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Philharris
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Username: Philharris
Post Number: 2615
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 7:16 am: |     |
Ric,
If this were Facebook I would click on the 'like' button. You sound like you are speaking from your long experience over on CARM.
PS
I just gave up posting on CARM and not really happy about Facebook either. This is the only place where I feel like I am among friends who really understand me...even those who have not met me face-to-face.
Phil |
Handmaiden
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Username: Handmaiden
Post Number: 271
Registered: 7-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 4:32 pm: | |
WOW i too am sincerely grateful for all of the effort put forth by you brave souls who work on untwisting the sda spin on what the Word really teaches. Galatiians and Romans are my two favorite books in the Bible. It is unbelievable to me that one can claim to do a Bible study and just fill in the blanks without ever opening the Bible!!!! Reminds me of a Bible "study" my father insisted i attend shortly after i was saved. The room had over 200 people and i was the only one there who had a Bible besides the catholic priest. We covered whole books of the Bible including Romans and Corinthians in two hours!!! Hardly an indepth study. i am always amazed at the looks on peoples faces when i pull out the Word and read what it really says as opposed to what they were taught it says.
Dear Phil,
i am glad to call you friend and glad to have met both you and your wife face to face. Please know that you are both in my heart and prayers. i know her many health problems are difficult and scary. His grace is sufficient, lean on Him and trust in His heart. Give Jan a hug for me.
love
handmaiden |
Philharris
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Username: Philharris
Post Number: 2618
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:19 pm: | |
Thank you and God bless you Handmaiden. I just gave Jan the hug. The friendship of you and Asurpise means much to the both of us.
Phil |
Handmaiden
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Username: Handmaiden
Post Number: 273
Registered: 7-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 10:37 pm: | |
 Hope the Lord brings you across our path again sometime soon. Say hi to River and let him know that he is missed.
love
handmaiden |
Rossbondreturns
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Username: Rossbondreturns
Post Number: 308
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 - 12:15 pm: | |
Really I find that the majority of the time I'm bringing the focus of the Galatians study back to Galatians!
That in itself can be a bit tiring and frustrating in side to be entirely honest. Often times my commentaries tend to focus on what should be the topic rather than a wild goose chase of hopscotch theology.
Getting "on point" in love is what I try and accomplish- drawing people to the truth within Galatians.
Calling this Quarterly a study on Galatians is entirely disingenuous but entirely in keeping with the way Adventism has always shepherded it's flock.
All we can hope to do, all I try and do, is lead people to The Gate. |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 13198
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 - 4:51 pm: | |
I love your four points, Phil. I understand the paralysis, Free...
I have to assume that each time I write SS commentary, I have to articulate the gospel again...and almost always, at least once each week I write, point out that we HAVE spirits which are born dead and must be made alive. ALL religious SDA discussion makes no sense because it's built on the false foundation that we are merely breathing flesh, and salvation is always about demonstrating our gratitude through right behavior.
Nothing makes sense unless one gets out of the SDA worldview, and that "nothing" includes talking about the gospel and talking about how to live as a Christ-follower.
The unspoken assumptions make every evangelical-sounding SDA phrase a lie.
Colleen |
Nowisee
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Username: Nowisee
Post Number: 1006
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 - 5:27 pm: | |
Wonderful responses!
Praying for you both, Free2dance.
Gabriel, Phil & everyone else...your comments are SO helpful. Gabriel, explaining that the "lessons" don't have internal meanings really resonated. Maybe it's like trying to dynamite a mirage or something! |
Nowisee
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Username: Nowisee
Post Number: 1007
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 - 5:30 pm: | |
Yes, Colleen! The belief that we don't have spirits is necessary to SDAism. I see that more and more...who'd a thought? |
Johnr1937
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Username: Johnr1937
Post Number: 21
Registered: 10-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - 5:40 am: | |
Please . . . how do I get to the Galatians Bible studies?
Thanks,
John |
Philharris
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Username: Philharris
Post Number: 2619
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - 6:52 am: | |
John,
If you were at the 'Home Page' that supports this forum you would see a link that takes you to the Quarterly Commentaries. However, here is a direct link that will take you there:
http://www.biblestudiesforadventists.com
PS
The Home Page provides many other features and links that may be of interest to you:
http://www.formeradventist.com
Phil |
Johnr1937
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Username: Johnr1937
Post Number: 23
Registered: 10-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - 3:34 pm: | |
Thank you Phil, you're so kind!
Incidentally, I thoroughly appreciate your contributions to the Forum - as I also do the other contributors.
John |
