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1. Immediate burial (skip embalming, skip viewing, skip cremation)  https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/10/48704#:~:text=immediate 2. Government assistance. DSWD https://pia.gov.ph/features/2023/10/31/how-to-get-help-from-dswd-when-a-loved-one-dies https://aics.dswd.gov.ph/funeral-assistance/    3. Borrow casket from local church Someone donated caskets to our local church to help the poor. They can be rented from funeral houses.  https://www.google.com/search?q=casket+rental 4. Public cemetery 5. (almost) Free venue for viewing (church) https://blogs.funerallink.com.ph/five-ways-to-help-you-save-money-on-funeral-expenses/ 6. like Jesus 7. Ellen G. White says avoid funeral extravagance https://text.egwwritings.org/read/84.1960#:~:text=extravagant%20expense%20incurred%20in%20returning%20their%20bodies%20to%20the%20dust 8. ChatGPT says: https://chat.openai.com/share/fae8613f-0e3d-4516-93ed-bca3afae516b Reducing burial and funeral expenses can be a sensitive yet practi

There is a Creator. ChatGPT is a creature/creation created by humans.  Humans are creation by God. There is a Creator. AI didn't exist by itself over billions of years. Our brains capacity are like laptops & desktops w/c we carry around compared to the supercomputer of OpenAI, Meta, Google, etc.... God is the supercomputer we connect/pray to. Coz our smaller computers have limits. God is the Super Intelligence. [my laptop has 4 cpu cores and 768 gpu cores. openai has 285,000 cpu cores and 160million gpu cores (10k gpus of 16k cores each)] Human brain has 86 billion neurons. Continuous lifelong training. 100 billion neurons at birth. What you expose yourself to trains you. "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes" Psalm 101:3. "by beholding we become changed into the same image” 2 Corinthians 3:18 AI models have different strengths. Humans have different talents. Training starts at birth/conception. All sensory inputs are ingested as data. ChatGPT trained only

tips how to avoid washing dishes on Sabbath 1. buy more plates. plastic plates are cheap 2. use banana leaves instead of normal plates 3. use disposable plastic to wrap plates 4. use paper plates 5. if avoiding cockroaches, soak used plates in soap water 6. don't finish food in your plate and keep the remainder in refrigerator on the same plate to be reheated next mealtime "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:  10 But the seventh day  is  the sabbath of the LORD thy God:  in it  thou shalt not do any work" Exodus 20:9 Sabbath   Dishes .--We would charge all not to wash their  dishes  on the  Sabbath  if this can possibly be avoided. God is dishonored by any unnecessary work done on His holy day. It is not inconsistent, but proper, that the  dishes  should be left unwashed till the close of the  Sabbath , if this can be managed.--Letter 104, 1901. { 3SM 258.4 } https://winelfredpasamba.blogspot.com/2014/09/tips-how-to-avoid-cooking-on-sabbath.html  71+ tips how

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 1. from EGW Comprehensive Index ------------------ Drum, Drums demonstrations using, before the close of probation Mar 234:1 fanatics used 2SM 36 ------------------ 2.  "It is not safe for the Lord's workers to take part in worldly entertainments. Association  with  worldliness in musical lines is looked upon as harmless  by some Sabbathkeepers. But such ones are on dangerous ground. Thus Satan seeks to lead men and women astray , and thus he has gained control of souls. So smooth, so plausible is the working of the enemy that his wiles are not suspected , and many church members become lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."--Manuscript 82, 1900. {3SM 332.2} some 11 million associations between drums and sorcery some 3 million associations between drums and witchcraft some 8 million associations between drums and spiritualism "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Ex 22:18  'A man

Galatians 1:7-9 "Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to  distort the gospel  of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed." Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word , it is because there is no light in them . Idea Biblical definition / prescription / instruction / command "according to Word" Isaiah 8:20 "Distortions" / "Pervertions"  Galatians 1:7-9 / Tradition Salvation by grace, thru faith, not of yourselves (Ephesians 2:8) by works/offerings Forgiveness / confession of sin free (Isaiah 1:18), only God (Mark 2:7) payment, humans can forgive sin Baptism immersion (Matthew 3:16-17) sprinkling Marriage Man and woman (1 Corinthians 6:9) same sex marriage Sabbath 7th day (Genesis 1, Exodus 20:8-12) 1st day, 6th day Food Clean (Leviticus 11) unclean pork, cont

Problem http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/27-21.htm#:~:text=Coffee https://www.pastortedwilson.org/is-it-proper-to-drink-coffee/ Solutions to keep awake: drink water to keep awake: eat apple to increase intelligence: study of God's Word Psalm 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: For thy testimonies are my meditation. https://ignitestudentlife.com/5-ways-to-stay-awake-without-coffee/ "There is nothing more calculated to energize the mind and strengthen the intellect than the study of the Word of God."--CT 460. {PM 292.3} "Chap. 81 - The Value of Bible Study The study of the Bible is superior to all other study in strengthening the intellect. What fields of thought the youth may find to explore in the word of God! The mind may go deeper and still deeper in its research, gathering strength with every effort to comprehend truth; and yet there is an infinity beyond." {MYP 253.1}

Seventh-day Adventist Stand Identification / Classification of Genre / Categorization Possible Solution Ideal Solution Related  ----------------------------------------------------- Seventh-day Adventist Stand "2. Reading and music. These same high standards apply to the Christian's reading and music. Music is a gift of God to inspire pure, noble, and elevated thoughts. Good music, then, enhances the finest qualities of character. Debased music, on the other hand, "destroys the rhythm of the soul and breaks down morality." So Christ's followers will shun "any melody partaking of the nature of jazz, rock , or related hybrid forms, or any language expressing foolish or trivial sentiments."17 The Christian does not listen to music with suggestive lyrics or melodies (Rom. 13:11-14; 1 Peter 2:11).18" http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/27-21.htm#:~:text=music    3. Unacceptable activities.  Adventists also teach that gambling, card playing, theater g

Bible 2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be  lovers of their own selves , covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. John 12:25 He that  loveth his life  shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. comparisons / indirect ? Ephesians 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his  own  flesh; but  nourisheth  and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt  love  thy neighbour  as thyself . Ephesians 5:28 ... He that loveth his wife  loveth himself . EGW (to affirm understanding of

Since the Sabbath is the memorial of creative power, it is the day above all others when we should acquaint ourselves with God through His works. In the minds of the children the very thought of the Sabbath should be bound up with the beauty of natural things. Happy is the family who can go to the place of worship on the Sabbath as Jesus and His disciples went to the synagogue —across the fields, along the shores of the lake, or through the groves. Happy the father and mother who can teach their children God's written word with illustrations from the open pages of the book of nature ; who can gather under the green trees, in the fresh, pure air, to study the word and to sing the praise of the Father above. {Ed 251.1} As a means of intellectual training, the opportunities of the Sabbath are invaluable. Let the Sabbath-school lesson be learned, not by a hasty glance at the lesson scripture on Sabbath morning, but by careful study for the next week on Sabbath afternoon , with da

  Why teach? Go ye therefore, and  teach  all nations  .. Matthew 28:19 And he said unto me, Thou must  prophesy again  before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Rev 10:11 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but  rather  that ye may  prophesy  1 Cor 14:1 Wherefore, brethren,  covet to prophesy  1 Cor 14:39 Why read all verses? And he[Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and  stood up  for to  read . Luke 4:16 One sentence of Scripture is of  more value than ten thousand of man's ideas  or arguments .--7T 71. {PM 292.4} then our ideas are a waste of time compared to even one bible verse 10,000 x better to read bible than make a speech Why read all all EGW? proven prophet. more reliable than us/me/you. she has passed the biblical tests of a true prophet. "Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established;  believe his prophets , so shall ye prosper."