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  Jesus Hates Me - Natha Brown
...it was his T-shirt of choice for that day, which read, “Jesus hates me.” I simply did not know how to react to such a statement, so contrary and outside my usual way of thinking about God....One suspects that often these pop culture artifacts are more marketing than philosophy, focused far more on whether they will sell than on the statement itself. But the question remains as to what would motivate someone to buy or wear such a label; and why would such a T-shirt sell....
     
     
  Help Me - Stephen Foster
There is a recurring question that I have with regard to theism which no one ever seems to want to address. How does it make sense to believe that the God of the Bible exists at all, if you do not believe that what the Bible says about the God of the Bible is indeed true?...
     
     
  Prospective Presidencies - II - Stephen Foster
With my position — as a historical Seventh-day Adventist — concerning the potential dangers of governmental activism in church-state affairs being well-documented (in this blog space), there is perhaps no need to restate it at this particular point in time. What may need to be restated however is the fact that we have no idea by whom or when eschatological events will be catalyzed; but we remain convinced of why and how....
     
     
  Sex - Charles Eaton
It has become clear to me the foundation of Adventism is soon going to be challenged. I understand that not everyone here is Adventist, but those of us who are, and certainly the general population of Adventists at large, became and stay Adventist in large part because of how well we believe Adventism parallels biblical truth. It isn’t an exaggeration to say the heart, soul, identity, selling point, and staying power of Adventism — our claim to be the remnant church spoken of in Revelation and our interpretation of the 2300 day prophecy — all hinge on our ability to remain in biblical truth. But have we ignored or misinterpreted some of the truth we so adamantly claim to posses?...
     


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    What She Doesn't Know Won't Hurt Her - Don Watson
The phrase has been used by many of us, "Well, what she doesn't know won't hurt her." But it does. Like the feisty old man who didn't want anyone telling him what to do, we think we're getting away with something by pretending to take our blood pressure medicine, and we don't realizing that whenever we violate the laws of our physical well-being it hurts us and those that love us whether anyone finds out about it or not....		  
         
         
    The Evangelism Industrial Complex - Ed Dickerson
...Until we are ready to put as much effort and as many resources into retaining our own children and reaching the ones who have left as we do into all the public evangelism events, we are going to keep losing our young adults. They can see where our last-generation values fail them. For the first forty years or so, this was a young people's movement. For more than the last forty, it has become an aging people's status quo. To change that, we will have to take on the Evangelism/Industrial Complex.		  
         
         
    Scaring or Sharing - Mark Gutman
My favorite time of the week used to be Sabbath at about 5 pm, but not because it was time to eat or because it was almost sundown.  And my most dreaded time of the week was Sabbath at about 1:30 pm. A certain witnessing program was in progress at my school on Sabbath afternoons, and I felt obligated to take part in it. It involved knocking on doors and asking people questions to find out if they understood the correct way to be saved and if they had implemented that correct way....		  
         
         
    Damned or Not - John McLarty
...I think the reason she kept me in conversation about the proper use of the label “Christian” because she really wondered whether heaven had a place for her. In the world in which her deepest religious instincts were formed, the difference between non-Christian and Christian equaled the difference between damned and not damned. In the world of parochial education—Catholic and Adventist—it's easy for kids to become persuaded that unless they can fit their minds into elegant and venerable boxes of orthodoxy, the Kingdom has no place for them....		  
         

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cb25 commented on Help Me
2012-01-28 03:02:46

Laffal, No. I don't buy your  opening premise at all. In fact, the majority of the central section of your "sermon" demonstrate the searching God. NOT the God whom I must believe exists before I can please him. You also off...

Kevin Riley commented on The Evangelism Industrial Complex
2012-01-28 01:08:27

We have often said we have an advantage in the post-modern world because SDAism is holistic.  I have yet to see that played out in our evangelism.  We seem to want to focus not just evangelism, but everything we do on doctrine.  I have a BA...

Ella M. Rydzewski commented on Prospective Presidencies - II
2012-01-27 23:14:19

    I still see here a tendancy to drift into one political party or the other.  By this time the presidential hopeful felt as a threat in the original blog, is probably on his way out.  He may or may not have been a good presiden...

Ella M. Rydzewski commented on Jesus Hates Me
2012-01-27 21:22:44

    I tend to think the same--it was an attention-getting, immature choice by one who wants to shock some and be "cool" to others.  But  sarcasm can also indicate deep struggles with religion in the past.  &nb...

Joe Erwin commented on Noah's Flood - A Lynchpin for the Creation Story
2012-01-26 18:26:53

Just as people can turn The Bible into a god and worship it, people can worship science--without even understanding what it is and is not. It is true that for some science takes the place of God. At the same time, it seems to me that there is common gr...

Joe Erwin commented on Sex
2012-01-24 16:50:51

Good points, Timo. When two people come to the marriage bed, whether chaste, or experienced, with each other, or with others, both bring points of view, perspectives, expectations.... Each brings a libido, a set of unique arousal features, and much of eac...

Timo Onjukka commented on Evolution: Cliff Goldstein's Addiction
2012-01-21 15:59:16

Fair enough, Chris. Honesty is always appreciated. I debated, but apparently too briefly, whether I should even post that. All that silliness is not meant to be construed rude, or putting on airs, but certainly can be seen that way, and I apologiz...

All4Him commented on President of the NAD Responds to Rumors Regarding Women as Conference Presidents
2012-01-20 04:15:25

Oh yes God allows choice, but His will does not always fit our self centered mold.  Marianne Gingrich could have allowed Newt to expand the harem.  If God had put everything in the Bible it would be hard to carry it to church, so it added the fa...

Timo Onjukka commented on Prophetic Prognostication
2012-01-19 14:39:10

Horace suggested there is no point in argument or debate (with someone who disagrees on the litmus of EGW). I strongly concur. Even if Horace "won" such a debate or argument, and I "lost" it, (consequently believed wh...

Elaine Nelson commented on Creation Wonder
2012-01-18 10:05:52

Phillip Law says: "The Biblical Creation Account has survived intact through the Classical elements of Babylonia, Greece and Egypt, alchemy, heliocentricity, geocentricity, Newtonian mechanics, Maxwell’s classical electromagnetic, Relat...

 
 
 
 
 
 
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