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Adventist Today and Spectrum are two independent publications that do not officially speak for the SDA Church. Each informs as to news that is not easily available, and each evaluates the SDA Church. Both publish a journal that is sent to a few people. Both publish on the Internet that is available to a much larger group of people. Those two publications are different. On May 17, 2026, Spectrum is expected to post a unique article that differs from its past publications in two aspects. You may read that article at: https://spectrummagazine.org/views/opinion/a-catholic-and-an-adventist-disagree-over-trinity-interpretations-yet-find-friendship-online/ * One of the unusual aspects is that the article was written by two different people. I am only one of those people. * The second unique aspect of that article is that the second author is a devout Roman Catholic ho posts on Club Adventist under the name Gustave. Here he freely posts his overall thinking of Adventism. My position is that it is helpful to understand how other people think about us. NOTE: I have decided to unlock this thread even though the article has not yet been posted. I expect that it will be posted later today--Sunday, the 17th.

I agree that God's eternity is essential. Thanks for adding it.

Intellectual integrity in Adventist scholarship is examined in the following article by a Seminary scholar: https://spectrummagazine.org/views/columns/what-of-intellectual-integrity/

Have you ever thought what your life would be like if you could no longer drive an automobile? For the past 6-months, I have been involved in an extensive conversation with the State of California, as to whether or not I would be allowed to drive an automobile. * This has involved examinations and reports from two eye doctors. * it has involved multiple trips to a local DMV office to resolve/respond to issues. * Yesterday it came to an end with a 30-minute driving test, on the highway, and in local residential areas, under close supervision. * Any failure on a list of critical issues would immediately result in a total failure to pass the examination. * I would be tested multiple times on minor issues, regardless of whether or not I failed on any of them. * A passing score of no more than 20 minor failures was required. * In addition, I was questioned on my knowledge of how to operate the vehicle that I was driving. Note: The DMV person knew more about how my vehicle operated than I did. * My physicians had recommended that i be restricted to only driving during daylight hours and to only a 2-year extension of my license. NOTE: It could be more restrictive. I PASSED WITH ONLY 10 MINOR FAILURES! THE RECOMMENDED RESTRICTIONS WERE ACCEPTED. I AM SO THNKFULE. I do not know how I would have survived with a total loss. Although, in most months I do not drive more than 10 miles. My wife is more restrictive.

I would have to lean towards that, and going about and am telling everyone we are near...

There are only two movements in Christianity today with spiritual force behind it, Adventism and the church of Rome. The others are letting go of their foundations and drifting towards Rome or worse..

The actress, Lara Silva, gets into character and puts on an incredible performance. She nails all the gestures. Her facial expressions are just the beginning of the body language. She also displays a powerful woman which is a model of a what it means to be a woman of faith. When Peter confesses to her that he is in trouble, she demands to know where is his faith. His solution is to violate the Sabbath and she isn't having any of it. She scolds him for trying to fix everything himself instead of depending on God. She tells him the reason he is stuck and feels desperate is because he has not been looking to God for answers. The she says, "No more talking. Maybe God can get your attention now." BOOM! So many times it has taken some tragic event in my life for God to get my attention. I have been in Peter's place. And, in my case, I didn't need an "Eden" to tell me. I knew God wanted my attention.

Simon looked to self to resolve his problem while Eden looked to God. Simon went out to the sea alone to fish all night. Eden prayed and sought help from the community. God is a resource for His people. God also works through the family of faith to provide for His children. Eusebius cites Clement that Simon Peter watched his wife be taken to execution shortly before he was executed. Peter is said to have rejoiced that she was faithful until death and encouraged her by telling her to remember the Lord. We know that most of what we watch in The Chosen is added by its writers and is not directly from the Bible. The lessons being taught is what we look to as Biblical. In this episode, Eden's faith is contrast against Simon's self-sufficiency. In the end, we see God answered Eden's prayers.

My life was changed by a part of one sentence "Our Father, who art in heaven...."

I also found this interesting: https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/under-siege-how-rome-conquered-jerusalem/final-bar-spring-2026-indd-2/ https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/under-siege-how-rome-conquered-jerusalem/ And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada

The Star of Bethlehem is one of the most amazing things I've looked into and there is an Evangelical man who I believe put it together in a way that's very understandable.

The following article is sobering and should be read by every Adventist. https://spectrummagazine.org/views/a-look-at-school-loans-and-the-adventist-context/

How some modern Christian theories overwrite the secular trauma of the Holocaust to fit a particular theological end-times timeline. The post The Erasure of the Boxcars appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

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When God brought Israel out of bondage, He implemented laws which some might consider draconian. Various offenses were punishable by death. There was no freedom of religion or speech, for that matter. Illegitimate children were to be aborted. A potion was administered by a priest to that end. Sexual immorality was punishable by death. A system, cities of refuge, was devised to deal with murderers, for which execution was commanded. Homosexuality was explicitly forbidden, no doubt because it was practiced in Egypt. Even with a system like this, the people were ultimately all killed. A new nation was brought forth. Many of the things which God punished with death are now openly practiced in America. A China-Russia military alliance could be as devastating to America as Babylon or Rome was to Israel. People worry about the shaking. There are other things to be concerned about.

I am a lay evangelist, so mission is important to me.

GC EXCOM voted to confirm the dates for the 63rd GC Session, scheduled for June 20–29, 2030, in Indianapolis, Indiana. GC President Köhler said the dates were set slightly earlier than usual to reduce travel challenges and avoid major holidays and peak travel periods. The goal, he noted, is to ease flight congestion, lower costs, and improve logistics for international delegates attending one of the denomination’s largest global gatherings. The decision also builds on earlier plans for Indianapolis to host the 2020 session, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, preparations were already underway. “We were just a few short months away[…]and then COVID-19 shut down everything,” GC Associate Treasurer Sabrina D’Souza recalled while presenting the motion. She framed the 2030 session as both a return to those plans and a continuation of the church’s regular global meetings. During the discussion, a question was raised about whether future sessions could be held outside the US. Responding, Köhler said leaders are already considering options for the 2035 session. “We are evaluating different locations[…]United States [and] outside of the United States,” he said, noting that decisions will take into account visa access, transportation, costs, and infrastructure. He added that, as a global church, future sessions will aim to better serve members from all regions. --------------------- There were many problems leaving the last session from that small airport. Many complaints. By 2035 two giant airports will be open in Asia. One in the Philippines is under construction and it is planned to have 4 active runways. The largest amount in the world.

But for now, we can have a round of 'Happy Sabbath' this Sabbath, 'Feliz Sabbado' for Spanish, or even 'Shabbat Shalom' which is the traditional Hebrew greeting means "Sabbath [of] peace" and is used to wish someone a restful and peaceful Sabbath. Commonly used from Friday sundown to Saturday evening, or in the hours leading up to the Sabbath, as a blessing for wholeness, well-being, and a taste of the "World to Come". Or a "Gut Shabbos" (Yiddish for "Good Sabbath") or the Aramaic "Shabbata tava" this Sabbath.

This is common throughout the world. The church members have no common purpose. In churches where they know their mission, there is no growth problem. Once, after many months, I convince a district pastor with 12 churches, the importance of community service as a mission. Then his wife was transferred to another island and he went with her. Churches without a mission, stumble along. It is not a simple thing to get the local church into mission mode.

Real problem with the denominational set up is that church administrators hold the purse strings. Scholars are not free to do what they are paid to do, i.e., search/teach the Scriptures. Graham Maxwell was at LLU at the same time as Elder Heppenstall. According to an oral history recited by Dr. Maxwell at an AAF meeting, both he and Dr. Heppenstall were frequently called into administration to answer criticisms of what they were teaching. This was largely because of students complaints. They had no appetite for something new or different from what they already believed. True scholars do more than simply affirm what their students already believe. The parameters of their teaching were defined by the administration, i.e.,don't rock the boat. Both Maxwell and Heppenstall learned who their "masters" were at Loma Linda; consequently, they had to craft their teaching to fit boundaries marked by the administration. Recently, a young pastor left the work over the seal of God. This is not even a fundamental belief. From what I learned of the problem, he was correct. His emphasis differed from SDA tradition, which identifies the Sabbath as the seal of God. The evidence for this is extremely thin. The testimony regarding the Holy Spirit as the seal is quite clear. Scholars know this, if they deserve to be called scholars. Dr. Fortin stated the matter clearly "The preamble to the Adventist Fundamental Beliefs document states that these beliefs may be revised as the Holy Spirit guides the church, but in reality, professors sense that honest discussions about revising any belief are perceived as contrary to the faith" i.e., their salary, benefits, career will be jeopardized.

For those of you may face needing to take such a test, or have a relative who faces such an issue, the driving test will be scored on the California forum, Supplemental/Area Driving Performance Evaluation Score Sheet. You may download a PDF copy of that score sheet at the following link. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/uploads/2020/05/SupplementalArea-Driving-Performance-Evaluation-Score-Sheet-Sample.pdf * The Pre-drive Check List section is just to assure the DMV person that you have the required knowledge to be driving the vehicle. * One failure in the Critical Driving Error section results in a total test failure. The rest of the sheet consists of how you typically drive. One can pass the test with no more than 20 errors in these sections. It should be noted that the majority of the issues are tested multiple times. This establishes whether the issue is habitual or a one-time failure.

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Not sure how you got to that..

I had a hip replaced over 12 years ago and was on my feet that same afternoon Another hip replacement coming in July. All goes well as most hip replacements usually do,I am expected to be released and walk out of the hospital the same day

The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, and the reaction broke cleanly along familiar lines: civil rights organizations declared the death of the… The post The Map Was Always Political: The Supreme Court’s Callais decision and the gerrymandering it already blessed appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

AI Generated for illustration purposes The political logic is not subtle. The administration is several months into a war with Iran that the public has soured on, with one recent… The post Perry Stone, Larry Ragland, and the Closed-Door UFO Briefing Nobody Will Name appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Haym Solomon died penniless in January 1785, having spent the last years of his life bankrolling a revolution that could not afford to pay him back. He had bribed his… The post Who Was Haym Solomon? The Jewish Financier Who Saved the American Revolution appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

In 2017, spectrum published an article on Denominational Authority, written by Dr. George Knight. It is long, but instructive for issues that we face today. https://spectrummagazine.org/views/catholic-or-adventist-ongoing-struggle-over-authority-95-theses/

The only significant development in Adventist church structure since 1901/1903 took place in 1918 with the creation of world divisions of the General Conference. But it should be noted that the divisions are not conferences with their own constituencies but parts of the General Conference administration that represent the central body in various parts of the world.56 I never knew that. Very interesting.

Psychologists tell us we should not compare our self to others. However, I have been doing it for years. I was often concerned how long I would live and looked to my fathers health and my brother. Both are dead now for a while. I am the only Adventist in the family. Now in my Seventies, I think about my brothers health and my father's health at my current age. Both of them were sick and going down hill. My brother, a smoker until death was wheelchair bound by this age. I praise God for my great health and for the Adventist message that placed such a focus on health. The difference between me and them is astonishing. I continue to learn how to be a healthier person. I continue to make lifestyle changes to become healthier. If I compare my Adventist lifestyle to others (Americans) I know who are non Adventists, I can see a huge difference. The blue zone is not about a location, It's about a lifestyle and the blessing from God.

This is one of the top growth areas in PH. This is the largest populations of Muslims in PH. People in these ares are more religious in general than the northern richer areas.

"To be precise: the United States government cannot silence the pope, and it cannot silence any other religious leader." Actually, it can. Popes have been "silenced" in the past. The best known example was Napoleon's general arresting, in 1809, Pius VI, holding him until he died in captivity. Clement VII was captured by the troops of Emperor Charles V in 1527, required to pay a large ransom for his life. Henry IV attacked Rome in ~1081 and drove the pope from his throne. Popes are not invincible. As heads of state, they are legitimate military targets.

The administration is months into an unpopular war and needs a distraction. The UFOs and aliens are the distraction. The pastors are the war game. The post Perry Stone, Larry Ragland, and the Closed-Door UFO Briefing Nobody Will Name appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Excellent posts Kevin! I went to GNYA with Jon, what a great guy! And not least of all one dedicated Christian!!!

Here is an excellent post from Jon Paulines blog on the current situation between Trump and the Pope: Jon Paulien's Blog · TBOA Headquarters

So do I. The office of the Papacy played a large role in the 5th head of the beast of Revelation 13, this was focused upon in the Protestant Reformation but who continued the same beastly principles of the 5th head, but which lead to events in the Americas that moved us from the 5th head to the 6th head. Mrs. White started on this information but moved beyond it and used it as an example to point us towards what is coming up in the 7th head. Sadly, most Adventists hold back to the 5th head, and don't just see the office of the papacy that had a large role in the 5th head, but see the papacy as the entire beast, and expect the future to not move on to the 7th head but to simply return to the 5th head and the Pope playing the central role. As a review of the 7 heads based on the research of George McCready Price, and the 1976 Southern New England Campmeeting, and I understand these to be combatable to ignored insights that Stephen Haskell and Perri Windandi (spelling?) points out abut the 7 parts of the image in Daniel 2: 1. Babylon 2. Medio-Persia 3. Greece 4. Rome 5. Feet of Iron and Clay: Clay in the Bible represents what God molds and works with. However in this 5th period we find the clay not being molded by God but being molded by the iron, the state; thus indicates a church/state situation. We find historically after the Roman Empire we find church/state enforced religion over the empire. In the Middle East it became Islam (Mohammad could well have had a true conversion, wanted to go to the God of the Bible from polytheism. Was living in harsh desert conditions, saw that Judaism was incomplete without Jesus, but Christians had such veneration to not only the trinity, but also to Mary and the saints, and did not see much of a difference between all this veneration and polytheism. He fought defensive wars. After he died his followers formed two major divisions with several minor subdivisions within the two major divisions. They also became agressive conversion by sword. ) A bit farther west it was Eastern Orthodox, then Western Orthodox or Roman Catholism. Eventually there were reformed Roman Catholics i.e. Protestantism, then small communities of Judaism. Each of these had their own areas of geographic rule in union of church state. Your religion was where you lived. If you wanted a different faith you were subject to persecution and death. 6. Toes of Iron and Clay: Much of the imagration to the Americas were people wanting to get a piece of land for their specific religion. This started some changes in thinking. The state of Maryland was a Roman Catholic state for refuge of Roman Catholics from persecution from the Church of England. They did something amazing in their first settlement which grew out of how the pain from the choices of the oneness of church/state affected them in England: On one side of town they built all the public buildings. Then came the homes, then on the OTHER SIDE of town they built their church. Roger Williams had the crazy idea of liberty of conscience. There is debate between whether William Penn also believed in liberty of conscience, or did he try to make Pennsylvania a piece of property for the church state for Quakers and did not find enough Quakers to come, but either way Penn also went for liberty of conscience. As the United States formed, they did not have a one government church state, but they had many local church states even by communities. Around this time was also the French Revolution where they changed their church/state from Roman Catholic to Atheistic Humanism. When Thomas Jefferson became President he wantes all of America to become like Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. People wondered if this would turn America into the same secular Atheistic Humanism as France. People hid their Bibles and expected persecution like back in Europe. Churches worried that they could not exist without the tax dollars. However, Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state ended up giving the church more freedom than she ever had. America became an open marketplace for ideas, including religious ideas. People would hear different ideas and incorporate in their lives what made the most sense. This gave America her greatness and made her Lamblike. But some things, such as how she treated the natives and slavery was a way of speaking like the dragon. From Thomas Jefferson through Jimmy Carter, liberty of conscience rulled the day. Even John Kennedy understood the difference between being the Roman Catholic candadate and being an American candadate who happens to worship in the Roman Catholic Church. The "beast" has a deadly wound as there is not one great empire rulling over most of God's people, but a bunch of independent nations. The American and French revolutions influenced the divisions. Some offering more freedom, others more control. The crowns are on the horns rather than a head. (Unlike our art work, the 10 horns are only on the deadly wound or 6th head, then shared with the 7th head.) 7. The Deadly Wound beng healed, the toes attempting to join together: In a lot of ways, the dragon and beast are opposites. The dragon is direct demonic activity based on the first deception of Lucifer that God really is not God but only a higher life form using the claim to be God to place a law over us to keep us from evolving to that high life form. That we should be a law unto ourselves. Do your own thing. You have your truth and I have mine. Your subjective existential experience is your source of truth and the final authority. (You end up becoming a slave to your feelings.) The beast is any organization that we allow to control our life. The beast tells us what to believe and what to do and we obey. The organization becomes the final authority. Starting with Ronald Reagan there was a preference shown to Evangelical Christianity. In reaction the far left began to show preference for the religion of secular humanism. The one more beast like, the other more dragon like. The second beast of Revelation 13, which we apply to the United States will get to where it is doing more speaking like the dragon, or more of a lean towards secularism, and in reaction, feeling that the freedoms in America are going too far, especially for unwanted people and thus it forms an image to the beast. Some will agree (and thus taking the mark in their foreheads) others who dissagree will find it to their advantage to simply go along with it (and thus taking the mark in their right hand). Revelation teaches that the 7th head is different from the first six. They were formed by warfare, conquest or revolution. The 7th head is the horns uniting under economic cooperation. Ellen White seems to expect the Pope to play a role, and we see it as growing more to the role the moral voice of this great economic state. With in receint weeks of this posting the Pope warned about war and kindness to strangers within our gates, and the President and Vice President (with the Vice President being a Roman Catholic) is telling the pope to submit to his place in the pecking order. The "merchants of the earth" or corporations will play the major part, and their agreement with the dragon that the final truth is what they feel like doing; but they appear to stand up as the hero for a section of Protestants, not realizing how this will backfire on them, and I fear that too many Seventh-day Adventists are so focused on the Pope being the center of everything and so focused on specifically Sunday Laws, that Satan will offer us his deceptions in a way where enforced religion seems to be on our side so that, as long as it is not directly Sunday laws, it is acceptable, and thus numb us for whenever what ever role the Sabbath/Sunday issue will show up. (What if there is debate, where in the Christian world there is a focus on Sabbath and Sunday, maybe chance for Sunday laws, but it does not fully make it into law?) I'm afraid of all who support this developmenting of the 7th head. Give me Roman Catholics who set up that first community in Maryland of the public buildings on the one side of town, then the homes, then the church on the otherside of town. Give me a Roman Catholic with the views of Church and State that President Kennedy held, and I will feel safe. Give us a sub-set of Protestants who do not see this and I am scared, but looking for the blessed hope.

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill has cleared both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and what it says, stripped of the parliamentary language and the press releases,… The post Britain’s Smoke-Free Generation appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

This July, the United States turns 250 years old, and the party will include a notable guest: the King of England. Not just any king, either, but the direct heir… The post Two Kings, 250 Years Apart: What the Crown Could Do Then, and What It Can Do Now appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

A 17-agency panel documents 14 key findings ranging from selective FACE Act prosecutions to IRS viewpoint discrimination in 565 page report released today A federal task force established under President… The post Federal Task Force Releases Report Alleging Systematic Anti-Christian Bias Under Biden Administration appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Gustave, I agree. Let's step back a moment and survey the damage done in the Middle East recently. As I watch smuggled videos about Israel, it appears the area above ground is 90% destroyed. Gaza is destroyed, Lebanon is pretty much destroyed. Syria is pretty much destroyed. Iran has been damaged, but it is hard to tell how much. However, things are not over, and I think it is likely to be destroyed like the others. In our lifetime, or the last 250 years, we have never seen war and destruction like this in the Middle East. The destruction is almost as complete as Europe in the 1940s. This is very historic. The Middle East will not recover economically for another 20-30 or 40 years, if the pattern of post-war Europe is followed. What does this mean? Many people are focusing on the trees and not seeing the forest or the future.

The Nimrud Letters The royal archives of the Assyrian Empire https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/nimrud-letters/? Galatians 3:28—Neither Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, Male and Female How would we live together in an ideal society? https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/galatians-3-28/?

Monumental Fossil Discovery Roughly 3,000 pounds of fossils and rock have been unearthed at Dinosaur National Monument, the National Park Service said yesterday. The discovery marks the first excavation in over 100 years at the national park straddling Utah and Colorado. The fossil trove was accidentally discovered during a parking lot construction project near the Quarry Exhibit Hall, where visitors can see roughly 1,500 dinosaur bones encased in a rock face. Paleontologists believe the new fossils belong to a large long-necked dinosaur—most likely a Diplodocus. The extinct genus is thought to have had scales patterned in a range of dark colors, similar to those of modern reptiles and birds, according to a recent study analyzing fossilized skin samples from another site in Montana. Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915 to protect 80 acres around the Carnegie Quarry—a rock formation that yielded over 350 tons of fossils in the early 20th century. The park has since been expanded to include over 210,000 acres. Explore the best resources we've found on dinosaurs here.