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VOLUME 14, ISSUE 3
D E P A R T M E N T S
LETTERS to the Editor
Best in the millennium
I continue to be amazed that you are out there—in this day when even those who claim Scripture to be their guide are a jumbled mess of Buddhist passivity with endless boasting of their good works.
I’ve had no connection with Adventists in all my 70 years of life, but your obvious desire to know and proclaim the Way, the Truth, and the Life makes you the best Christian magazine published in this millennium!
Winnetka, IL
Faultfinding lies
Your summer issue of Proclamation! was full of faultfinding lies. It is sickening!
Jesus is extremely angry with you lying devils. Hear what he says, “whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Mt.18:6).
Elaina Matthews has been led astray from one legalistic extreme to another totally un-Christian extreme. Her finding fault with Charles Wesley’s “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” illustrates the kind of fault finding your editors search for—faults that are built on lies!
It is a lie to accuse Adventists of changing the Charles Wesley poem.
The Adventist hymnal version is the original….
Your pictures of the clock watching man might be amusing to some, but it is a contemptuous lying illustration. Let me warn you with two Bible verses:
“Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous” (Ps. 31:18).
“I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love” (Ps.119:163).
Lake Elsinore, California
True salvation only through the Word
The salient point in the article by Elaina Matthews is the power of Scripture. For years, as I would explain to my wife what Scripture said and the freedom it gave us, she would nod her head in agreement, but she told me later that she would be thinking, “Sorry, Dear, it’s not as simple as that.” The teaching of the Adventist church and the false prophet who wrote the books by which they abide had reached so far down in her being that only her own reading of Scripture could drive it out.
When she was saved, she helped save her brother also. Her brother lives near their parents, and upon hearing the good news, he went to their house to testify to them. My mother-in-law went so far as to cover her ears as he shared the teachings of the Bible with them.
It is extremely difficult to reach people who have been brought up in such a spirit. The only solution, as your magazine states time and again, is self-study. We as Christians can help them along the way, but true salvation seems to come only through the same source that saved you and me: the Word of God.
Chattanooga, TN
Crazy
Send you money? You must think I’m crazy.
Evansville, IN
Happy to find you
Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am very happy to have found you on the web. I read all the magazines and articles, both in Spanish and in English. I am an Evangelical Christian, and my girlfriend is Adventist. It is very difficult to talk about religion, and her family does not accept our relationship. That is why Proclamation! magazines are of great help to me.
via email
Your idea of preaching
Is convincing Seventh-day Adventists that they are wrong your idea of preaching the gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people? And in view of the fact that Christ said that this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached to all the world and then the end would come, do you feel that He will return when you have convinced all 17,000,000-plus Adventist that they are wrong?
via email
Great issue
Just finished reading the summer issue of Proclamation! It was another great one with many thought-provoking articles.…
The article “Are you led by the lesser light or sola scriptura?” could also have been titled “Are you led by a flashlight or by the Son light?” Stephen Pitcher wrote, “In practice, Adventism uses her writings as if they are on a par with Scripture.” Many times her writings are quoted above Scripture.
I worked in evangelism for eight months before going to college, and when the topic of Ellen White came up in the evangelistic meetings, the evangelist would hold up the Bible high over his head and place his other hand lower down to show that her writings were not on par with Scripture. In our class the next day, someone asked why he had done this. The evangelist’s response was that EGW’s writings should be perceived that way at first, but this understanding would change once they became members of the church.
Ontario, Canada
Satanic mail
[Name] died in April, 2013, remaining true to the truth of God’s remnant church, the Seventh-day Adventists, despite your deceptive teachings. Remove her name and this address from your mailing list. Your satanic mail is not wanted.
Camdenton, MO
Wonderful, liberating ministry
Thank you for the two books you sent me; I cannot begin to tell you how fascinating I found them. I have been an evangelical Christian all my life and just assumed Adventism was also—they just had the Sabbath and the diet rules. Your books, which I will keep for reference, have opened up an entire world to me of another cult…
Thank you all for this wonderful ministry of reaching these people as they exit; that would, of course, be a difficult thing to do.
Landfall, MN
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