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How do current SDAs view former SDAs? Are there current SDAs, for example, who believe that former SDAs are controlled by demons and that such demons seek to use former SDAs to destroy the faith that current SDAs have in God? How do you view this?
BFA
What about so-called 'former' SDA's (Christians who once were SDA members)?I don't believe formers or progs are demon-possessed. (I think I have a hunch what thread this is responding too.) I believe that the devil works hard to sow turmoil and dispute everywhere he can, so the focus is on conflict and not on Christ.
I have no prejudice against any other SDAs. As long as Christ is first it really doesn't matter (to me).
I don't believe formers or progs are demon-possessed.
(I think I have a hunch what thread this is responding too.)
I believe that the devil works hard to sow turmoil and dispute everywhere he can, so the focus is on conflict and not on Christ.
I have no prejudice against any other SDAs.
OK. Thanks for responding.
I have no hidden motives. I'm simply curious as to how current SDAs (be they trads or progs) view former SDAs.
I agree. Perhaps a day will come when we can stop talking about FSGs and start talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ. However, although I am still a newbie here, it seems that some healing is required before that can happen.
Do you have any negative impressions or feelings toward any non-SDAs?
BFA
What about so-called 'former' SDA's (Christians who once were SDA members)?
MCW you are correct, there are people in other religons who feel the way some SDA's do Theold expression They wonderd away from the church Satan has led them astray and so on sound familiar.There bes Christians everywhere, mind you, not just SDAs, who believe that demons control anyone who does not think like them. Just look at the whole fundy flap about the "gay agenda" for example. Just because people who bes gay want to be treated equal with heterosexual people in our society, the fundies think they have some secret agenda to "spread gayness" to others and/or to make being gay "acceptable" with some nefarious design in mind in terms of corrupting others' souls, consciences or discernment or whatever.
It's all bullocks. They just don't want to be harassed and persecuted, bes all, and they don't think their orientation bes reason to believe they should be. but that does not stop the paranoid conspiratists from making up all kinds of foul imaginary crap.
A lot of confused supposed "Christians" have similar ideas about occultists and atheists, too. Moriah sometimes wonders (tongue in cheek but with a point) if this genre of "Christian" itself bes not actually a satanic infiltration designed to discredit the true people of Christ and distract from the true message of Christ.Cuz HEY, those who smelt it dealt it!! Right??
Thats right cause when He is in your heart and soul He goes everywheree with you and thats what its all aboutWell a big hearty Psalm 139:7-8 for them!
[bible]Psalm 139:7-8[/bible]
Even if you lay down with Satan God bes there anyway
Interesting signature quote."The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist,
[who] announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many
are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have
no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."
-- A. W. Pink
Although I am a former Seventh-Day Adventist, I can nevertheless remember the mindset I had back then and that of my church peers. There was not a pronounced belief in demon possession at the churches I attended; we believed that possession was possible, of course, but it was something understood as specific and unique. So no, there was not a general attitude that former Adventists were somehow demon-possessed and tasked with destroying our Adventist faith.
How did we view those who left the Adventist faith? The general attitude was one of compassionate concern, ultimately for their eternal fate. We felt a need to minister to them, to understand their obstacle and engage it with the hope of bringing them back into the fold and the security of salvation that can be found only in Christ's true church. (I blush today when I recall the convictions I had back then.) I understand that there are more extreme Adventist strains exhibiting a more rigid and fundamentalist attitude who probably would view former Adventists in that light, but that was not the character of the churches I had attended during my time as an Adventist. Nor was it my character.
And now, ironically, I am likewise a 'former Adventist'.
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