It was said that SDAs are the best “argument” for reinstituting inquisition, not that they wanted to reinstitute inquisition.
I’ve only met one. He knocked at my door, discovered I was a Bible reading Catholic and ran.**haven’t met many JW have you? **
No, it was the Spanish crown that instituted the first Inquisition and it only investigated Catholics. St. Teresa of Avila was brought before the Inquisition twice. But as a former SDA, I sometimes feel that another Inquisition with a broader scope wouldn’t be amiss.
Is this what you do when you find yourself in checkmate?YOU DID! YOU DIDN’T! YOU DID! YOU DIDN’T! Here We Go Again!! Hope you are having fun.
When they knock, open the door and bless them with the Sign of the Cross.
Happily:.
Which I personally think is a little harsh.
Wow, that’s the most twisted accurate argument for the inquisition I’ve ever heard
Ellen Gould White, the “SDA Pope” (my term), was struck in the head by rock when she was young and nearly died, by historical accounts. She received at the very minimum a concussion, more likely much worse. Years after that head trauma, she became interested in the “Millerite” cult, which gathered believers together in 1843, then 1844 for the rapture - which never happened. Ellen then moved to form her own culture, which was clearly bible based, but relies heavily on her “inspired” writings. How heavily? She is reportedly the most published female author yet. That’s heavy reliance.
**When they knock, open the door and bless them with the Sign of the Cross.
Okay, that was mean. Forgive me and bless all the starving pigmys in New Guinea.
Where in the world do you get these things? You are going to get banned if you’re not careful :tsktsk:
Hey; you would win to be sure if this was chess! I don’t like the game so I am very unknowledgeable there. Now, in the gym…that’s another story…Is this what you do when you find yourself in checkmate?
You so funny
I think her “Little Friend” is “symbolic” for “the truth.”
No, not at all. That wasn’t me I swear, that was realcatholic!Hey; you would win to be sure if this was chess! I don’t like the game so I am very unknowledgeable there. Now, in the gym…that’s another story…
I’ll bet you’d be a fun neighbor to have. I’d probably have to call an ambulance whenever I came to your door to say “Hi How are you guys doing?” You’d be so shocked to see an Adventist be nice to you, and treat you like a neighbor - Just don’t get that machine gun out that is in your “smiley” above in your last post!! It looks like it is bad for the health!!
Please forgive, k? 
It’s got to be a guy, girls don’t get that violent. Okay, well maybe G.I. Jane, but let’s face it she’s not going to need that kind of ammo for just one little SDAI think her “Little Friend” is “symbolic” for “the truth.”
(pun)**
That steak sounds like something I’d give to Rover next door, but everything else sounds good. But don’t worry; I wouldn’t bring over any of those ugly “meat analogues” either. I would just have extra beans and garlic! Oh boy! The wife will run then, eh?No, not at all. That wasn’t me I swear, that was realcatholic!
If we were neighbors you’d come over and I’d grill you the best doggon flat iron steak (if you are not a vegetarian) with garlic cream sauce you’ve ever put in your mouth with a baked sweet tater (that’s what we call’em in Tennessee) and some steamed green beans!
I’d have a glass of wine and you’d have your choice of non-alcoholic beverages and then we’d commence to a friendly debate. I have lots of SDA friends. I told you I was just in your church this weekend welcoming a brother into the Christian family.
This is all good fun. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you. I hope I can redeem myself.
Well, it seems that each of us have misunderstood the other, in that case. The Catholic Church does not consider what the pope says “on par” with scriptures either.
No, not at all. That wasn’t me I swear, that was realcatholic!
** HEHEHEHE! :extrahappy: You really have to be careful what you copy!
If we were neighbors you’d come over and I’d grill you the best doggon flat iron steak (if you are not a vegetarian) with garlic cream sauce you’ve ever put in your mouth with a baked sweet tater (that’s what we call’em in Tennessee) and some steamed green beans!
**I am a 64 year old Male, I have nothing against anyone at all. Even heretics. JW and Morman do tend to make themselves unwelcome. SDA are much nicer than some real Protestant denominations. Many theologians, and I also think SDA is a cult. I do not associate with cults, nor attend their services! **
I’d have a glass of wine and you’d have your choice of non-alcoholic beverages and then we’d commence to a friendly debate.
** Happily, did you know that SDAs think we are children of the devil with 666 on our forehead. You want to eat with someone like that? It is well documented that Ellen G. White taught that the Sabbath will be the “great test of loyalty”. That those who observe the false Sabbath **(Sunday) will receive the mark of the beast. Those that keep the true Sabbath (Saturday) will receive the seal of God.
I have lots of SDA friends. I told you I was just in your church this weekend welcoming a brother into the Christian family.
**Watch your eternal soul my friend! A controversy has always surrounded the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church as to their place among Protestant denominations. Counter cult ministries question the SDAs aberrant (or heterodox) teachings. The SDA church now even publishes two of their own Bible translations. The Study Bible and the Clear Word Bible, which further separates them from Protestant denominations. **
The Branch Davidians are a sect that originated from a schism in 1955 from the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, themselves former members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who were disfellowshipped during the 1930s. From its inception in 1934, the splinter movement inherited Adventism’s apocalypticism, in that they believed themselves to be living in a time when Christian prophecies of a final divine judgment were coming to pass. They are best known for the 1993 siege of their Center near Waco, here in Texas
This is all good fun. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you. I hope I can redeem myself. Please forgive, k?
** My advise to you happily is 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 (NIV):
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
“Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”**
*Yes, what you say about the Church as an “entity” is true. But I meant it in the sense of a body of Christians.
With warmest respect for what you’re saying, I was catechized to believe that the Church Christ left with Peter is still in tact even though there are “limbs” that have broken away from Christ’s Church, they are nevertheless still a part of it. To say that the Church (body of Christians) is only those confirmed catholic is to separate us from other Christians and leave Christ’s promise to us broken. *
Yes, of course.
happilycatholic;4387509:
I don’t see how.
The Church is much bigger than “a body of people”. This may well characterize the Church militant, that is still on earth, working out salvation. But, we also have the Church suffering, those who are being purified for the Kingdom, and the Church trimphant, who are already reaping their heavenly reward. Most essentially, we have Christ, who is the Head of the Body, and the Soul of the Church, which is the Spirit of God. It is these divine elements that make the Church holy, infallible, and without blemish. This state of sanctity has not yet been reached by those who are joined to her, but if they continue, they will become like Him.
Heb 12:22-24
“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”
I am sorry, I guess I don’t understand how you see this.
I do not understand your point of view, I am sorry. Only Christ knows those who are His. We are not in a position to make such judgements.
It is no wonder Protestant 101 is reluctant to “own” her, then.
** Hi 101,That steak sounds like something I’d give to Rover next door, but everything else sounds good. But don’t worry; I wouldn’t bring over any of those ugly “meat analogues” either. I would just have extra beans and garlic! Oh boy! The wife will run then, eh?
So don’t worry, all is well, NO offense has been taken!!
