Featured Seventh-day Adventists continued...

The previous thread ended where Steaver was being pressed against the ropes to explain how it is that all his complaints about the SDA denomination could possibly have reduced down to his "declare all Catholics as bound for hell... or else" posts. He makes a few attempts to deflect from this problem -- but it remains. How can he be serious??

======================================== from my last response to Steaver .. which is still unanswered.

The BIBLE will not fit your 'yes/no gaming model' - but here we have the Bible "anyway" for your proposal above that I become Catholic and then what consequence.

Knowing that "sin IS transgression of the LAW" ? 1 John 3:4
Knowing that "rebellion is not LOVE for God" since 1 John 5:2-3 says that "3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome."
Knowing that "what matters is KEEPING the Commandments of God" 1 Cor 7:19??
Knowing that "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before me to worship" Isaiah 66:23
Knowing that "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is SIN" James 4:17?
Knowing that Jesus is "LORD of the Sabbath" Mark 2:27?

So you are saying if I were to reject all of scripture and become a Catholic "would I still be saved"???

Are you even serious??
Of course that would not be the path of salvation - that would be rejecting the Word of God.

Even the Baptist Confession of Faith admits that the TEN Commandments are included in the moral law of God written on the heart under the NEW Covenant.

You knew that right?

Is this all "news to you" after having posted on it 20,000 times?

you seem to be "stuck" on the idea that if I don't condemn every single Catholic on planet earth to hell - that this shows the one big problem in the SDA set of doctrines. Is that "seriously" the hill you want to die on - as they say... given that you have the glaring problem of leaving it "to me" to defend section 19 of your "Baptist Confession of Faith" ??? You seem to have much bigger issues to deal with than this "condemn every Catholic --- or else" idea.

Interesting "deflection" on your part.

So then you are not at all serious on that point you raise about the becoming-Catholic scenario???

Just more gaming??

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then... ignoring every Bible text and every detail given in the answer... Steaver circles back to the start

How many more times would you like that answer posted???

 

Rebellion against God is not 'for salvation" as we probably both know.

For example - I do not believe that all Catholics are all lost because they all bow down before images and promise to serve those they represent even though this clearly violates the Commandments of God. (As I have said in the past) -- "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is sin". James 4:17

so then your "non essential for salvation" could be worked into a lot of scenarios trying to get all of scripture to be "non essential".

I also believe that Romans 2:13-16 - says that gentiles with no access to scripture at all - are in some cases saved because they experience the New Birth - via the Holy Spirit.

This does not mean that as Christians we should ignore the Bible or should bow down before images or should not know who Christ is... Or should view all of that as "not important" for Christians.

all of your games aside "the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus" Rev 14:12.

the text remains true no matter how many "yes no" games you would like to engage in as we probably both agree.


============================ steaver replied

I never say "Catholics can be in rebellion and not be lost" rather I say that they can not know that something is wrong - and not be lost.

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1 Cor 7:19 "what matters is keeping the Commandments of God"
1 John 5:2-3 "This IS the LOVE of God that we KEEP His commandments"
Rev 14:12 "the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus"

James 4:17 "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is sin"

 

Your attempt to BEND Proverbs 16 so as to directly contradict James 4:17 "noted". But it fails. James is dealing with the real issue of those who know certain things to be true - but do not know "all truth" and thus are not accountable on certain points.

John 9:41 -- Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains".

think about it. Simply "gaming" each of these Bible teachings... in the end ... will get you nowhere for "God is not mocked" Gal 6:7

 

The Sabbath was given to Israel, and never to the Church under the NC!

 

The SDA teaches that we are saved by faith And by keeping the Sabbath and all of the rules and regulations Ellen White gave to them, which is not the real Gospel!

 

True .. "saved by grace through faith" Eph 2:8-10

Which is how even the Catholics in the example I gave - are saved.

(If you read the posts in the actual thread - you will be able to respond to them)

 

The NEW Covenant is "With the house of ISRAEL and the house of JUDAH" in both Jer 31:31-33 AND in Hebrews 8:6-10... and we both know it.

So also in Exodus 20 all TEN of the TEN commandments spoken to ISRAEL - that includes "Do not take God's name in vain" -- and we both know it.

"from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" Isaiah 66:23 -- is irrefutable.
Gentiles in the OT specifically singled out for Sabbath keeping - Isaiah 56:5-8
"Sabbath MADE for MANKIND" Mark 2:27

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Or were you about to reject both the "Baptist Confession of Faith" and D.L. Moody's statements agreeing with the Bible on this point about all TEN of the TEN commandments applying to ALL Mankind???

 

So then - were you "almost... just about... " going to read the actual answer that flatly refutes your speculation above?

=================== here it is again

For example - I do not believe that all Catholics are all lost because they all bow down before images and promise to serve those they represent even though this clearly violates the Commandments of God. (As I have said in the past) -- "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is sin". James 4:17

so then your "non essential for salvation" could be worked into a lot of scenarios trying to get all of scripture to be "non essential".

I also believe that Romans 2:13-16 - says that gentiles with no access to scripture at all - are in some cases saved because they experience the New Birth - via the Holy Spirit.

This does not mean that as Christians we should ignore the Bible or should bow down before images or should not know who Christ is... Or should view all of that as "not important" for Christians.

all of your games aside "the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus" Rev 14:12.

the text remains true no matter how many "yes no" games you would like to engage in as we probably both agree.

 

I almost never get a chance to do that -- as clearly as that... thanks Steaver

It is incredibly obvious to the objective unbiased Bible student when you set it up for me that way.

 

The BIBLE will not fit your 'yes/no gaming model' - but here we have the Bible "anyway" for your proposal above that I become Catholic and then what consequence.

Knowing that "sin IS transgression of the LAW" ? 1 John 3:4
Knowing that "rebellion is not LOVE for God" since 1 John 5:2-3 says that "3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome."
Knowing that "what matters is KEEPING the Commandments of God" 1 Cor 7:19??
Knowing that "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before me to worship" Isaiah 66:23
Knowing that "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is SIN" James 4:17?
Knowing that Jesus is "LORD of the Sabbath" Mark 2:27?

So you are saying if I were to reject all of scripture and become a Catholic "would I still be saved"???

Are you even serious??
Of course that would not be the path of salvation - that would be rejecting the Word of God.

Even the Baptist Confession of Faith admits that the TEN Commandments are included in the moral law of God written on the heart under the NEW Covenant.

You knew that right?

Your argument is "with the text"... which is why you are ignoring them so far.

 

I have numerous threads started by me on this section of the board dealing with the fact that the false doctrine of OSAS does not survive the Bible details in Matthew 18 where we see "forgiveness revoked"

So to give you full focus on this on topic - I am starting "yet another" thread on OSAS debunked.
#1 BobRyan, A moment ago

does not survive the Bible details in Romans 11 where we see 'salvation revoked"
Does not survive the Bible details in John 15 where those 'in Christ" are cut off and burned up.
Does not survive the Bible details in Ezek 18 where we see forgiveness revoked.
Does not survive the Bible details in Ephesians 6 where we see salvation revoked

Does not surive Paul's statement in 1 Cor 9 - "LEST after preaching the Gospel to others I myself should be disqualified from it"

Does not survive Romans 2:13

Does not survive Romans 2:4-9

Does not survive the details of Gal 4 "I fear I have labored over you in vain"

You "might" view that as just "so many Bible texts to be ignored" -- but I don't

 

SDA guru Ellen G. White wrote,

SOURCE: Ellen G. White (1903, ms 150, SDA; Commentary V, p. 1129)

She also wrote:

(Jude 9, Spiritual Gifts, IV a, p. 158)

And again:

(Desire of Ages, p.99)

She also wrote, in Patriarchs and Prophets, page 761,

And your own "Clear Word Bible" reads:

(Jude 1:9}

So, we have the words of both your swami & your false bible telling the big fat lie that Jesus is the archangel Michael. this is undeniable evidence. That in itself is enough to discredit the Seven-Day-Adlibbers completely. But there's much more, of course.

 

Published in the SDA's Ministry magazine, Oct. 1981 -

EGW wrote in "The Faith I Live By" p. 211,

In The Retirement Years, published after the death of her husband James, whom she called "Father", she wrote about COMMUNICATING WITH HIM AFTER HIS DEATH, something expressly forbidden in Scripture, and something that doesn't actually occur, except in the one case where God allored Samuel to communicate with Saul after Sam's death.

Never forget this Bible verse!

2nd Corinthians 11:3, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

 

No problem -- here it is again.

Rebellion against God is not 'for salvation" as we probably both know.

For example - I do not believe that all Catholics are all lost because they all bow down before images and promise to serve those they represent even though this clearly violates the Commandments of God. (As I have said in the past) -- "to him that knows to do right and does it not - to him it is sin". James 4:17

so then your "non essential for salvation" could be worked into a lot of scenarios trying to get all of scripture to be "non essential".

I also believe that Romans 2:13-16 - says that gentiles with no access to scripture at all - are in some cases saved because they experience the New Birth - via the Holy Spirit.

This does not mean that as Christians we should ignore the Bible or should bow down before images or should not know who Christ is... Or should view all of that as "not important" for Christians.

all of your games aside "the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus" Rev 14:12.

the text remains true no matter how many "yes no" games you would like to engage in as we probably both agree.

Eph 2
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.