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Forhim
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Post Number: 12
Registered: 7-2009


Posted on Monday, November 08, 2010 - 12:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

An old Adventist friend of mine sent the article I pasted below. I guess hoping to impress me back into the church. Instead I googled "churches claim credit for miner's rescue". The first hit's link is at the bottom of this message.

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A Great Story we don't hear about...

Subject: Re: Chilean miner's story
This news came out today in one of Chile’s most important newspaper. It is uplifting. Thought you might want to share it.
Blessings


Alex Vega, Bible in hand, proudly displays his shirt after exiting the capsule.
Photo: Hugo Infante / Government of Chile
Michell Bruguerolles
From the San José mine, Copiapó, Chile

COPIAPÓ .- Excited and surprised have been relatives of the first miners pulled from the San José mine. Another surprise was the shirts that most of them wore on top of the special suit they used when they emerged to the surface. The shirts, which have a large white star on a blue square and red on the chest, have written the phrase "!Gracias Señor! Thank you Lord“... On the back it reads another sentence that says: “In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him… For Him is the honor and glory", which corresponds to verse 4 of Psalm 95.
Pastor Carlos Parra, of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Atacama Region, told Terra TV that the message of the T-shirts is "precious" and that while he knew his church had sent them, the miners kept them as a surprise and wore them that day.
Alberto Segovia, Segovia's brother David, one of the "33", was pleasantly surprised. We did not think they were going out with them, only with green special suits, but when we saw the first miner's shirt; I was surprised" he said.
Segovia believes that the use of the shirt with that message makes it clear that the miners became spiritually renewed from the bottom of the earth. "(David) told me out of here the first thing I would do is go to church and thank God."
The local Adventist church has played a vital role attending and assisting the families of the miners spiritually at “Camp Hope” during the 70 days.

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The link I found on Google:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/11/chilean-miners-rival-churches-tussle

So small, so petty, so predictable. It reminds me of the story I heard in Academy about why the 1967 war in the middle east ended. While both sides had nukes pointed at each other, the General Conference Fall Session had a special prayer in DC, to end the war and give the church a little more time to finish it's work. And they were claiming it was through their effort that the war ended. That impressed me until I got older and could do some checking on the story. The war was fought in May. Hmmm, another made-up story to give the believers more evidence that the SDA church is the true church.

Bob
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Posted on Monday, November 08, 2010 - 12:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got the same email from an old sda friend. I sent her one back that told about the Campus Crusade for Christ sending the t-shirts and I read the same article you have above. The sdas want to claim all kinds of stuff.
Diana L
Forhim
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Posted on Monday, November 08, 2010 - 3:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Diana,

Kind of ruins the "Left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing" and making sure your good works go unseen. What makes it worse is taking credit for things that you didn't do. If some SDA did help, why is everyone in the church taking credit for it?

Bob

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