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See: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/april-web-only/why-christians-can-celebrate-passover-too.html?utm_source=ctweekly-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=16245031&utm_content=506769676&utm_campaign=email

For those interested in the development of SDA understandings of doctrine, the following article, even if dated, will be of value: http://conversation.spectrummagazine.org/t/beyond-fundamentalism-a-short-history-of-adventist-old-testament-scholarship/13340

I'm with you JoeMo. Also I wish John317 would chime in!! But I have not heard or seen him around here for quite a while.

OR ... the mortal's name was never entered into the book of life because he never accepted to Christ. Hypothetical question - in your opinion, are the names of members of ISIS or Al-Qaeda who actively and gleefully seek, torture, kill and rape Christians, Jews, and other Muslims and never repent written in the book of life? How about pedophiles? (I know you're not God; so anything you say is strictly your opinion.)

Some people define homosexuality by the actions that one takes. IOW, one who is not sexually active with the gender that one is, one is not a homosexual. From this perspective, a homosexual who has become celibate is not longer a homosexual. Or a homosexual who has married a person of the other gender is also no longer a homosexual. The above is NOT the definition that I agree with. The bottom line is: We do not chose our gender preference. I did not chose to be a heterosexual.

What if the mortal doesn't overcome? It sure seems to me that overcoming is more of a work than accepting.

Stuff like this is happening with increasing frequency among Muslims - visions, dreams, visitations, miracles.. Pray that God doubles and the redoubles these divine manifestations. We are ambassadors of Jesus teaching Islam (and all others) that Jesus is the only name under the heavens by which we can be saved!

it can definitely go both ways, Look at Joseph and Potiphar's wife. And look at parents who are expected to have self control, with their rebellious kids, but what parent has not reached new demands of self control and been thrown by a child determined to rule emotionally if not in other ways... parents can abuse authority but kids can also be abusive towards parents and even murder them.

Maybe one or so year ago, my partner and I were regularly going to Bible study every Friday night. The Christian couple would feed us and then we all would go into the living room to study. There was a very good looking young man in the group who came with his mother who showed up a few times before. I have very good gaydar ( can tell if a man has leanings toward same sex attraction) and it pinged when i first met him but so what. And he is younger than my son. One evening after the meal he wanted to go outside to have a cigarette and asked me to join him and we went outside. We are just talking then he said to me .. "I have pictures of me naked on the internet" ( i am not using his exact words in a G RATED FORUM) Oh dear! I knew exactly what he was up to. I was either gonna flirt with disaster or leave. I immediately went back into the house and chose not to ever be alone with him again. I am not gonna lie..It felt good to be wanted by a good looking guy. And it took me back to my party days when I was all over the place. I don't get that kind of attention anymore for the most part. I never told anyone, afraid it would get back to his mother who would have been deeply embarrassed. I wish for the sake of Christ it wouldn't have tempted me so maybe I could be called to mentor him. ? Since then he has made some very troubling choices in his life and underneath it all I can tell he wanted someone to love and understand him who he can look up to. But I couldn't be that guy for him.