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Poor Counterfeits

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Announcements › Forums › Adam and Fallen Man – May 6th, 2018 › Poor Counterfeits

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  • May 2, 2018 at 12:44 pm #6435
    Florence
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    SH 337 The visible universe and material man are the poor counterfeits of the invisible universe and spiritual man.

    Counterfeit: To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine;…… To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.

    A poor counterfeit is worse than what one would term a “genuine imitation,” a hilarious term I heard used to describe a vendor’s imitation handbags. His merchandise looked almost exactly like an original. Here this citation is saying what our mortal sense shows us are poor counterfeits, thus if alert, in our right Mind, we ought to quickly detect the deception of the mortal view of things, including man and refuse to buy it. As I learned from this Church: Don’t Buy It.

    This makes sense and it is helpful since matter can never in any way be the resemblance of anything spiritual. A poor counterfeit, not close in anyway whatsoever. A wonderful way for us to tear off error’s disguise and see its unreality!!

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