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Did anyone catch the hearings today? What a farce and a kangaroo court! Everyone (including Republicans) treated Ms. Ford with the utmost respect and courtesy. But when Kavanaugh came out, the Democrat's gloves came off. They treated an honorable and competent judge like some kind of a loathsome criminal, sex offender, and a hostile witness. They are asking Kavanaugh to prove he didn't do this. Anyone who has ever taken Philosophy 101 learned that it is impossible to prove a negative. Senator Lindsay Graham said it right when He called the Dem's tactics a scam and a stall tactic to take the confirmation past the 2018 elections. Let's see - Kavanaugh has letters signed by over 80 high school and college female friends saying the judge is completely honorably and respectful. Ms. Ford names three eye witnesses - all of whom refuted her testimony. Ms. Ford is a victim in this as well. The Dems set her up on a public soap box she never wanted. After watching those proceedings, I'm convinced satan must be a Democrat (no offense to my democrat friends).

The author of the following article presents a view that schism is the most likely outcome of present events in the SDA Church. https://conversation.spectrummagazine.org/t/is-schism-in-the-adventist-church-unavoidable/16811

I would agree. But I would suspect that the vast, vast, vast majority, like 99.5% or more, of the active SdA membership has never heard about the Unity document or has any idea what it is.

Interesting. But if schism comes, it will be a shock to the 99.9% of Adventists who don't follow church politics and who neither understand nor care what the whole dispute is about. Were I to poll my local congregation and ask them what is the biggest challenge facing the church today, I doubt one in a hundred would name women's ordination.

Very sad?

If he were impersonating the Pope, she would've said the "Pope" and not human being!! Besides why would he need to impersonate the Pope? Isn't he already doing what satan needs?? I'm not convinced about the Pope!!

https://conversation.spectrummagazine.org/t/an-interjection/16808

"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever" (John 14:16) [Jesus said] "lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matt. 28:20) Equivalent statements, or just coincidence?

Constantine was a flaming Antisemitic . He issued an edict, forbidding Christ followers to celebrate any Christian festival on the same day that a Jewish holy day was kept. That included the 7th day Sabbath. Constantine is the one who reconfigured the Sabbath (to Sunday) - the time it started and the time it ended. Genesis 1:5 “God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.” (NRS) Evening is mentioned FIRST. First comes evening - the darker part. Then comes morning - the lighter part - of the repeating 24 hour cycle. Within one 24 hr period, there is only 1 evening, and 1 morning. This is what we see repeated after each of the first six days. Why would we conclude that the 7th day - the one especially blessed forever - was somehow a different time period, with a different beginning and ending point, from the first six days? What's so difficult? The captives who returned from Babylon were very anxious to keep God's Law, so as to avoid calamity in the future. Why would their teachers have changed the commands. That would be to invite God's disfavor. That doesn't make sense.

I left the faith at 15 years old but I spent my growing youth with the SDA church as my mother was Adventist and so was her father. I have returned after over 36 years but I never stopped believing but I did not practice many things that the word of God tells us to do. I moved to Spain last year and I started walking closer to Christ and have been going to a small church even though my understanding of Spanish is very low. My Journey began in Jamaica as a boy with adult hood in London and now a move from the big city of the world to a small Spanish town with my wife and 2 children. I have struggles now with my wife who is not a believer but my children are open to the word of God which they see the beauty of simplicity and truth but we still have struggles with now the rejection of books like Harry Potter as good reading material. This is a short story of where I am after 9 months in Spain and maybe 5 months of starting to walk with Christ. I have been thirsty for righteousness and knowledge of what has been happening with SDA since 36 years away. I am saddened but equally not surprised as I learnt and read about division that would happen in the church in the last days and women ordination is an example and having listened to arguments on both sides, read the bible myself on this matter and searched for the truth through God, I believe those that support women ordination have gone against the word of God for popularism and some maybe good intentions. I am now troubled and I need to turn to pray and maybe also with the advice of a SDA pastor that is a believer in the whole truth of the bible. I now want to be baptised and be a member but if a minister now believes in women ordination and has started to turn away from doctrine how can he lead me in all things, should an ordained minister baptise me and I be a member of his church when I believe he no longer holds scared all things of the bible. Should I now worship with my children alone on the Sabbath and find a pastor of pure belief to baptise me. Is not Romans 16 17-18 not true of those within the church that now support and will seek to teach doctrine of woman ordination. It seems that most of Spain support women ordination but did Ellen White or I cannot quite remember where I heard it as a child, "only a remnant of a remnant will be saved". I have much to learn and understand and I am now reading words again from when I was a child and the meanings are clear and I pray God will guide me in wisdom of his truth. I ask for help and advice from a pastor true to the faith, a leader of the flock of God as I am just a prodigal son returning and need help.