The Unanimous Declaration of the members of the Kingdom of God Embassy,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the religious bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the ecclesias of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Jehovah entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that God is One being, and that His name is Jehovah. That He is not a mystical illogical self-contradicting three in one monstrosity, but is simply One Being, and there is none beside Him! That Jesus Christ is a man, and not a second god (though he has now been glorified and set at the right hand of the Father's Throne!). That Jesus is God's son precisely because Jehovah miraculously brought about his conception and birth. That Jesus being fully and only human is absolutely the only way in which his perfect life, sufferings, death, and resurrection is of any usefulness to the rest of humanity and to Jehovah in His Supreme Court of the Universe. That the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Jehovah, and is not a separate god. That it is also a reference to the spirit of Christ, and that the context of the passage will clarify whose spirit is being referred to. That the Law of Jehovah is the eternal manifestation of His Person, and that Christ has perfectly fulfilled His Law and is therefore our perfect personification of The Law of God. That by allowing Jehovah and Jesus to transform our spirits so that we are in perfect harmony with the mind of Christ, we can thereby perfectly fulfill God's Law in our own lives. That all followers of Jehovah and of His son will themselves keep, and will teach others to keep all of His Commandments, not just the ones that are convenient for them. That the Everlasting Gospel includes the fact that Christ, the second Adam, has redeemed all mankind, without their foreknowledge or consent, and has thereby overruled the condemnation they received, without their foreknowledge or consent, from the first Adam. That the Everlasting Gospel also includes, as a central emphasis, the soon coming of Jehovah, with Christ at His right hand, to establish His Kingdom among men forevermore!
That all men are sovereign over their own consciences, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are liberty and the pursuit of God in the manner in which their conscience constrains them. That to secure these rights, ecclesias are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the Word of Jehovah. That whenever any ecclesia becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, or leave it, and to institute a new ecclesia, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. That this Foundation can be nothing other than the Word of Jehovah. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that ecclesias long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that christians are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of doctrinal and ecclesiastical errors, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a ecclesia, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these present ambassadors of the kingdom of God; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of ecclesia.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Kingdom of God Embassy, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority Jehovah has granted to us, as to every man, solemnly publish and declare, that the Kingdom of God Embassy is, and of right ought to be a free and independent ecclesia. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to Jehovah our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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