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| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 2155 Registered: 11-2002 |
First of all how come generally most (certanily not all) SDA's get uncomfortable talking about Jesus? This includes Jesus as a person as he lived and mingled among the common people as well as Jesus in His divineness, he healed the sick, raised the dead and preformed many miracles.Most SDA's i know when the discussion gets around to Jesus they either try to change the discussion back to non-Jesus Bibical topics such as pork or the state of the dead, etc. or they just feign boredom with Jesus and leave the room. Or the really astute SDA's will steer the conversation to Jesus being the perfect law keeper and as our example we must follow in His footsteps as He is our example. i generally counter that Jesus is not so much my example but rather He is my savior. Then I even loose the astute SDA's to boredom about discussing Jesus. Now, and this question is very important. How does one get someone to understand true Christianity when that person has no clue of it? My one son several days ago told me he's been to many different churches and he's been to many SDA churches throughout the world and by far the SDA church is the closest to teaching what the Bible teaches but io course he'll never be SDA because he thinks the concept of the Trinity is malarky and for his reasoning he got into Jewish mythology ang acient Roman and Greek mythology and so on and so forth but since the SDA church is the closest to teaching true Bible he sends his child to the SDA school.He is drawn to the Moslem religion because he has lived in numerous Moslem countries and has seen that the people practice disclipined and moral lives and don't eat pork. He's lived in many Christian countries and he sees crime and immorality and meyham and says God is a God of order and morals and laws. Then, of course, his biggie was the state of the dead. He even went on to tell me the official Adventist church has officially changed the doctrines about pork and jewlery and dancing and so on. You all know that little book those Adventists put out called something like SDA Handbook, or something like that? Well, my son said that in that book all those corny doctrines have a disclousure that they are suggestions to teach personal disapline and are not firm doctrines. He also said the SDA church does not teach anymore that the "Sunday-keepers" are less Christian than they are but rather that "Sunday-keepers" are simply wrong about going to church on Sunday but God will judge by the heart and the sincerity og the individual. Anyway, he attends several different southeran California SDA churches, not weekly but when he does go to church it's down here but he says he mostly goes so his child can play with her school friends. I've decided to give it up to God because it is just too weird and convoluted for me. Made less since to me than when the Hare Krishna's explaine the Krishna religion! BTW, I have four sons. This particular sons lack of understanding does not reflect the other threes understanding. Comments? Imput? Prayers? |
