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| Jorgfe Registered user Username: Jorgfe Post Number: 835 Registered: 11-2005 |
The truth is the road to freedom. Gilbert Jorgensen It has been 162 Years, 10 Months, and 30 Days since October 22, 1844 | ||
| Maggiethecat Registered user Username: Maggiethecat Post Number: 19 Registered: 7-2007  |
That first quote is really interesting to me. I don't know how many times in Sabbath School I heard about how if we're spending time doing things of our own pleasure, we will be accountable for that. If we had an hour to waste sitting watching television we would be accountable for why we didn't spend that hour with God. I used to be too scared to turn on the television sometimes after hearing about how evil it was. Maree | ||
| Busymom Registered user Username: Busymom Post Number: 78 Registered: 4-2004 |
Maree, I believed the same thing when I was an SDA. It was so good, not feel guilty all the time. I like that statement Gilbert, "The truth is the road to freedom." | ||
| Larry Registered user Username: Larry Post Number: 192 Registered: 5-2007 |
Speaking of time .... Any time the sda profit mentions "time", you can be assured she is deceiving. That is because she and James participated in, and called Millers time-setting a perfect chain of truth (of God), and never repented of it. In the second quote, the sealing is happening, Revelation style, and is "very short" and would soon be over. In the context of her fourth quote, that would be mere months (it has been 1585 months now!). Add up the pieces and it is an attempt at timesetting again, just not a final day and hour. It does have time elements in it though. To a deceived adventist, it is "all from God" and they do not question it. What really gets me tickled is the 1856 prophecy:
whiteestate apologists {deceivers} fall all over themselves to make this out to be a "conditional" prophecy. Firstly, timesetting merely involves a certain space of time. For instance if somebody said "Jesus will come in the next 9 hours", that is timesetting. Likwise, if somebody says "Jesus is coming in the next 700,800 hours (80 years)" it is still timesetting. Secondly, Jesus returning to earth is NOT conditional upon what man is or is not doing. It is a fixed time which God knows, and has never changed. It would only keep changing if God did not know the end from the beginning. That describes the god that the whiteestate knows, as His coming is conditional. Apparently Jesus doesn't know exactly when He is coming, because "His people" might not have performed well. egw even wrote:
Third, the Bible states that angels do not know the time of Jesus return either. In this "I was shown" statement (vision!) she has an angel saying he knows that within these 700,800 hours some of those people present would be "subjects of the seven last plagues" and "some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated". This supposedly from an angel of God. We now know that she was not attended to by angels of God. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Matthew 24:36 Who is it that is responsible for the formation of the SDA church? "Distortion is the road to bondage" | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 6853 Registered: 12-2003  |
Great points, Larry. Love the distortion sentence, too! Colleen | ||
| Jorgfe Registered user Username: Jorgfe Post Number: 836 Registered: 11-2005 |
Busymom, I can't take credit for the statement, "The truth is the road to freedom." I shamelessly stole it from one of Colleen's posts. It was too good to let go to waste! Colleen has so many good quotes. She could publish them in a book. The truth is the road to freedom. Gilbert Jorgensen It has been 162 Years and 11 Months since October 22, 1844 | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 6858 Registered: 12-2003 |
You're totally welcome, Gilbert. What's written here is for the sake of the gospel. I love seeing that sentence above your continuous calendar count from 1844... Colleen |
