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Recent content by jabechler

  1. J

    Help Needed!

    As an faithful believer in the Spirit of Prophecy as a gift of God for His end time people I also struggle with presenting EGW as a messenger of God and that is to our own members and our new pastor. One thing I can point out concerning those in other denominations is to ask them who started or...
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    Adam and Eve...

    Adam and Eve were created by God and yes they're children did intermarry. We must remember that all problems diseases genetic mutations occured because of sin. These problems occured so rapidly that at a certain time God did say that intermarriage was not to be allowed anymore. Biologists say...
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    Cancer in the liver and Dr. Bacchiocchi

    Happy Sabbath to all. My father was diagnosed with lung cancer and mestatic cancer in the liver abdomen and spine. We have choosen to allow God to heal him by natural means. Using nature suppleents and a vegetable jiuce diet. We are hopeing his strength will improve enough to send him to...
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    What's going on?

    To all, good morning and happy Sabbath. It is a shame and I would even say a sin what is happening to the church today and it started a long time ago. As Seventh Day adventists we have been given a message for the end time and the Writings of Ellen White are part of that message. They were and...
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    The spirit outside of a living human being.....

    Please read Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." God did not give a soul to man it was the body and breathe from God that became a living soul. Take one element away and there is...
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    Interesting categories

    May be I am wrong but if you follow the entire context of the qoute you will see yes the Law but also christ in the law. With christ comes His mercy and grace. We seek His righteousness not our own, this is grace that Jesus stands for us on our behalf.
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    The holy spirit

    Just have to start from the beginning. In genesis. The spirit hovered across the face of the deep... Can a non being do this. Jesus said I will send you a comforter, he did not say he would be back to comfort. Through out scripture the Spirit is refered to as a being. We dont need to seek web...
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    True Grace

    Amen and Amen!!!!!!!
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    Purity Balls, or is Sex Before Marriage a Sin?

    For most "christians" today whether sex is right or wrong has fallen into relativism. As to what God says in his word, sex before marrriage or any devient or unnatural sex is fornication and extra marital affairs after marriage is adultery. As for deviant or unnatural the bible says is...
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    Interesting categories

    I consider myself conservative and have studied much into our history. I dont see a law w/o mercy and grace ever in our teacings, yet in the church today I do see mercy and grace w/o the law. Let us define ourselves as to what scripture says and use the spirit of prophecy to guide us into...
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    Investigative Judgement

    Great post Jim. You have have got it going, so keep it up.
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    Ellen White

    As a long time Adventist who in the past has had issues with her and her writings mainly because of how they were used in the church. I have learned that this varies from church to church and since have learned to appreciate the truths and insight into scripture she was given. Ellen White never...
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    Adventists feature in the national geographic!

    Very true about the study of the logevity of Adventists. Unfortunitly our church has walked away from the health message which is evident in our fellowship meals,schools and hospitals. Its sad that God gave us this message 150 years ago to prepare his people and for us to have an "opening wedge"...
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    The Nature of Christ

    sorry had to post twice to get it all in. Manuscript 58, 1890: "He assumed human nature, with its infirmities, its liabilities, its temptations." Manuscript 1, 1892 (cf. Selected Messages, book 3, pp. 136-141; Signs of the Times, Apr. 10, 1893; Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7...
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    The Nature of Christ

    You have me thinking. I may have used some poor choice of words and phrases. Too your questions: #1 my phrase, sorry. Christ had two natures, that of diety and that of humanity. Christ could not use his divinity to help himself, he had to rely on God for strengh and wisdom just as we must...