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"You carry matters to extremes and do harm to your own soul and to the truth. YOU MAKE THE TRUTH REPULSIVE AND CAUSE SOULS TO BE AFRAID OF IT. Let love soften your words and give tone to your actions, and you will find a change in those with whom you associate. There will be peace, union, and harmony, instead of strife, jealousy, and discord. Let love and tenderness be exercised, . . . and you will receive a blessing." {2T 439.1}

Always helpful to see resources compiled in one place - http://session.adventistfaith.org (Realizing this site has been previously posted, but buried in the pile of topics and posts...)

Our opening post attempted to list four things that are found in the Emerging Church movement. I will suggest that the following are seven things that are found in the Emerging Church movement: 1) Men, or males, if you prefer to say it that way. 2) Women, or females if you want to say it that way. 3) People who are searching for answers. 4) People who have made a commitment to Christ. 5) People who understand that they have not achieved perfection in their doctrinal understanding. 6) People who know that they have not achieved perfection in the application of doctrine to the life that they live. 7) People who are willing to trust God. NOTE: Finding that people in the Emerging Church movement who have common characteristics does not mean that such are negative.

The SDA Denomination clearly has a place in "end time." But, that is not to say that the SDA denomination is alone in doing the work of God in End Time. God has people inside the SDA church as well as outside the SDA Church. God will use the SDA Church to accomplish God's will as will as use others to accomplish His will.

There are a couple of issues here: 1) Are we talking about Creation Week or what the Earth was like prior to Creation Week: See Genesis 1:1. There are many who believe that this passage is telling us that the Earth existed in some sort of unorganized form prior to Creation Week (CE). If so, the Bible only deals with the Earth from CE on. All it says about the Earth and the Universe prior to that is that God created everything. 2) Is it appropriate for us to use the geanological tables of Genesis to formulate an age for the Earth since Creation? Many believe that this should not be done. In ancient Hebrew thought such tables were not to be used to determine time periods. Rather they were to be used to establish relationships. IOW Jesus Christ was a relative of King David, who was a relative of Abraham (see Matthews 1:1. But, there is no idea that Jesus Christ was an actual biological son of King David, or that King David was a biological son of Abraham. The bottom line is that many believe that the4 Bible cannot be used to establish any kind of an age for the Earth, let alone an exact age.