Cluttering people’s homes with up to a billion copies of an unsolicited book is not evangelism. Distributing “The Great Controversy” is a shortcut to fulfilling a self-imposed mission.
Jesus aimed to correct misconceptions and mischaracterizations of God found in the Old Testament. We seem to miss his attempts because we like to mine Daniel and Revelation for their oddities.
We teach that Satan was once sinless and lived in heaven. But what is the assurance that redeemed sentient beings, their free will intact, would not follow Satan’s path after the dust settles?
There is an intensifying clash between rigidly supporting the church’s beliefs and the empiricism and academic integrity found at the core of university life.
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