeled Jews as venomous', 'thieves' and 'disgusting vermin'. He had a real problem with the Law of the God of Israel, to the point that he wanted to leave the book of James out of the New Testament, because it talked about: "Faith without works is dead", (James 2:20). The seed of hatred and anti-Semitism was transmitted through Luther to all Protestant Christians. The 'arrogance of the branches' and the 'Sin of Jeroboam in the Church' continued its destructive course, and it is still continuing until this very day.

A new reformation is knocking at the doors of the Church of the SECT of the Nazarenes. Go back to the roots of the Christian Faith of Jesus Christ. Back to roots of the Ten Commandments of the God of Israel.

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THE LAW:

The words "The Law" appears 320 times in the whole Bible and refers back to the Laws given to Moses by the God of Israel. The Word "Law" appears 532 times in 459 Verses in the Bible. Examples of "The Law" are:

(Luke 24:44 KJV) "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me."

(John 1:17 KJV) "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

(Rom 7:14 KJV) "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."

(1 John 3:23-24 KJV) "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. {24} And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us."

(John 1:45 KJV) "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

(John 7:22 KJV) " Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. 7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

The words, "The Commandments" appear 47 times in 47 Verses. The word "Commandment" appears 171 times in 168 Verses.

Examples o ":The Commandments" are:

(Lev 5:17 KJV) "And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity."

(Num 15:39 KJV) "And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 15:41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

(2 Ki 17:18 KJV) "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight."

(Mat 15:7-9 KJV) "Ye hypocrites, well did Essays prophesy of you, saying, {8} This people draught nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. {9} But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

(Mat 19:17-19 KJV) "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. {18} He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, {19} Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

(Mark 12:29-31 KJV) "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: {30} And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. {31} And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."

(Luke 1:5-6 KJV) "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. {6} And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."

(1 Cor 7:18-19 KJV) "Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. {19} Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God."

(Rev 12:16-17 KJV) "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. {17} And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

(Rev 14:12-13 KJV) "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. {13} And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."

The Faith of Jesus Christ.

(John 14:21 KJV) "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."

(John 15:10 KJV) "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

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