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One can respect a person and disagree with aspects of that person's life.

Probably false testimony or ill informed. I heard a lot of falsehoods in Adventism too. Perhaps you remember Jim Arrabito. He said L.E. Froom was a Jesuit. I went to the heritage room at PUC, found the obituary for Froom's family members in old SDA publications. Benjamin Wilkinson seemed to have started the rumors about Jesuit infiltration. One of his books includes a story about a Jesuit at Union College. The infiltrator supposedly just disappeared once he was discovered. Never identified, it should have been easy to unmask him. Not many religion professors at SDA colleges simply disappear. Wilkinson wrote at least 2 books, one on church history, one on the KJV. I read these books like gospel, believed the great SDA/Jesuit conspiracy. Then it occurred to me that SDA "scholars" pose more/ as much danger to the gospel as do the Jesuits. In one book, Truth Triumphant, Wilkinson states that the Council of Trent was dominated by Jesuits (p 308). Oxford church historian Alister McGrath said that there were only 2 Jesuits at the Council of Trent. There were 29-34 Franciscans, 7-9 Dominicans and between 4 and 14 Augustinians (Iustitia Dei, 320). There were assorted others, all more than the number of Jesuits. How could 2 individuals have dominated so many other groups, in view of the fact that there was of conflict between those orders? If I remember correctly, it was the Dominicans who got the Jesuits expelled from China and contributed to their troubles with the pope. Of course, some would respond that Oxford is controlled by Jesuits and McGrath is a puppet. You are capable of more honorable pursuits, Rahab.

So, Rahab, give us the source of your information as to his entry into the SDA Church, so we can check it out. Here is a website from which Rahab may have gotten her information that she aleges about Froom. https://www.jetsoflight.org/leroy-froom-freemason-grave-jesuit-connection/#Leroy Froom’S Freemason Grave Site NOTE: I do not consider this to be creditable. I knew his son very well, as the son was once my boss. Froom was a strong SDA.

Inspiring story: She was born without normal legs. That did not stop her. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nuMsoOrSA

A photographer captured three bolts of lightning striking the Chicago skyline simultaneously in one epic photo. https://petapixel.com/2023/08/08/photographer-catches-three-lightning-strikes-hitting-chicago-in-one-photo/?

Dr. Diehl did more to improve the lot of the sick and suffering in his 77 years than most people would do in several lifetimes. It's not always the length of life that matters. Quality is important!

The Adventist community and the world at large have lost a pioneer physician and health leader. https://www.hansdiehl.com/in-memory

Harvey ‘Bud’ Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96 (JTA) — In 1986, eight years after Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on the Holocaust with Elie Weisel as its chairman, little progress had been made on the Washington, D.C. memorial it was tasked to create. https://www.jta.org/2023/08/07/obituaries/harvey-bud-meyerhoff-chair-of-us-holocaust-memorial-museum-at-its-founding-dies-at-96?

(JTA) — In 1961, Alan Sherman was working as a pharmacist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem when he saw an advertisement in the Jerusalem Post for English-speaking volunteers for the sixth Maccabiah Games, the international Jewish sports competition founded in 1932. https://www.jta.org/2023/07/31/obituaries/alan-sherman-a-champion-of-jewish-sports-and-us-israeli-relations-dies-at-87?

Louise Levy, ‘supercentenarian’ subject of longevity study among Ashkenazi Jews, dies at 112 https://www.jta.org/2023/07/28/obituaries/louise-levy-supercentenarian-subject-of-longevity-study-among-ashkenazi-jews-dies-at-112?