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There are several very clear identifying characteristics of the final church that is to be harvested from the earth at the second coming. They are the true bride. The ones who want and have accepted the invitation to the marriage, and are made white by the blood of the Lamb. They aren't...

Why is it our conversation has turned from what is required (If ye love Me, keep My commandments), and what is possible (with God all things are possible), to my personal performance? Is that a tactic by which to avoid answering my questions? This entire conversation started by your objection...

In the face of an extremely large and influential segment of modren Christianity which proclaims relentlessly that you don't have to obey God's commandments, that the ten commandments were nailed to the Cross, and that no Christian can overcome sin and therefore are saved in sin rather than...

Far out. Why is it when people read my posts, they ignore what I've written and make absurd presumptions and straw men about what I believe. It's righteousness by FAITH. Not righteousness by obedience. FAITH. It's faith that engages with divinity and creative power that causes, motivates...

Those scriptures from Beepster are excellent evidence to the identity of Jesus. Nevertheless, if we are looking to John for reason to believe in the deity of Christ, I tend to think we should go the same route that John took. The fact that Jesus was the only begotten Son...a Son as mentioned...

They are not in the lake of fire yet. If Jesus had failed in His mission, and had sinned, this world would have forever been Satan's kingdom. But at the Cross, what Adam lost, Jesus bought back at the cost of His life. Legally, this world now belongs to Jesus. At the second coming, He...

What then is the role of a true prophet? Was it ever a role of authority? Was John the Baptist a ruler over the church? Elijah? Isaiah? Jeremiah?

Are you responding to me based on what I wrote here, or on what you perceive my denomination teaches? There are numerous critics of Adventism out there. I do honestly wonder however how many of them actually make an attempt to study our doctrines sincerely, in order to know why we believe...

If their focus was on the law, yes, you'd be correct. But our focus is always to be on Jesus. Without Him we can do nothing. The fruits of righteousness can only come by abiding in Christ. BTW. we aren't the first people to say that the result of a right relationship with Jesus is a life...

You think there is nothing in your heart you aren't aware of? Did not Jeremiah say that the heart of man is deceitful above all things? If you do not believe the Sabbath to be included in the law, that there only 9 commandments, then how closely will you really listen to the voice of conscience?

You no doubt know the expression righteousness by faith. Righteousness by faith is the core to the adventist message. Many accuse us of legalism.... such accusations come from a mindset of failure and laziness to properly bother to learn and understand what we truly teach. That's not to say...

Because we believe in progressive revelation. Truth does not come to people all in one day. Look at the Reformation as an example. It took several centuries for various reformers to chime to rediscover truths that had been obscured or trodden underfoot by an apostate papacy, and even then...

No. I reject utterly your church's misuse of Scripture and historical political power and fraudulent documents to support the exercise of tyrannical imposition of church tradition and man-made decrees that denied religious liberty to millions over many centuries. I also reject your so called...

You've succeeded in totally confusing me with a baffling mix of presumption with regards my beliefs, a failure to recognise sarcasm, and an array of beliefs that bear little or no relation to scripture, all based on a blind rejection of at least 2 biblical truths... there is no immortal...

Tell me guys. I agree with you regarding the moral law. The moral law covers our relationships with others. Commandments 5-10. But we are also commanded to love God. The first 4 commandments. Worship God only. No idols or graven images. No taking the name of the Lord in vain. No...

Where does he say any of that? The law was never added to the gospel. It was always a part of the gospel. The entire purpose of the gospel is to restore a right relationship between man and His God. That must include obedience to the law. It was disobedience to the law that caused the fall...

When I received Christ as my Saviour, I also accepted Him as my Lord, confessing Him as my Creator/Maker, and thus unconsciously at the time, committing myself to a life of obedience. It wasn't long before God challenged me as to how far I was willing to go. That challenge came to me in the...

Says it all? Really? What part do you object to? It seems to me that everything you post as an objection to the Sabbath and the 10 commandments in general, is merely an excuse for not obeying. Just believe, and you are righteous. I suggest your faith is insufficient. You believe you are...

Hi MoG, I wasn't citing those footnotes as evidence for Sabbath keeping. They were simply indicative of the broad base of research carried out by the writer of that particular book, who I respect as an historian for that very reason. The book itself is written not primarily to provide...

You keep erecting that straw man which everyone accepts. We all know that obedience as a means to salvation is a flawed concept. No one teaches it, and no one I know practises it. Why don't you use that same tactic against those who advocate the keeping of the 6th commandment? This...