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Colleentinker
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 12:14 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I want to be sure you all know that Richard just posted two new articles on the "Studies" page at the new Proclamation! website: www.LifeAssuranceMinistries.org.

One is an excellent article on the Ten Commandments by the thoughtful writer Chris Badenhorst in Durban, South Africa. He has some insights I've never quite connected before.

The other is an informative and also riveting inside look at the colporteur industry. It is called "Reviewing the Troops", and it is a restropsective by Dennis Fischer of his work as an associate publishing director in the Carolina Conference in the 1970's with an update on the current state of literature evangelism today.

Both of these articles are must-reads! You can access them at: http://www.lifeassuranceministries.org/studies.html

Happy reading!
Colleen
Reb
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 7:20 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Excellent articles. I especially found Dennis' article on the colporteur industry fascinating.
So they resell books that are soiled and in poor condition. Hmmmmmmmm. Everyday I find some new "dirt" on Adventism and I wonder why don't Adventists wake up and see what's going on?
Stevendi
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 8:32 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Reb,

Because, for a myriad of reasons, they do not want to "wake up and see what's going on".

It's called complacency. If you would like a few more superlatives, check out Ellen White quotes from Revelation 3 on Laodicea (in the back of SDA Commentary. Why Adventists hail her with such reverence is beyond me. She has some very nasty indictments regarding Adventism.

If you don't have these books, I have it listed somewhere from 3 years ago when I left SDA. Let me know, I'll post it.

steve
Reb
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 8:34 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Steve, I don't have the SDA Commentaries.
Please do post that, I'm dying to read it.
Thanks.
Reb
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 12:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Given the new rules for this forum, Steve, I don't think you would be able to post this.
I'll just go to a library that has SDA books and read it or maybe it's online somewhere.

(Message edited by Reb on August 02, 2007)
Jrossb
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 12:00 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Attention to the Moderators,

Have just looked in at Reviewing The Troops. There appears to be a layout problem at the end of the page.

Keep up the great work of getting the information out.

God Bless

JRossB
Stevendi
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 5:36 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Colleen,

Is it alright to quote from SDA Commentaries?

steve
Jeremy
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 11:37 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have a similar question regarding rule #9. I know that in the past I have posted one or more EGW quotes in a post, and it definitely was not just "a minor part of the post" (sometimes it was almost the whole post). Is that now against the rules?

Jeremy

(Message edited by Jeremy on August 03, 2007)
Larry
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 12:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jeremy could you just post the salient features and make your commentary a little longer :-)

You've never had a threatening email have you?

Why keep egw lies covered up and secret?

I say post away.
Colleentinker
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 12:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We're going to try and make that rule clearer. The point of rule #9 is to avoid posting someone else's article, chapter, etc., instead of making one's point oneself.

Fair use laws are hard to pin down, but they allow for reproducing material for critiquing, for quoting for purposes of education, etc.

Yes, post away, Jeremy and Steve! Reproducing someone's e-book or entire sermon, etc., would be out of bounds--besides, we want your own opinions! If you want to share a complete work, simply link to it.

Otherwise, the quotes most of us have been doing are just fine.

Colleen
Agapetos
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 11:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi Colleen,

I've got a few questions about the rules as well, particularly about not linking to blogs, etc. Occasionally I've written something on one of my blogs, or found something interesting on another person's blog (such as Haroldo Camacho's), or done a picture on my art blog that I wanted to share...

Is this still okay?

Great blessings in Jesus,
Ramone
Colleentinker
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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 11:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ramone, linking to your own work on your own blog is fine. As far as others' blogs go--perhaps a quote would suffice instead of the whole link.

Colleen
Jeremiah
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Posted on Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 7:17 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes there does seem to be a problem with the formatting on the page about "Reviewing the Troops". I'm looking at it with Firefox in Ubuntu Linux and the copyright information is overlaying the 3rd paragraph from the bottom.

Jeremiah
Agapetos
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Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 4:20 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey, the sunset of the new FAF page reminded me of what I wrote in this picture: http://art-for-jesus.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-finished.html ...doesn't the sunset with the crosses really mean a lot to us now as Former Adventists? (^_^)
Stevendi
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Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 8:48 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Reb,

Here's some of the stuff I looked up in SDA Commentary 3 years ago, while still an Adventist.
Part of my journey out had to do with why Adventists do not talk about what Ellen had to say about them as Adventists. I leave you to your own conclusions.

Speaking of Laodicea as Adventists, Ellen said they were "...lukewarm professors of religion...a constant weight to those who would be faithful followers of Jesus. They are a stumbling block to unbelievers." 1 T P188

Some of the terms EGW used to describe her contemprary SDA's:

"tepid water, disappointing and nauseating"

"...the sin that is most nearly hopeless and incurable is pride of opinion, self-conceit. This stands in the way of all growth." 7T, 199-200

"The spirit of God never enters a place where His presence is not felt" SDA Commentary on Rev 3.

"...even though these keep the commandments and have the testimony of Jesus, they still need the white raiment of Jesus" Ibid.

Referring to the eye salve in Rev 3, she said that "...the Holy Spiorit is the antidote for spiritual blindness. Its purpose is to expose spiritual blindness, see sin as God sees it, and realize their own spiritual condition - as a prerequisite to repentance". Ibid.

"The church needs to drink deeply of the spirituality of the Word. Theri service to God needs to be very different from the tame lifeless, emotionless religious experience..." MS 117, 1902

"Christ cannot take up the names of their own self-sufficiency. He cannot importune in behalf of a people who feel no need of His help."
RH, 7/23/89


"These sharp decided words do not mean me: I am in a faily good condition spiritually, though I may not have all the fervor and zeal that some have. I believe the truth - those to whom this message belongs may take it. I think some need it. You who think and reason thus, be assured that you are the very ones to whom this message belongs. " Letter 30a, 1892

"God's servants must, by laboring together with Christ, roll away the curse that has made the chuch so lukewarm - a hope of reform." Letter 130, 1902

"I call upon our church members to read the whole of the third chapter of Revelation and to make an application of it" RH, 8/20/03

"...they had a name to live, but their works destitute of the love of Jesus".

"How many have fallen because they trusted in their profession for salvation!"

"How many are lost by their effort to keep up a name!"

"Great effort made to maintain reputation."

"One may go through the whole round of 'religious activity', and yet, unless christ is woven into all we say and do, we work for our own glory" Above quotes from GC - Letter 48, 1903

"They had a name to live, but as far as exerting a saving influence is concerned, they were dead. They had a form of godliness without the power. They quibbled about matters of no special importance, not given by the Lord as tests, till these matters became as mountains, seperating them from Christ and from one another..." RH, 8/10/05

"...we are to show others how to repent". MS 92, 1901

Here's my favorite EGW quote of all time:

"As a people we are certainly in great danger if we are not constantly gaurded, of considering our own ideas, because long cherished, to be Bible doctrines and on every point infallible, and measuring everyone by the rule of our interpretation of Bible truth. This is our danger, and this would be the greatest evil that could ever come to us as a people." 1888 materials Vol. 2, p 830

One thing that got me out of Adventism is that they don't believe their own stuff. I tried to talk to so many Adventists about this when still in the church. They simply don't care. So, I asked them, where is your truth? They do not know. The mainstream Adventist is very confused and very lost in my opinion.

Hope you enjoyed this, it is purely for your entertainment.

steve
Flyinglady
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Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 1:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If I did not laugh I would cry. I would cry for those caught in adventism. So I continue to pray for them.
Diana

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