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On Sunday’s lesson in the Sabbath School quarterly titled “Images from Marriage” (April 12-18), it ends with, “Here are three principles for marriage. First, forgive your spouse, however undeserving, just as Christ forgives us, however undeserving. Second, accept your spouse, faults and all. Third, just as Christ put us before Himself, put your spouse before yourself. How could all three of these gospel-based principles help us not only to understand how God relates to us but also to help any marriage?” See: https://atoday.org/rare-disclaimer-from-sabbath-school-quarterly-addresses-domestic-violence/ For comments on the above see: https://www.facebook.com/AToday.org/posts/pfbid02tMHATRmm9LMaFXTiZchoa9LC66YXnipbr3EwfkkPXHdFTE5jiFViwKhMjwK5whPjl

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Scott Maxwell: From homeless to hired. Orlando’s innovative hiring plan Years ago, Calvin Thomas would escape the rigors of life by visiting Disney World — but not the way most people do. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/05/09/orlando-hiring-homeless-first-step-maxwell/?

This is so stupid. I am so disgusted. Absolutely no VALID reason for keeping those figures under their hat. Every day, it's something new. 🙄

Processed food & Parkinson's A hot dog with ketchup, a side of chips and a soda — sounds delicious, right? Too much ultraprocessed food like this could more than double your risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. It’s another sign that what you eat may influence the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

Ten changes need to happen before Canada can be considered the 51st state. Then we can talk. 1. Lower the crime rate to match that of Canada. 2. Increase education levels to align with Canadian standards. 3. Stop glorifying individuals who resort to violence, heroes are not those who kill the most.. 4. Eliminate the practice of bankrupting people due to healthcare costs. 5. Ensure that at least one capital city has all unarmed police officers. 6. Refrain from interfering in other countries' elections. 7. Reduce drug-related issues to be equal to or lower than those in Canada. 8. Don't create more wars than Russia or China. 9. Live the words that are written on the Statue of Liberty 10 Lower the mass shooting to the Canadian level. Now, is that so hard?

The US needs to upgrade, Canada doesn't want to downgrade.

Tomas Halik is a Roman Catholic Priest who served his Church well in a time of great stress. Recently, he has written the book The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change. Reinder Bruinsma examines that book in the following article. But, Dr. Bruinsma goes beyond a critique of the Roman Catholic Church and suggests that the message of Halik's book applies to the Seventh-day Adventist Chruch. https://atoday.org/the-afternoon-of-adventism/

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, Adventist Today will host a Zoom Conference on the use that EGW made of the writings of other people. The following link will take you to an article that will inform you of this conference and provide you with the codes that will allow you to join and participate in that conference. The Conference will begin at 10:30 AM Pacific time, 1:30 PM Eastern time. Donald McAdams has a strong background in early SDA research on this subject. https://atoday.org/atss-donald-mcadams-a-review-of-the-ellen-white-revisionist-history-since-1970/

🇨🇦 "Never." Canada "is not for sale," nor will it be, Prime Minister Mark Carney told Trump in the Oval Office today. "Never say never," Trump said. "Never," Carney replied. 👀 What we're watching: Trump said nothing Carney offered today would prompt him to lift tariffs on Canada, which have prompted the country to vocally pursue a foreign and economic policy that is less tethered to the U.S. Go deeper.

New American Standard Bible This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. As to how it will go? We don't know. If I had told you 30 years ago, that there will be hundreds (many thousands) of people preaching the gospel in all different languages, on video, on the internet, you would have said that is crazy. A Google search for "Gospel of Jesus" shows About 381,000,000 web pages. There are probably some using radio. Today, there is almost no corner of the world that some missionaries are not working. Perhaps not that many in Muslim countries, but there is radio and internet. Seems to me that prophecy has been fulfilled.

Two, the same hermeneutics of Historism, however, as you ask about how it has been taught by Historicists for centureis, there were things that were lost over the centuries that archaeologists and linguists have only discovered over the past 170 years or so, especially over the past century, and we cannot hold them to the points that they did not have availble to them that we now have.

Yes, however, even more accurate is to remove the word "and" and just leave a dash "Evenings-Mornings" This indicates cyclic time based on the evenings and mornings of creation week; and the cycles we find in Leviticus 23 and 25 which we also find here and there in Deuteronomy. Leviticus 23 and 25 have the cyclic week of six days plus the Sabbath, six months and either Passover or Yom Kippur, six years and the Sabbatical year, and in Leviticus but NOT in Deuteronomy, six Sabbatical years and the Jubilee. Thus the Hebrew cycles are day=month=year= (in Leviticus only, but not Deuteronomy) Sabbatical year. Thus the cycles we can use in Daniel 8:14 would be days, month and/or years (Since Daniel is based on Deuteronomy, and was a student of Jeremiah, who there is evidence that Jeremiah was likely the Deuteronomic Historian and possibily the final editor of Moses, the book of the law, into our Deuteronomy, we need to limit the 2300 evenings-mornings cycles to days, months, or years.) Some people want to fit it into the two sacrifices and thus 1150 days and apply it to Antiochus Epiphanes. However, while it fit's him a little better than 2300 days, they still do not fit well (conservative commentaries tend to over look this, more liberal commentaries tend not to.) However, the term for the sacrifices are "Morning and Evening" I've read a couple of commentaries that said that the writer of Daniel was clearly Dyslexic because he meant to write "Morning and Evening" but his dyslexia caused him to write it "Evenings-Mornings." putting the two words in oposite locations and forgetting the word "and". There is evidence that supports the Adventist understanding of Daniel 8:14. However, it turns out that one of these pieces of evidence that I had learned from years ago has not stood up as we learn more. I just want to be honest and not leave out there outdated information. It's been said that a medical professor would start out the first day for that school's med students with the phrase "Half of what you learn from me and in these next 4 years of medical school will be wrong, however, we do not yet know which half." and one of my professors used to say "Students often ask me if I'll give the same final exam that I gave the last semester. I reply 'yes, but that does not mean that you can take that exam and not study, because while the questions do not change the answers may change as we learn more." Now, if the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the 2300 Evenings-Mornings did not have merrit, we would find little if any evidence supporting it, and much evidence against it. However, there is a fair amount of evidence to indicate that we are on the right track. And over the years more evidence has come to support it, this is just one piece of evidence that, at least current information and understanding of the information, indicates that we can no longer list this among the evidence.

NOTE: Gustave is correct: "Evenings and mornings" is a more accurate translation. SDA publications have recognized this for many years. Whether the typical SDA member is aware to this is going to vary from person to person.

Bob, how about an update?

To some degree? The food is poisoned, the water, the air. More people on Medicine. Then there are the videos, music, ChatGPT. I would say some are very poisoned.

I am in my 80's and in reasonably good health. My brain is still active, even if it is somewhat diminished. I have reasonably good physical health. However, I am having problems with my vision. I receive regular eye injections, which were not on my list of things that I wanted do in life. I am aware that my published posts may contain typos that I have not seen. I work on it, but I have not resolved the issue. I have decided that I will not let that stop me from posting. God does not require perfection. If there is anything of value in my posts, God will use them despite my imperfections. Gregory Matthews

Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Bush nominee who veered to the left, dies at 85 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/politics/souter-supreme-court-dies?

Former Detroit Tigers star and Eustis coach Chet Lemon dies at 70 CHICAGO (AP) — Chet Lemon, a three-time All-Star outfielder who helped the Detroit Tigers win the 1984 World Series, has died after a lengthy battle with blood cancer. He was 70. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/05/08/chet-lemon-a-star-on-the-detroit-tigers-1984-championship-team-dies-at-70/?