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Jesus - that's my final answer
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Martinman,Victor C,
One of the most important principles in determining what is truth, is making one's conclusion on the weight. By this I mean that one must gather all the texts relating to a given topic, and place all those that seem to agree on one side, and all those that apparently seem contradictory, on the other side, to determine where the weight of the evidence is. Then one needs to take those few texts that apparently contradict the majority of the evidence and, through the help of the Holy Spirit, examine them thoroughly to determine just what they really are saying, so that they harmonize perfectly with the majority of the texts.
When we do this in our study, we will see a true harmony and a wondrous beauty in the pure truth of which we have never dreamed. Our spiritual eyes will be opened and our understanding quickened, so that all inspired evidence will have no contradictions and perfectly harmonized.
I have a few questions I would like to ask you, but first please read these statements very carefully as they say it much better than I can. Please notice how similar our attitude is to the attitude of the first disciples of the Messiah.
He (Christ) took the old truths, of which He Himself was the originator, and placed them before His hearers in heavens own light. How different was their representation. What a flood of meaning and brightness and spirituality was brought in by their explanation. CTr 299.2
After His resurrection Christ opened the understanding of His followers, that they might understand the Scriptures. Everything had been transformed by the working of the arts of Satan. Truth was covered up by the rubbish of error, and hidden from finite sight. When Christ referred to His humiliation, rejection, and crucifixion, the disciples could not take in His meaning. It had been a part of their education to expect Christ to set up a temporal kingdom, and when He spoke of His sufferings they could not understand His words. . . . CTr 299.3
Christ had many truths to give to His disciples of which He could not speak, because they did not advance with the light that was flashed upon the Levitical laws and the sacrificial offerings. They did not embrace the light, advance with the light, and follow on to still greater brightness as Providence should lead the way. CTr 299.4
And for the same reason Christs disciples today do not comprehend important matters of truth. So dull has been the comprehension of even those who teach the truth to others that many things cannot be opened to them until they reach heaven. It ought not to be so. But as minds become narrow, they think they know it all, and set one stake after another in points of truths of which they have only a glimpse. People close their minds as though there were no more for them to learn, and should the Lord attempt to lead them on they would not take up with the increased light. They cling to the spot where they think they see a glimmer of light, when it is only a link in the living chain of truths and promises to be studied. . . . CTr 299.5
The development of truth will be the reward to the humble-hearted seeker who will fear God and walk with Him. The truth that the mind grasps as truth is capable of constant expansion and new development. . .. Manuscript 143, 1897, Manuscript Releases, Vol 16, pp. 122, 123.
The overall scope of the historical record presented in Scripture is exactly what has been dropped into your lap. Scripture doesn't contradict itself, and the model you show such a devotion to can't be reconciled with the historical record. Your means to hang onto the busted model is by ignoring Scripture.
I am not impressed by such misplaced devotion.
Nor am I impressed by a misplaced devotion in an acknowledged false prophet that those within progressive Adventism as well as orthodox Christianity have relegated to the trash heap.
Welcome to life outside Hiram's cornfield.
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