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| Gregkleinig Registered user Username: Gregkleinig Post Number: 58 Registered: 12-2010 |
G'day all. I have really enjoyed doing some catchup reading on the forum. There has been some really excellent stuff. I really appreciated the one on Col.2. With rubbish like that SDAs are as surely removing the scriptures from the common person just as it was in the dark ages. So often I get the comment from my SDA friends; "I'll have to ask the Pastor". They are no longer able to think for themselves when it comes to the Bible but they can't see that. Oh well. What does Chinese whispers and the Gospel message have in common? It seems to me that God gave a clear message that should have been easily understood. However some of the messengers have so confused what should have been something that even a child could understand into what you could expect from a very extended game of Chinese Whispers. The result being that those who should have heard a simple pure message have only heard a vast array of divergent cacophonous noise which is totally confusing. Hence they react by not wanting anything to do with something that even those involved in can't agree on. Is God going to destroy the honest of heart because the messengers made a mess of the message? Just throwing it out there. The occasional Aussie. | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 2453 Registered: 7-2007 |
If someone is searching for God, they will find Him. Check out this testimony... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58InvOzj_YM | ||
| Caseyk Registered user Username: Caseyk Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2012 |
A Classmate of mine from SMC told me he did not care what was said about the beliefs of SDA, he grew up in the church went to their schools and he would die an Adventist and he died an Adventist. We all have choices but the Word of God says to "study to show ourselves approved unto God." Each of us has a story of how God led us to "His Truth" not any denominationl "truth". God knew us before he created this earth, He can certainly lead us to His Truth if we are His. Read Romans, especially Chapters 8, 9, 10. If you know "His Saving Truth", that book and those chapters should put you on your knees shouting " Glory, Glory Oh God Almighty". | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 13468 Registered: 12-2003  |
That is, unfortunately, a very common reaction, Casey. The pull of the familiar, the social cues that rotate around Sabbath and vegetarianism and feeling "different" from the world—these are powerful attractors that bond Adventists of all stripes together. Even the marginalized ones who eat forbidden food and desecrate the Sabbath are still Adventists in their heads, and they retain the same worldview as the others still "inside". The fear that the horror stories might be true—the stories of being lost if one leaves—is more powerful than the desire to resolve the cognitive dissonance. If the group shares the dissonance, it can't be all bad... Colleen |
