I still remember the day over twenty years ago, when my daughter, then a student at Avondale College, handed me some photocopied pages from the works of ellen. They told me what she said about amalgamation, and some very racist comments. I was mortified. I had seen the other side of ellen. I had read Steps to Christ, the Great Controversy, the Desire of Ages, but I had never read anything like this.
My daughter had found these pages in the College Library, as she had been looking for various things for her studies. No internet then. So she got them photocopied, and handed them to me, with a minimum of explanation. None was needed. I read them, and I was in disbelief. How could a woman of God say such things? And set about studying the Bible, to prove her right. Well that was a silly thing to do, if I wanted to prove her right.
Hence started my journey out of the SDA church. I present similar facts to SDAs today and am met with a similar disbelief to mine. Depending on the person, I might also be met with abuse, even curses, and blocking. I can only hope and pray that the person turns to the Bible and sees for themselves Who is right, and that during the whole procedure hears the voice of the Holy Spirit calling them “out of her”, and to their Saviour, Jesus Christ.
I admit, and I know a lot of former SDAs and other cult members will agree, I feel terribly disappointed and disheartened by their rejection of obvious truth. All we as survivors of cults can do is to keep praying for them, and for ourselves as the messengers who are so often shot when bringing them the good news of the Gospel, which they perceive as bad news, because it is not the news of their false prophet.
Following on what I posted earlier, there are an awful lot of cult members, whichever one, whom we do not meet in groups, the ones “on the ground” I think you could say, who attend church, and really are Christians, or as Christian as their cult will allow them to be. They love the Lord Jesus, and serve Him as they think He wishes. They way their cult says to.
They have no idea at all about amalgamation, that the IJ is unbiblical, the ellen and joseph made it up as they went along, and that the Holy Spirit was not with them. They are only encouraged to read those parts of the Bible that agrees with their doctrines. They are taught that we are doomed, because we have rejected the truth. That our Bible is unreliable, that we need to be reading their denominational literature. The truth to them is a day, a denomination, a prophet….and not Jesus. Their church has taught them He is not enough, has not done enough. They have a small god.
We must pray for these people too, these unwitting victims of deception. Pray for them and love them.
And pray for those who work to tell them and show them the Truth. He is worth it.
I still remember the day over twenty years ago, when my daughter, then a student at Avondale College, handed me some photocopied pages from the works of ellen. They told me what she said about amalgamation, and some very racist comments. I was mortified. I had seen the other side of ellen. I had read Steps to Christ, the Great Controversy, the Desire of Ages, but I had never read anything like this.
My daughter had found these pages in the College Library, as she had been looking for various things for her studies. No internet then. So she got them photocopied, and handed them to me, with a minimum of explanation. None was needed. I read them, and I was in disbelief. How could a woman of God say such things? And set about studying the Bible, to prove her right. Well that was a silly thing to do, if I wanted to prove her right.
Hence started my journey out of the SDA church. I present similar facts to SDAs today and am met with a similar disbelief to mine. Depending on the person, I might also be met with abuse, even curses, and blocking. I can only hope and pray that the person turns to the Bible and sees for themselves Who is right, and that during the whole procedure hears the voice of the Holy Spirit calling them “out of her”, and to their Saviour, Jesus Christ.
I admit, and I know a lot of former SDAs and other cult members will agree, I feel terribly disappointed and disheartened by their rejection of obvious truth. All we as survivors of cults can do is to keep praying for them, and for ourselves as the messengers who are so often shot when bringing them the good news of the Gospel, which they perceive as bad news, because it is not the news of their false prophet.
Following on what I posted earlier, there are an awful lot of cult members, whichever one, whom we do not meet in groups, the ones “on the ground” I think you could say, who attend church, and really are Christians, or as Christian as their cult will allow them to be. They love the Lord Jesus, and serve Him as they think He wishes. They way their cult says to.
They have no idea at all about amalgamation, that the IJ is unbiblical, the ellen and joseph made it up as they went along, and that the Holy Spirit was not with them. They are only encouraged to read those parts of the Bible that agrees with their doctrines. They are taught that we are doomed, because we have rejected the truth. That our Bible is unreliable, that we need to be reading their denominational literature. The truth to them is a day, a denomination, a prophet….and not Jesus. Their church has taught them He is not enough, has not done enough. They have a small god.
We must pray for these people too, these unwitting victims of deception. Pray for them and love them.
And pray for those who work to tell them and show them the Truth. He is worth it.
Light of Christ 