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I have a few minutes here and there and the more I read the parts of this post that aren't defensive the more I like them. :hearteyes: .

I believe "SDA" is the common colloquial corruption - lol. As you can see, according to the above circus act we're all just identically programmed robots and have no capacity for independent thought whatsoever. That said, I rarely venture very far away from what you'll find here (link)...

It is textbook neo-Gnosticism. I made up the term (as far as I know), but it is exactly what I would expect 21st-century Gnosticism to look like. The over-arching narrative and rhetoric is: "No problemo, Kiddo—it's above your head." Well, I'm a fossil, and I type even slower. So I don't...

It must be awfully convenient to hide behind corporate insults and claim to be innocent of ad hominem. .

I love you, Scott, but it sounds like buffalo bagels to me. :hearteyes: .

You can't just say "Yes, it is," can you? Who could've seen that coming? .

:watching and waiting: .

@Logikos On second thought, and if you are not too insulted to still be willing (your choice entirely)... If you can honestly say that you can't make any sense of this (link)... We might be able to have a meaningful discussion. If you'd rather not bother, I completely understand. I can...

Completely and utterly over my head, Scott. :) :hearteyes: .

This sounds a lot like your position is that Sabbath-breaking is the one sin that God can just keep on forgiving for as long as we can sear our consciences, and then some. .

Fine, then. After reading your verbose and wildly defensive reply, and not wishing to get involved in the kind of massive typographical volleyball game I predict will surely ensue if I engage: I choose to decline. Enjoy your stay here. :) I predict this will be met with quite some...

The double-standard applied to arguments from silence here is truly remarkable. They seem to be proudly allowed only when objecting to a literal observance of the 4th commandment. In what order do the Sabbath and the first day stand in the week? "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn...

Jesus aimed at bringing the people back to a correct understanding of Scripture, with pointed focus on the practice of Sabbath observance. Jesus was raised in a Jewish household. He grew up attending and participating in Sabbath services in the synagogue. “And He came to Nazareth, where He had...

No worries. I concede the point (see my signature—"reserve the right"). It would have been better for me to say that Christ seemed to have had His hands full trying to correct the Jews' tendency to weigh down the moral law that was meant to be a blessing with hedging requirements that were...

"Argument from silence?" You have got to be kidding. You mean like this: "Wordplay?" You mean like pretending the word "law" means whatever you want it to, regardless of context, like this: Can't be the same law. Verses 16-18 of Hebrews 7 says the law that is being changed is...

That it was not to be a burden. Isaiah 58 was freely available to them. But they didn't get it. :hearteyes: .

Hi, SS! King James-only-ism is a thing I held onto for a number of years simply because I was raised that way and when I transitioned from Baptist to Adventist, I found plenty of sympathizers. I read Wilkinson's "Vindicated" book and found it very impressive (although I can see it for what it...

If I were trying to promote the view that Jesus was a lawbreaker I think I'd omit verse 7, which declared those who are "blameless" also "guiltless." What exactly are they guiltless of here? What a cat-and-mouse game we have going... The machinations to avoid responsibility seems to have no...

I believed that for 26 years and I've never purposely confused anything in my life. .

It seems to me that He did everything He could short of coercion to promote proper Sabbath observance. Any effort beyond what He did would have been violating their religious liberty, which He came to preserve and empower by His substitutionary atonement. I'm not really seeing how that's a...