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So you don't believe in Christs Second Coming....?
John 14 King James Version (KJV)
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and...
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13praec.htm
If you check the around the fifth paragraph down it says "But since We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty"
And I am coming across many others.....
"All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is...
One of my friends on a forum posted the following list which comes from Steve Wohlberg's (an SDA pastor and theologian) website.
'This comes from a page entitled "We Believe..." and I think it speaks accurately of the general SDA attitude:
1. The Bible (Old and New Testaments) is fully inspired...
Well, what does scripture say Jesus did?
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. Matthew 3:13
The true body of Christ must teach obedience to the law of God and must have faith in the transforming power of the Spirit of God. One cannot be baptized and live...
Now some say that Adventist tend to be legalistic, especially when it comes to Gods Moral Law, the Ten Commandments, but lets look what others have to say on it...
Baptist
“We believe the Scriptures teach that the law of God is the eternal and unchangeable rule of His moral
government; that it...
Here is from Wikipedia, in which I am a editor, has on the doctrines which Seventh-day Adventists have which are the central doctrines of Protestant Christianity:
The Trinity, the incarnation, the virgin birth, the substitutionary atonement, justification by faith, creation, the second coming...
As you say "Martin Luther's beliefs changed" as he was trying to understand what scripture said, but he clearly saw how the doctrine of the immortal soul the RCC has allowed in was incorrect and brought errors into the church.
Well, I think the Waldensians would like to have a say in that, but they were wiped out, and the Huguenots in France, and Jews in Spain, etc........and Martin Luther had to disguise himself and be on the run and get kidnapped, and England had a whole armada sent against it. I guess they were...
Let me disagree with your statement "never prevented any other denomination to have their own form or authority." You are very mistaken, look up the history of the Waldenseans, the St Thomas Christians, even Martin Luther, or just look up the Inquistition, it was destruction and persecution not...
Here is another study on Martin Luther's view on the state of the dead...."A careful analysis of Martin Luther’s writings reveals more than 300 instances where he rebuts the medieval view of the soul, substituting in its place an undeniable "soul sleep" (psychopannychism). Indeed, all the...
But the real issue that is being set aside is why the believers/churches of the Reformation still are following the changes it claims it had the authority to make, that is at the heart of the matter. If you look in scripture, you see the apostle Paul, in his second letter to the Thessalonians...
Well, they can go to the Vatican at Rome and see if the 'saints' are of wood and stone, and then explain how they are not 'idols', and we can go from there...
1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
So what happened to the other Christian centers and leadership.......seems like they all got left behind and none have been able to match the rise and influence of the 'bishop of Rome'.
I think that is the issue, but he clearly was against the idea of a immortal soul. Here I found something..."On November 29, 1520, Luther published a defense of the forty-one propositions that had been condemned by the bull Exsurge Domini, of June 15. This he titled Assertion of All the Articles...
I am looking at Martin Luther as I have come across what history shows, and it seems he was bringing together the passages from scripture and declare what it attests. He was coming to a understanding on the state of the dead, and striving to show what he found in Gods word and refute what was...
So then lets go to the next question which is why does anyone follow its dictates on what it says it has the authority to change, and claims that this is what Christians have to follow. Here are some statements which show who churches are following and its not the Bible:
"Protestants ...