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| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 779 Registered: 5-2009 |
Yesterday I went down memory lane when I picked up a copy of a book that I had as a child: "The Golden Treasury of Bible Stories" by Arthur Spaulding. Memories flooded over me as I looked at the drawings and paintings that were so familiar. It's a large, heavy book. (Mine was navy blue). Here were the Bible stories I absorbed! OK, I had to check and see if they were accurate. Turning to the account of the fall I found it to be the EGW version, with Eve wandering away from Adam and getting into trouble. That's all I needed to see. With a sick feeling, I put it down. It had not passed the A&E test. I feel betrayed being indoctrinated into EGW at such a young age, reading what I truly believed were, as the title says, Bible stories. And the pictures were so pretty... | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 780 Registered: 5-2009 |
Oops! Spelled "story" wrong! | ||
| Cortney Registered user Username: Cortney Post Number: 273 Registered: 8-2006 |
Nowisee, I needed to hear this today! I was just looking over the collection of "Bible books" my in-laws had given our girls, by Arthur Maxwell and Etta B. Degering. I know what I need to do with these books.. I have felt guilt in two ways: 1- keeping them in my home  and 2- the guilt of throwing out books that had been given to my children as a gift- they probably weren't cheap sets to buy | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 9081 Registered: 3-2004  |
Cortney, I know your in-laws gave your children these books, but if they were full of pornography would you feel guilty? Those books are full of spiritual pornography, in my opinion. This type of guilt is not from our awesome God. Just my opinion. Diana L | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1774 Registered: 7-2007 |
I wonder how much Adventist baggage I still have left after my Adventist upbringing with all those books. I'm praying that the Lord cleanse me of all the influences from them and from my parents/pastors/Sabbath School leaders! After over 50 years of being under-the-influence of those books and the rest of Adventism, the Lord has quite a bit of restoring to do in my heart! For example, KNOWING that my ALL my sins, including my future sins (1st John 2:12; Ephesians 2:8,9; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5; etc.) are FORGIVEN!!! That's one of the things that the Lord is teaching me! (To really know it in my heart!) Those books and all Adventist teaching is saturated with falsehood, with the idea that we have to do, do, do, rather then what the Bible says, that Jesus has DONE it all!!!!! Dianne (Message edited by Asurprise on March 19, 2011) | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12390 Registered: 12-2003  |
Oh, my goodness...I had forgotten that book. Nowisee, we really were taught a false reality via those children's books. The great controversy theme is subtly and beautifully woven into those beguiling stories...isn't it amazing how compelling those do, do, do (as Asurprise said!) stories were to us as kids? I'm sure those really detailed and lovely pictures helped. I still remember illustrations from the Bedtime Stories... Diana, what you said in your last post is really apt. It's jolting to read it, but in reality it's true. Colleen |
