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XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION.

The Early Church understood how to attain the nature of God, by understanding the way He thinks will manifest things into existence. The patriarchs achieved a level of faith by fasting their thoughts which they said true fasting consisted abstinence from all evil. It’s not just the fasting of our thoughts, it’s producing acts of righteousness by the knowledge of God. Fasting and prayer this way will be able to achieve a level where we can just think (our thoughts being prayers) and God will answer our prayers.

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XIII. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN CORRESPONDING WITH THE DIGNITIES OF THE CHURCH BELOW.

Yahushua had chosen His apostles foreseeing the issues and mistakes they would make yet would overcome at the end. The apostles of the second century were men who were walking out the Lord’s commands and lived perfectly (spiritually mature). The other offices, presbyters and deacons, were ordained to those offices based on their righteousness. The Bishops, presbyters, and deacons were imitations of the angelic glory. The Church was patterned after the heavens.

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XVII. THE MOSAIC LAW THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL ETHICS, AND THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE GREEKS DREW THEIRS.

We see here Clement describing the law and explaining the attributes of the law compared to the human character and the character we are supposed to adopt being believers of the divine God Yahweh. We see a clear distinction of the love and how we are to love one another and how important the commandments are to help us birth the Virtues of Christ.