The Begotten Son, Part 2 We continue with our reply to some comments made by one of our forum members (Blacklit) under our blog post entitled, “The Beginning, Part 1”. Our friends second comment was:  “Not all Adventists are trinitarians in the traditional sense. The following sums up the non trinitarian beliefs of early Adventism, and of some of today’s Adventists… “God alone is without beginning. At the earliest epoch when a beginning could be, -a period so remote that…

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The Begotten Son, Part 1 This post is in response to some comments made by one of our forum members (Blacklit) under our blog post entitled, “The Beginning, Part 1”. Our friends first comment/quote was:  “The fact that Christ is begotten of God does not mean that He is not God. That would be a denial of what we have been told, by God, through His written word. Whilst Christ cannot be the same person as God the Father of…

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The Beginning, Part 4 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: If you want a proof text that Jesus the Word with God specifically is without beginning: In Hebrews 3 Scripture is teaching that the Melchisdec that came to Abraham to bless him was like the Son of God in that he was…

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The Beginning, Part 3 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: The only time there is in Scripture that begins, is the time of the beginning of Creation. Before that time was God in Gen 1, which the Scripture expands on in John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word…

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The Beginning, Part 2 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: ‘Since plainly the Word was God, then to say the Word began in the beginning is to say that God began in the beginning’. In reply, it’s true, “The Word was god [theos]” Strong’s # 2316: a god; a mighty one, but…

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The Beginning, Part 1 The following comments were posted under Part 4 of our study, Bible Students and Seventh Day Adventist, by Robert Derrick in regards to the following statements: We were reviewing the beliefs of our Seventh Day Adventist friends in regards to The Son of God. The Seventh Day Adventist state: “John, the disciple, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with…

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We continue with our comparisons of the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs and the Bible Students. We were discussing their belief in The Trinity, first with respects to The Father and presently with regards to The Son. We continue. They continue: “John, the disciple, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1, 2, NKJV). Adventists believe Jesus was co-existent with God from…

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In our previous post we addressed the issue of the Sabbath, and the Seventh Day Adventist belief that it should be observed on Saturday. As stated, Bible Students do not hold to this belief, but believe rather that every day is holy to the Lord, but we also believe that everyone should worship as they believe to be right, as their conscious so dictates. To violate one’s conscious is a sin to the individual. We now would like to take…

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We return now to the question posed by one of our forum members, viz. Why didn’t anybody interpret Revelation the way you do before Charles Russel Taze and Ellen G. White came along? The commonalities are astonishing. I realize that the “commonalities” which you are suggesting here are in regards to Revelation specifically, and we will address that issue, but we would also like to mention some of the other beliefs held by our Seventh Day Adventist friends to see…

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We present this thread in response to a question asked by one of our forum members (on another Christian forum we frequent) under our study on Revelation, Part 170 Why didn’t anybody interpret Revelation the way you do before Charles Russel Taze and Ellen G. White came along? The commonalities are astonishing. Because prior to Pastor Russell no one had explain the symbolism of Revelation as well as he did, this is key to a correct interpretation of Revelation, and…

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