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“Finally, it is my conviction that the Sanctuary doctrine, if properly understood in a Christ-centered manner, will lead Adventists to be a more compassionate people.”
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
“There is no organized faith or denomination which has any kind of monopoly on truth. Ultimate truth does not reside in the minds or in the realm of imperfect and finite human beings. For this reason many resist institutionalized religions with their doctrinal creeds and rules of order. This is particularly true of many young people today who believe that religion is nothing more than living a good life, and seeking fulfillment through one’s individual, subjective experience. However, such faith leaves one with no objective norm beyond the convictions of individual conscience, and therefore each individual becomes the ultimate norm and the object of faith. Healthy religion transcends all human attempts to organize faith into credal formulations, but it does not make self the ultimate norm. On the contrary, it seeks a Transcendent ground for its being and believing, while humbly recognizing that human understanding of ultimate reality will always be limited and imperfect. Christianity is no better than any other great religion when one considers its “track record” in history, but it is distinct in its insistence that the only perfect revelation of truth that humanity will ever receive was made available through Jesus Christ.”
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
“The words of Christ bring comfort to all who are afflicted with their own sinfulness, “I am telling you the truth: whoever hears my words and believes in him who sent me has eternal life” (John 5: 24). This is the essence of justification by faith. Such a promise seems difficult to harmonize with the abundant texts in scripture which state that all human beings including the righteous will be judged according to their works. However, the key to understanding this seeming contradiction lies in the substitutionary work of Christ itself. Our works cannot save us in the final judgement and neither can our commitment to God, for both are imperfect, and inadequate to perform such a task (Isa. 64: 6). The judgement is good news for all who genuinely seek intimacy with Jesus and claim His blood, because Christ himself stands in their place in the judgement and his perfect works are credited to them in place of their failures and imperfections (1 John 4: 17). Those who are in Christ have already been judged and saved (John 12: 31).”
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
― ADVENTISM FOR A NEW GENERATION
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