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Negative (if you elected to have ads) "A great mistake has been made by some who profess present truth, by introducing merchandise in the course of a series of meetings and by their traffic diverting minds from the object of the meetings . If Christ were now upon earth, He would drive out these peddlers and traffickers , whether they be ministers or people, with a scourge of small cords, as when He entered the temple anciently "and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." These traffickers might have pleaded as an excuse that the articles they held for sale were for sacrificial offerings. But their object was to get gain, to obtain means, to accumulate ." {1T 471.2}  "I was shown that if the moral and intellectual faculties had not been clo

Jesus Picture, Idolatry? what BRI says: Artistic representations of Jesus Author: Ángel Manuel Rodríguez I am seeing artistic representations of Jesus in many Adventist churches. Does that violate the second commandment? https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/materials/church/artistic-representations-jesus?fbclid=IwAR220W5NQPLKY6FczNczTKZoM-JdpCvb_rJRyUmjEPbEOpnqE_HBwFYhCjw what EGW says: Selected Messages Book 3 Chapter 45—Balanced Counsel on Picture-making and Idolatry https://m.egwwritings.org/ro/book/100.1970?fbclid=IwAR3RO8m0njWoom18G2fQk9B0_BjIrcFETELZ4lQoJ3lHYzt60gBn9xonqAY#1970 It depends, if you worship it, or there is danger of it being worshipped. like the brazen serpent, ok to look, but a sin to worship. "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. " Numbers 21:9 "He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the g

Can we eat seaweeds, ferns, and mushrooms biblically? Leviticus 11 Summary : If they are clean & safe, Yes. Manna, yeast, and salt, are some things that don't fit it Lev 11's descriptions of clean animals, clean seafood, or fruit and seed bearing plans. Confusions : Seaweeds they are from the sea and rivers, but don't have fish and scales. Mushrooms they are not even plants Ferns they are plants but they are not seed-bearing or fruit-bearing, but multiply by spores Solutions : Manna these are not plants w/c are fruit/seed bearing they are also not from the sea w/ fins and scales they also don't have characteristics of clean animals Yeast / Leaven these are not plants w/c are fruit/seed bearing they are also not from the sea w/ fins and scales they also don't have characteristics of clean animals "A moderate amount of milk and sugar, and a little salt, white bread raised with yeast for a change, graham flour prepared in a

Background We have been trying to bleed the clutch of my brother's Toyota Hiace 1999 for a week now (on our free times during the week).  There was dripping.  I removed the rubber cap but the inside of the cylinder was not wet, the drip was not from the piston rubber, it was from the outside.  I removed the slave from the bolts and found the pipe loose.  I realized the drip was not from the cylinder / piston but from the screw / link of the connecting pipe.  It was not tight because my brother mis-screwed it in, so it was re-creating its own thread.  Since it was already halfway in, I just force-screwed it in with a pipe wrench (because the hex screw had destroyed the bolt).  Until it stopped dripping.  This took the longest because of lack of space. So my dad and I were trying to bleed the clutch after the drip was gone.  We've done this to many of our older vehicles, but this one just didn't work out. So I went and read in the internet, trying to visualize where the

take a weekly Sabbath rest For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: (Exodus 20:8-10) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:24) try to think of something else that doesn't have to do with yourself "As soon as one begins to contemplate his feelings, he is on dangerous ground. If he feels joyous, he is confident he is in a favorable condition, but when a change comes, as it will, for circumstances will be so arranged that feelings of depression wil

Cautions have to be accurate.  "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,  it is  because  there is  no light in them." Isaiah 8:20 punishment for false prophets is death "If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, 'Let us follow other gods' (gods you have not known) 'and let us worship them,' you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. That  prophet or dreamer must be put to death ,  because he preached rebellion against the Lord your God , who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery; he has tri

Cooking on Sabbath for Seventh-day Adventists - Bible, EGW/SOP, Church Documents Bible Manna in Exodus  “Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe ; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.”  16:27 (NIV)  Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.   28  Then the  Lord  said to Moses, “ How long will you [ c ]  refuse to keep my commands  and my instructions?   29  Bear in mind that the  Lord  has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. SOP / EGW Those who neglect to prepare for the Sabbath on the sixth day, and who cook food upon the Sabbath, violate the fourth commandment, and are transgressors of God's law . All who are really anxious to observe the Sabbath according to the commandment, will not cook any food upon the Sabbath. They will, in the fear

Render Settings - Custom Video Format: Quicktime Codec: MPEG4 Video (this is the fastest encoding codec i've tried) (BIGGEST factor) Resolution: lower is faster (but less nice to watch), i use 720p Frame rate: 30 fastest, then 24 still fast, but 23.976 was almost half as the two Quality: doesn't seem to matter in my testing Audio Codec: AAC Data Rate: 128Kb/s with these settings i can get up to 98fps rendering at 100% cpu speed, but due to cpu heat throttling only sustains about 44fps at 50% cpu clock. my laptop is Samsung Series 7 Chronos (i7-3635QM at 2.40Ghz, 8gb ram, Intel HD Graphics 4000 and GeForce GT 640M, 500gb harddisk)

Wearing Makeup -- Related Quotes from Bible and EGW Writings Lev 19:28 Ye shall not ... print any marks upon you : I am the LORD. Jer 4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting , in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. 1Pet 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 1Pet 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit , which is in the sight of God of great price . 2Ki 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face , and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 1Tim 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel , with shamefa