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Since they settled the lawsuit, rather than going to trial, there probably isn't any issue to appeal. I just read the court's judgment. What the judge did was explicitly put the terms of the settlement into the judgment in order to give the court jurisdiction to enforce the terms of the...

I read the article, "Court rules Christian Mingle must allow LGBT couples," and I think the court made no such ruling. Rather, the court approved a settlement between the parties, which allows the dispute to be resolved without the court ruling on the underlying issues. This is how I heard it...

Our friend who claimed that we hadn't presented any historical evidence in support of the book Great Controversy's position that the Albigensians held the true faith, I think Mosheim's history linked and referred to above definitely shows that there is historical evidence in support of the idea...

I mentioned elsewhere that I had read two different accounts of the same event concerning the Albigensians in Mosheim, and that they were so different that one or the other or both had to be lies. I've located that. Those interested can read from #3 on page 385 onward at...

Good point. And we could add to that 2 Thessalonians 2 where Paul said that the mystery of iniquity was already at work that would result in the man of sin. Since his language there points back to the prophecies of Daniel, he was speaking of the little horn of Daniel 7. One thing I find a bit...

The question has been raised in another thread as to whether the protest groups of the Middle Ages were off the wall, or whether they kept alive the true faith, and whether the historicist interpretation that the 1260 days ran from 538 to 1798 is historically valid. Here is a summary of the...

Here is a summary of the evidence presented in this thread that the title of this thread is incorrect, with maybe some additional points. The 3rd kingdom of Daniel 7 must be Greece, according to Gabriel in Daniel 8. This was by far the standard interpretation in the early centuries. This leads...

LittleLambofJesus, I'm not sure how that fits MoreCoffee's statement. He made that statement in response to my suggestion that he ask his priest about the problem of Daniel 8 mandating that the 3rd kingdom of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 be Greece, when he wants it to be Persia. I even showed how the...

I'm not quite done. On that other thread you kept harping at me to say I agreed with the Nicean Creed, when I told you that I don't do creeds. The Bible is my only creed. Rather than respect that, you opened up this thread instead of continuing the discussion over there. Now you refuse to...

It is not off topic. And I said nothing about indisputable evidence. I very clearly said "indisputable biblical points," and not one of the biblical points I made is disputable. Is it disputable that arche means first in time or place? No. Is it disputable that one of the possible meanings for...

What do you mean by "is topical"? I'm not really interested in spending lots of time discussing things with someone who dismisses indisputable biblical points by the mere assertion that those biblical points are erroneous. It shows you're not really serious. Have you shown that I gave an...

(a) Then why did you ask about what I thought about Nicea, if it was off topic? I think you did this sort of thing on that other thread too. (b) Critics routinely, falsely accuse us of not believing in the deity of Christ because of our stance about Michael. This thread is entitled "Non...

ibl But you haven't replied to what I said about Nicea, and we certainly haven't looked at everything about Michael. What would be a greener pasture than discovering what the Bible says about Michael, or learning from history about the various steps in the attempted change of the Sabbath...

You very clearly were saying that you understood him to be saying that he rejected the Nicean Creed as being a tradition of men, which leaves the impression that that he, and Adventists, reject the doctrinal statements within that creed. Stating it in the form of a question doesn't change that...

But you said that BobRyan rejects the Nicene creed as a tradition of men, and that suggests that he rejects the doctrinal statements within that creed. And that would be dishonest.

Aren't you twisting something? Don't these words suggest that we reject what is contained in the Nicean creed, and wouldn't that be dishonest?

I think this gentleman is incorrect in his assessment of Mark 12:32 and Matthew 24:36. There is an unusual meaning for the Greek word that have these verses instead mean that no one makes known the day or hour except the Father. This would be why Great Controversy has the Father proclaiming the...

If you know much about us, you would know that we believe that Nicea decreeing that Easter was to be observed on Sunday was wrong. This was one of the steps in the long process of changing the Sabbath of the 4th commandment into Sunday. And I have read the oppressive laws in the Theodosian Code...

Like I said, these non-trinitarians are arguing in favor of part of the Trinity doctrine, and thus the agitation is supposed. I was surprised on day to read in one of the main newsletters of these people how Froom was so wrong in saying that the Son and Father were ... okay, I'm a little rusty...

But I have personally read the religious laws in the Theodosian code, and I know the penalties that were legislated against those who baptized a second time. If such a baptism occurred on your property, you were in danger of losing your property, it being placed in the "fisc" or treasury. So...