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It's true that the current situation in the Christian churches, universities, and seminaries is quite similar to the conditions among the Jews who did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. However, one premise of this story is misleading -- the Jews as a whole did not reject Jesus -- it was only the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem who rejected Jesus. To say that "the Jews rejected Jesus" would be similar to saying that "the Americans rejected the Bible" if the US Congress were to reject the Bible by a small majority. The politicians are not the people, and the majority of the people probably believe differently than the members of Congress. (However, most Americans do reject the Bible in a different way because they have been taught that portions of the Old Testament have become obsolete and they have been taught that popular misinterpretations of the New Testament overthrow the Old Testament religion that Jesus created, lived, and endorsed.) In the case of the Jews though, the assertion "that the Jews rejected Jesus" is even less true, because only a small minority of the Jews and Israelites lived in Jerusalem and Judea at the time of Jesus. Most of the Jews and Israelites were still scattered in the diaspora after the exiles, had little or no contact with Jerusalem, and never had an opportunity to accept or reject Jesus because they never heard of him. Of those that did meet Jesus or his followers, the New Testament tells us that many tens of thousands believed in Jesus as the Messiah (Acts 21:20). There are several other passages in the New Testament that show the acceptance of Jesus among the Jews. The false accusation that "the Jews rejected Jesus" also causes modern Jews to resist accepting Jesus for at least a couple reasons. First, when a Jew hears that "the Jews rejected Jesus," the Jew feels accused by Christians. Whether the accusation is true or not, it hampers evangelism because it initially causes Jews to distance themselves from Christians. Who wants to listen to someone who is accusing you and your people-group of something bad? Nobody. Also, when a person who identifies as a Jew hears that "the Jews rejected Jesus," they think, "I'm a Jew, therefore I will stand as a Jew by rejecting Jesus too." It becomes a matter of Jewish patriotism and loyalty to stand with the Jews on this issue. If all Christians would instead testify truthfully about the Jews and say, as the New Testament says, "You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous adherents of the law," (Acts 21:20 LEB) it would make evangelism among the Jews more successful.

This is a refreshing new web page design that reflects professional design by someone who knew what they were doing from the aspect of visual design. Did you have to take out a bank loan, or does this reflect your work with The Messenger?

The SDA Church in Albania decided to hold a retreat for women that would include women who were NOT SDA. 38 women attended, with 20 women who were not members of the SDA denomination! In addition, several Islamic men requested permission and were given permission to attend! See: http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2017/07/28/albanian-women’s-retreat-reaches-beyond-women-and-adventists

Either my new OS download automatically upgraded the font size or I inadvertently pressed the right button while searching for one thing or another, or my eyes are responding to the cataract surgery recently accomplished. God is good! Hope you all are enjoying your ! God is Love!~Jesus saves!

“Race” has been considered to be: 1. A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. Most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them. 2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the Celtic race. 3. A genealogical line; a lineage. 4. Humans considered as a group. Race, as a social construct, is the classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, ancestry, genetics, or social relations, or the relations between those groups.[1][2][3][4][5][6] First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century race began to refer to physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits. The term was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense,[7] starting from the 19th century, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype.[8][9] Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies[10] that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete,[11] and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.[12][13][14][15][16] It's a common belief that race can be broken down into three categories: Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasoid. But according to science, that's not so. While the American concept of race took off in the late 1600s and persists even today, researchers now argue that there’s no scientific basis for race. Sociologists define race as a concept that is used to signify different types of human bodies. While there is no biological basis for racial classification, sociologists recognize a long history of attempts to organize groups of people based on similar skin color and physical appearance. The absence of any biological foundation makes race often difficult to define and classify, and as such, sociologists view racial categories and the significance of race in society as unstable, always shifting, and intimately connected to other social forces and structures. Race - a specious classification of human beings created by Europeans (whites) which assigns human worth and social status using "white" as the model of humanity and the height of human achievement for the purpose of establishing and maintaining privilege and power. NOTE: The above is selected from a number of different sources on the Internet. One can access all of those and more, simply by doing a search for the word "race" and ignoring the hits that refer to a contest.

The subject that is introduced in the post above is an exceedingly complex one, perhaps more complex than the above post indicates? * It is clearly wrong to use this Biblical story to suggest, as some do, that God and the Bible condem so-called Black people. * It cannot be proven, as some suggest, that all descendents of Ham were Black and that all Black people descended from Ham. * As a matter of fact, anthropologists, sociologists and others do not agree on a common definition of the word "race." * Due to the above, the SDABC is using the word "race," in the cited passage, in the manner of one of the accepted definitions even if the word "people" might be considered by some to be a better word. * I would not argue against using "people" in that passage.

Awwww, yes! A wonderful thing to do for them!

another of my favorite cartoon programs as a kid ... I had seen a TV interview with June Foray a number of years ago — a delightful lady!

does anyone else find the normal font size difficult to read? I have to enlarge the page 3x so I can read it. (Maybe I'm just getting old.... lol)

All depends on what we mean when we say the 'church'. For me it means those that follow Christ, wherever they are on the journey, and not a .org.

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1 2520 movement 2 The Jewish feasts 3 The anti trinity movement