are there any adventists on here?
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:}\nWe have many here come on in, join the dialogue, the water is warm.\n\n\nI'm not SDA but have many questions for you, if you do not mind talking to someone of another faith\n\nG-d bles
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I use this forum to witness to others about God and Christ. To each their own but I will continue to do what I do. Quakers are, as far as I know, very nice folks and they have their beliefs as I have mine. I was in the Army with a Quaker and he was a conscientious objector and would not go to combat. I respect him for that.
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Sure!\n\nI sing, participate in Bible study classes and ladies' classes.  I send out a daily e-mail to our congregation.\n\nI think it's sad when people think that just because they aren't leading, that they aren't contributing.  Anyone can (and I believe, should) participate.\n\nI listen attentively.  I've heard preachers say that it's so discouraging when people don't make eye-contact with them while they're preaching.  Apparently someone in a congregation I once attended was doing homework during the sermon.  :o(\n\nMany of us meet outside of services as well.  We need to be active and participate in each others' lives and encourage each other.
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What Adventists Believe   \n \n\nAs a Christian church, Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures \n\nAs a Christian church, Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures. Adventists describe these beliefs in the following ways:\n\nGod's greatest desire is for you to see a clear picture of His character. When you see Him clearly, you will find His love irresistible.\n\nFor many, "seeing God clearly" requires that they see God's face. However, how He looks is not the issue. Seeing and understanding His character is what's most important. The more clearly we understand Him, the more we will find His love irresistible. As we begin to experience His love, our own lives will begin to make more sense.\n\nGod most clearly reveals His character in three great events. The first is His creation of man and woman--and His giving them the freedom of choice. He created humans with the ability to choose to love Him or to hate Him! The death of Jesus Christ, God's only Son, on the cross as our substitute is the second great event. In that act He paid the penalty we deserve for our hateful choices toward God and His ways. Jesus' death guarantees forgiveness for those choices and allows us to spend eternity with Him. The third event confirms the first two and fills every heart with hope: Christ's tomb is empty! He is alive, living to fill us with His love!\n\nJesus' disciple John wrote that if everyone wrote all the stories they knew about Jesus, the whole world could not contain them. Our knowledge of God helps us understand His love, character, and grace. Experiencing that love begins a lifelong adventure in growth and service. This knowledge and experience powers our mission to tell the world about His love and His offer of salvation.\n\nScripture is a road map. The Bible is God's voice, speaking His love personally to you today.\n\nThe Bible speaks the Creator's directions to us, like a detailed road map that clearly shows the exit ramp directly into heaven. It is also much like an owner's manual for a life ready to be lived on the cutting edge of liberty.\n\nSometimes His voice speaks through stories, such as those of David and Goliath, Ruth and Boaz, Naaman's little servant girl, Christ on the cross, and fisherman Peter learning how to tend sheep. Some of these stories teach us how to handle the troubles we face each day. Others fill us with hope and peace. Each of them is like a personal letter from God to you.\n\nPortions of Scripture are direct instructions and laws from God such as the Ten Commandments, recorded in Exodus 20. These tell us more about God and His expectations for us. When people asked Jesus to summarize these commands, He focused on the way God's love affects the way we live. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul," He said. "And love your neighbor as you love yourself."\n\nOn other pages the Bible gives God's practical advice and encouragement through parables, lists, promises, and warnings. Amazingly, though many different writers throughout thousands of years wrote the Bible, each page describes the same God in ways we can understand and apply in our lives today. This book is always His voice talking personally to anyone who is willing to read and hear.\n\nGod loves us even when we choose to reject His love. In those times He allows us to walk away into the life of our own choices. Yet He is still there, always ready to redeem us from the results of our decisions.\n\nJesus is the one who never changes in a universe that always does. Jesus is Creator, Sustainer, Saviour, Friend, God's Son, and God Himself!\n\nEverything in this world is always changing, even our desires, interests, skills, and body shapes. But Jesus? He's consistent. He's always the same. Sure, He's always surprising us and
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I'm not, but I do appreciate having people in this section besides all the christians.  they kind of dominate it.  i consider myself a pantheist - god is all of existence, and nothing more - no divine conscious.  "god is the universe"  Additionally I do zen meditation.  neither of these practices do i really consider to be religious.  Christians would probably call me an atheist, because i don't believe in what they call God or really in anything supernatural.
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Here's a ton I found earlier, quite randomly: \nhttp://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_christian.html\n\nIt's ironic you ask! :)
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Anybody going to Church tonight? \n\nCounting down the hours!
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Hi,\nI'm LDS. And I love to be one. I was catholic before, and I'm happy that I found the true church.
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In a way.  I have met some Hindus here, and as I am a convert to Hinduism, I love that opportunity, because there are really no Hindus where I live.  I used to feel so alone, and now I realize I'm not!  And not only that, but I have actually "met" other converts to Hinduism, and that is especially rare, or so I thought.  It is so nice to know they are out there!\n\nI kind of feel like we have this very neat community here.  And I love it!  There are varying personalities here, and they all contribute uniquely.  Today at work, I was thinking of some of the members here and wondering what they were doing!  And I felt like I had a family out there, and it was comforting.
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Saturday...as do Seventh-Day Adventists who also refer to it as the Sabbath.
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Yeah, I do, mostly Mesoamerican religion. I specifically practice the Nahua (Aztec) religion previous to Christian contact (*ahem* subjugation), though I have also studied the beliefs of the Maya and know a few things about the neighboring cultures as well. I know a handful of other people who are trying to reclaim the native Mesoaemerican religions for the modern day, without Christian influence. There are other groups, more widespread, that still practice aspects of the native religion but with heavy Christian influence (i.e. monotheistic, using saints, moving native festivals to Christian dates, etc).\n\nThe major features shared by most traditional native religions of Mesoamerica are extensive pantheons of deities (often representing natural phenomenon such as rain and celestial bodies), belief in giving back to the gods in order to honor them (sacrifice, though it was viewed much differently than the stereotypical western conception of what sacrifice was about), the belief in cyclical divinitory calendar systems as well as calendars of religious festivals, and belief in multiple levels of reality (the spirit world being entirely real).\n\nIf you want to know more, I'll list my website and a couple others in the sources if you want to check them out.
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No, not all religions believe we are alone in the universe. The Seventh day Adventists and the LDS churches both believe there are other planets created for men to live on, but both churches also say that they can not reach us, and we can not reach them.
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There are many, most actualy, of the Christian Faith who believe that Sunday is The Sabbath Day. so they try not to do any unnessisary work on that day. They believe that is God's Word\n\nI am of the Christian Faith and I do not see any Biblical word to support Sunday as The Day.  In truth Saturday is God's Sabbath. from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.... No, I am not 7th Day adventist... they are not the only ones who believe in The Sabbath Day
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You may want to ask all the religious freaks around here
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Yes, there are many that hold the Creationist View. Those that come to mind are\nwww.answersingenesis.org\nwww.equip.org\nwww.creationevidence.org\nwww.creationresearch.org\nThere are more, but they have links on some of the sites I listed. If you are sincere in your question, please go to these sites, they will help in the fight against "Evil-Lution."
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HA HA. \n\nSome people might leave needing section 8, some people from other countries may not understand what that is. \n\nCute. \n\nSo your not theologically and scientifically challenged... Do share
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Yes.\n\nHave a great godless day!  Message me with comments and questions.