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Question #272

Do you believe that E.G. White was a prophet of GOD?

YOU RECENTLY ANSWERED MY QUESTION “WERE YOU AFFILIATED WITH THE S.D.A. CHURCH?’ ANS: YOU ARE NOT, BUT that you ARE IN HARMONY WITH THERE TEACHINGS. I HAVE LISTENED TO PASTOR Bachelor and I believe he teaches that you do not have to be a vegetarian but we need to eat the clean and not the unclean foods. Am I right with about this! Also does your church believe that E.G. White was a prophet of GOD? Also does the church follow her teachings or use her writings to teach others? Does the church believe the writings were inspired by GOD? ME and my wife question these two S.D.A. doctrines or beliefs. Please help.

The Answer:

It may be that you have this website confused with another. A search of this site reveals no hits for “Adventists” (as a religion), “Seventh Day” (as a religion”, or “White” (as a name). Question 151 has not yet been answered, but the answer to Question 100 will show that the Scripture does not support Saturday as the Christian day of worship. The scripture does not teach that it is wrong to eat meat. Paul forbad the eating of meat sacrificed to idols, but he did not condemn the eating of meat per se. Ms. White was neither a prophet nor a messenger sent from God. Her teachings contradict scripture and, therefore, do not teach God’s will. The Bible is the only inspired (God-breathed) book in existence. There are no latter day revelations. The church of the New Testament is not in harmony with her writings and uses neither her writings nor any other writings of man as a source of faith and practice. It uses and follows only the Bible. A book that contains more than the Bible contains too much; a book that contains less than the Bible contains too little; a book that contains the same thing as the bible is unnecessary because we already have the Bible. It is God’s word revealed in the Bible that is Truth; that is what we strive to proclaim here.

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You must repent of your sins. (Acts 3:19) But repentance alone is not enough. The so-called "Sinner's Prayer" that you hear so much about today from denominational preachers does not appear anywhere in the Bible. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible was anyone ever told to pray the "Sinner's Prayer" to be saved. By contrast, there are numerous examples showing that prayer alone does not save. Saul, for example, prayed following his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:11), but Saul was still in his sins when Ananias met him three days later (Acts 22:16). Cornelius prayed to God always, and yet there was something else he needed to do to be saved (Acts 10:2, 6, 33, 48). If prayer alone did not save Saul or Cornelius, prayer alone will not save you. You must obey the gospel. (2 Thess. 1:8)

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