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..... When I do post on such topics these days, I usually end up regretting it because I don't feel like putting the effort into following up if people reply to my posts.
I understand this. It reminds me of the color illusion experiment I learned in physics.I can't say that I ever agreed with all of the traditional Adventist teachings (at least when I actually thought about them), but most of them didn't seem quite as bizarre to me while I was an Adventist as they do now.
AzA,I understand this. It reminds me of the color illusion experiment I learned in physics.
Color a grey square. Set it on a white background.
Color another grey square. Set it on a green background.
The grey squares now look different.
Context matters!
I understand this. It reminds me of the color illusion experiment I learned in physics.
Color a grey square. Set it on a white background.
Color another grey square. Set it on a green background.
The grey squares now look different.
Context matters!
I understand this. It reminds me of the color illusion experiment I learned in physics.
Color a grey square. Set it on a white background.
Color another grey square. Set it on a green background.
The grey squares now look different.
Context matters!
I also have a hard time anymore understanding how people can believe some of these things. I can't say that I ever agreed with all of the traditional Adventist teachings (at least when I actually thought about them), but most of them didn't seem quite as bizarre to me while I was an Adventist as they do now.
Absolutely, Joe. There is multiplicity, and there is one.The relationship of colors is interesting. A flat paper wheel equally divided into the 3 basic colors of the prism, as it spins it reaches a speed where the eyes only see the wheel as white. As it slows then the colors begin to appear.
This illustrates much concerning the Lord our God and his Christ and the manifold wisdom in Jesus Christ.
I didn't know there was a series -- are these the movies? Or something else?Now, my favorite little charaters in the Left Behind series were the little creatures God borrows from hell to torment the undecided........Sci-fi heaven!!
When my hubby talked to several of the Adventist seminary professors a few years ago and read some recent dissertations in an attempt to resolve his doubts about the validity of the IJ, I was amazed at how they danced around the issues.
Some of my local Baptists insist that persecution will come to them through hate speech and anti-discrimination legislation.
Many, many, many groups have some rationale for why in the end they will be the victim. It's interesting to me, though, how rarely anyone imagines that they will be the persecutors.
The Mormon church has a long history of being persecuted and marginalized in the US, and individual Mormons still experience that to one degree or another. But that doesn't stop the church from using its own weight to lobby against other marginalized groups or to persecute dissenters in its own ranks.
Adventism is no different in this regard.
BFA,No SDAism is not unique in its climactic "end of time" fears. The brand espoused by SDAism (and certain other groups) leads to guilt and, ultimately, hopelessness. Within SDAism, law keeping becomes a key ingredient in making sure you're "ready" or "safe to save."
BFA
I didn't know there was a series -- are these the movies? Or something else?
I would say the larger issue is apathy - doing nothing in the moment because it "won't matter anyway."
It could be right, or it could be wrong, but in neither case would it be "outdated".
BFA,If hopelessness had a variety of destinations, wouldn't one of them be apathy?
Sadly, hopelessness can lead to even more destructive destinations.
BFA
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