Any further posts by anybody that suggests the SDA Church is in apostasy, constitutes Babylon, etc. will be banned from Maritime SDA OnLine.

Beliefs can still be intelligently questioned and discussed.

Greetings Brother Daryl,

I am very curious as to why you have chosen this path, please do share.

Thank you,
Your Sister in Christ Jesus,
Cheri Fritz

Since I hate to see a gag order on legitimate discussion, may I suggest that a private forum be established for the honest investigation of this line of thought. Posters may participate in a Christ-like and scholarly manner; those that do not will lose access privileges. Outside of this one forum the gag order stands.

We need to know the reasons why some people think this way in order to better meet the attacks of skeptics, etc. To simply ignore the comments and ban the scoundrels helps neither them nor us.

It seems we can discuss without calling the Church Babylon or saying it is in apostasy. Those are easy shoals to maneuver.

Concluding that the SDA church is in any way related to Babylon, or will fall, or that a remnant within the remnant will finish the gospel commission, is so totally unbiblical that it isn't worth discussing on MSDAOL. There are plenty of other websites where this type of dislogue is tolerated. One of the things I like about MSDAOL is that church bashing is not permitted. We can study the truth together without having to attack the church.

TM 49
Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard. {TM 49.1}

MM, are you assuming that when that message came 'church' referred to the Adventist denomination and not to the Christian Church? The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not the church. It is a denomination within the church.

Darius, please read the entire article and you'll see that it is referring to the SDA church and not Christendom in general.

The Remnant Church Not Babylon [REVIEW
AND HERALD, AUGUST 22 TO SEPTEMBER 12,
1893.]

Reprinted in TM 32-58.

I think both MM and Darius sufficiently answered Cheri's question.

Also, as I do not want this to be discussed here any further in this particular topic, this topic is now closed.

[ January 08, 2006, 09:50 PM: Message edited by: Daryl Fawcett ]