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Seventh-day Adventists claim to be the pure church because all our doctrines and practices are understood from the Bible.  "Thus saith the Lord" is a requirement.  "It is written" is a must. We also understand that other denominations are impure because they have redefined Sabbath and baptism.  maybe for reasons of convenience or previous unsubstantiated practice they resort to defending their practices instead of going back to the Bible.  So others have the wrong sabbath (spurious sabbath according to egw) and also the wrong mode of baptism.  But adventists are not like them.  In their defense of their practices they call themselves "apostolic church" meaning giving themselves license to redefine things like how apostles added or redefined things in the new testament.  This is very dangerous position. However there seem to be current threats to the purity of the Seventh-day adventist church with regarding to the definitions of women elders and wom...

Response to challenges with understanding the Trinity (a response to anti-trinitarians) hello to all,  i've been hearing a lot of commotion about trinity and anti-trinitarian ideas from many in facebook and in real life so here are the points that help me understand the idea: 1. God does not fit in any language or even in all the languages combined.  greek, hebrew, aramaic, english, tagalog and others cannot fully express God, because these are human languages. 2. God does not fit in mathematics.  God is not limited by humanly-known mathematics. 3. Humans have limited capabilities and understanding.  Nobody claims to know everything, therefore nobody can claim total knowledge of a subject. 4. The Bible gives us many clues about God, but it is written in human language, by human penmen. 5. Despite of all of these limitations, there is still no better source of literature about God than the Bible. 6. Debates are mostly definition disputes.  Words ...

Read-ahead buffer - Gospel for Techies Hello friends, this is Win of Gospel for Techies our idea for today is about Read-Ahead or the read-ahead buffer. Some people are at a disadvantage because they do guesswork. Guesswork which could have been done more properly if they actually just took PRIOR time to read. Or Read-Ahead. Manuals are there, API documentations, examples, books, and all sorts of material or literature about some product, some process, some interface, some hardware, some abstraction, some design, some theory, or some other kind of thing... on the gospel side, the bible is our manual for user, it is the API of life for programmers, and the manpages for sysads, the protocol for network people, and the RFC or standard or spec for most other things. Reading ahead gives us advantage so we don't cram. Bible ideas are an advantage if they are in our cached memory compared to being back there in disk or in optical or worse in the ...

update below... ----------- original artile -------------------- Ellen G. White strongly discourages Life Insurance.  BRI seem to refutes it or tries to neutralize some points. https://text.egwwritings.org/ publication.php?pubtype=Book& bookCode=1T&lang=en& collection=2&section=all& pagenumber=549&QUERY=1t+549 https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/materials/adventist-heritage-practical-christian-living/seventh-day-adventists-and-life-insurance Question 1: Does means invested in insurance go to enemy ranks instead of gospel work? (not addressed by BRI aritcle.). Tip 1: maybe, specially if the insurer is not adventist, or the insurer reinsures itself or the policies (back insuring) to non-sda institutions. Question 2: (BRI article assumes financial workings of life insurance companies are better today). Does EGW's comment still matter now? Tip 2: type "insurance fiascos" in google.  https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=insurance+fiascos Com...

Video/Computer  Games - Bible and SOP ideas on it Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Psalm 11:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Deuteronomy 22:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. - practicing killing makes you good at killing ... someday 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes Abstain from every form of evil. 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Psalm 101:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes I will not set before my...

Video/Computer  Games - Bible and SOP ideas on it Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Psalm 11:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Deuteronomy 22:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. - practicing killing makes you good at killing ... someday 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes Abstain from every form of evil. 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Psalm 101:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes I will not set before my...

Video/Computer  Games - Bible and SOP ideas on it Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Psalm 11:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Deuteronomy 22:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. - practicing killing makes you good at killing ... someday 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes Abstain from every form of evil. 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Psalm 101:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes I will not set before my...