For Fair Use Discussion and Educational Purposes

My purpose of posting this letter from Parablesblog is show that while the Ayran Brotherhood is so WRONG to claim White Superiority, we now have those of the Black Race who are making claims they are from the Tribe of Judah and therefore Yahusah is Black,

There-fore, the shoe is now on the other foot. See the answer given by Joseph Herrin to this man who struggles with his attitude of Racial Superiority.

Gerlinda

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“Be Ready Always to Give an Answer...”

Posted: 04 Feb 2016 03:11 PM PST

Joseph Herrin (02-04-2016)


This post will conclude this week’s series of prisoner letters. I was blessed to be able to answer all of the men who sent me letters this past week. I went to the post office three times, carrying a large stack of material to be mailed out each time. It was a blessing to do so, knowing the joy each man will receive in receiving much spiritual material to study, helping them to make productive use of their time in prison. I have selected a number of letters to share with readers that I believe will give them an insider’s view at the spiritual life of a remnant of men behind bars.
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Mr. Joseph Herrin,
I hope this letter finds you in good health today. I have been enjoying your Bible lessons and studies that you take the time to send me each week. I very greatly appreciate your effort in helping me to learn and study the Lord’s written word. I think you do a wonderful job in explaining the Lord’s word and breaking it down so everyone can gain something from it. I always gain a good message from my lessons.

If you have anything else that you think will help me in my faith in Jesus I would greatly appreciate it. To be honest with you Mr. Herrin, I’m really struggling in my faith right now. I don’t ever want to turn my back on the Lord, but I can feel myself slowly falling back into old habits as well as returning to my old self again before I found Jesus.

I don’t know if you know this or not, but I’m a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, so I struggle with practicing a Jewish religion (although I believe it’s the correct religion), and with racism. I’ve tried to turn from my old self, but I’m still fighting a losing battle, that’s how it feels anyway.

I’ve seen wonderful things happen and many of my prayers answered when I sincerely sought the Lord in all my ways. To name just a few, my Daddy was healed of cancer, my Mother got dental help, my son gets to go visit my Mother and Father now and my Dad has a higher paying job now. I’ve also got them to attending church services now as well, and I know all of this was answers to the prayers I prayed in Jesus’ name.

However, even though I’ve seen so much good and I want to believe, I still find myself in a battle of good and evil. One thing I keep thinking about is out of all the religions in the world, how do I know Christianity is the way to God? I know everyone says the Scripture is God breathed (and I very much want to believe this), but it was written by imperfect man, so how do we know they didn’t alter it throughout time and during translation from language to language? If you have anything on these subjects, I would greatly appreciate them.

Also I struggle a good bit with my vocabulary skills because I never paid much attention in school. If you could, and its not too much trouble, will you please send me a dictionary? I would like to try and build my vocabulary as well as my spelling. I would be very thankful if you could.

I reckon I will close for now. Thank you for your time Mr. Herrin. May the Lord continue to protect, lead, and bless you in many ways,
Curtis
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Hello Curtis,

Thank you for writing. I have placed an order for a dictionary for you. It should be arriving from Books A Million in about a week.

In your letter you mentioned that you struggle with knowing that Christianity is the true religion of God, and that part of your struggle is due to you being a member of the Aryan Brotherhood and Christianity being a Jewish religion.

Curtis, in the eyes of God all thoughts of racial superiority or racial bias among men is folly. God created only one man in the beginning, and this was Adam. From Adam all the peoples of the Earth descended. Later when Yahweh judged mankind in the days of Noah by sending a flood upon the Earth, there was only one family saved. Through Noah and his three sons all the people and nations which currently exist came to be.

Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was populated.

We are further told that God made every nation of men from “one blood.”

Acts 17:26
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth - having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings
[Young’s Literal Translation]

Curtis, holding onto thoughts of racial superiority is a form of pride, and it is one of the most foolish forms of pride for it arises not from man’s efforts or accomplishments, but from something he had absolutely no control over. No man can decide who his parents will be, or what ethnic group he will belong to. These things are entirely outside of a man’s control, or his ability to alter. Consequently, to adopt an attitude of arrogant superiority due to one’s ethnicity is one of the most appalling forms of pride.

The consequences of embracing ideas of racial superiority are very serious, for the Bible tells us that Yahweh is opposed to those who are proud and lofty, but He shows grace and favor to those who are humble. If you hold onto your pride in this area you will have God as your adversary, rather than as your helper.

I Peter 5:5-6
Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time...

I am going to include in this envelope a teaching I wrote on interracial relationships. It sets forth the attitude God would have His sons and daughters to embrace regarding people of different ethnic groups. It is very important that you disassociate yourself from the racist mindset of the Aryan Brotherhood. If you do not, you will be unable to make any progress in arriving at the knowledge of the truth. A man cannot adopt the mind of Satan, holding hatred and prejudice against his fellow man, and expect to also have the mind of Christ. One must displace the other. You cannot hold onto the Satanically inspired thoughts of racial superiority and contempt for men of other ethnic groups and come to the knowledge of the truth in Christ. You must decide what you would rather have. Do you want the acceptance of the Aryan Brotherhood and to hold onto a foolish form of pride, or do you want to walk in the grace, forgiveness, and love of God?

It will do me little good to explain to you why Christ is the Only way to the Father, if you will not relinquish your embrace of the idea of white supremacy.

John 14:6
Yahshua said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.”

Acts 4:11-12
“[Christ] is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the very corner stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.”

Ultimately, it is God who must reveal truth to a man. He is more likely to do so to a humble man, than to a proud man. You must humble yourself if you are to come to God and expect to be accepted by Him.

In your letter you mentioned that you feel yourself slipping back into old habits and old ways, and you are afraid that you will fall away from God. Curtis, if you would grow in Christ, rather than fall away, you must walk in obedience to Him in all things. This includes separating yourself from evil companions and forsaking doctrines of demons, for that is what the teachings of the Aryan Brotherhood are. You will always struggle with backsliding as long as you maintain evil associations with other men.

Regarding your question about whether the Bible has been corrupted by men, since men are the ones who wrote it and have been keepers of the Scriptures over the years, you have raised a good point, and one that deserves a thoughtful reply. Errors have crept into the Bible over the centuries, for men do not always act faithfully in what they do. I have written a book on the subject of the Bible’s history and how it has come down to us at this present day. That writing is titled Yahweh’s Book. I am going to print out one chapter from that book and include it in this envelope. You will be receiving the entire book in the newsletters. I will cite the most pertinent parts of that chapter below.
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I believe the Scriptures as originally written by men who were inspired of the Holy Spirit are free of error. However, we are thousands of years removed from the original autographs of these men, and if you are like me, the Bibles you read today have been translated into a language unknown to the Hebrew and Greek speaking writers. No matter how careful scribes are, or how much integrity men manifest in producing a Bible translation, errors are unavoidable. It is a sad reality, however, that not all who work on copying or translating Scriptures manifest integrity. In this fallen world we have sin and Satan to contend with. It should come as no surprise that Satan has paid special attention to introducing error into the pages of the Bibles that millions of people read.

II Corinthians 11:3-4
But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

As much as Christians may protest, the fact remains that the very thing Paul warned against in the verses above has occurred. The serpent by his craftiness has led millions astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. One need only observe how the church has lost all practical knowledge of the feast days of Yahweh and have substituted the idolatrous celebrations of Christmas and Easter in their place. In this, they are no different than Jeroboam who erected an altar and golden calf in both Dan and Beersheba as a substitute for the true worship of Yahweh. One can also observe how many churches refer to Sunday as the “Sabbath Day.” The Biblical Sabbath has always been the 7th day of the week. It begins at sundown on Friday and runs until sundown on Saturday. Sunday is the first day of the week, and it is never called the “Sabbath” in the pages of Scripture. Yet the substitution of dates and holy days is merely the tip of the iceberg. So extensive has been Satan’s work in introducing falsehood and corruption to the church that there is hardly an area of doctrine or church life that has not suffered profound alteration. The apostle Paul prophesied the following regarding the state of the church in the last days in which we now live.

II Timothy 4:1, 3-4
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons... For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.

As one surveys the landscape of Christendom today they will observe thousands of denominations and sects all having embraced discordant beliefs. That great error has permeated the body of Christ is hardly debatable. Millions imbibe the polluted waters of false doctrine weekly as they attend their myriad houses of worship. Seeing that Yahweh has not preserved the church without error, why would believers think that the Bible has escaped unscathed through the millennia? The Scriptures have been in the care of sinful men. They have been copied and translated by people who are subject to all the failings of the sinful flesh. The Bible has been distorted as translators and copyists have been motivated by politics, monetary considerations, sectarian beliefs, and various base impulses.

Does it trouble you to hear one of Christ’s ministers declare that all existing Bible versions contain error today? If it does, perhaps your understanding of the environment that is most suitable for spiritual growth needs correcting. Spiritual beings need an adversarial environment to provide them an opportunity to struggle. It is the struggle that transforms fleshly beings into spiritual. Yahweh in His wisdom has allowed sin to be present in the church, and error to enter into the Scriptures, for He knows that the struggle of each individual to arrive at truth is essential to their attainment of spiritual maturity. Yahweh both tests and judges His children as He observes how they respond to the apostasy that exists in Christendom. Do they struggle against the darkness of error and sin? Or are they complacent, accepting as truth whatever other men and women tell them? In the kingdom of God, it is those who stir themselves up, and prepare themselves to do spiritual battle, who make the most progress. Complacency will consign an individual to become mired in the falsehoods and myths that thousands of years of sin and deceit have produced.

I would exhort Christians to view the presence of myriad and profound errors in the Bibles available to them today as an opportunity to exercise themselves spiritually. Do not think that Christianity cannot exist and flourish without a belief in an inerrant Bible translation today. The fact that the church is leavened with sin and error does not prevent you from walking as an overcomer in Christ. You simply need to rise up, exercise yourself unto godliness, and extricate yourself from the morass that Christendom has fallen into. The fact that all Bibles today contain error, much of it profound, does not prevent you from arriving at the knowledge of the truth. You have the Holy Spirit as your helper, and Yahweh will not withhold truth from those who prove themselves to be lovers of it...

Brothers and sisters, the errors that have crept into your Bibles are myriad, and they are profound. I have set forth just a sampling of the many deliberate alterations of the text of Scriptures that have unfaithfully been foisted upon the body of Christ. How is a disciple of Yahshua to recover from so much error in the church and in the Scriptures? There is only one way. They must take upon themselves the task of laboring diligently as a seeker of truth. Yahweh has allowed truth to be obscured through the introduction of much leaven. In this way He can test and prove those who are sincere lovers of the truth. These ones will pursue truth until they find it. They will manifest that zealous questing for truth described by Solomon in the Proverbs.

Proverbs 2:1-5
My son, if you will receive my sayings, and treasure my commandments within you, make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; For if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of Yahweh, and discover the knowledge of God.

Is it time for you to do a truth check-up? How diligent has your quest for truth been? How zealously have you labored to acquire understanding and to arrive at the true knowledge of God? Yahweh has permitted the Bible to be corrupted by error so that those who are passionate for truth and who would acquit themselves as overcomers, might prove themselves by exercising themselves with patience, longsuffering, and perseverance in a lifelong quest for the true knowledge of heaven.
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May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days,

Joseph Herrin
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/

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