How to be an Adventist without losing your mind
---The idea of the topic comes from a group of Catholics who wrote a
College Book for Students as Guide how not to lose your mind as a Catholic
student. ---A note should be made which of the ones in the list a proper
Adventist cannot go along with. ---Catholics feel that Fundamentalism is a danger for Catholicism and
it should be pointed out to a bad Catholic who is seeking a Guide to a Good
Living as Catholic. ---What is Fundamentalism. It is the notion that the Text is serious
for reality and demands that we get in line with it really and not just
mentally or liturgically. ---It is the notion that the Bible is the Word of God as text and in
its form set to be that by the Editor the Holy Spirit. ---Fundamentalism says you have to fundamentally following the
semantics of the text and take it serious and act and live to that honesty. ---Those who are against Fundamentalism, and I think here of James Barr
who wrote a book against it, basically wants to keep living in their style of
living without changing. Therefore, the Bible is rejected as saying they have
to change. ---How is it rejected? By saying one should not take the Bible
literally. You need to look past the literal text to behind, in front, on the
side, above or below the text. But not in the text. Bla. ---If you keep in the text and from the text directly, you are a Biblicist.
---To be a Biblicist or Fundamentalist is wrong in SBL popular thinking
and consensus. James Barr succeeded to brainwash all of them. Well, they all do
not want to change things in their lives, correct? ---Dennis Stevens from Oregon wrote in Spectrum that Wesleyanism
in modern times are no longer Fundamentalists so why should Adventism that got
their salvation theories from Wesley, keep biblical? Bla. ---So we have Old Wesley thinking in the 1750’s and modern Wesleyanism
and the twain do not meet. Got it? ---We have John Calvin and Theodor Bezae with his Predestination book
and changing of the biblical text at James 2:22 from John Calvin’s cooperatus
to aid or assistance so that good works aid faith whereas Calvin translated the
Greek word exactly and correctly as cooperatus, working together with the Holy
Spirit not just aiding the Spirit. ---Calvin is not Calvinism. And whereas these people like Calvin et al
was Fundamentalists and Biblicists, the SBL Calvinists are no longer and added
to that, against Fundamentalism. ---Listen to Ellen White’s warning that in later times things will
change, in Great Controversy page 261 “These monstrous doctrines are
essentially the same as the later teaching of popular educators and theologians
---that there is no unchangeable divine law as the standard of right, but that
the standard of morality is indicated by society itself, and has constantly
been subject to change”. Hello. A bit of wisdom from 1888. ---Developmental Paradigms: Scholars at our universities, not
all, some, teaches that Ellen White went through a series of developments that
changed her views on matters and one should distinguish with which period of
Ellen White you are dealing. So splitting authority up in sections and throwing
it out as a choice to be made which you want to accept for yourself and which
not, you are using eclecticism as a Guide to truth. Bla. ---Cynicism: Raymond Cottrell in his autobiographical notes
added to his workpieces that he donated to Loma Linda University Library and
which was copied for James White Library and which can be downloaded and
studied, showed how cynical this individual was about Ellen White, about
promoting Woman Ordination, about calling for an independent Division to be
made for the NAD, about skepticism of the Investigative Judgment in heaven,
about introducing to Adventism more preterism (the own time meaning of
prophecies rather than the historicism progressive ages layout). ---Feminism: The whole insistence of Woman Ordination by anyone
is a warning to a student that these people are not willing to follow the Bible
and that they are aligning rather to modern Jurisprudence or Culture shaping
that Jurisprudence than the Bible in 1 Timothy 2:3. ---Modernism: The only real post-modernists are Adventists,
Gerhard Hasel said and Fernando Canale also had remarks on it. Modernism is
skeptical to authority, skeptical to inspiration of the Word of God, cynic of
the Word of God which they rather see as a total product of humans void of any
inspiration. ---Progressivism: This fake idea is a danger to young students
because it is a theory that what is new is truth. What is old, is heresy. ---Multiculturalism: It is the fake idea that there is no
impediment in any culture and that a clean approach to multicultural situations
is to incorporate all on an equal level and not to criticize or reprimand
anyone. Think of alcohol, multi-wives, smoking, clothing styles for women,
superstition’s role etc. ---Americanism: It is the fake idea that should you go to the
USA you will go to a dream country. For some it will be, for others…well. ---Relativism: It is the fake idea that there is no normativism
and no standard and thus the Bible cannot tell us what we should or should not
do. Every truth decision is relative and one must use common sense and one’s
own decision to choose between what is best and what not. ---Scientism: It is the fake idea that only Science is
empiricism and that Empiricism is the only way to full understanding. It does
not realize the fallacy that there are many grey areas in Science. Human
knowledge, science or not, are limited and can just go so far and no further at
times. Opinion and axioms and prejudices also play a part in the description of
science in a Lab. ---Sentimentalism: When a person likes someone or something very
much they get attached to it and can be made happy by seeing it after a long
time. For some people to be sentimental about things in their past can prevent
them from making another choice for something new in future. Plato said, unless
something is evil, to change is one of the most dangerous things to do. ---Consumerism: For many spending on items not needed is a must.
It is a fake idea that there are no limits to what you want and what you pay
for what you want. ---Hedonism: If you look at the School of Athens painted by
Rafael at the Cystene Chapel at the Vatican in 1504, you see left Plato
standing in the middle on the steps with his finger up [heaven is reality above
not on earth]. On the right of him is Aristotle standing with the finger to the
ground saying “heaven is right here on earth, therefore enjoy your life now
because tomorrow you die”, thus hedonism. ---Everyone of us has a choice to make whether we want to follow the
wide road of the world or the narrow road of Christ. Two ways, only one choice.
---If your professor or teacher or pastor teaches you any of these
problems, or fakes, you need to get to him/her and correct. Understand? ---Culture versus Bible: The fake is that modern culture is more
important than the Bible. The idea that one should replace the Old Hymn Books
for modern K-pop style music and singing styles. ---The Bible for then rather than the Bible for now in digi-modernism:
This is also a fake. God in His infinite Wisdom described our period also. Did
you ever read the NASA description in Habakkuk 2:9 “set his nest on high that
he may be delivered from the power of evil”? ---Have seen the Astronomical comment of Moses in Job 26:7 written in
Midian in 1460 BC saying that “hung the earth upon nothing”. Sorry Copernicus
and Galileo. You are not first. Deep studies in ancient Astronomy indicates
that the Greeks had three views of the earth: egg, paper, coin. Who said
pillars and flat? Middle Ages Church. Sorry. ---The Bible do say you have to keep Saturday as Sabbath for the
Seventh-day. Correct? ---The Bible do say Jesus was baptized as an adult in the Jordan river
by John the Baptist. Correct? ---The Bible do say you need to wash your feet before the Lord’s
Supper. “If I do it as your Master you need to do it…” ---So honesty to literal reading are important despite what any
professor, teacher or pastor tells you. ---So you need to contact a Seventh-day Adventist pastor near you to
help you understand it better. When? Immediately. Is your phone out?