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"Donna" |
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16 Dec 2004 10:58:59 AM |
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Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
The Bread of Life
"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life." John 6:35.
"I am the bread of life, the Author, Nourisher, and Supporter of
eternal, spiritual life. . . . Christ represents Himself under the
similitude of heavenly bread. To eat His flesh and to drink His blood means
to receive Him as a heaven-sent teacher. Belief in Him is essential to
spiritual life. Those who feast on the Word never hunger, never thirst,
never desire any higher or more exalted good.
Christ exclaimed the meaning of His words so clearly that none need
stumble over them. His statement regarding eating the flesh and drinking the
blood of the Son of God is to be taken in a spiritual sense. We eat Christ's
flesh and drink His blood when by faith we lay hold upon Him as our Saviour.
Christ used the figure of eating and drinking to represent that
nearness to Him which all must have who are at last partakers with Him in
His glory. The temporal food we eat is assimilated, giving strength and
solidity to the body. In a similar manner, as we believe and receive the
words of the Lord Jesus, they become a part of our spiritual life, bringing
light and peace, hope and joy, and strengthening the soul as physical food
strengthens the body.
It is not enough for us to know and respect the words of the
Scriptures. We must enter into the understanding of them, studying them
earnestly. . . . Christians will reveal the degree to which they do this by
the healthiness of their spiritual character. We must know the practical
application of the Word to our own individual character-building. We are to
be holy temples, in which God can live and walk and work. Never must we
strive to lift ourselves above the servants whom God has chosen to do His
work and to honor His holy name. "All ye are brethren." Let us apply this
Word to our individual selves, comparing scripture with scripture.
In our daily lives, before our brethren and before the world, we are to
be living interpreters of the Scriptures, doing honor to Christ by revealing
His meekness and His lowliness of heart. As we eat and digest the bread of
life, we shall reveal a symmetrical character. By our unity, by esteeming
others better than ourselves, we are to bear to the world a living testimony
of the power of the truth. . . . When men submit entirely to God,
eating the bread of life and drinking the water of salvation, they will grow
up into Christ. Their characters are composed of that which the mind eats
and drinks. Through the Word of life, which they receive and obey, they
become partakers of the divine nature. Then . . . Christ, not man, is
exalted " (The SDA Bible Commentary, Ellen G. White Comments, vol. 5, p.
1135). LHU 105
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| User: "Andrew" |
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| Title: Re: Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
17 Dec 2004 02:11:30 PM |
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"Donna" <Donna@nospamlocalline.com> wrote
in message news:cpseq5$kt8@library2.airnews.net...
The Bread of Life
"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life." John 6:35.
"I am the bread of life, the Author, Nourisher, and Supporter of
eternal, spiritual life. . . . Christ represents Himself under the
similitude of heavenly bread. To eat His flesh and to drink His blood means
to receive Him as a heaven-sent teacher. Belief in Him is essential to
spiritual life. Those who feast on the Word never hunger, never thirst,
never desire any higher or more exalted good.
Christ exclaimed the meaning of His words so clearly that none need
stumble over them. His statement regarding eating the flesh and drinking the
blood of the Son of God is to be taken in a spiritual sense. We eat Christ's
flesh and drink His blood when by faith we lay hold upon Him as our Saviour.
Christ used the figure of eating and drinking to represent that
nearness to Him which all must have who are at last partakers with Him in
His glory. The temporal food we eat is assimilated, giving strength and
solidity to the body. In a similar manner, as we believe and receive the
words of the Lord Jesus, they become a part of our spiritual life, bringing
light and peace, hope and joy, and strengthening the soul as physical food
strengthens the body.
The above is the true meaning of the words, "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh
my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:54..and it
is opposed to the false understanding that some have in the blasphemous doctrine
of the mass.
Let us daily eat and drink the WORDS of Christ..our heaven sent teacher and Lord.
"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
John 6:63
Andrew
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| User: "PharLap" |
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| Title: Re: Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
17 Dec 2004 01:40:07 AM |
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In article <cpseq5$kt8@library2.airnews.net>, "Donna"
<Donna@nospamlocalline.com> wrote:
As we eat and digest the bread of
life, we shall reveal a symmetrical character.
Unfortunately I have a sensitivity to all bread and it merely makes me fart
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| User: "alanm" |
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| Title: Re: Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
17 Dec 2004 07:26:56 AM |
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"PharLap" <fun@studfarm-holiday.com> wrote in message
news:fun-1712041840070001@ppp288a.dyn.pacific.net.au...
In article <cpseq5$kt8@library2.airnews.net>, "Donna"
<Donna@nospamlocalline.com> wrote:
As we eat and digest the bread of
life, we shall reveal a symmetrical character.
Unfortunately I have a sensitivity to all bread and it merely makes me
fart
There is an important difference between wheat bread and rye bread.
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| User: "PharLap" |
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| Title: Re: Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
17 Dec 2004 01:41:29 AM |
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In article <cpseq5$kt8@library2.airnews.net>, "Donna"
<Donna@nospamlocalline.com> wrote:
We are to
be holy temples, in which God can live and walk and work.
Including the toilet block or just the pretty bits?
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| User: "PharLap" |
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| Title: Re: Lift Him up as the Bread of Life |
17 Dec 2004 01:45:10 AM |
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White copied The Great Controversy from Life Incidents!
This is the single most incredible fact that shows Ellen G. White to be a
false prophet and a deluded plagiarist:
In a nutshell:
1. The Great Controversy contains the pillars and foundation of Adventist
theology.
2. White copied these key doctrine in the Great Controversy from books
written by James White.
3. James White copied his books from books written by J. N. Andrews.
4. Thus the ultimate source of Seventh-day Adventist theology is not God
inspiring new truths to White, but plagiarizing (copying) J. N. Andrews.
5. We suggest that White step down and let Andrews take her place as the
single most influential sources of doctrine in the SDA church!
Here is what Walter Rea says in his book, "The White Lie":
One of the unwritten stories in Adventist history is the influence that
James White had in forming the ideas and sentences that came out under
Ellen's name and pen. Although not noted as a literary writer or as a
theologian, James did produce four published books. Two of these were Life
Incidents in Connection with the Great Advent Movement, as Illustrated by
the Three Angels of Revelation XIV, published in 1868, and in 1875
Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller:
Gathered from his Memoirs by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other
Sources. Both books were almost totally copied from others. The one on
William Miller was taken from Sylvester Bliss (who in 1853 had written
Memoirs of William Miller). The theology of Life Incidents was copied
substantially from Uriah Smith and J. N. Andrews. 14 Neither of these
books was ever printed again under the name of James White as far as is
known.
But they were indeed reprinted under another name, that of Ellen G. White,
his wife, a few years after his death in 1881-but under the title The
Great Controversy (1884). And this production was sold to the believers
and the world as the work of Ellen and the angels. Although it had been
doctored and padded with other material in the usual manner, clearly it
was material that had been published earlier under the name of James. What
the people were not told was that the heart of this new revelation had
been printed sixteen years before, and that the theme and thesis had been
over literally and liberally into Ellen's new Great Controversy.
One reason is now clear why much of the information in the 1884 edition of
The Great Controversy could not have been included in the earlier works of
Ellen on the same subject (Spiritual Gifts, published 1858-64). James had
not yet gotten around to copying it from J. N Andrews; so it was not
available to Ellen at the time. The 1888 and 1911 editions of The Great
Controversy went back to James White's compilation of doctrines and events
and picked up even more of his findings and ideas. But never once was it
suggested that the heart of Adventist doctrine-such as the three angels'
worldwide message that the church had applied exclusively to the
Adventists, the shut door that left everyone else out in the cold, the
2300 days, the seventy weeks, the sanctuary doctrine, the United States in
prophecy, the "mark of the beast," the image to that beast-had all come
out earlier in James White's Life Incidents.
The heart and foundation of Adventist theology was copied from James White
who copied it from J. N. Andrews!
So striking was the copying done under the name of Ellen-and so sensitive
is the information that the heart of Adventist theology and eschatology
came, not from the visions of or revelations to Ellen, but from the pen of
James sixteen years before Ellen wrote them out- that time should be spent
examining the evidence in Life Incidents.
Here it should be recalled that the four small volumes of Ellen's
Spiritual Gifts (1858-64) were amplified to the four volumes of Ellen's
The Spirit of Prophecy (1870-84) and then expanded to Ellen's The Great
Controversy (1888 ea.) of the five-volume Conflict of the Ages Series.
Inasmuch as the earlier eight volumes are now again available in facsimile
editions, anyone can examine all the books and note the progressive copy
work through the years. Meanwhile, during those same years, the legend
grew and grew and was "sold" and accepted that God had given Ellen
exclusive and firsthand knowledge of his plans for the future events of
the church and the world.
Comparison shows that words, sentences, quotations, thoughts, ideas,
structures, paragraphs, and even total pages were taken from James White's
book to Ellen's book under a new title-with no blush of shame, no mention
of her husband, no thanks to Uriah Smith and J. N. Andrews, for the hard
work and theological insights of anyone.
Unfortunately for James, he did not have the personal advantage of angels
checking in and out on schedule with the firsthand information Ellen
purported to have. Without any intermediary, he had to get his material
from human sources. But he was equal to the task. Much of his material in
Life Incidents was taken primarily from J. N. Andrews, whose book
published in 1860, interestingly enough, was entitled The Three Messages
of Revelation XIV, 6-12, and particularly The Third Angel's Message and
The Two-Horned Beast. James, unlike his wife Ellen, did not even bother to
paraphrase-he just took the material from Andrews wholesale into his work.
Examination reveals that the 1860 book of J. N. Andrews was an exact
replay of his own 1851-55 articles in the Review. Thus James and Ellen had
available for their perusal and use after 1855 the content and form of
Andrew's work for incorporation in their own work: Spiritual Gifts
(1858-64); Life Incidents (1868); The Spirit of Prophecy (1870-84);
Sketches of. . . William Miller (1875); The Great Controversy (1888).
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