How could that be a personal attack? I don’t know you!
It was just an obvious conclusion based solely on the...er… ‘content’ of your drivel.
By the way, your unhealthy focus on food (which is quite bizarre), certainly appears to be pathological. You may be suffering from an eating disorder called Orthorexia nervosa, which is an obsession with a “pure” diet, where it interferes with a person’s life. It becomes a way of life filled with chronic concern for the quality of food being consumed. When the person suffering with orthorexia slips up from wavering from their “perfect” diet, they may resort to extreme acts of further self-discipline, including even stricter regimens and fasting.
If you are a medical doctor, psychologist or whatever in the health field, you are ILLEGALLY setting diagnoses without examining the “patient”.
Now, if you are just a forum participant, you should notice that THIS TOPIC deals with dietary laws, and what I am doing HERE is trying to discuss the matter constructively, giving due response to objections which is a natural and obvious attitude of any participant of a discussion forum.
Now, as to “fixation” on this subject, if you had the trouble of examining my other participations, you would see OTHER SUBJECTS that I have been also posting materials about: immortality, ‘eternal’ hell, dispensationalism, etc.
So, in the face of these facts, your distortions about my motivation and participation here show that you are looking for EXCUSES to not answer objectively the 4 basic questions for sheer IMPOSSIBILITY of answering them and still advocate these “liberalizing” ideas regarding the Christian and God’s laws regarding foods.
It was a free gift which I had hoped you would receive with the same spirit of generosity in which it was given.
By the way, the ‘REMNANT DICTIONARY’ is an excellent source for a description of the content of your posts:
“WHITE NOISE:
The term White Noise is a neologism to describe a meaningless commotion or chatter that masks or obliterates truth.
The information itself has characteristics that achieve this effect without the need to introduce a scriptural basis. A common example of this usage is to include lots of extraneous information to mask truth in such a way that it won’t be noticed.
White Noise draws its name from White Lite in which the power of the light is distributed over the senses in such a way that common sense is obliterated and extraneous information becomes essential.”
It was a free gift which I had hoped you would receive with the same spirit of generosity in which it was given.
By the way, the ‘REMNANT DICTIONARY’ is an excellent source for a description of the content of your posts:
“WHITE NOISE:
The term White Noise is a neologism to describe a meaningless commotion or chatter that masks or obliterates truth.
The information itself has characteristics that achieve this effect without the need to introduce a scriptural basis. A common example of this usage is to include lots of extraneous information to mask truth in such a way that it won’t be noticed.
White Noise draws its name from White Lite in which the power of the light is distributed over the senses in such a way that common sense is obliterated and extraneous information becomes essential.”
John Douglas
“obliterate truth” ---LOL, who is obliterating truth here?! Isn’t whoever DOESN’T ANSWER QUESTIONS, just create a climate of unecessary conflict with an evident intention to escape points that cannot gainsay?
The four questions are clear and to the point. Trying to circumvent them with all this waste of time of words just shows that THE TRUTH is not on the side of those who act like under that apologetical stonewalling mode, that leads nowhere.
… The THREE GREAT ABSENTS factor in Hebrews 7 to 10 confirm undeniably that none of these three things ceased under the Christian Era. There is no reason for their demise. . .
Prof. Brito,
You place such great credence in the ABSENCE of what is or is not being explicitly said or instructed in Holy Scripture. This “inverse” mode of interpretation is highly convenient in that it gives you wide latitude in your expositions and also gives you the needed flexibility to protect your Adventist views and soteriology. It is an interesting and dare I say, unholy concept that the Holy Spirit would use such a murky methodology to communicate important spiritual truths to believers! All of this flies in the face of the absolute clarity and high precision that is explicitly self declared throughout the entire bible (the very Word of God)!
Dear Professor: Why would a Holy and Righteous God use such an ambiguous method or language style when speaking to His beloved saints???
But perhaps the Apostle Paul shouldn’t have said: “… what does the scripture say?” Romans 4:3 (NIV) & Galatians 4:30 (NIV) Perhaps, using your method he should have said: “… what does the scripture NOT say?”
I fully agree with John Douglas’ assessment of how you use “white noise” to obfuscate and confuse issues.
That said, I fully doubt that anything I say here will be effective in convincing you of anything. I’ll leave that to the Holy Spirit! For He is absolutely irresistible to all who are truly chosen and called by the Father to come to the Son! John 6:44 (NIV)
Yet again, (not to be tedious) we are commanded to “contend” for the truth of scripture! This is why I must persist in my attempts.... BTW, how many times are 70 times 7? Matthew 18:22 (NIV)
‘Saved by God’s grace ALONE through faith ALONE in Christ ALONE’
I’ll leave you to shout to an empty room.
Bye Bye
John Douglas
That is what I call the regrettable sum of PREJUDICE + MISINFORMATION. Thank God that I don’t need that kind of speech, for those who really know what the SDA Church teaches regarding the means of salvation, such as presented clearly in topics 9, 10 and 19 of our “Foundational Beliefs”, know what I mean.
As to the othe objector, I DON’T BASE MY REASONING ONLY IN LACK OF WHAT IS SAID, and those who read all the material that I posted in different topics know that this is truth, and what we have here is one more DISTORTION of facts.
I just present this point of THE THREE GREAT ABSENTS because is one more argument and it makes good sense, for it’s incredible that these three very important elements of the religious life of Israel--the Sabbath, the dietary laws and the tithe--are NEVER mentioned in these chapters as having been abolished for exhausting their typological role. And these are chapters especially dedicated to explain the typological meaning of the different features of the Jewish laws.
That is NOT the basis of my reasonings, and those who have a fairer attitude and have read all that I posted know that these kind of distortions are to be expected by those who keep harboring this regrettable sum of PREJUDICE + MISINFORMATION.
Time Magazine Discusses Global Warming and Confirms SDA Philosophy of Life
The well-known international weeklyTime featured in its April 9, 2007 edition special stories and studies emphasizing the global warming challenge. It dealt with the problems, plans, proposals, projects, paradigms, preventive programs, politics, politicians and possibilities of peoples, provinces and populations in the face of the bad conditions of increasing emissions of CO2 on the atmosphere. That is the main cause of the warming of the planet and its consequent weather changes and ecological unbalance, with the resulting increase in unnatural disasters and damage to properties and to both men and animals. Everybody knows how that subject has been increasingly debated all over the world.
Besides the cover-highlighted article, under the heading “The Global Warming Survival Guide”, the publication brings a section entitled “51 Things We Can Do” (to make a difference). Some of the ideas raised are disconnecting the computer when not in use (in many houses and offices they are on 24/7), changing the traditional light bulbs for the fluorescent compact ones (more energetically efficient and durable), using more mass transportation (bus and subway) where available, planting bamboo in yards of larger proportions (by the way, the magazine doesn’t tell, but the bamboo sprouts are nourishing, rich in fiber and vitamins, much used in Chinese and Japanese cooking), preferring recycled products (papers in general, plastics and even construction material), acquiring preferably agricultural products grown locally (to prevent fuel-consuming transportation across long distances), keeping the car’s engine tuned-up and the tires at the right air pressure, etc. But the suggestion # 22 is very interesting and fits perfectly with one of the Seventh-day Adventist life philosophy’s proposals.
That is how the magazine argues this proposal of “positive environment impact”:
Skip the Stake
Which is responsible for more global warming: your BMW or your Big Mac? Believe it or not, it’s the burger. The international meat industry generates roughly 18% of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions—even more than transportation—according to a report last year from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
Much of that comes from the nitrous oxide in manure and the methane that, is, as the New York Times delicately put it, “the natural result of bovine digestion”. Methane has a warming effect that is 23 times as great as that of carbon, while nitrous oxide is 296 times as great.
There are 1.5 billion cattle and buffalo on the planet, along with 1.7 billion sheep and goat. Their populations are rising fast, especially in the developing world. Global meat production is expected to double between 2.001 and 2050. Given the amount of energy consumed raising, shipping and selling livestock, a 16-oz. T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate.
If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to a research by the University of Chicago. Trading a standard car for a hybrid cuts only about one ton—and isn’t as tasty”.
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Note: At the end, three charts show “Impact”, with the needle right in the middle of the scale; “Time Horizon”: “Now”; and the “Feel-Good Factor” only three notches short of the maximum.
When Al and Tipper Gore separated in June this year after 40 years of marriage, the animal protection organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wrote to the former U.S. vice presidente suggesting he should consider going vegan as a way to improve his chances for dates as well as to help reduce the catastrophic effects of global warming.
“Switching to a vegan diet is the best thing that anyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint--a goal that Al Gore says he supports,” says PETA’s Executive Vice Presidente Tacy Reiman. “But perhaps more importantly to him right now, a plant-based diet will help him slim down and boost his energy and overall health.”
In PETA’s letter to Al Gore, they stated that the health and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet “We know that you find it hard to kick the meat habit, and we know that you care about the earth, so please remind yourself of the fact that dropping meat, eggs, and dairy products from your diet is also good for the planet. . . . Of course, this is not news to you. Live Earth, the terrific organization that you cofounded, has stated in its handbook that ‘refusing meat is the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint’”.—Signs of the Times, September 2010, p. 40, 41.
See what the regrettable summation of MISINFORMATION + PREJUDICE leads to. . . Joel Osteen said NOTHING about global warming. This problem is NOT a hoax, according to the same science that antiadventists quote when deem convenient to dispute some Ellen White statements.
Oh, and they forgot the mention to Time magazine. . . And I could also present another similar article from The Reader’s Digest. And there are other good researchers writing articles CONFIRMING the SDA philosophy of healthful foods, preferably including vegetarianism.
Why don’t you guys simply stick to the material on their on merit, like our Bible assessment of the false arguments against the dietary laws being still valid and in force to the Church, like the fact NEVER explained that God said that it was an “abomination” to feed on these unclean meats (Deut. 14:3), and NEVER changed His mind, for even on that final reckoning day, those who eat PORK and MOUSE will be jointly destroyed (Isa. 66:16-18)?
Now, this important BIBLICAL datum nobody addresses (as well as all the other BIBLICAL points that were presented in this topic.
See what the regrettable summation of MISINFORMATION + PREJUDICE leads to. . . Joel Osteen said NOTHING about global warming. This problem is NOT a hoax, according to the same science that antiadventists quote when deem convenient to dispute some Ellen White statements.
Oh, and they forgot the mention to Time magazine. . . And I could also present another similar article from The Reader’s Digest. And there are other good researchers writing articles CONFIRMING the SDA philosophy of healthful foods, preferably including vegetarianism.
Why don’t you guys simply stick to the material on their on merit, like our Bible assessment of the false arguments against the dietary laws being still valid and in force to the Church, like the fact NEVER explained that God said that it was an “abomination” to feed on these unclean meats (Deut. 14:3), and NEVER changed His mind, for even on that final reckoning day, those who eat PORK and MOUSE will be jointly destroyed (Isa. 66:16-18)?
Now, this important BIBLICAL datum nobody addresses (as well as all the other BIBLICAL points that were presented in this topic.
Brito,
Are you aware of the major scandal that came out in the past year about the scientists who were caught red handed on emails admitting to fraudulent manipulation of data with regard to global warming?
Al Gore has now been exposed as a fraud not only on global warming, but now in his personal life.
Brito, you have come to the wrong forum if you want to use Joel Osteen and Al Gore of examples of any kind of credibility at all. Like Aaron, I don’t want to see this website go that direction.
He has vividly demonstrated his intellectual and social deficiency, there is no possible way to have a meaningful dialogue with him. He is a legend in his own mind and his ego craves an audience to which he can display his absurdity.
IGNORE HIM.
He’ll get bored and go away to be a troll elsewhere.
