Tell me where I am wrong on this:
Succinctly said...on, in whole or in part, with each and every claim you made....but I won’t spare you the details here
1.Your stating that this time around you are the one getting it right with factual history records.
I am not sure what is the scope of your reply here and your subsequent points... i.e., my blog post on the 70 Weeks or more my blog and its ca. 60 posts in general.
-Well if the first case is your issue here, then you do grossly err to think that EGW herself had anything to do with the understanding of the reckoning and chronology of the 70 Weeks. William Miller of course is the one who originally figured it out and since then several other SDA’s have tweakingly and substantiatingly added their understanding to it. At best whenever EGW restates its interpretation in her writings (e.g., in GC PP 326.1-328.2), she is merely going by, off the top of her head, the prophetic exposition of someone in her day, e.g., Uriah Smith, John N. Andrews and/or her husband James, or more directly following a published exposition of it by those pioneers or others. And in regards to the 70 Weeks, my studies have shown that while the dates were correct the common substantiation of those dates by SDA preachers and expositors was shoddy, ambivalent, inconclusive and/or blatantly erroneous at best.
-If the latter is your case then there similarly is nothing wrong or evil with being able to transparently prove that what you claim to be the truth, is the concrete truth. But I see that SDA are too satisfied with the various proofs for their truth which they have been able to obtain according to their Biblical and Scholarly knowledge and in many often and key cases, just ignore the valid objections made against them. For a denomination which has the best global infrastructure or a religious system of higher education through the seminary level, there is just no excuse for this, nor is it for the lack of capability of its members to be also easily functional in that higher educational realm....if were are actually to fulfill God’s Triumphant desire of having a ‘nation made up
entirely of priests’.
2.That EGW was lax in getting it to the point of correctness
I never said she was “lax”nor ever implied that. That is all your, at best, fabricated claim. My view of EGW is indeed admirably quite to the contrary. Yet the fact still remains that she was not a Bible scholar and in matters not evident in or from the plain English text, she was entirely dependent on Divine revelation for the accurate reading/understanding. E.g. her later understanding of John 20:17 (discussed
here). The fact of the matter is that the average Bible scholar today have much more Biblical knowledge, including more accurate/correct knowledge than most , if not any, 19th century Bible Scholar, including the “greats” of that time. So that also includes SDA scholars as many studies done on their work and/or SDA beliefs by SDA’s since that time have repeatedly shown. They did the best in their time with what they had, but, as EGW herself said, there will never come a day when we will not have to learn more or even unlearn what we had previously learned and believed.
and Adventist are in delusion of wrong belief.
As the first century Jews learned first hand, it is inherently most dangerous to either have and/or hang on to an incomplete, incorrect understanding of truths, including not advancing truth up to the light and standard of what the Bible actually/fully teaches. The Devil will, by God’s permitting, indeed prey on such “cherished errors” whether great/total or small/partial to effectuate his last, overmastering deception. (=2 Thess 2:11-12) Particularly as many of those incorrect/wrong belief result in wrong/unrighteous living.
3.You have been shown new light with immense study where she did not.
To be precise here, I have actually exegetically discovered all of the New Light presented on my blog from a more indepth study of the Bible and SOP. No new teaching was brought by direct revelation, but merely confirming light upon what was already stated/prophesied in the Bible would happen, particularly in regards to the Shaking of the SDA Church (e.g, Ezek 9-11 & EW 269-273). So God was thus merely confirming that that long-ago prophesied time for that event had presently come.
It strikes me that you are coming off as an Ellen Whitist, where her writings have the last word over the Bible. Thus no advanced Bible study on a topic or issue which EGW did not know of or write about must automatically be false. That would be all against what she believed for herself and her ministry, and well as what she said about “new light”.
4.That non-Adventist already know more then we and cannot bluff them with our understanding of 2300 days.
Most of them, through their pastors and teachers, know how to validly refute our claims about our chronology for the 70 Weeks (and also 2300 day Investigative Judgement Event). But just undermine the 70 Weeks Chronology, including when was its precise start, and the 2300 days become a moot point. The common/typical SDA exposition just cannot answer those undermining objections by non-SDA’s. So since they are evidently not accepting the SDA’s supposed rock-solid chronology, and that despite the many great benefits it would have to them to most strikingly “prove that Jesus was Messiah” then SDA’s are evidently not “bluffing” them.
5.and now we are puppets that stay in one realm of 3rd graders and cannot understand.
Not “puppets”, since you neither inanimate and also free to do whatever you want to do, but indeed “3rd graders” in the light of the actual, scholarly Biblical knowledge that each member should have been facilitated to directly or indirectly have, from the Church’s tertiary educational resources in the area of Biblical/Religious Studies. Only a self-willed and cherished dysfunction and individualism in the Church is hampering this feasible realization and all of this is relatively actually not unlike the imposed ignorance of the laity involved in Christ’s day as well as in the days of the medieval Church. And which still has systemic derived/trace manifestations today. In all of these related cases, the end result of feasible deception will be the case.
And as ‘grown adults’, with e.g., you being at least 71 years old, you all can understand those things, but it is just that you have variously preferred or chosen not to make growing in such knowledge a priority or necessity, and have either explicitly or implicitly attracted pastors who would cater to that preference of yours. So the members insist that their pastors feed them with the ‘milk of the word’ and “simple foods” and given the much less work that is involved in procuring and preparing such foods, most pastors readily agree to do this. (=Heb 5:11-14)
6.Then why waste a book if we are all so ignorant and stay with satisfied knowledge caged.
....(1) from the very start, my book’s targeted audience is not SDA’s and (2) as I said, I have done the facilitating work to present all of these involved high scholarship issues, but in a “dedactively” understandable way.... (just could not succinctly do the same on its summary, preview blog post).
And, my only calling and obligation was to research and write the book, what you and others choose to do with it, is entirely your problem, it does not at all affect me, nor am I clamoring for your business/purchasing, and thus conforming to your whimsical desires. Just the great knowledge that I have learned from that study has effectively tangibly “paid for” all that was expended to secure and obtain that ‘pearl of great price’
7.Do you have knowledge that SDA will except your new light? or in arrogance think they are quite limited -as you write they are.
In regards to the 70 Weeks book itself, I actually have much evidence that they will indifferently treat it, as those who have seen it in, e.g., SDA colleges, the Seminary, the BRI and the ATS, have not been eager to help me complete it as it needs to be and have it published. In regards to my blog’s new light in general, (if that is actually what you were referring to), the same also applies. In both cases, that is not my problem. The Bible and Church History, including in EGW’s time is filled with examples of people only selectively choosing what they want to believe from the messages of people who God was using and working through. Presently that is seen in the many testimony of EGW which are partially or entirely ignored by the Church today, not to mention the Biblical teachings which are similarly ignored or partially observed. That makes no difference because Biblical Truth will still be the incontrovertible truth, now matter who accepts it or not.
So I think these past and continuing examples self-answer the second part of your question.
8. Just how many Adventists would be in heaven if the Holy Spirit was lax and tricked them into a "Sealed" belief of EGW???
Not sure I get your question or the rational logic of it, but the Holy Spirit is not responsible to force someone to study their Bible to the best level that it should be, nor is there a message from God through the Holy Spirit, not even from EGW herself (cf. 6T 17.1), to only believe what EGW said/wrote and nothing more. The Holy Spirit will merely continue to guide to new light, which God continually reveals, pointedly in order to best deal with the manifested sin and evil in a generation’s own day. (E.g., the Health Reform’s vegetarianism ideal was not a present truth in the Apostle’s day) What a person then decides to do with that present new light is entirely up to them.
9. Then have someone with "proof" and new light show them how mistaken and stupid they were.
“mistaken”, perhaps/likely, in certain areas. That is indeed always a possibility as EGW was neither inerrant nor infallible and even corrected her own past errors and misunderstanding in later writings.
“stupid”, only if the actions or rationales that led to that false or mistaken belief factually was. Grown adults professing or claiming to want to teach others the truth but preferring not to know about advanced/scholarly Biblical things incontrovertibly qualifies as a “stupid” action and they’ll just reap the fruit of that persisted “stupid” course.
10. How is it you came to Advent Talk?
This responding post to the 70 Weeks was my first post. It was meant to help those seeking for more concrete evidentiary answers on the 70 Weeks. But you here decided to ‘make a federal case’ on my entire blog instead. So are responsible here of going off subject.
other then see the same thing going on here with certain individuals claiming same ways of defect of SDA?
Claiming something is one thing, concretely demonstrating it is another things and in addition to my concrete Biblical studies which show that many SDA teachings are (indifferently) deficient, I have also a litany of prideful and vexatious actions by many SDA’s in an attempt to avoid having to deal with these advanced studies and their new light.
That point I was not clear on and should read again as I thought you meant you were doing this for "It is written"??
If you mean the SDA Media Ministry with John Bradshaw, then that certainly is not the case. I had only asked them to help me when I first launched out in this ministry effort, but they did not help me.
maybe it was just for your statement of what you found that was written, hopefully all biblical and not off the wall writers like those that wrote the rules and changed for their other denominations.
Not sure from where you are making this claim/supposition or statement. I just present my Biblical studies on my blog and if/when others make a corroborating or contributive or originally good point towards a topic, whether SDA or not, then I do cite them on my blog.
Just want to let you know one thing I sort of suspected as I read so many words to bring out your points. It was like you were double clutching it to get your points across into complete confusion with time consuming unnecessary. I still think it would have been better looked at in a time sequence where one can bounce it or pounce it.
Not sure I understand your “bounce it or pounce it” claim, but.... as a freebie: that style of writing of the blog was utilized so that such a ‘bouncing or pouncing’ can be, and at merely a peripheral level, than a substantive one. E.g., ‘I can’t stand the style so I won’t bother trying to understand the substance of what is being discussed’. For such cases then “(Mandated) Mission Accomplished”.
The Antichrist will use the best intellect he can especially now at close of time. Of course to change and cause doubt. That is what I got afraid with all that excess.
I am fully aware at what the Antichrist and also the empowering Devil will intellectually do to try to deceive even the very elect if possible. Which is why I have been working on better proving and substantiating what the Biblical Truths are. And only the “very elect” will appreciate this work and see through any peripheral obstacle to get at the core substance. So that jointly is my pointed purpose here as I don’t want to have to deal with people who are actually not deeply rooted. E.g., who don’t want to make any effort to read and understand a Biblical subject.
and no I do not need a pastor to explain anything for me as he is not responsible for me. I am responsible.
I was here pointedly referring to scholarly Biblical knowledge and just judging by you quibbling responses here where you manifestly thought/think EGW has the final word on everything, I actually don’t see that you are well grounded in either scholarly knowledge nor a proper understanding of the role of the SOP. Just reading works by SDA historian George R, Knight on the SOP should be able to calibrate you on that issue. (See e.g. his sermon
here entitled: FP782 - The Great Gulf: Joseph Smith vs. Ellen White on the Relation of the Gift of Prophecy). And in regards to my 70 Weeks post, just comparing your reactionary, objecting comments with e.g., that of Florin Laiu
here who clearly, readily got things here, and has seen the benefit of these more advanced studies, then I would be seeing, particularly since you are manifestly needing to save as much time as possible, that you would be needing the assistance of a/your pastor, who should (John 3:10), particularly if they have an SDA seminary decree, be able to help you fully grasp in such advanced studies. That is actually how the Church should functionally operate, from top (Scholars) to the Bottom (novice lay person). I personally do not recommend each member fending for themselves for advanced knowledge particularly knowing from my own experience how resource and finance costly this endeavor is, but that is the heralded norm in a systemically dysfunctional Church in that regard.
and I presume you are not an Adventist. I think at the beginning you mentioned you might be Jewish. Sorry if I remembered wrong! Haven't had time to go back on that.
You find what my “denominational status” is on
this post. And don’t let “Zionist” mislead to think that I am Jewish for Zion is the spiritual objective of God most faithful endtime people (Rev 14:1-5). Given the fact that SDA have effectively preferred to not advance in the new and greater light that is found in the Bible and SOP, I now consider myself to be of “SDA Background”, for, as Ezek 11:22-23 shows, God’s is not limited to any organization of man. His (Remnant) Church is wherever his Truth is present and obediently obeyed.
True I did a fast pace through without doing all links as too many to comprehend all at one time.
If I had provided ‘not enough (documenting) links I think you would have equally complained about that fact... so I just can win here, can’t please/meet everyone fancy and preference.
Your words disinterested me to take the time.
They were indeed meant to disinterest those who want to be disinterested on these topics.
In order for me to really take it on I would have to print out then stay on computer forever to follow all your links to help with time and your telling me that others did that in a day. lol I don't think so.
Not my fault, nor problem. I jsut have to present the info... you’ll do whatever you want to with it...In the end, it will just be that I’ll still know what I known about those posted topics and you and the like will not. And then there will only be one way and one chance to determine if doing the required effort to study out these topic was worthwhile, but then, like the foolish virgins, it will be way to late to get those insights into Scriptures.
Then to weigh out if your biblical links are in same context as EGW put together actually led by Holy Spirit that was proof for me and as the same ringtone of scriptures.
What I have see is typical with people like you here is that you choose to selectively ignore everything in the Bible and SOP, even from God Himself in both sources, which speak sternly to God’s professed people and only collect the “cheerful” and ‘Peace, Peace’ statement. Suit yourself. I go by the full counsel of God and the adverse statements in both the Bible and SOP fully apply towards the present Remnant Church organization, namely the SDA Church.
You know you really can tell the same ringtone.
You’ll also have to, at least objectively, “ring” both “tones” in the Bible and SOP to see the one which corresponds and matches mine....because, as seen in
this post, that is precisely where I am getting it.
I just did not hear it immediately with fast pace and use of unnecessary words showing off educated intellect.
Seems to me that you here and through my mirroring/mimicking way have encountered the Isa 6:8-13 & Matt 13:10-17 “ringtone”. So, as those passages involve, you actually heard it but just did not understand/comprehend it (cf. John 12:39-41). Again that would be a “Mission Accomplished” for me.
You call that arrogance and superiority in most cases. or just plain speaking down to someone that you feel are in a bubble.
Not sure exactly what you are saying or mean, nor what you are referring to here... but, (if that is what you meant), I consider various objections to my blog posts as just what they pointedly are in that context and against a particular person. Nonetheless most objections are out of a vexatious offense at the effort that would be needed to understand what had been posted. I can’t nor won’t expend more time to ease that since those who are thus objecting actually clearly did not have an intent to study these topics for themselves but just wanted to get spoon-fed.
And in regards to your common “don’t have the time for it” then, on one hand, if I was advancing, e.g, that ‘there exists little green plastic men or unicorns on the moon’, then how does “time” come to be a pertinent issue for such a clearly fictional topic. From what I am reading from you, your main objection is not one of substance but, peripherally, merely style and tone and that is why you are considering time to be pertinent here in relation to what would be required to verify the message of my posts. Therefore, in that case, if you actually wanted to do these studies, then you would do as I see from my web log, most others doing, and that is returning to the blog post several times for however how long they need to to read/study it. Indeed take 5 minutes a day for two years if that is ‘all you can spare’, if you actually have any interest in studying out my Biblical studies (cf. Acts 17:11).
In regards to the “bubble” here, if again that is what you meant: just burst your paramount insulating bubble of assumed and traditional belief and dutifully engage the reality of valid objections of non-SDA’s.
Are you sure coming off like that can attract interest to non-SDA. or is it to delude non-SDA by extreme show of intellect. Hmmmm
“Hmmmm”.... As a matter of fact, only my first couple of posts (= first two book previews) were intended to speak to non-SDA’s, as those books are pointedly targeted towards them, but those posts were actually also veiled for certain reasons. Most of my other posts
are pointedly targeted at SDA’s and thus necessitate to be in the way that I have posted them. When I am in a position to launch my ministry as I am planning to then you’ll be able to see it as it then duly should be, yet SDA’s will have had their fitting chance!
