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Practical Working of Sunday Laws – A Report from 1896

Posted on October 17, 2022February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on Practical Working of Sunday Laws – A Report from 1896
Practical Working of Sunday Laws – A Report from 1896

“During 1895 and 1896, no less than seventh-six Seventh-day Adventists were prosecuted in the United States and Canada for existing Sunday laws. Of these, twenty-eight served terms of various lengths in jails, chain-gang, etc., aggregating 1,144 days, or nearly three and one-half years for a single person.”

Principled Protest, Scanned Articles, Uncategorized

“Close Questioning” – A Look at Pioneer Baptismal Examination

Posted on October 9, 2022February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on “Close Questioning” – A Look at Pioneer Baptismal Examination
“Close Questioning” – A Look at Pioneer Baptismal Examination

Some time ago the question was raised: What did Ellen G. White mean when she described the ‘critical examination’ and ‘close questioning’ of baptismal candidates? In the process of finding out, several quotes from Mrs. White on the subject, as well as contemporary pioneer reports of early Advent baptisms and examinations were collected. These are…

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Pioneers on Doctrine, Quotes and Excerpts, Uncategorized

Are Trinitarian Sabbathkeepers ‘commandment-keepers?’ – A Pioneer Timeline

Posted on December 7, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on Are Trinitarian Sabbathkeepers ‘commandment-keepers?’ – A Pioneer Timeline
Are Trinitarian Sabbathkeepers ‘commandment-keepers?’ – A Pioneer Timeline

It is incontrovertible that early Adventists were non-Trinitarian; what did they have to say about Trinitarian Sabbath-keepers? Brethren or Ba’al worshippers?

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Yoke of Bondage, Acts 15:10, 28

Posted on October 17, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on Yoke of Bondage, Acts 15:10, 28
Yoke of Bondage, Acts 15:10, 28

“All that the true child of God needs is instruction, not prohibition. . . The only apostolic prohibitions were concerning things which outwardly might seem to be purely ceremonial, but which really had a moral bearing.”

Question Corner

A Conditional Prophecy and Does God Send a Lying Spirit?

Posted on September 9, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on A Conditional Prophecy and Does God Send a Lying Spirit?
A Conditional Prophecy and Does God Send a Lying Spirit?

Will you please explain the following scriptures: Eze. 47:1, 12; 48:31? Please explain 1 Kings 22:23, concerning the “lying spirit.”

Question Corner

Tennessee Criminals – Sunday Laws c. 1896

Posted on September 3, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on Tennessee Criminals – Sunday Laws c. 1896
Tennessee Criminals – Sunday Laws c. 1896

An excerpt reporting Sunday law persecution taking place c. 1896

“The prosecuting attorney, Mr. J.H. Lewis, is reported as saying that he now proposed to drive Adventists into the Mississippi River.”

Quotes and Excerpts

Our Position Stated by W.A. Colcord

Posted on September 1, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da 2 Comments on Our Position Stated by W.A. Colcord
Our Position Stated by W.A. Colcord

“We believe in true civil and religious liberty. . . We are opposed, therefore, to a union of church and state. By this we mean not simply the union of some particular church with some particular state, but a union of any religion, or church, or any combination of churches, with any state or form of civil government whatever.”

Principled Protest, Scanned Articles

The Spirit, the Word, the Mind, etc.

Posted on September 1, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on The Spirit, the Word, the Mind, etc.
The Spirit, the Word, the Mind, etc.

An 1897 Question Corner expressing the Pioneer view on 1 John 5:7

“The text… quoted above is spurious, and is so considered, we believe, by all scholars. . .”

Question Corner

Romans 7:15-25, Helpless in Sin

Posted on August 31, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on Romans 7:15-25, Helpless in Sin
Romans 7:15-25, Helpless in Sin

“Kindly explain Rom. 7:15-25. We do not understand its meaning. – W.M.”

Question Corner

The Name of Jesus – Cyrus Simmons, ST April 22, 1897

Posted on August 31, 2021February 4, 2023 By c7da No Comments on The Name of Jesus – Cyrus Simmons, ST April 22, 1897
The Name of Jesus – Cyrus Simmons, ST April 22, 1897

The meaning of the name Jesus is Saviour. . . Simply to believe that nearly 1,900 year ago the Son of God became manifest in sinful flesh and lived a perfect life, can and will do no one no good, without further believing that the same Jesus by a new birth through faith can become manifest in our own sinful flesh and work out a sinless life

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  • Making Us a Name – M.E. Cornell, November 1861
  • God’s Rest by E.J. Waggoner
  • James White on Christian Union and The Two Bodies, October 12, 1876
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  • The Making of the Image – A.T. Jones, May 15, 1900

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