Studying Death, Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org
series Lesson 14, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: “To see God or not to see God for Morning Manna
in Death, Dying and Future Hope. The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God." The Teacher’s Edition is on page 179 and for the laymen edition or
Standard Edition, on page 115. The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in
their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your
heart. Why do you not click on this now? --- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_14.pdf ---Today you are going to hear why Adventists are the most
progressive Christianity on the globe today. ---Will we be able to see God one day? Christ yes. Father? Spirit? ---Most religions will say that God is Spirit and invisible to the
naked eye and that no one has seen God and therefore no-one can approach in His
presence to see Him and live. ---Whoever talks like that did not read the fineprint of the Bible
correctly. ---In John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12 John says that “no one has ever
seen God”. ---Who is the no-one? Adam before the fall walked with God. He may
have seen Him if He walked with God. ---One can argue that Adam walked with Christ and saw Him but
no-one with the Father and saw Him? ---Answer: In the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:8 it says that the
pure in heart shall see God. ---Pure in heart? Pure? Character perfection before body
perfection. ---In 1 John 3:3 he is saying that the one who purifies himself
shall see God just as He is pure. ---Wow. What about sinful inclinations and habits? Do not worry
about that says Calvinists, it is all about Christ in heaven for me my
Substitute so that His perfection is my perfection. ---No, says Ellen White, this is half-truth. The full truth is that
it is His perfection is my perfection in heaven as status but on earth I am
given the second Comforter the Holy Spirit to indwell me and clean and
re-create the heart and purify it together with cooperation daily. ---It is with a goal to character perfection although the body
degenerate daily as it grows older. ---Character grows up and the Spirit is its strength and body goes
down in strength because of the death decree as punishment by Adam’s sin. ---Ellen White in Great Controversy p. 676 and 677 says that humans
will see God in heaven citing 1 Corinthians 13:12 that we behold the image of
God as in a mirror and that then in heaven we will stand in His presence and
behold the glory of His countenance. ---Where did you read in Calvin’s works or Luther’s Table Talks
that he said the same thing? Silent. ---Where did the Rabbis of the Middle Ages said that for Judaism?
Silent. ---But Adventists read the fineprint of the Bible and brought the
sensibility together in harmony and see, what you sometimes think is too quick
a thinking. Careful analysis sometimes turns what we think around. ---Rule 14 of the 14 rules of prophetic or Bible interpretation of
William Miller was that one must have faith glasses on when you read the Bible
or you will not properly see. ---You must take the Bible literally when literal and spiritual
when so asked by the text. But, even Calvin argued for the spirit rather than
the letter of the reading of the text. ---Origen and Augustine both argued that the spirit of the text is
more important than the letter [simple straightforward reading] of the text. ---When they say spirit of the text, then they say that the words
did not really mean what it says it is just a metaphor and a way of speaking.
Not reality. ---Not so, says William Miller in his 14 rules of Biblical
Interpretation brought out in 1835. ---Well said critics of Miller, he is making the Bible an icon of
worship and that is a crime. It is Biblicism. It uses proof-text methods to
design doctrines. ---Of course the Bible is most important for it is the Word of God
and Revelation of God. Of course Biblicism is not a crime for proof-text
methods were also use by Christ when He countered Satan in the Temptation in
the Wilderness after Baptism in 27 AD. Thus says the Word, He said. He was
pretty literal. He was not spiritualizing the text and try to escape from its
requirements. ---Is your pastors teaching you to escape the literal reading to
purity and its attainment before the Second Coming, even in your lives as you
grow older? ---Are the escaping this by hammering in sinful inclinations and
weakness-theology? ---Start reading the Bible properly and see also 1 Peter 1:22 as
the lesson is asking to see. Obedience and purification are linked.