We’ve known that religion, and in particular Christianity, has been under attack by politically vocal but minority groups in the USA, but now we have statistics on how Americans see it.
November 2005 archive
Nov 20 2005
Vegetarianism and Adventism
Isa 25:6 KJV And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Nov 20 2005
Infant baptism
The promise and the warning apply only to the case under consideration. You can no more rightly infer from these words, it is purely a matter of inference at the most, that the infants of believers should not be baptized, than that they cannot be saved, because they cannot believe. Yet ‘He that believeth not shall be condemned.’ You might just as well argue from the Apostle’s rule: ‘He that will not work neither let him eat,’ that because infants do not work they should get nothing to eat.
Nov 20 2005
The day and hour
“As God has shown me in holy vision … we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming” (Ellen White, Early Writings, pp. 15, 34, 285).
Nov 06 2005
The South African Great Disappointment
On 23 October 2005, “161 years plus 1 day after the 22 Oct. 1844 great disappointment,” the Cape Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted 56% in favour, and 44% against, a dissolution of their conference, and a merger with the Southern Hope Conference. The Cape Conference serves white Adventists in the Cape, South Africa, while the Southern Hope Conference serves black and coloured Adventists.
Nov 05 2005
From sunset to sunset
This is the passage that Adventists follow in their sunset to sunset idea of the Sabbath. Most of them don’t realise that this is part of the Mosaic law that they consider abolished, because it does not refer to the Sabbath, but to the Day of Atonement. The author cleverly conceals this fact with “…” and then lies about what the passage is describing.
Nov 05 2005
Remember the Sabbath day
If we use the meaning of the Hebrew to translate it “Recognise the Sabbath day,” that destroys the Adventist position that God was telling them to look into the past.
