I understand that you are calling some of us "pagan"

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. By his sophistry he blinds the minds of men, and secures them as his agents to war against God. By perverted conceptions of the divine attributes, heathen nations were led to believe human sacrifices necessary to secure the favor of Deity; and the most horrible cruelties have been perpetrated under the various forms of idolatry. The Romish Church, uniting the forms of paganism and Christianity, and in a similar manner misrepresenting the character of God, has resorted to practices no less cruel and revolting. In the days of Rome's supremacy there were instruments of torture to compel assent to her doctrines. There was the stake for those who would not concede to her claims. There were massacres on a scale that will never be known to mortals. Dignitaries of the church studied, under Satan their master, to invent means to cause the greatest possible torture, and not end the life of their victim. The infernal process was repeated to the utmost limit of human endurance, until nature gave up the struggle, and the sufferer hailed death as a sweet release. {4SP 385.2}

We are still here because God's character has not yet been perfected in His people.



Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I believe that as SDAs we've pretty much heard enough truth to convert the world. The problem is that we are not applying the truth to our lives and we dilute it by word and example. This all leads to weakness and the inability to make disciples because we are to concerned about our own salvation, seeing we are not assured due to the above mentioned.