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Thunder Lauriston lecture on "Why Sunday worship cannot be the Mark of the Beast"

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Are you saying that blasphemy mentioned in Col 3:8 can not be applied to taking God's name in vain?
 
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Is man allowed to kill anyone he wants? Is God allowed to?
 
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BobRyan said:

No NT statements about "do not take God's name in vain" either.
1 Timothy 6:1

NT command #5. Put off blasphemy (COL 3:8)
Blasphemy is a general term and applies to things like the claim to forgive sins etc. It is not a "quote of the Ex 20:7" commandment.\
It would be like saying "keep the Commandments of God" is specifically a statement about the Sabbath commandment.

1 Tim 6:1 that you do not quote says " All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against."

There we see a command to be a good Christian slave to your non-Christian master so that they will not view Christians as a "bad thing" which indirectly is viewing Christ as bad.

That kind of general abstract - is just as much a quote of the Sabbath commandment as it is a quote of Ex 20:7 as it turns out.
 
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Are you saying that blasphemy mentioned in Col 3:8 can not be applied to taking God's name in vain?
I am saying that to condemn the commandments of God in any way is a form of blasphemy and is not specific to any one of them. "He who breaks one - breaks them all" James 2.
 
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That’s where the inconsistency of SDA theology is revealed. If they strictly stuck to only the 10 commandments then that might be one thing but because they throw in the dietary laws as well now they’re just picking and choosing which laws to keep and which laws to disregard which makes their theology inconsistent.
 
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God never destroyed the Ten Commandments, Moses did when the Israelites were sinning. God re-wrote the EXACT commmandments on a second set of stone. Deut 10:4

God never removed anything He called holy. The earthy temple was an exact replica of God’s heavenly Temple Hebrews 8:5. Where there is an ark of the covenant kept in the Most Holy of God’s Temple with His eternal commandments Revelation 11:19. The earthy physical temple ended, but Jesus is our High Priest and Mediator ministering from His heavenly Temple Hebrews 4:14 Acts 7:48

Our bodies are a temple and dwelling place for the Holy Spirit which is why God writes His laws in our hearts and minds Hebrews 8:10, Jer 31:33. God wants us to keep our bodies holy and we do so when we walk in Christ obeying God and everything He asks of us.

Never has God done away with His holy things and you will not find one scripture stating so, but condemns those who do not distinguish holy from unholy or clean from unclean Eze 22:26
 
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Ok so by that logic man can kill all nonbelievers then since they’re dead anyways, right?
God is the Judge of who isn't, is or will be not you or I. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. That would be?
 
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Ok so by your interpretation of 1 John 5:3 Christians don’t sin and those that do don’t love God. Do you sin?
 
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God is the Judge of who isn't, is or will be not you or I. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. That would be?
Right so you answered my question God is not bound by the commandment He gave to Moses about committing murder, right?
 
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That's not a very good translation.

Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 1 Timothy 6:1 The word in question is blasphémeó.
 
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Right so you answered my question God is not bound by the commandment He gave to Moses about committing murder, right?
Murder? God would not murder. Can't kill what is dead.
 
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That's not a very good translation.

Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 1 Timothy 6:1 The word in question is blasphémeó.
You would be wrong in your assessment. The translation BobRyan offered was what the word means.
Once again from the BDAG

βλασφημία, ας, ἡ (s. βλασφημέω; Eur., Democr., Pla.+; LXX, Philo, Joseph.; Just., A I, 26, 5; Ath. 31, 2, R.72, 27; AssMos fgm. j p. 67 Denis; loanw. in rabb.) speech that denigrates or defames, reviling, denigration, disrespect, slander
gener., of any kind of speech that is defamatory or abusive, w. other vices Mk 7:22; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8. πᾶσα β. all abusive speech Hm 8:3; cp. Mt 12:31a. Pl. (Jos., Vi. 245) Mt 15:19; 1 Ti 6:4.
specif., against humans and transcendent entities
 
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Hey Bob happy Sabbath!
"Our" is not even implied in the clause "that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against." It should read "the doctrine" fyi.
 
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You have have to discuss the health laws with the Lord -doesn’t appear He changed His mind.

Isaiah 66:17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs,rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
 
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Ok so by your interpretation of 1 John 5:3 Christians don’t sin and those that do don’t love God. Do you sin?
I believe Christ can give all of us victory over sin, so we can stand when He comes. Scripture says it’s possible, so I believe it. Revelation 14:12 If we stumble along the way we can go directly to Jesus when we repent with a change of heart- what is dangerous is living in perpetual sin and being okay with it- no longer hearing the Holy Spirit calling us for repentance or believing we do not have to keep God’s law (sin) and that’s ok. Hebrews 10:26
 
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Not according to the New Covenant. And Whether one is an SDA or not is not relevant.
 
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