{"id":2196,"date":"2008-06-17T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:33:03","slug":"the-general-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"The General Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someone asked the following question, which I can’t answer, so I’ll leave it open here for a while:<\/p>\n

My questions are: what are the limits to the jurisdiction of the SDA General Conference, and how – in practice – do people decide whether or not a General Conference decision has been successfully “shown” to conflict with the word of God?<\/span><\/p>\n

These are two clear limits to General Conference decisions set out in their Church Manual (17th ed) but I don’t really see how, in practice, such limits actually exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

My answer would be:<\/p>\n

My understanding is that the GC would define the official beliefs of the Adventist church, but to what extent the laity get to voice their views I don’t know.\u00a0 I don’t know how the GC is limited in a practical sense by the manual you reference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My understanding is that the GC would define the official beliefs of the Adventist church, but to what extent the laity get to voice their views I don’t know. I don’t know how the GC is limited in a practical sense by the manual you reference.<\/p>

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