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Why I Don't Monetize My Ministry Youtube Channel With Advertisements

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?

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

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