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| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10580 Registered: 12-2003  |
Last night Richard and I attended the Friday evening meeting associated with the LLU School of Medicine's 100th anniversary. This whole event has been quite a production. We attended last night because Lee Strobel was the featured speaker. I mentioned this a few weeks ago and many of you prayed. Last week we went to hear Strobel speak at an apologetics conference sponsored by Biola University, and we spoke with him. We told him we'd be present at LLU to hear him. Well, he actually gave just about the same talk he gave at the conference last week. The good thing was that, although I know he doesn't "get" the ways Adventists don't mean what he means when he speaks of knowing and living for Jesus, still I know that some people heard things that likely caused them some longing, because Adventists don't talk about serving Jesus the way Strobel did. The really surprising thing, though, was the special video with which the evening began. Produced by the School of Medicine, it outlined the history of the school beginning with EGW helping establish it. Now, for years Adventists have more or less avoided, in public, addressing EGW and her true role. In fact, how many times have you heard them deny she is a prophet when "outsiders" ask? (You know, they justify denial because she herself said she didn't call herself a prophet--just a "messenger"--which she further said involved much more than the work of a prophet.) Anyway, the narration on this video actually stated that the founders of the school of medicine "followed the leading of God and His prophet." They showed multiple pictures of Ellen and commented on several ways she had helped them to become successful, including urging them to become accredited. What the video didn't point out was that historically, EGW has written against the use of medicine, urging Adventists to use natural remedies and not to use medicine. The video did state that at first, no one was interested in becoming accredited (without stating why), but that Ellen told them they needed to become the best medical school they could. It actually shocked Richard and me—Adventists for years have actively tried to avoid public acknowledgment of having "a prophet". But last night, in front of an overflow crowd of many hundreds of people, their historical video stated the founders had "followed the leading of God and His prophet". I wondered what Lee Strobel thought... Colleen | ||
| 8thday Registered user Username: 8thday Post Number: 1315 Registered: 11-2007  |
Maybe.. we should ask him. =) People seem shocked when I tell them adventists have a prophet like the mormons. Of course - no shortage of prophets these days - they have their very own "movement" now so.. I guess maybe it's more acceptable. Maybe what is going on in this arena is making sda's feel more confident in telling people about theirs. She really is pretty tolerable compared to some I've seen lately! ha. I mean, if I had to choose a false prophet.. there are worse ones. Sondra | ||
| Pegg Registered user Username: Pegg Post Number: 533 Registered: 2-2006 |
Actually I find that a lot of folks just get a glazed look when I mention the word prophet. They don't seem too worried about it (rather, I think they just don't know what it's about). However, if I mention to someone who has even the least bit of background in Christianity that SDA believes that sins you've confessed aren't actually completely forgiven and that the next time you sin you become lost - back and forth - they just about go beserk. No need for me to try to convince them that SDA is a weird cult (which they won't believe about their nice neighbors, so it just makes me look like a sore-sport and lowers my credibility in discussing the subject). This is objective information that every Christian understands, SDA cannot deny, and it really gets their attention. Pegg  (Message edited by pegg on November 04, 2009) |
