The holy faith of reformed samaritanism

The Ten Principles” (or “Commandments”) are God’s Universal Law for all mankind 
The Law of Moses (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded Hebrew believers to observe the Sabbath 
day, as is written: “
You shall keep the Sabbath day holy, as הוהי (“Adonay Yah”, or “The Lord”) your 
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God has commanded you
” (Deut. 5:12). But in fact, Scripture teaches that, from the beginning of Creation, 
the Holy One (blessed be He) had affirmed the commandment concerning the Sabbath rest. 
How did He do it? By observing it Himself!, as it is written: “
On the seventh day God had completed his 
work that he had done, and He rested on the seventh day... God blessed the seventh day and declared it
holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation
” (Gen. 2:2-3). In other words, Scripture meant to 
say: “If Adonay Yah [who, being the Almighty never gets tired] observes the Sabbath rest, how much more 
by far should all of His creatures do likewise? But if this is so, why would God feel the need to promulgate 
again this commandment during Moses generation (Exodus 20:8)? It was done in order to teach us that the 
Ten Commandments didn’t begin at Mount Sinai (with the delivery of the two tables); Instead, they’ve been 
an implicit part of Creation since the very beginning (and therefore had always existed for mankind to 
observe!). In other words Adam and Hava’s fault wasn’t that they had disobeyed an arbitrary command given
by their Creator-- their real transgression was that, having a clear knowledge of the Ten commandments, they
willfully violated the command that enjoined them to honor their father (“
Honor your Father... so that your
days may be long on earth
...”- Exodus 20:12). Thus, when Adam and Hava dishonored their Heavenly 
Father, they were in effect violating the commandment that guaranteed the indefinite lengthening of their 
days. 
And, with such violation, they brought upon themselves the implicit curse of the command (the shortening of
their days!) 
Unfortunately, few people realize that, having created Adam, the first thing God did was to make him till the 
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