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| Hallanvaara Registered user Username: Hallanvaara Post Number: 1 Registered: 1-2004 |
I叮 a new member here. I have read your conversations and been so blessed trough them that you never know. I hope that someday I can hug and thank you, my dear friends. The final and most important thing that "ripped the veil" from my life was your conversations about sabbath. That the Jesus is the Sabbath and the Law took everything in the right places. When before the whole Bible seemed to accuse me for my insufficiency now every verse leads to Jesus, answer to every verse is Jesus. The pure gospel. But I guess you like to know who I am. I叮 almost 44 yrs old (or young  woman from Skandinavia, Finland. Yes, "Nokialand". I叮 second generation adventist, now former. My mother was a strict fundamentalist and you never couldn另 argue, contradict or doubt anything about SDA religion or even her叫 opinion. She and SDA叫 were absolytely right. Period. I was brainwashed and fed by religion like the geese that are fed for the bigger livers. All my life I was distressed and felt my insufficiency to fulfill all the demands. Sometimes I tried to forget all about the religion, sometimes I got back and seeked the peace Jesus promised to us. Without result. Then I started rebel and contradict EVERYTHING, even God and Jesus. I knew that something was very wrong about SDA teachings. But same time, I knew that the Father and the Son were truth, but I just couldn另 make sense how. I asked and pondered and all my thoughts focused to one question: What is the truht? I thought about Pilate and what he felt when he made the same question: What is the truth? Then in short time I undergone many personal failures and I had to go to mental hospital for couple of weeks to recover. I got as my personal nurse a lady who was the only one there that believed in Christ. It must been a guidance. We were free to discuss all possible things about my troubles and she saw how big and crucial question I had to solve. She didn另 push her opinions at all but said to me: "I know that you find the truth someday." And I found. Trough these sites here in Internet, trough you, my dear friends. God guided me finally to the right pages (ellenwhite.org, truthorfables.com) and here FAF where I could read your conversations. It was pure Gospel and I can另 never thank Lord enough that He guided me here. And I can另 never thank you, may God bless you. Couple weeks ago I sent my resignation and 4 passages in which I don另 believe any more to local SDA church and asked to inform me when it叫 done. I got the notification and 3 pages more full of verses and opinions. Local minister wanted that I make my decisions not in hasty and tried to apologize (of course) EGW and her writings. Now I史e started a big job. My local church minister must have blinkers on because he asked me in which case EGW contradicts the Bible and he assumed even that you have to be a theologian to understand Moses叫 rituals and laws to understand how to connect them to the Investigative Judgment. I translated the text (ellenwhite.org and truthorfables.com) and wrote my reply whole last Sunday, almost 12 hours and my bum is aching still. (My chair...  ) I wrote 8 pages and got only to chapter 2 where I am going to prove whole IJ as fable. In first chapter I proved EGW being as false prophet. I think I have to write altogether maybe 30 pages to say what I want to say because I want to show that I really know that the truht is not in those false arguments. I have prayed that the Lord may lead my writings and words that I don另 offence anybody but the pure Gospel is found in those words. This is my story in short. I know that you, too, my friends, found your way to the Lord after many troubles and bends. But now we can rest, we are at home. We have Jesus and that叫 all we ever need. May His blessings come upon you everyday. Your friend, Halla PS. Pardon my english if it sometimes is not correct. I hope you still understand me. |
