A People for His Name “Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: ‘After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, Even all the…
We continue with our comparisons of the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs and the Bible Students in respects to the Church. Seventh Day Adventist say: The church is God’s family; adopted by Him as children, its members live on the basis of the new covenant. We will not go into detail here on this issue as this is thoroughly discussed under our blog posts entitled, “The Mediator and the New Covenant” and “The Church under the Abrahamic Covenant, not the New…
We continue with our comparisons of the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs and the Bible Students. In our last post we were considering a few points which our Catholic friends had to say in regards to incarnation (a pivotal doctrine of theirs), as well as our Lord’s nature while on earth and etc. It was stated: 4) Jesus had two natures (human and divine) but he was only one “person.” He is a divine person (not a human person). He is…
We continue with our comparisons of the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs and the Bible Students. Seventh Day Adventist say: The church derives its authority from Christ, who is the incarnate Word revealed in the Scriptures. Is Jesus “Divine”? Most certainly, that is to say ever since his resurrection when he was highly exalted to the divine plane of existence by the Father, viz. Since his death and resurrection and subsequent glorification he (Jesus) is “the blessed and only Potentate, the…
With regards to THE CHURCH Seventh Day Adventist say: “The church is the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In continuity with the people of God in Old Testament times, we are called out from the world; and we join together for worship, for fellowship, for instruction in the Word, for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, for service to humanity, and for the worldwide proclamation of the gospel. The church derives its authority from…