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5 Things You Didn't Know About Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Audiences got an early Christmas present on this day in 1937 when the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered at Los Angeles' Carthay Circle Theatre. Here are five things you didn't know about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs... The Film Was a Technological Marvel It's no secret that Snow White was the first full-length animated film, and thus it must have made unique use of the technology available for animation at the time. But its technological background is way more interesting. Not only was it the first full-length film, but it was also the first animated feature to use Technicolor. Even better, Walt Disney had his animators create a new camera, the multiplane camera, to shoot the film. Multiplane cameras shot multiple scenes simultaneously, which is one of the reasons why the film appears to be more than just drawings on flat paper. The Original Fairy Tale Didn't Name the Dwarfs The cute names of the dwarfs in the Disney cartoon were made up specifically for the film. In the original fairy tale, none of the dwarfs had any names. It wasn't until the early 1900s when a version was released giving the dwarfs names like Flick and Snick. Disney renamed the dwarfs to showcase their personalities better and initially entertained names like Deefy, Flabby, and Gaspy. Luckily they settled on the now-familiar set of names including Grumpy and Happy. During Its Initial Run, the Film Made Six Times What the Previous Biggest-Grossing Film Made Snow White was so well received that, by the time its initial run was over, it made over 6 million dollars, becoming the biggest-grossing film so far in Hollywood history. This was six times what the previous film had made, which is impressive on its own. However, it becomes even more of an accomplishment when you realize that the U.S. was still suffering the effects of the Great Depression in 1937. The film was so good that it stayed in theaters for weeks instead of the usual few days. Tickets at the premiere went for $5, which sounds like a bargain now, but $5 in 1937 was equivalent to over 88 dollars in 2018 money. And people wanted to pay that for tickets despite the bad economy! The Film Went on to Win Eight Oscars—in One Category Snow White was nominated for an award for best score at the 1938 Oscars but didn't win. However, in 1939, the film was given eight Oscars—in one special honorary category created just for Snow White. No, there weren't eight different sub-nominations; the film received one full-size Oscar and seven mini Oscar statuettes. Fun fact: The Oscars didn't have a dedicated animated feature film category until 2001. The Film Was Considered So Scary That Britain Imposed an Age Minimum for Viewers You wouldn't think that Snow White would be considered a horror film, but in the late 1930s, the fairy tale was considered so scary—remember, this was a time when audiences weren't used to slasher franchises or open gore—that Britain required anyone under 16 who wanted to see the film to have a parent with them. Not 6—16. Imagine being old enough to leave school and work if you so wished but being required to have your parents with you just to see a Disney cartoon!

The Bible does not give a scenario on Sabbath-Sunday because it was not written in the 1800s. The Bible had different applications based on the historical circumstances that it is facing. All of these are still based on the larger picture that Mrs. White gives us. Amos tells us that if the situation changes too much God will raise up a new prophet with the new specifics, but often while the immediate context changes, there area still enough similarities for us to make better application on the prophet's application. The great principle that we see all through the Bible and into Mrs. White is the idea of liberty of conscience. The freedom to worship according to the dictates of your conscience. The two steps here are: 1. Are you going to be fair to what you understand the Bible to teach, or are you going to come up with reasons to not follow what you understand. 2. Are you going to respect others in their liberty to follow the Bible according to the dictates of their conscience. To Mrs. White the specific is Sunday laws and how they play a role in are people going to choose to follow the Bible or follow tradition or other excuses not to follow the Bible, and enforcing these ideas upon others. A second step with this is the rise of spiritualism. Once again we miss Mrs. White's words because of our presuppositions. We see the word "spiritualism" and read into it seances and Ouija boards. etc. But to Mrs. White these things are only one way of spreading spiritualism. But that spiritualism itself is that final truth is found in our existential experience . Our truth lies inside of us and one mind cannot judge another. Now the existential experience is important, but it is not the authority for truth. Authority for truth lies in God our creator. Mrs. White sees spiritualism as the philosophy of existentialism. To Mrs. White she sees the issue being liberty of conscience, coming against people choosing to go against what they see in the Bible and the world uniting with the papacy, apostate Protestantism and existentialism. She makes specific applications to Sunday laws, but she also back away from her strict application to sunday laws by going more for the larger applications, and seeing Sabbath-Sunday issues (not necessary the outright Sunday laws that we expect) bringing the test to the Christian world. It indicates that other parts outside of the interactions between Christians will have other issues besides Sabbath-Sunday issues. So she sees Sabbath and Sunday playing a role among Christians. She does not go into details here. It could look like we are about the get the expected Sunday laws, but that they don't quite crystallize. But the issues brought up makes people think about how they will follow the Bible, or if they will avoid the Bible to follow their traditions.

The way Jesus suffered and died is the greatest revelation of the truth about God the universe will ever see or ever need. Correctly understood, it means defeat for the accuser of our Heavenly Father. No wonder Satan has sought to obscure, even pervert, the meaning of the cross! So why did Jesus have to […] The post Conversations About God: Summary of Chapter Eight, “The Most Costly and Convincing Evidence” appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article

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He did not have to, He chose to. Our sins demanded that we die. He took our place. By reconciled, He paid the penalty for our sins, but we are still sinful creatures. "He saves us by His life" by changing us into His likeness. The New Testament uses words like "transformed."

10 Really Big Questions About the Future of Church Attendance (and 10 Hunches) Some points made: Infrequent attendance is almost always a sign of lower devotion. We participate in the things we value most. When parents who never ever miss their kids’ soccer practice regularly miss church, it’s a sign that they’re more engaged in soccer than they are in church. In other words, they just don’t see the value in attendance. If you’re consuming your faith online and only attending sporadically, how do you invite your friends into that? That’s right, you don’t. https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/339706-10-really-big-questions-about-the-future-of-church-attendance-and-10-hunches.html

The "Shut Door" beliefs of early SDAs is also an issue related to this thread, in part due to some of the beliefs of O.R. L Crosier, whom Gustave cites. For more information on this "Shut Door" belief, see: https://whiteestate.org/legacy/issues-shutdoor-html/ It is true, that over time, EGW did change some of her beliefs. It is true that God often did not correct beleifs thatt EGW had. They were often corrected by Bible study, which is as it should be. O. R. L. Crosier wrote extensively as to his beliefs on a number of subjects. Gustave has correctly cited a statemetn that EGW made about Crosier. Personally, I do not believe that her statement can be construed to say that Crosier was correct in all that he wrote on the subject. I am not suggesting that such was Gustave's main point. On a point of personal interest, in one of Crosier's articles I find him citing 1st Maccabees as an authority source. As a Protestant I do not find that work to be canonical, however it is quite accurate historically. By the way, I am not saying that Catholics consider it to be canonical.