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Filipino teachers going to US/Canada

 It appears you're considering the potential benefits, particularly financial, for teachers from the Adventist Schools in the Philippines to move to the U.S. or Canada, while also being rightly concerned about the negative influences that might affect their children, such as adopting worldly habits like certain clothing styles (short skirts, much makeup) or tattoos. The sources provide significant insight into these considerations from an Adventist perspective, generally discouraging moves primarily for financial gain and highlighting the dangers of worldly influences, especially in large centers , while also emphasizing the missionary call for consecrated teachers . Here's a breakdown of the relevant information from the sources: Concerns about Moving to "The U.S." (Historically, Battle Creek) and Worldly Influences on Children The sources strongly caution against moving to central locations, like Battle Creek (which served as a major Adventist hub in the U.S.), ...

are you perfect???

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  be ye perfect anti: are you perfect? salvation anti: are you saved? ---- what is the term that if someone teaches "be ye therefore perfect" as what the bible says and others retort to "are you perfect?" to enliken to teaching salvation and being questioned "are you saved?" when egw says you cannot say "i am saved" surely unless after glorification. and you also cannot say you're perfect. ---- The dynamic you're describing—when someone teaches the biblical imperative *"Be ye therefore perfect"* (Matthew 5:48), and others respond with *"Are you perfect?"*—is an example of a **"rhetorical trap"** or **"gotcha retort."** It’s often intended to discredit the teaching by highlighting a perceived inconsistency between the ideal being taught and the teacher's personal state. More specifically, this kind of interaction can be labeled as: --- ### 1. **Tu quoque fallacy** ("you too" fallacy) *...

anti-LGT vs EGW Estate

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  Chap. 16. - The Close of Probation No One Knows When Probation Will Close God has not revealed to us the time when this message will close or when probation will have an end. Those things that are revealed we shall accept for ourselves and for our children, but let us not seek to know that which has been kept secret in the councils of the Almighty. . . . {LDE 227.1} Letters have come to me asking me if I have any special light as to the time when probation will close, and I answer that I have only this message to bear, that it is now time to work while the day lasts, for the night cometh in which no man can work.--1SM 191 (1894). {LDE 227.2} Sunday-Law Enforcement Precedes the Close of Probation The Lord has shown me clearly that the image of the beast will be formed before probation closes, for it is to be the great test [SEE THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, WHERE THE GREAT TEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD IS SHOWN TO BE SUNDAY-LAW ENFORCEMENT.] for the people of God, by which 228 their eternal ...