[Apologetics] Adventist material on xanga.com

[Art Kelly]

These Adventists are sick, sick, sick.  Well, at least
the ones in the link you provided. I suppose there are
some who are not so crazy.

Thanks to Dr. Stephen Korsman in South Africa who
specializes in Catholic apologetics directed at Seven
Day Adentists.

Somebody has to do it. May God bless his good work.

Art

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:

> Some branch of Adventism has top of the page ads on
> xanga.com.  I followed 
> one of the links to this:
> 
>
http://www.worldslastchance.com/index.php?p=next_and_last_pope.php
> 
> My Mom had told me that John Paul II was the next to
> last true Pope (based
> on some obscure interpretation of prophecy.  She
> claimed that John Paul
> himself had said this - but I was never able to find
> a quote.
> 
> Anyway, because of that, I clicked the link.  It is
> Adventist (Sunday = false
> sabbath).  The gist is that the Catholic Church is
> the harlot on the beast
> in Revelation 17.  The 7 kings are numbered from
> 1929, when the Vatican
> was created, and Benedict is the 7th.  The 8th will
> be a demon pretending
> to be John Paul II raised from the dead.
> 
> Most "last pope" theories from a pre-trib
> eschatology are respectful 
> of Catholics (true Catholic Christians are raptured
> leaving only
> the evil ones to be the whore during the
> tribulation).  This one is
> rather anti-Catholic and justifies making Catholic
> Church a "beast"
> (persecutor) based on a "wilderness" theory, and
> history of Catholic
> persecution of Protestants ending 1798, whence
> begins the "wilderness" phase of
> the Catholic Church where she gets persecuted in
> turn.  According to the
> theory, Benedict will reign a "short time", then the
> false 8th Pope will make
> the church a persecuting beast again.
> 
> Quite involved, but a well contructed site that will
> give those interested
> a flavor of anti-catholic adventism.
> 
> I checked out the "beliefs" section, and their
> "faith and works" statement
> (#5) is rather Catholic sounding.  The preponderence
> of "de fide" statements
> in their catechism, however, are interpretations of
> phropecy - which makes it
> rather shaky theologically.  It even includes a "de
> fide" explanation (#9) of
> why the "de fide" adventist prophecy interpretations
> of 1844 seemed to be
> wrong!
> 
> -- 
>  	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
> Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703
> 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
> "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" -
> background song for
> a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from
> here?" commercial.
> _______________________________________________
> Apologetics mailing list
> Apologetics at gathman.org
> http://bmsi.com/mailman/listinfo/apologetics
> 
> <!DSPAM:10E91EABAF82501342737197>
> 
> 


                           
  ART KELLY, ATM-S
  13524 Brightfield Lane
  Herndon, Virginia 20171-3360
  (703) 904-3763 home
  arthurkelly at yahoo.com
  art.kelly at cox.net
  ArtK135 at Netscape.net
   
   
















 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business 
(http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com)