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It is wildly ironic to me that folks will tell you that you should feel free to do all the Sabbath-keeping you want, while also objecting furiously that the rest of grace in the new covenant—which has been the desire of God for man to receive all throughout history—is ours ONLY if we believe God...

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@St. SteVen, @Aunty Jane A BIBLICAL VIEW OF THE STATE OF THE DEAD (CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY) This understanding, often termed conditional immortality or "soul sleep," posits that humans lack an inherently immortal soul that consciously survives bodily death. Instead, death is an unconscious...

AHA!! I knew this this UR stuff was a cousin to hyper-Calvinism. It predestines everyone to salvation. But that still doesn't make sense to me because it makes the suffering of probation meaningless—which you've admitted, in the past, relies on something indistinguishable from blind faith, at...

Hey, that's no way to talk about thorough explanations of stuff that isn't taught in the Bible. :p strs

My wife is trying to kill me slowly with the crunchy stuff she hides in the salad. The chopped almonds and carrot shreds lodge perfectly and snugly between my two upper back teeth on the right side. I don't feel safe, and I have an uncomfortably intimate relationship with these things: strs

I'm just gonna sit in a corner quietly and eat my date & almond carob bars—after I eat all my vegetables. :Broadly: strs

@St. SteVen You're the bass player so you get to be Julie Slick. :csm:jest: strs

Hey I'm particularly fond of the glazed, chocolate-frosted ones, when they're nice and fresh, in a way that I'm pretty sure would qualify as sinful, if I could get near any. Fortunately, I don't live near any fresh-made outlets these days, so I'm safe for now (I won't eat the 2-hour-old ones)...

You stop that. We're in public. hmn:phlf strs

I saw that someone commented on this old thread and it made me think, I forgot to mention that not only are donuts barely even food, but the fruit we have here and now is barely even food compared to the fruit you're going to see, smell, touch, and taste in the New Jerusalem on the New Earth...

I think Moses, himself, does an excellent job here: Leviticus 23:37-38 — These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon...

Just as with the spiritual Jews of whom Paul speaks in Romans 2:28-29, he is not necessarily an Adventist—or even a Christian—who is one outwardly, who keeps the Sabbath or returns a faithful tithe, which is outward in the flesh, but he is an Adventist/Christian who is one inwardly, and...

You're very welcome. strs

I'm hurt that I wasn't tagged. strs

To whom it may concern, This post is for informational purposes. Argumentative and disagreeable replies will, in all likelihood, not be addressed by me. The Internet is weighed down with quotes and misquotes from and about Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day Adventism—I can't help that...

I feel safer believing what the Bible says about itself. I don't understand the expression "goes beyond the Bible." I suppose I might as well come out of the closet. I'm what deconstructionist antagonists will likely see as a practitioner of Bibliolatry. I do not believe that the only way to...

My old friend, if you were absolutely sure, you'd be in trouble, either way. It's not as important to be correct or sure as it is to be authentic. Not that truth isn't very much important, obviously. You've touched very meaningfully on something with which I've been deeply concerned for...

No, even—and I'd go so far as to say especially—Adventists who commonly exhibit bigotry are safely deemed "bigots." That's probably quite confusing to you, I'd imagine. .

Well said. I try, but you know... (But you liked it :P) strs