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VOLUME 15, ISSUE 2
D E P A R T M E N T S
LETTERS to the Editor
Resonating with Cochran’s story
I just finished reading Charles Cochran’s story in the Spring Proclamation! It was so much like my story that it was taking a trip down memory lane in my own reprogramming. The “soul sleep” belief was one of the hardest for me to adopt when I became an Adventist; the investigative judgment was also hard. I am so happy for Charles.
Thanks for continuing to help those of us who don’t have personal support where we live!
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Read for “soul-honesty” sake
I normally read most of your magazine just for soul-honesty sake. Hardly have I ever written a Letter to the Editor, but this time I just couldn’t help myself.
I don’t doubt your convictions or maybe even your sincerity, but please—if you wish to portray your positions as coming from deep honesty, I implore you to at least be that. A statement from your most recent issue (Spring, 2014) is just preposterous. I don’t know if it’s honest self-delusion or intentional deception:
“If you are a regular reader of Proclamation! you should know that we rarely mention Adventists by name.”
What? In that issue I did a quick perusal and came up with a tally of 123 uses of “Adventist” on just the first 23 pages. Please take notice of what is either faulty self-delusion or intentional deception. It’s the least that can be done if you wish to portray your journal as one of integrity.
South Lancaster, MA
Pastor Ratzlaff’s response:
Apparently I did not make myself clear in my statement. Everyone knows we speak of “Adventists” in general as you so amply demonstrated. What I intended to communicate was that we seldom mention Adventists by name, meaning, for example, that if we chose to respond to your letter, I would probably not include your name.
No, this was not written in self-delusion or intentional deception.
Again, thank you for the time you spent tallying the general term “Adventists”. I trust you will keep reading Proclamation! for “soul honesty sake”. I trust that we each would better understand the glorious new covenant gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ that needs to go to the ends of the earth.
Abuses against the disabled
Thank you for your article “Spiritual Abuse Among Religions” by Joanie Yorba-Gray in the Winter, 2012, issue of Proclamation! I found it via a search engine. I’d like to mention that I am a former Adventist who lived in the closed Adventist community of Collegedale, Tennessee, from 1976–2003. As a person with disabilities, I can tell you that abuses against the disabled were active among the community.
Once again, thank you for the article.
via email
Dear Way-Off Shoots,
The cover picture on the Spring, 2014, slick-papered magazine looks like Dale Ratzlaff after the close of probation. What a pile of trash…you lie and are a cousin to Lucifer, the Father of Lies. Success as you prepare for the judgment. You are on the wide road, and you know where that leads.
May you enjoy failure.
Champaign, IL
Greatly helped
It is with deep love and appreciation that I write this letter to you. Over the past several years, I have been greatly helped through reading your wonderful magazine. It is really a great blessing to me that I can get all those food-for-the-soul messages that have given me insight to leave my former Adventist Church and to be in the truth in which God wanted me to be. Your work is rewarded. Please keep sending me the magazine at my new address. I am always praying for you. May God keep and bless you all.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Poisoned views
I am a Seventh-day Adventist with traditional beliefs and am very happy and satisfied with Ellen White’s Spirit of Prophecy and guiding light.
Your views have been poisoned by the world, and I do not appreciate your attempt to invade and spread your poison into my home or that of others that are faithful Sabbath believers.
However underhandedly you received the names and addresses of Adventist believers, it is a wolf-in-sheep’s clothing attempt to proselytize lies to God’s true remnant Church. For each precious soul you pluck out of God’s fold, you will be held accountable when Jesus returns to redeem His children.
Shame on you that your underhanded method of placing unsolicited material in Adventist homes is your chosen way of attempting to con believers over to your poisoned point of view. I’m sorry for you and all the rest that are disgruntled once-Adventist members. Like the Pharisees, you will one day regret your error.
Your magazine is not worth the paper it was printed on. Your time and money was wasted on it in my home; I enjoyed burning it on my campout.
Elfers, FL
Mail from the devil
Please remove my name from your mailing list! I do not like to get mail from the devil!
Jensen Beach, FL
We have been stunned
Thank God for your ministry to the body of Christ all over the world. The articles featured in Proclamation! have been powerful sources of information as you unveil the dangers of Adventist teachings, doctrines, and beliefs. Those of us who have come from a non-Adventist background were stunned to learn that the Adventist movement was founded on cultic errors like the failed prophesy by William Miller…Also very surprising was the fact that E.G. White re-interpreted the false prophesy, cementing the Adventist cult outside the true new covenant gospel and Christianity. Can truth be extracted from error? How can E.G. White reinterpret a false, deceived guess/prophecy and turn it into a founding doctrine of Adventism, claiming it is truth?… What a judgment on misleading souls to believe doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits!
Adventist teachings trample underfoot the glory of the new covenant and the marvelous work accomplished by our great Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
May God bless you as you continue this great ministry of leading souls out of the dungeons of error into the Savior’s marvelous light and truth!
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