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I believe God can do anything he wants... I can not limit him.. BUt what I am saying that.. the God I believe in is so powerful so all knowing that he knows everything thats going to happen before it happens.. I believe God knew that he wasnt going to destroy Nineva.. I believe before he even planned the world he knew what he was going to do.... Thats doesnt make him predestined.. How could I count on God and trust his word if there was a chance he could change his game plan or his mind along the way? We cant think of God in terms of man and say that he needs to make desciosions... God says his thoughts are higher than ours and his ways are higher than ours.. for us to try to grasp that and relate it to us is not possible.. God is not a man.. therefor we can not rational things as if he were....Also.. another quick thought.. why would E.G.W have to write additional writings just to clarify her earlier writings? God is not the author of confusion....
To be a SDA is to follow the teachings of E.G.W.
The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty, yet Christ and the Father are one. As White says, the incarnation of Christ is an impossible thing to describe or completely understand.This makes no sense and is totally contradictory to the Bible. Even a Bible believer like yourself can see the error here.. there is no way around it.
Well... thats like me saying that I dont follow Joseph Smith or Brigham Young but am a Mormon. If your SDA you are going to follow her teachings or be influenced by them regardless.... There is no way around it unless you disassiociate yourself with that organization. Everthing always sounds great at first.. its not until you have been in an organization long enough and studied for yourself till you find out what your organization really represents... Then at that point you have to defend them with the Bible. And usually what yo uwill find are teachings that are just a little bit off of the Bible and something that makes Christ less than what he is. I could join the Freemasons and say that they do a ton of good work and believe in the Bible, but its not until im involved and research and study that I find out that it worships a different God than the Bible and leads people stray.
Lets keep up the dialoge, so we can all learn and be blessed.Praise God.
Again I have to disagree, but...this is a minor detail in my mind, which does not affect my salvation. My salvation is directly affected by my relationship with God, and not E.G.W. Therefore, rather than split hairs about this, lets just agree to disagree, and move on to the more important stuff.By the way, as I read through your posts, I am impressed with your knowlege and understanding. Lets keep up the dialoge, so we can all learn and be blessed.Erik
Several times you have brought up John 3:16.. I want to look at this for a moment and break it down."For God.." - talking about God here"so loved.." - God loved very much"the world.." - Thats everyone here"that he gave his only begotten Son.." - huge sacrifice to love so much that he was willing to sacrifice so much"that whosoever" - thats anyone, anywhere, anybody"believes in him" - believe in Christ.."should not perish, but have eternal life" - Live with God forever in his Kingdom.How could God have so much love and yet people can suffer eternally.. how could God send people to suffer eternally??Answer is.. He doesn't.We do. We make the choice to go there because we have rejected a free gift.. God already paid for us, with the blood of his perfect son, and when we don't accept that free gift we are making our own decision to suffer eternally. Its all about which we choose.
I just think that since she claimed to be a prophet of God that she should be held accountable for what she has said and what she has taught... I mean, not eating meat... thats not Biblical... Eternal sleep not Biblical, having to worship on Saturday was changed with Christ... Most all of this we have discussed so far... and I do believe that you are saved and that you will be with God when you die, but I also think that others who don't believe are misled with ideas of eternal sleep... or are pushed away by legalistic practices such as Saturday worship or not eating of meat... Its very discouraging to a new believer to accept Christ and then have to worry about what they can and cant do.. don't forget there is freedom in Christ,... not to do all sorts of sinful things but to follow Christ and live your life in accordance to his word. To live for Christ is not to miss out on life and be bound, but to have life more abundantly.
It doesnt matter to me if its Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday...Sunday just works better for me. I like to think of Sunday as the day the Lord arose from the grave.. Lets celebrate that.Rom 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. Rom 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. I would rather just be an everyday Christian and not just a "sabbath" Christian. Who cares what day it is... lets just give thanks and worship to the Lord everyday, and not fret about which day others are doing the same.
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