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Barney, Adventists on many issues try to "have their cake and eat it too". Ellen White is treated as a great prophetic figure but also protected by various technicalities like the fact that she on two occasions said "I do not claim to be a prophet", yet on many other occasions she actually...

Malachi 3:1-4 New International Version 3 “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. 2 But who can endure the day of his...

Barney there is a lot to object to on the Investigative Judgement. Even one of your own SDA theologians, Desmond Ford objected to it concerning it's Biblical Foundations. I would say I object to it for 2 basic reasons 1) It is really needed along with it's other parallel doctrines of...

Not to beat a dead horse There are many other points that could be made and scriptures that could be quoted. Overall, I see the Crusade against the Christmas tree as a divisive issue that goes against the basic spirit of the original "Counsel of Jerusalem" in Acts 15, and flies in the face of...

Point 4) Some Positive Preaching From aspects of the pagan heritage Philippians 1:15-18New International Version (NIV) 15 It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. 16 The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the...

Point 3) Inconsistencies and Myths about Culture 1) People who make these overly strict rules are usually not entirely consistent in their application of such principles (and thank God for that). What I’m saying is we have some aspects of the pagan heritage that are embed deep in our society...

Ug I wrote a lengthy blog post on this basic silly topic years ago. Introduction In the last decade, Christmas, has come under attack. Most westerners are used to have such attacks coming from atheists, Muslims, and liberals, but what is truly, interesting is when CHRISTIANS object to Christmas...

This is a topic I have been interested in for a long time. There are some insights to be gained from these objections. But I got to say there is a certain amount of sophistry and disinformation from the rabbis. I speak exactly about rabbi Tovia Singher of "Jews for Judaism", and the...

Thank you for illustrating my point. Let's just take eggs for instance. I hear the Hislop nonsense from all areas of Primitivist sects: Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, various Pentecostals and Charismatics, and yes even Messianic Jews. The problem is people are not being...

This is only true from the unique theological perspective of Seventh Day Adventism. The rest of Christianity recognizes that God has infinite attributes, and Jesus being a person in the Godhead has them too. He does not need to ramp up his data collection like a human being does. He may use...

Yes thanks for that! I would actually add to your idea though. The teaching people have of paganism corrupting Christianity back in the early days comes from one major source Alexander Hislop. Some of the reformers had vague notions of this but never really developed them the way Hislop...

I think it is pretty simple. 1) God is a God of justice and Mercy. 2) Certain People act as tools or agents of the Devil to cause harm to God's people. 3) People do not want to remain in a state of abuse, nor do they want their family members, or friends to likewise remain in that state...

Well now I'm going to have to think back to my 1996 Church History class at Fuller Theological Seminary, covering modern American Church movements. I recall it as a kind of marriage between liberal Christian theology and Christian Charity outreach stuff we have had since at least the 1900s...

As far as I'm concerned the Social Gospel is a product of Modernity, Humanism and Christian Liberalism. Yes many Christian Churches, denominations probably should be doing more ministry to the community than they do. But for folks that are going to plug the Social Gospel as an ideal I will...

Yes I watch Sam. From a nuts and bolts perspective of proving doctrines from Scripture nobody is a better Apologist. He knows the Bible backwards and forwards, inside out and right side out, and all other possible directions and ways. Probably the closest thing to someone having...

Yes and no. A big reason it also stopped is because this is a sacramental notion as well, and if you come from a Church Tradition that goes against that then this is very likely also to go out the door as well.

Absolutely!

(Eastern Christian as in theology from the non-Latin west. Not Eastern Orthodox per see, even though I have read many EO writers, books, articles and been very positively affected by that Church Tradition). This was originally a Facebook post, actually the start of a series but I think I got...

I wrote this originally for Facebook posting and Blogging for dealing with both Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostal and Charismatic protestants who tend to assume Cessationsim with the fellow Christians they disagree with. Position on the Gifts of the Spirit and New Testament Prophetic...

You wouldn't believe the difficulty I have had in finding a handy term for that phenomenon, it took years of off and on Google searches before I found that term, like 7 years of occasionally looking for a term to describe that kind of phenomenon. It does bring up other issues that I think...