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Historical Notes on Religion

True religion and true spirituality is not a liability, but an asset to the development of ahuman being. It can calm emotions and give insight pertaining to the true value of aperson. I write on such things, because I like to study about religion and it gives a keenperspective about the fact that man is more than the sun of atoms or electro-chemical

reactions. Man is a physical and spiritual being with great value, and with the power to havea functioning, authentic connection with Almighty God. The story of Christianity beginswith the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The time frame was exactly in the time of Augustus.It's tied up with the Roman Empire from the start. Jesus was a prophet from Galilee, whichis the Northern province of the Roman called area of Palestine (or exactly Israel). TheRomans ruled their Empire over lands, but they usually didn't interfere with the localgovernments. Israel was difficult to rule since the people to the Romans werestiffnecked and found them strange, etc. Some Jewish people talked about how God


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was more powerful than their false gods, which is true. The Roman Empire didn'tconcern themselves with the religious mores of the people unless when it causedtrouble for them. Jesus wasn't encouraging Jewish people to overthrow the RomanEmpire by violence, but change their lives and be worthy of his support. God the Father,who could be firm to help his people (of Jews and Gentiles) showed his love by sending hisSon to the world. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God wasn't of this world. Jesus Christfocuses more so on the spiritual kingdom and he formed the New Covenant. The Newcovenant wanted people to love one another and promoted the belief that all men are yourbrothers and sisters. The poor and the downtrodden loved this message. Most of thewealth back then was among the aristocracy. This was frustrating the rabbis (of the Phariseesect, primarily the educated but not aristocratic rulers of Israel), because Jesus Christ'sfollowers were calling him the Messiah and restorer of the Jewish people. The Phariseesrefused to call him the Messiah and believed that he was a false prophet. The Pharisees hadto convince the Sanhedrin (or the Judges) that Jesus was a threat. The Sanhedrin acted likethey were conservative and criticized Jesus. The Romans via Pontius Pilate wereconvinced to kill Jesus Christ as an insurrectionist when he wasn't. Jesus wasinnocent of the charges and was mocked as the "King of the Jews." After Jesus Christ's

death and resurrection, Christianity spread like wildfire. The reason is that the resurrectionwas a cornerstone of the faith and many witness in the 1st century saw Jesus after hisresurrection and before his ascension into Heaven to be with God the Father. Peter was themost famous apostle of Christianity. He said that the Gospel is meant for all men (thatmeans Jewish people & Gentiles). Paul of Tarsus was a Jewish person of the Benjamin tribe.He persecuted Christians until he had a religious visions from Jesus Christ asking why is hepersecuting him (and his believers). Paul was blinded and became the Apostle Paul. Heconverted to Christianity and was on route to Damascus. Easily, Paul was one of thegreatest missionaries in religious history. Paul is the common figure in quoting Christiandoctrine. He believed that the Messiah came to Earth for the benefit of all people. He ledconverts in Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, and other places. Peter and Paul died at the hands ofthe Romans under the Emperor Nero. The Book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible.

It was written by the Apostle Paul and it was finished near 100 A.D. Some scholars believethat the 7 Churches of Ephesus, Symrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, andLoadicea outline the 7 Church ages in religious history. All of these places are in Asia Minoror Turkey. The churches are described in Revelation Chapter 2 and 3. Of course, theLaodicea era is the last era that some like the author John Daniel believe pertain to ourgeneration from 1945 to the Rapture of Church.

Polycarp believed that Gods grace saved people not by works alone. Even Cypriangave a speech in the Council of Carthage issuing the truth that no man should sethimself up as a bishop of bishops. Centralized authority of religious leaders can bygradual development. Hippolytus was one of the most articulate early church leaders

that refuted Modalist and Gnostic heresies. Religious History is something to learn.Christianity in Britain existed for a long time. Christians spread as far as Britain asearly as the 2nd century A.D. Aristobulus is said to experience martyrdom in Britainduring the 100s A.D. Hippolytus numbered him as one of the 70 disciples, who wasthe brother of Barnabas. He preached the Gospel to the Celts of Northern Spainbefore his arrival into Britain. It was about A.D. 200 that Tertullian wrote thus: "Partsof Britain were inaccessible to the Romans but have yielded to Christ." Christianityspread fast from Israel into Alexandria, Greece, Asia, North Africa, Gaul, andEngland. There has been found in the 200s and 300s A.D. of smal timber churches


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suggested at Lincoln plus Silchester and baptismal fonts (being found in Icklington

and the Saxon Shore Fort at Richborough). The Icklingham font is made of lead, and

visible in the British Museum. A Roman Christian graveyard exists at the same site in

Icklingham. Christians in the UK converted the Druids. The Druids were pagansworshipping idols and Nature with human sacrifices even. Diocletian had his savage

Christian persecution in the 3rd century A.D. Some martyrs under the region ofEmperor Diocletian include At. Albans, Aaron, and Julius of Caerloen. Later, apostateChristianity from Rome came into the UK by the 500's A.D. in a serious level. In theMiddle Ages, Christians believed in God and faced persecuted by the Roman CatholicChurch. Heresises like Gnosticism believe that Jesus Christ was a spiritual being onlybashing the physical material reality. Yet, the Bible is clear that Jesus Christ came

into the flesh: Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus

Christ is come in the flesh is of God : every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has

come in the flesh is not of God (1 John 4:2) and "whosoever shall confess that JESUS

IS THE SON OF GOD, God dwelleth in him and he in God." (1 John 4:12).

Apostate Christianity grew into higher levels via the advent of Emperor Constantine

of Rome. Now, before that time, Christians were heavily persecuted. The greatestpersecution in that era occurred under Diocletian of course. Now, Constantineclaimed that he had a vision of a voice to say Under this sign conquer. So, he placedon his military insignia, the pagan Chi-Rho image, to defeat his military rivals forcontrol of the Roman Empire. After he became Roman Emperor, he legalizedChristianity as an established religion to be protected from persecution. The catch isthat the Christians approved by the Roman Empire would be safe. IndependentChristian groups & pagans were heavily persecuted by the Roman authorities. I dont


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agree with the pagans religious views, but even they shouldnt be murdered becauseof their personal creed. Constantine united the Church and the State, which isnt

mentioned in a word of the Scriptures. Constantine the Great, who had joined church and

state in the Roman Empire and had thereby laid the foundation for the establishment of the

Roman Catholic Church, hired Eusebius to produce some Greek New Testaments. Frederick

Nolan and other authorities have charged Eusebius with making many changes in the text ofScripture. As it is thus apparent that Eusebius wanted not the power, so it may be shewn

that he wanted not the will, to make those alterations in the sacred text, with which I have

ventured to accuse him.. (Nolan,Inquiry into the Integrity of the Greek Vulgate, p. 35).Constantine further centralized power in religion by supporting the Council of Niceain 325 A.D. Church history by some is described by Pre-Nicene and Post-Nicene. TheCouncil of Nicea opposed Arianism and believed in the Trinity. Arianism came fromArius. Arius was a teacher who believed that Jesus Christ was a great man, but notequal to God the Father. In other words, to Arius, Jesus was a super human beinggreater than humans but not God exactly. This heresy set the stage for the creationof the Jehovah Witness, Oneness theology, etc. Critics of it believe that it centralizedthe church into fewer hands instead of making the churchs authority to be moredecentralized (as found in the Bible). Constantine of course wasnt a real Christiansince he was a closet sun worshipper and wasnt baptized until he was on his deathbed. He promoted a government theocracy. Theodosius I made Christianity the statereligion of the Roman Empire in 391 A.D. The truth is that the Catholic Church nevergave us the Bible. God gave us the Bible via Jewish people (except Luke). Thewritings of the Bible were already finished by ca. 100 A.D. long before modernRomanism came about.

Early church people rejected the creeping heresies trying to influence Christendom.Vigilantius lived form 364-408 A.D. He was born in South France near the Pyrenees Mts. Hewas converted by Christian travelers and associated with Sculpicius Severus, a writer who

feed the hungry , clothe the poor, and visited the sick, while he engaged in many literarylabors. He later met Martin, bishop of Tours where he began to be against Monasticism.Sculpicius reluctantly followed asceticism, a way of life that undermined the doctrine ofChrist's one sacrifice, etc. He later became a messenger to Paulinus of Nola, Italy. Hewitnessed paganism firsthand. Monasticism is from Buddhism and Egypt not Christianitypopularized by heretic Anthony from Egypt. He later meet Jerome of Bethlehem anddeveloped a good relationship in the beginning. He also visited Rufinus at Jerusalem thenhe broke his silence to publicly speak out against monasticism and asceticism to promotethe gospel's simplicity. At 404 A.D., Jerome began his propaganda campaign lies aboutVigilantius. At the Cottian Alps, Vigilantius started to end pagan ceremonies. Thatregion was against mandatory celibacy and vows of continence as well. The AlpineChurch of France and Italy welcomed Vigilantius with open arms and his preaching was

powerful. According to Jerome's letter to Reparius, Vigilantius denounced churchmandatory celibacy of clergy, lighted tapers, the worship or veneration of relics, all-nightvigils, and prayers to the dead. He just opposed false superstitions which is biblical. He alsoopposed relics on bones, institution of monks, etc. Unfortunately, none of his writings existtoday. He wrote literature opposed to Arians not making him an Arian.


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One of the Christians in the Middle Ages were the Waldensians. They translated the Bible intheir own tongue in trying to spread the Gospel to other people. Many false accusationswere made by them by Roman Catholics and professing Christians. The big lie madeagainst the Waldensians is that they were collectively a bunch of Gnostics running aroundlike heretics expressing their viewpoint. That lie is erroneous and inaccurate since realsources show that the Waldesnians back in the 1200s to the 1600s believed inmainstream, orthodox Christianity. The Paulicians and the Albigensians were indeedGnostic in their religious cosmology (Gnosticism teach that God created the whole spiritualworld, while Satan created all of the material world. Gnosticism dont like Yahveh since hecreated the physical world. Therefore, Gnosticism is a heretical view in that they reverse theBiblical account of God), but not the Waldenses people collectively. The Waldensians unlikethe Gnostics praise the Old Testament books of the Bible that views God as the creator ofthe physical and spiritual world. Their confession of faith dated in 1120 by Morlandmention that: Article 3: We acknowledge for the holy canonical Scriptures, the Books ofthe Holy Bible, viz. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. . . .Article 4: The Books above said teach this, that there is one God, Almighty, all wise, and allgood, who has made all things by His goodness, for He formed Adam in His own imageand likeness, but that by the envy of the Devil, and the disobedience of the said Adam, sin

has entered into the world, and that we are sinners in Adam and by Adam SO, theWaldenses were creationists in believing in worshipping God, who created the materialworld that the Manichaeans or Gnostics didnt worship. Many Waldesnsians were marriedand rejected mandatory celibacy as found in Article 9 of their confession and the 1532confession of Angrogne. The Waldensians spread the Gospel, refuting Papal priests, andwere heavily persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church authorities because of theirreligious doctrines.


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You cant really conceive of the full scale of church history without expounding the evil

history of the Inquisition. The Inquisition represents the evil of murdering plus torturing

fellow human beings for the reason of theological, political, or ideological differences. We

can easily disagree with each other on issues without being violently disagreeable. Millions

of people died by the Inquisition. The Inquisition include a lot of events. Pope Innocent IV

in 1252 supported inquisitorial procedures like seizing property from people called aheretic, having a magistrate to deal with an inquisitorial commission (whose salaries are

paid by the State), torture, and other evils. This was issued by Innocent IV in his bull called

AS EXTIRPANDA. The St. Bartholomew massacre was on extension of the Inquisition. It

occurred on August 22, 1572. Admiral Coligny was the chief Protestant leader in France.

Later in that day, Catholics murdered Coligny and thousands of Protestants in France. Over

20,000 people were killed. Protestantism in France was radically decreased after that

incident. The Inquisition lasted for so long that it that it was ended in the 1800s lasting

centuries according to the words of Avro Manhattan via his article entitled, Unholy

Mother of Intolerance The Inquisition : Indeed, in Europe torture was still enforced

by all the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition until the last century, the pope beingforced to

abolish it only in 1816. It was Napoleon, who entered Madrid in 1808, who was to abolishthe Inquisition. When the Spanish Parliament in 1813 declared it incompatible with the

Constitution, the Vaticanprotested. Super-Catholic Ferdinand VII restored it in 1814, with

the full approval of the Church. The Holy Inquisition was finally suppressed by the Liberals

in July, 1834... Yet, the name of the Inquisition today is change into the Supreme Sacred

Congregation of the Holy Office. This was done by Pope Pius X in 1908 then it became the

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965. Pope Benedict XVI was one apart of the

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.


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1453 was one of the biggest moments in religious history. It was whenConstantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Muslim Turkish people.Constantinople was weakened by the Crusade that harmed the residents and propertyof that city. Constantinople has the stable currency called the bezant lasting centuries.The Black Death killed people in that region and in Europe plus Asia during the 1400s.It isnt a secret that the Vatican wanted to control mostly-then OrthodoxConstantinople (being built on 7 hills as called the New Rome). The Council ofFlorence, which ended on July 5, 1439, was the last great desperate effort byOld Rome to end the Great Schism before the conquest of Constantinople bythe Turks. Constantine XI (from 1449 to 1453) was the last Roman Emperorsince he refused to bow down to Islam (pray 5 times a day, etc.). The Emperordied in battle with the Turkish armies. The Turkish Muslims slaughtered men, women,and children in St. Sophias Church and they used some young women as concubines inthe harem of the Sultan Mehmed II. In that time, Greek scholars were in that city. In fearof a theocracies, these Greek scholar migrated into Italy with their manuscripts. Thesemanuscripts were the basis for the Textus Receptus. These scholars educated manypeople in the Universities not only in Italy, but throughout Europe. Ben Chayyim has afamous history in religion as well. His total name was Abraham Ben Chayyim. His work

was the Ben Chayyin Massoretic Text. This text was the underlining text of the Old

Testament of the King James Bible. Ben Chayim was once a Jewish rabbi and then he

became a converted born again Christian later on. The Massorets were scribes that had a

responsibility to keep and guard the text of the Old Testament. They preserved it well

indeed. The Ben Chayyim Massoretic text has been respected by all spectrums of translation

scholars. This text was based on the majority of manuscripts available. Strict rules were

made in translating the Old Testament with even counting words, counting letters, and

getting rid of a manuscript even if one mistake was one on the manuscript. The


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Traditional Chayyim Text can lay claim to be uninterrupted in preservation of the Old

Testament from the time of David (as found in Psalm 12) until now in 2010. John Wycliffe

produced an early English translation of the Bible. He was an Oxford Professor and

theologian. He was so hated by the Catholic that years after his death, Roman Catholic

authorities burned his bones and threw them in the river. Even John Wycliffes assistant

John Hus was burned at the stake.

The Reformation had an interesting history in it of itself. The Reformation tried to do theright thing, but some Protestants in the Reformation were infiltrated by Rosicrucians andthey didn't totally separate themselves from the Papacy. That's a historical fact. The

Protestant Reformation certainly made great contributions in our society, yet evenall of the Protestants weren't perfect. I don't believe in one extreme saying that allof the Protestants were influenced by the Rosicurians (having little benefit for thehuman race) or the other extreme saying that the Protestants were all loving and alltolerant of differing religious points of view. The truth is in between those 2extremes. You have to acknowledge much of the political and religious liberties thatwe enjoy in America proceeded in great measure from the Reformation. Although,many Protestants have made contributions in history that I do respect from taking religiousplus political liberties to another level, etc. A desire for reform in the Catholic Church camefrom within that apostate church. Indulgences, ignorance by priests, the banning of thecommon man to read or write the Bible in his or her own tongue, and other abuses came

about. Erasmus in his work taught was Jesus was the role model in which Christians shouldact like. Erasmus spoke 8 languages like Aramaic. He was so brilliant that the Vaticaninvited Erasmus to become a monk, but he refused since he wanted to promote certainknowledge. He desired a spiritual reform of the heresies in the Roman Catholic Church. Hewas especially respected even in Northern Europe. Erasmus believed that all knowledgeand truth comes from God. Erasmus said the following about the Holy Scriptures andhis life:

"All I ask for is the leisure to live wholly to God, to repent of the sins of my foolish


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youth, to study Holy Scriptures, and to read or write something of real value. I could

do nothing of this , in a convent." (J.A. Froude, The Life and Letters of Erasmus

[New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894], p. 25).

In 1505 he wrote, "I shall sit down to Holy Scriptures with my whole heart, and

devote the rest of my life to it all these three years I have been working entirely atGreek and have not been , playing with it." (J.A. Froude, The Life and Letters of

Erasmus, p. 87).

A Protestant pastor preached his funeral sermon and the money that he left was usedto help Protestant refugees. In 1559, Pope Paul IV placed everything that Erasmushad ever written on the Index of Forbidden Books. So, Erasmus wasnt on good

standing with the Roman Catholic Church at all. The Textus Receptus script beginningstarted by Erasmus was completed by others (by the names of Stephens, Beza, and Elzevir).Catholicism breaks with Martin Luther later. Luther was a very serious professing Christianthat tried to lead Christian reforms. Luther was apart of Germany. He was brilliant as ayoung scholar and he was already teaching at Wittenburg in his mid 20's. He taughttheology to monks. He was an Augustinian monk of the Strict Observance in a Germanymonastery. The Strict Observance is the name given by Baron von Hund, which is apart ofFreemasonry. When Martin Luther had a religious experience in finding out that salvationwas by grace through faith not by works. Pope Leo X's indulgences (or people paying taxesto the Roman Catholic Church for salvation or elimination from purgatory, which is aheresy) caused Luther extreme angry. The reason is that indulgences was a form of briberyto benefit the Papacy in order to create building projects, etc. Luther rejected the Pope

being the Vicar of Christ. According to a report written by Philipp Melanchthon, Lutherposted the Ninety-Five Theses at the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31,1517. The Prince of Wittenberg agreed with Luther. Pope Leo X responded byexcommunicating Martin Luther and the Prince. From then now, Luther's life was in dangerand Catholics wanted to kill him. This caused Lutheranism to be formed. John Calvin wasanother reformer. He fled from France into Switzerland. He denied the real presencephysically in communion (disagreeing with Luther and the Pope on this issue). He was onceapart of the University of Paris. In Geneva, Calvin formed his government. John Calvinpromoted many biblical truths and made errors especially inside of his theocracy ofGeneva. John Calvin believed in Augustine's version of predestination. Anabaptists werepersecuted by both Protestants and Catholics, because they believe that all men are equals,that only believing adults receive baptism (as the Bible says), there is no complex hierarchyin the church, and that church & state should be separated. Scholars believe thatAnabaptists lead into the development of the Quakers, Memmonites, etc. Anabaptistsinfluenced the Baptists, but the Baptists came from the English Separatism Movement.Roger Williams and John Clarke formed early Baptists churches. Each man desired topromote religious freedom. Baptists reject infant baptism as I do. Baptists were persecuted

by some Protestants as well, because Baptists reject infant baptism. BALTHASAR

HUBMAIER was a famous Anabaptist leader. He worked with Zwingli to oppose Roman

Catholicism. He was murdered since Balthasar rightfully exposed infant baptism as a heresy.


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He shouted, INFANT BAPTISM IS NOT OF GOD, AND MEN MUST BE BAPTIZED

BY FAITH IN CHRIST! Humphrey Middleton was one of the Baptists that were kept

imprisoned for years during Edwards reign. This brutal tactic was supported by the

Protestant reformer Thomas Cranmer. Crammer would be burned by the murdered Bloody

Mary. Even Baptists were persecuted in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Langley, in his

English Baptists before 1602, mentions churches in nine counties that trace their origin tothe days between 1576 and 1600. One Anabaptist burned at the stake was HENDRICK

TERWOOKT. He was only 25 years old. In 1615, the Baptists petitioned King James for

freedom of religion. They stated their doctrine plainly and proved from Scripture that it is

not the will of Christ that Christians persecute those who have different beliefs. This, too,

was rejected. Even in the 1700s, Baptists were persecuted in America by the Church of

England or the Anglican Church. On June 4, 1768, several Baptists were arrested in

Spottsylvania, Virginia and imprisoned. Among these were John Waller, Lewis Craig, and

James Childs. They spent almost six weeks in prison. Likewise, the Protestants earnestly

sought religious liberty from the Roman Catholics. When they obtained it, some of them

refused to grant the same to the Baptists, though the latter pleaded with them humbly and

quoted the Scriptures in a most sensible and godly fashion. We can disagree with hereticsand not have fellowship religiously with them. Yet, we shouldnt force them to believe like

we believe, persecute them, or kill them because of differences of thought. That is immoral

and wrong. My family are mostly Baptists and I am an Independent Baptist myself.

Rome responded to the Reformation by forming the Counter-Reformation, which was evil.The Catholic Church wanted to respond to the challenges of the teachings. The One of theearliest responses in the Counter Reformation was the Council of Trent, which wassupported by the Jesuits. The Council of Trent was a decree made by the Vatican and the

Jesuits from Trent, Italy as a product of a meeting from 1545-1563. It promoted Catholic

doctrine and condemned as anathema (or damned to Hell) those people who believe thatman cant get salvation by his or herself, who believe that purgatory is wrong, who believethat veneration of relics is evil, and believe that the Bible has the right to be accuratelytranslated in a persons own tongue. The bashing of Bible translation by Rome didnt endwith the Council of Trent. Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) published an ApostolicConstitution in 1897 which stated: All versions of the vernacular, even by Catholics,are altogether prohibited, unless approved by the Holy See, or published under thevigilant care of the Bishops, with annotations taken from the Fathers of the Churchand learned Catholic writers (Melancthon Jacobus, Roman Catholic and ProtestantBibles, p. 237). The Jesuits were leaders in the Counter-Reformation. They are group ofpriests that acted as a military group of people to promote Catholicism and attempted todestroy Protestantism. The Jesuits was created by the soldier named Ignatius Loyola in

1540 A.D. He was from Spain and got injured in battle. Later, he claimed that a vision via atrance came unto him to fight for his faith. Loyola came to the Emperor and the Popesanctions his order. The Jesuits trained for battle physically and through other means. TheJesuits would send agents into universities, religious schools, government, etc. all overEurope, the Americas, Africa, and Asia in order to promote the Vatican's agenda of globaldomination (which trying to crush the influence of Protestants & Baptists in the worldstage).


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The following is a recorded, bloody Jesuit order, which is similar to Freemasonry's bloodyoaths:

"...The Jesuit Oath mentions the following:

(The Superior speaks:)My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among RomanCatholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; tobelieve no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; amongthe Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist;

among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining theirconfidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with allthe vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even todescend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gathertogether all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.You have been taught to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred betweencommunities, provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds ofblood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars incountries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences


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Martin Luther's includes the ROSE and CROSS motif. There has been no conclusiveevidence that Martin Luther was a Rosicrucian or a member of any Secret Society though.What is true is that many Freemasons infiltrated Lutherans, Southern Baptists, and otherapostate Protestants (as opposed to real Bible believing Protestants and Baptists), but realChristians have rejected Secret Societies strongly for many years. Aho promotes the lie thatJohn Calvin was completely Jewish (as citing words form the words form the Masonic B'naiB'rith Lodge meeting). He wasn't Jewish, but was a Frenchmen. Calvin's father was a Frenchman named Grard Cauvin, and his mother was named Jeanne le Franc. Aho is right topoint out the John Calvin made political and theological errors though. So, Aho is slick withher deceptions. John Calvin believed that communion was a remembrance of what JesusChrist accomplished on the cross. Tyndale made his Bible in English that influenced theKing James Bible greatly (90% of the words in the KJV has been influenced by Tyndales

English Bible). His Bible was from the Textus Receptus line. Tyndale was well suited to his

task. Spalatin, a friend of Martin Luther, wrote this in his diary of what professor Herman

Buschius told him about Tyndale and his New Testament:

"The work was translated by an Englishman staying there with two others,--a man so

skilled in the seven languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, andFrench, that which-ever he spake, you would suppose it his native tongue"

(Translators Revived, pp. 27-28)

Tyndale was betrayed by his friend. He was imprisoned and nearly frozen to death

during a cold winter in his cell. He translated the New Testament into English along with

some Old Testament books. He had trained at least 2 other people to carry on his work.

He wasnt finished. When he was burnt at the stake on October 6, 1536, he cried out

prophetically that: ..Lord! Open the King of Englands eyes!.. That very day, a copy of

Tyndales New Testament was being printed by Kings own printer.


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Troy and others certainly inspired me to take a second look at the great Geneva Bible. Aftermuch research, the Geneva Bible should be given much more respect than it is presently in2010. The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant Bibles in history. It was themain Bible for the 16th and part of the 17th centuries of the Protestant Movement. It hasbeen used by Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, John Bunyan, and others. JohnBunyan wrote the famous book of "Pilgrim's Progress." The Geneva was the first EnglishBible with a study guide, aids, and other verse citations to make the reader understand theBible in an efficient manner. Also, you can cross reference verses with commentaries as


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well. The language of the Geneva Bible was clear cut. It was favored over the Bishops'sBible. William Whittingham supervised the plan to create the Geneva Bible from Geneva,Switzerland. They weren't in England at that time, because the reign of Queen Mary I ofEngland(who reign from 1553 to 1558) prosecuted anyone who wasn't a Catholic. She wascalled bloody Mary. Other translators were Myles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman,Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and William Cole. Whittingham was directly responsiblefor the New Testament while Gilby oversaw the Old Testament. The full edition of the Biblewith a revised NT came about in 1560. It was printed in whole in 1576. The first Bibleprinted in Scotland was the Geneva Bible in 1579. The Geneva Bible was translated from theGreek Textus Receptus manuscripts and the Hebrew texts. There is the 1599 modernedition of the Geneva Bible as well. Most of the New Testament in the Geneva Bible camefrom translations from William Tyndale as well. The Geneva Bible was innovative in beingthe first Bible to have verse numbers, which were based on the work of Stephanus orRobert Estienne of Paris. Pilgrims coming into Plymouth used the Geneva version of theBible. King James didn't like the Geneva Bible since it had Calvinistic leanings. He alsofrowned on what he considered to be seditious marginal notes on key political texts. Amarginal note for Exodus 1:9 indicated that the Hebrew midwives were correct in

disobeying the Egyptian king's orders, and a note for 2 Chronicles 15:16 said that King Asashould have had his mother executed and not merely deposed for the crime ofworshipping an idol. The King James Version of the Bible grew out of the king's distaste forthese brief but potent doctrinal commentaries. He considered the marginal notes to be apolitical threat to his kingdom. Rome especially didn't like it since it was very muchoutspokenly anti-Roman Catholic doctrine, which it ought to be. Rome was still persecutingProtestants in the sixteenth century. Keep in mind that the English translators were exilesfrom a nation that was returning to the Catholic faith under a queen who was burningProtestants at the stake. I respect the King James version of the Bible and I respect theGeneva Bible, but it's very clear that the KJV-Only philosophy (which I define as believingthat we should use only the KJV for studying religion in the Bible without studyingthe original languages, etc. The original language gives us the real meanings of the

world) is a Jesuitical tool of Counter Reformation in order to bash the Textus Receptusscript (and distract from the real history of Bible along with the promotion of the fraudulentAlexandrian texts). This is precisely why the Geneva Bible is hated by many quarters today.The Geneva Bible was very popular in the 1500's and the 1600's. The UK was the base ofthe Textus Receptus English translation of the Holy Bible from the Tyndale Bible tothe King James Version of the Bible in 1611. Even bloody Mary murdered numerousChristians because they rejected transubstantiation and other false doctrines.


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Christ is with us until the worlds end. Let his little flock be boldtherefore. For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us,be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?Where no

promise of God is, there can be no faith, nor justifying, nor forgiveness of sins:for it is more than madness to look for any thing of God, save that he hathpromised. How far he hath promised, so far is he bound to them that believe;

and further not. To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in any thing, where Godhath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own

imagination instead of God

-The Obedience of A Christian Man (from 1528) by William Tyndale

Newspaper headlines still quote Tyndale, though unknowingly, and he has reached more

people than even Shakespeare

David Daniell in William Tyndale: A Biography (1994) [Yale University Press], p. 2

The most famous House of Stuart King was King James I of England. His mother wasthe controversial Mary, Queen of Scotland. King James was the King of England, andIreland from 1603 to 1625. King James I wasn't perfect, but peace and low taxation


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existed in his reign. King James lived in the peak of the Jacobean Era. He authorized theexisted of the King James Version of the Bible, which is a very accurate Bible to this day. Itwas published in 1611. There was a draft to create a new version of the Bible during thereign of Queen Elizabeth (who reigned from 1558 to 1603). The draft begins by sayingthat: An act for the reducinge of diversities of Bibles now extant in the Englishetongue to one setled vulgar translated from the originall." After the HamptonConference of January of 1604, the idea for the KJV was created. In the 2nd day of theConference, Puritan Dr. John Rainolds (1549-1607) called for a new translation of the Bible.The creators of the KJV were extremely scholarly men. Dr. Lancelot Andrews help create theKing James Bible. Dr. Andrews mastered 15 languages. Dr. William Bedwell was anothertranslator of the KJV. He new Arabic manuscripts, he studied in Cambridge, and otherthings. He also began a Persian dictionary which is among Archbishop Laud's manuscripts,still preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford today. Dr. Miles Smith was an expert inHebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. Dr. Smith went through the Greek and Latin earlychurch leaders and made annotations on them all. Even John Bois was an expert inHebrew and Greek. He studied at his father's knee, and at the age of 5, he read thewhole Bible in Hebrew. He could write Hebrew in a clear and elegant style by age of

six. John Spencer was elected Greek lecturer for Corpus Chirsti College in OxfordUniversity when he was 19 years old. It was written of him, "Of his eminent

scholarship there can be no question." He was a member of the New Testament group

(Romans through Jude) that met at Westminster. Dr. William Goode was a translator atthe translator committee. Goode was a scholar and knew German, French, Hebrew, andGreek. Mr. Goode in his sermon on the Last Supper (which was published by theWestminster Reformed Press) said that liquor is the devils drink of deception The KJVhas also been called the Authorized version. One man who created a vernacular Biblewho believed in God was Juan Perez de Pineda of Spain. He lived from ca. 1490 to1567. He rejected Roman Catholic doctrine when he was the head of the College ofDoctrine in Seville, Spain. Perez and other believers in that area were persecuted. So,they settled in Geneva to form a Spanish church in that city. Later, he moved in France. Histranslation of the New Testament into Spain relied greatly on the Enzinas version, whichwas published in 1556 in Geneva. Cassiodoro de Reina was another Spanish man who fledSpain to translate the Bible. He joined the Protestant revival and rejected Romanism. Hetraveled into London, and Geneva to associate with the pastor Perez de Pineda (and hisProtestant Spanish church there). In 1567 Reina completed a Spanish New Testament thatis hailed to this day as the greatest literary triumph in Spanish history. Reina settled inBasle, and the entire Bible appeared in 1569. Cipriano de Valera took over Reina translationwork. He made an entire Bible in 1602 in Amsterdam. He was very intelligent by masteringat least 10 languages. He joined Oxford University in 1565. The first Dutch Bible waspublished by Jacob van Liesveldt in Antwerp. He was beheaded in Antwerp for printinginformation.

*Around this time, radical changes occurred in the United Kingdom. Charles I was the Kingof England who attempt to impose absolutism. This lead to a Civil War in England.Absolutism is a fascist concept of the monarchy ruling a nation without absolute authority(and without checks and balances upon the executive government). Oliver Cromwell was ofcourse the leader of the Protestant forces that defeated Charles I and his supporters in theEnglish Civil War. Now, the Restoration was the time of the return of the English monarchy


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to power after the death of the leader of the Puritan Republic. Absolutism so failed Englandthat a constitutional government was established in the bloodless coup called the GloriousRevolution. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was one of the biggest events in historywhereby the evolving nature of constitutional government grew more equitable in the livesof citizens. James II the Jacobite was deposed in the bloodless coup of the GloriousRevolution and the Parliament gave the crown to the Protestant rulers from the Duchy ofOrange called William of Orange and Mary. These duo inspired the name of William & MaryUniversity based in Williamsburg, Virginia. Williamsburg is not too far from I live in Virginia.Ive been to Williamsburg on plenty of occasions. I know great people there. Its a greatplace to live, but Im more of an urban man so to speak. One of the greatest parts of thisGlorious Revolution was when the Parliament of England did something. They enacted theguarantee of individual liberties considered inalienable rights (or these rights come fromGod by birth that can never ever be stripped by anyone) for all citizens called the EnglishBill of Rights. The English Bill of Rights of 1689 influenced the American Bill of Rights thatwe Americans hold so dear. The English Bill of Rights focused on the rights of citizens asrepresented by Parliament against the Crown. The Bill of Rights of the U.S. utilized manyconcepts form the English Bill of Rights like the right to petition, having an independent

judiciary, freedom from taxation without representation, the right to bear arms (although Ibelieve all humans regardless of the creed or religious have a right to bear armswherefore that is a representation of liberty), the freedom of speech, freedom fromcruel and unusual punishments, freedom from fines and forfeitures without trial, etc. Someparts of the 1689 English Bill of Rights read in the following words:

That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and

prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;

That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be

with consent of Parliament, is against law;

That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their

conditions and as allowed by law;That election of members of Parliament ought to be free;

That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be

impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;

That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and

unusual punishments inflicted;

That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon

men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;

That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction

are illegal and void;

And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of

the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequentlyProvided that no charter or grant orpardon granted before the three and twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord

one thousand six hundred eighty-nine shall be any ways impeached or invalidated by

this Act, but that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in law and

no other than as if this Act had never been made


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Westcott and Hort are famous figures in religious history. They are of course apostates ofthe faith. We know that God's Word is divinely inspired and inerrant. People wanted todestroy the Bible, but they won't be successful. The Bible is preserved in the MassoreticText in the Old Testament and the Greek Textus Receptus for the New Testament.This text is from the Geneva Bible and the King James Version of the Bible were createdfrom. The New Greek Text is what modern versions come form (like the Revised Version of1881, the Jesuit Douay Catholic Bible of 1582, the pro-Jesuit New International version, and

the New American Standard Version) which existed from a corrupted Greek Text. TheDouay Rheims version of the Bible add the unscriptural Apocrypha to it. TheApocrypha is in error to promote magical incantation, lying, prayers to the

dead, suicide, etc. The Jewish Church and the Jewish people rejected themas canonical and not sanctioned by the Lord. None of the Apocrypha workswere even written in the Hebrew language, which the original authors of theOld Testament utilized. This new text comes from Vaticanus MS, the Sinaitic, the LatinVulgate, and other scripts. The Oxford Movement was when Vatican/Jesuit agents tried toinfiltrate & persecute the Protestant Movement in the United Kingdom during the 19thcentury. One of the leaders of this movement was Cardinal Wiseman. He wanted Englandto return under Roman control. He studied under Cardinal Mai, who was the editor of theVatican manuscript. This Oxford Movement involved the famous figure of John HenryNewman. He was a leader of Oxford University and was an Ecumenical Anglican clergyman.by 1845, he joined the Roman Catholic Church following another professor named Ward.

About 150 clergyman and eminent laymen joined the Roman Catholic Church in that time.Wiseman said that the Jesuits inspired him to promote a textual critique. As early as 1816,the American Bible Society wanted a revision of the Bible. This group was financially aidedby the British and French Bible Society of London, which have high level links with theUnited Grand Lodge of England. Fenton John Antony Hort was an Anglican clergyman andBrooke Foss Westcott was an Anglican clergyman. Hort, Westcott, and later Archbishop ofCanterbury Edward White Benson created the Ghost Society (which became the Society forPsychical Research. All of these men were involved in the occult). In 1853, Westcott and


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Hort began to create a new Greek Text of the New Testament beyond just a revision. Theyhated the Textus Receptus. Really, they used Alexandrian corrupt manuscripts as an meansto supplant the Textus Receptus, which underlines the Authorized Version. ConstantinTischendorf (1815-74) was a German textual editor, who discovered the Codex Sinaiticusand Codex Vaticanus (which is based on the Westcott-Hort Greek Text). Tischendorfdiscovered (c. A.D. 1844) the Vaticanus B manuscript in the Vatican Library and SinaiticusAleph in a waste basket in a Catholic convent at the base of Mt. Sinai. Anglican clergymanand brilliant textual scholar Dean John Burgon opposed the text of Westcott and Hort,because it had errors and distortions. Westcott and Hort used their text in order for theEnglish Revised Version to be formed. Fenton John Anthony Hort's own words show that hesupported Romish doctrines, he believed in Evolution, he denied the substitutionary natureof Jesus Christ's salvation, he hated democracy. Westcott promoted spiritualism, he denied

Heaven as being a place, etc. Wescott wrote this about the Scriptures: I reject the word

infallibility of Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." (Westcott, The Life and Letters of

Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. I, p.207). Hort wrote that: The pure Romanish view

seems to be nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical."

(Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 77). The Neslte/Aland New Greek text followed theHort and Westcott New Greek Text.

Preterism is a strong heresy embraced by many Dominionists, Papists, and otherskeptics of the Christian faith. Preterism is the prophetic view that every prophecy ofthe Book (including in the Book of the Revelation) was fulfilled by 70 A.D. absentthe Second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some of their proponents believe Nerowas the Antichrist. That's false since Nero never set himself in the Temple of God asfound in 2 Thess. 2;4. Nero never had a global economy that was dependant on amark from him and he was destroyed by the coming of Jesus Christ (as found inRev. 13:17 and 2 Thess. 2:8). Nero wasn't even the Empire of Rome during ca. 100

A.D. when the Book of Revelation was completely. The Ecumenical Hank Hanegraff(who calls himself the "Bible Answer Man") believes that most of the propheciesfrom Revelation are fulfilled except the coming of Jesus Christ. Full Preteristsbelieves that Jesus Christ returned invisibly in 70 A.D., which is a lie. The Antichristhaven't arrived since the Gospel isn't preached among all creation yet, globalgovernment isn't here yet, and this false theology gives people a false since ofconfidence. It gives people to ignore God's warnings people of the signs of the endtimes. New Agers like Benjamin Creme support Preterism as an excuse to say thatthe Antichrist is pass and his false Messiah is a true world leader, which isn't true.Creme said that if we don't follow his false Christ of Maitreya, we will be buried byhim. This false Maitreya will never buried the truth at all. The Bible says that the

future Antichrist will be given full power over all kindreds, and tongues, andnations (Rev. 13:7). The Jesuit Order via the Jesuit Alcasar created the Preteristdoctrine as a means to deceive Protestants in not condemning Romanism as anAntichrist system. Many Reformers and other Christian leaders like Wycliffe, Tyndale,Luther, Calvin, etc. have called the Pope the Antichrist. The Reformation broke downmuch of the power of Rome, so the Vatican used the Counter Reformation to stopthe spread of the Protestant gospel in Europe (Jesuitswere apart of this agenda


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as well). The Jesuits then and now want the Protestant Reformation to end. Theyhave infiltrated government, involved in war, support the Ecumenical Movement,and done other nefarious actions for centuries since the early 1500's. So, Preterismis heresy that should be exposed completely.

Church history didnt start and end in Europe, Africa, or the Middle East. It has spread in the4 corners of the Earth. That is very the precise reason that more should be made manifestabout Christians in a lot of cultural backgrounds. Many free black Americans formedchurches before 1800 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Petersburg, Virginia, and Savannah,Georgia. Richard Allen was the famous black preacher from the Methodist Church who ledantislavery campaigns all over America.

Today in 2010, the Counter Reformation never stopped among the Vatican elite. Thismovement still transpires it. Evidence of this is how the Roman Catholic Church supports


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the Ecumenical Movement, the European Union, and the Emergent Movement. TheEmergent Movement is placing experiences and other mystical devices above faith in Godin trying to permit a real spiritual connection with God. It's common among the newgeneration. The European Union or an unified European political, economic entity havebeen a brainchild of the Vatican for centuries. One example is how the Vatican's HolyRoman Empire desired an unified Europe under the authority of the Pope. Adrian Hitlon's"The Principality and Power of Europe" on pg. 34 document this historical fact. CountRichard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi was the Vatican nexus pitch man that formedthe foundation of establishing the European Union. Back in those days, Count RichardNikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi called his European vision PanEuropa (which was thetitle of his book that the Count wanted a world government system accompanied bynational de-industrialization). Baron Louis Rothschild and Max Warburg initially funded thePEU in 1923. Famous members of the Pan European Union was He is of Cretan, Austrian,and other ethnic backgrounds. People in this one Europe movement include WinstonChurchill, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and Hjalmar Schact, the latter becoming Hitler'sFinance Minister. Khalergi was a fascist by wanting zero industrial growth and only securingthe maximum standard of living for those most fit. Otto von Habsburg and those linked

with the Mt. Pelerin Society & some leaders of the failed Austrian School of Economics. Itsadvanced by Ron Paul and his numerous adherents. The Mount Pelerin Society (whosefounder was Hayek) fund that economy movement via the aristocratic European nobility of

the Thurn und Taxis, Wittelsbachs, Hapsburgs and Kalergi families. Even Ludwig von

Mises was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. That should tell you something. TheKalergis family believe that they are related to Byzantine royalty via the Venetianaristocracy. In 1300, Coudenhove-Kalergi's ancestor Alexios Phokas-Kalergis signed thetreaty that made Crete a dominion of Venice. He was Roman Catholic. From 1908-1913 hewas schooled in Vienna by the Jesuits "Theresian Academy. In the early 1920s he joined aMasonic lodge at Vienna, where he would reach several degrees. The Pan Europeanconcept was easily embraced by the Habsburgs, the Vatican, and the Opus Dei. Later thisPEU movement laid the groundwork for the existence of the European Union today.

Another big nexus point of power in Europe is Strasbourg. Its a city that the seat of manyEuropean institutions like the Council of Europe with its European Court of Human Rights,its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European AudiovisualObservatory, the Eurocorps as well as the European Parliament and the EuropeanOmbudsman of the European Union. The Centre of Liaison and Information of MasonicPowers Signatories of Strasbourg Appeal (CLIPSAS) is an international organizationof Masonic jurisdictions. These jurisdictions are considered irregular by the UnitedGrand Lodge of England (UGLE) and most other Anglo-Saxon Grand Lodges becausethey accept women, or do not require Masons to have a belief in a Supreme Being.CLIPSAS was created in Strasbourg France on 22 January 1961, at the initiative of the

Grand Orient de France and eleven Sovereign Masonic Powers. The Grand Lodgesissued the Strasbourg appeal, with the goal to establish fraternal relations and therecognition of Absolute Liberty of Conscience. Even today, the recent Catholic convert TonyBlair supports Interfaith dialogue and Ecumenicalism. The Vatican puppet and Skulls &Bones member George W. Bush believes in Ecumenicalism and neo-conservative ideology.Religiously, he feels that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Bush is a famousKnight of Eulogia. So, the Vatican/Jesuit power structure and the Masonic elite (along withPilgrims plus European Black nobility families acting in an oligarchy) still have tons of


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power in 2010. They use their Muslim puppets (many of whom are Freemasons & membersof Papal Knighthoods. The P.L.O. has had an office within the Vatican since 1994) topromote globalization including the continuation of the evil war on terror.

We need our creativity, love for all humans, and a striving for justice irrespective of whenwe are in the good times plus the bad times of life. One of the vital things in the world issending the Gospel to all Creation. Missionaries then and now like Dr. Kenneth Fraser,

Adoniram and Ann Judson were crucial in presenting the good news of the Lord Jesus

Christ to all the world. Its certainly a prerequisite for me when I go through the joyful andpainful parts of life to possess that pure connection with my own spirituality. It offers hope,faith, and comfort for me. Spirituality hopes faith and comfort to millions of peopleworldwide too. Still, I will disagree with tyranny, I will support the right to life, I will showcompassion to all human beings, I will believe in individual liberty, and I will still maintain

my core convictions (regardless of what I go through in my life). Somberness iscommon among some human beings. Yet, through transgressions in life, thereis still hope and faith. Beyond the storms of negativity and wickedness, faithin God is very well a thorough act to take in order to facilitate our fullpotential as apart of the human race. As long as youre breathing, you can besaved just as anyone else can. So, in life, never lose hope and never lose faith.

Since youre breathing, you still have that solemn chance to improve thequality of life that you possess since all life have intrinsic and worthwhilevalue.


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Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and

lean not unto thine own understanding. In all

thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall directthy paths

-Proverbs 3:5-6

For God so loved the world, that he gave hisonly begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in

him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

-John 3:16

By Timothy

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