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| Hallanvaara Registered user Username: Hallanvaara Post Number: 40 Registered: 1-2004 |
I have some SDA books in my house. All EGW books. I¥ve wondered what to do with them. I like books and feel sorry to destroy any, but these books really make me think. Throw them all into a waste container? Get them to flea market? Give them back to SDA¥s? Just forget them and let them float around in my attic to the end of the world? First thing what came in to my mind was to throw them into trashes. They are not word of God and includes so many heresies that no one should anymore read them. But.... I don¥t know. Tell me what you¥ve done with your books. Tuija | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 186 Registered: 3-2004 |
I like books and throw very few of them away. But with these books, I had no problem putting then into the trash. I did not want to give them to any one so no one would be influenced by what they say. I made sure they could not be picked up out of the trash by putting them in a trash sack that closed. Diana | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 349 Registered: 12-2003 |
Tuija, I love books, but we decided to burn our EGW books so no one else could get ahold of them. Diana's solution of sealing them would also work. We literally burned them in our fireplace--it took a couple of evenings, but it sure felt good! (We freed up so much room in our book cases, too!) Colleen | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 622 Registered: 7-2000 |
Tuija, we too burned our books. We started thinking about the possability that we would die and our sons would come into our home to have to clean things out. We felt we didn't want any chance that they would pick up a mixed message that maybe there was something we considered still to be of value in those books. Think of it this way....do you really value "books" or do you value "quality books"? There is a difference. Generally you have to pry my fingers off of books to get me to get rid of them. But once we had started burning the first EGW book, we couldn't wait to get to the rest! It really felt like Independence day for us. Our son's response was "thank goodness!" and they gleefully pitched some in as well. | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 647 Registered: 11-2002 |
I do not own any SDA books but my former husband had been raised JW and has many close relitives who are extreme JW. When he took off I took all the JW crap, shreeded it and tossed out the strips of shreedding. Shredders just must be one of the greatest of modern inventions. | ||
| Thomas1 Registered user Username: Thomas1 Post Number: 118 Registered: 4-2002 |
Tuija, If it makes you uncomfortable throwing away your books, Please give them to me. OK, now that they are mine, please do ME the favor of destroying them in the most thorough way possible. Thank you! In HIS grace <>< Thomas | ||
| Hallanvaara Registered user Username: Hallanvaara Post Number: 41 Registered: 1-2004 |
Thanks Thomas, I really like to do that, but the shipping costs make me hesitate...  I think my fireplace will have very nice and comfy fire one of these days. Putting them into a big trash sack and throwing them away still gives a possibility that some one will find them. I value books, yes, and the only thing I value these books (not all, older EGW books look rather depressing) is the beautiful appearance and some photos in them. But now hesitating is over, thanks to you all. Tuija | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 191 Registered: 3-2004 |
God bless You Tuija, You will feel better and will know a competing presence is out of your home when you finally burn up those books. Our God is an awesome God. Diana | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 59 Registered: 5-2004 |
We just threm the SDA books my husband had in the trash. But his family sends us all sorts of SDA propaganda - magazines mostly. We just toss it out right now, but don't like to think of them spending money on something we just throw out every month. I have written letters to the Adventist Review, the Signs of the Times, and the Gleaner trying to get them to stop sending the stuff, but they say they don't have out names on the lists, so they can't help us. So either they are lying, (but why would they??) or they really are coming directly from some other source. I have heard that some conferences order copies directly and disperse them to their own mailing lists. But I don't know how to track that all down. Our other option is to get a hold of my husbands family and tell them to stop sending stuff. But that would probably cause a ruckus, or they might even refuse to. WHO KNOWS! I am a little frustrate,d because we get the stuff at least three times a week, and it just fills up our trash. Anyone have any suggestions?? | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 60 Registered: 5-2004 |
We just threw the SDA books my husband had in the trash. But his family sends us all sorts of SDA propaganda - magazines mostly. We just toss it out right now, but don't like to think of them spending money on something we just throw out every month. I have written letters to the Adventist Review, the Signs of the Times, and the Gleaner trying to get them to stop sending the stuff, but they say they don't have out names on the lists, so they can't help us. So either they are lying, (but why would they??) or they really are coming directly from some other source. I have heard that some conferences order copies directly and disperse them to their own mailing lists. But I don't know how to track that all down. Our other option is to get a hold of my husbands family and tell them to stop sending stuff. But that would probably cause a ruckus, or they might even refuse to. WHO KNOWS! I am a little frustrate,d because we get the stuff at least three times a week, and it just fills up our trash. Anyone have any suggestions?? | ||
| Cindy Registered user Username: Cindy Post Number: 587 Registered: 7-2000 |
Tanya, We threw all our EGW books out 5 years ago; wish now we had done the bonfire thing! Someone started sending us the weekly "Review" this year; out of curiosity I usually skim it. One of the recent ones had an article on how hard it is to BE a prophet! Not just HAVE one in your church! Absolutely horrible to read how Ellen White felt impressed to go traveling with her "messages" but, because she hesitated, when her 10 month old baby got sick EGW figured God was telling her something--striking her child sick because she did not go out preaching--so she left her baby in the care of another family and went out on the road. For long lengths of time... It made me sick to even read her words! What kind of God did this woman believe in and promote!? A God who would take her baby if she didn't do her prophetic duty?? To think this sounds sane to most Adventists is to realize what a veil is over their eyes when it comes to the real truth of JESUS! grace always, cindy | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 366 Registered: 12-2003 |
Wow, Cindy--how awful! You're absolutely right about the veil being over their eyes about the truth of JESUS! Tanya, the day may come when you and your husband will talk to his family. Until you believe God is asking you to do that, the propaganda they send is their own choice. In their world view, its a way to do "missionary work". Just keep tossing it or burning it! There's not much you can do to prevent them from wasting their money! Colleen | ||
| Pw Registered user Username: Pw Post Number: 12 Registered: 6-2004 |
Now I know how those in my family felt when I was sending them Sign of the Times magazines in the mail in the mid-80's. Thankfully, no one converted. | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 658 Registered: 11-2002 |
Tealeaves, Don't you think the Signs of the Times Magazine is about the trashyiest of magazines that trys to present itself as Christian? I call it the Hustler of Christian magaznies, Do you ever read the articles? Do you read the letters and then the comments by the editors after the letters? | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 661 Registered: 11-2002 |
Colleen, have you gotten the book yet that I mailed you you? I sent it last week in a minila envelope. | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 62 Registered: 5-2004 |
Susan2, I haven't really read much of the Signs of the Times, one article that I thought was pretty worthless, nothing since. I didnt like the whole premise of the magazine. I have glanced through the Adventist Review, but not read a whole lot of it either. It seems to be more veiled int it's tactics, but that doesn't make it much more appetizing. I guess I'll just keep throwing them out for the time being. | ||
| Pheeki Registered user Username: Pheeki Post Number: 342 Registered: 1-2003 |
There is an SDA on the CARM website that just posted he threw his NIV bibles in the trash. Can you believe this? People are starving for bibles and just because he thinks a group of translators took liberties with God's word he throws them in the trash! I am totally appalled at the lack of respect for God's word! | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 375 Registered: 12-2003 |
Susan, I'll check today. Pheeki, I agree with you. I just feel like sighing. | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 188 Registered: 5-2002 |
Pheeki, I believe that has something to do with the belief that the Jesuits have intentionally mistranslated the NIV in order to strenghten certain RCC doctrines. That is what I've heard, although it may be incorrect. Does anyone else have any information as to why "historic" SDA's insist on the KJV only? And what, in particular, do they assert is the problem with the NIV? | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 664 Registered: 11-2002 |
At the local SDA churcht hey have the KJV in the pews which also have the HMS Richards helps in them but most people bring either a NIV with them or a Clear Word. |
