The holy faith of reformed samaritanism


God makes no exception of persons



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Reformed Samaritanism General Overview

God makes no exception of persons 
Reformed Samaritanism teaches that the God of Abraham makes no exception of persons (He does not 
arbitrarily favor one people over another), nor can He be bribed by anyone’s nationality. As is written: “For 
the LORD your God is God of gods… who makes no exception of persons, nor takes a bribe”- Deuteronomy 
10:17. 
Rather, God favors the good [no matter if he be Jew or Gentile], but is angry against the wicked [no matter if 
he be Jew or Gentile]. As is written: “Do good, O LORD, unto those that are good and to those that are 
upright in their hearts”- Psalm 125:4 (Jubilee Bible 2000). And also, “God is he who judges the righteous, 
and God is angry with the wicked every day”- Psalm 7:11 (Jubilee Bible 2000) 
Is there such a thing as a true atheist? 
The Samaritan (Hebrew) definition of God is such that it makes the existence of true atheists practically 
impossible. 
How can it be? Actually, It's quite simple: You see, from the very onset, Moses wanted to make sure that the 
Hebrew people had the right notion concerning God. Thus, he started the Holy Scriptures with the following 
verse: “In [the] beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth”- Genesis 1:1. In the former verse, the 
word we translate as “God” is the Hebrew word “Elohim”. 
But, “Elohim”, implies the notion of Power and Authority, so that “Elohim” can also be validly translated as 
“Power of Powers”, “Supreme Power”, “Supreme Authority”, “Supreme Judge”, “Judge of Judges”, 
“Presiding Judge”, etc. In fact, the Hebrew Bible uses the word “Elohim” when describing the Jewish 
supreme court judges while exerting their power [this supreme court was also known as “the great 
assembly”, or “the Sanhedrin”]. 
As it is written: «GOD presides in the great assembly; He gives judgments among the GODS »- Psalm 82:1 
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(NIV Hebrew/English Bible). In the former verse, both the word translated as GOD, and the word translated 
as GODS (or “Judges”), is the Hebrew word “Elohim”. 
But, in order to make sure the Jewish people didn't mistakenly think of God as a Human power, our master 
Moses wrote the following: “GOD IS NOT A MAN, that he might lie, OR A SON OF MAN, that he might 
change his mind”- Numbers 23:19. By means of the former verse, Moses taught us that God isn't really a 
human being. 
In other words, God isn't a "He" (or a "She"); God doesn't have any need; God doesn't have arbitrary desires; 
God isn't subject to anger, hate, or jealousy; God has no regrets, nor suffers from "power trips". 
In short, unlike any human being, God isn't “and old man in the sky”; God isn't “a moral dictator”, "a 
Tyrant", nor “a religious terrorist”. God simply is “the Supreme Power”; the perfect infinite Power (or 
"potential") from which all other powers (life, death, purpose, time, space, matter, energy, dimensions
emotions, ideas, etc) and limitations arise. 
And from whence do we know that God is indeed perfect? We know it from the verse that goes on to say: 
"Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, HIS WORK IS PERFECT: for all his ways are 
Judgment: A GOD OF TRUTH, AND WITHOUT INIQUITY, JUST AND RIGHT IS HE”- Deut. 32:3-4. 
From whence do we know that God is greater than the whole Universe (and all that the universe contains)? 
From the verse that says: “But will God in very truth dwell on the Earth? BEHOLD, HEAVEN, AND THE 
HEAVEN OF HEAVENS, CANNOT CONTAIN THEE...”- 1 Kings 8:27 (JPS Tanakh, 1917). 
And from whence do we know that God is the power ruling [and placing limits] upon all other natural 
powers (life and death, day and night, the waves of the sea, the movement of the stars, wisdom, rain, 
procreation, etc)? 
We get it from the passage that goes on to say: "Where were you when I established the Earth?... Who fixed 
its dimensions?... Who enclosed the sea behind doors... when I declared: “You may come this far, but no 
farther; your proud waves stop here”? Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the 
dawn its place...? 
Have the gates of death been revealed to you?... Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where 
darkness lives...? What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?... Who cuts a channel for the 
flooding rain or clears the way for lightning, to bring rain on an uninhabited land... and cause the grass to 
sprout?... Who [but Me] fathered the drops of dew?... 
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven...? Can you fasten [like Me] the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the 
belt of Orion? Can you bring out the constellations in their season, and lead the Bear [constellation] and her 
cubs? Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth?... Can you command the 
clouds...? 
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?... Who put wisdom in the heart, or gave the mind 
understanding?... Who provides the raven’s food?"- Job 38:4-41. 
Therefore, if we stick to the Hebrew Bible definition of God, a person's god is whatever that person perceives
as “the ultimate (or supreme) power”; in other words, the power by which he (or she) guides and shapes his 
own world. 
For instance, if a person claims to be an atheists (not believing in the existence of any "Elohim", or any 
“Supreme Power”), but then goes on to guide his life as if money, sex, technology, and political correctness 
were the ultimate form of power, then (according to the Hebrew Bible) that person isn't really an atheist; he 
just [unknowingly] believes in a different "Elohim" (a different Supreme Power), as he has in effect replaced 
one "Supreme power" [the God of the Bible] by another "supreme power" [the god of money, sex, 
technology, and political correctness]. 
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Curiously, the latter phenomenon attests to the fact that nature opposes the existence of any sort of vacuums. 
For example, nature will make sure that any "power" vacuum is eventually filled up (or replaced) by some 
form of power. We pray that the power that ends up governing your life, is as praise worthy and perfect as the
Power taught by our master Moses in the Hebrew Bible. 

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