Answer: There is no doubt that the number of different religions in the world makes it a challenge to know which one is correct. First, let’s consider some thoughts on the overall subject and then look at how one might approach the topic in a manner that can actually get to a right conclusion about God. The challenge of different answers to a particular issue is not unique to the topic of religion. For example, you can sit 100 math students down, give them a complex problem to solve, and it is likely that many will get the answer wrong. But does this mean that a correct answer does not exist? Not at all. Those who get the answer wrong simply need to be shown their error and know the techniques necessary to arrive at the correct answer.

How do we arrive at the truth about God? We use a systematic methodology that is designed to separate truth from error by using various tests for truth, with the end result being a set of right conclusions. Can you imagine the end results a scientist would arrive at if he went into the lab and just started mixing things together with no rhyme or reason? Or if a physician just started treating a patient with random medicines in the hope of making him well? Neither the scientist nor the physician takes this approach; instead, they use systematic methods that are methodical, logical, evidential, and proven to yield the right end result.

This being the case, why think theology—the study of God—should be any different? Why believe it can be approached in a haphazard and undisciplined way and still yield right conclusions? Unfortunately, this is the approach many take, and this is one of the reasons why so many religions exist. That said, we now return to the question of how to reach truthful conclusions about God. What systematic approach should be used? First, we need to establish a framework for testing various truth claims, and then we need a roadmap to follow to reach a right conclusion. Here is a good framework to use:

1. Logical consistency—the claims of a belief system must logically cohere to each other and not contradict in any way. As an example, the end goal of Buddhism is to rid oneself of all desires. Yet, one must have a desire to rid oneself of all desires, which is a contradictory and illogical principle.

2. Empirical adequacy—is there evidence to support the belief system (whether the evidence is rational, externally evidential, etc.)? Naturally, it is only right to want proof for important claims being made so the assertions can be verified. For example, Mormons teach that Jesus lived in North America. Yet there is absolutely no proof, archaeological or otherwise, to support such a claim.

3. Existential relevancy—the belief system must conform to reality as we know it, and it must make a meaningful difference in the life of the adherent. Deism, for example, claims that God just threw the spinning world into the universe and does not interact with those who live on it. How does such a belief impact someone in a day-to-day manner? In short, it does not.

The above framework, when applied to the topic of religion, will help lead one to a right view of God and will answer the four big questions of life:

1. Origin – where did we come from?
2. Ethics – how should we live?
3. Meaning – what is the purpose for life?
4. Destiny – where is mankind heading?

But how does one go about applying this framework in the pursuit of God? A step-by-step question/answer approach is one of the best tactics to employ. Narrowing the list of possible questions down produces the following:

1. Does absolute truth exist?
2. Do reason and religion mix?
3. Does God exist?
4. Can God be known?
5. Is Jesus God?
6. Does God care about me?

First we need to know if absolute truth exists. If it does not, then we really cannot be sure of anything (spiritual or not), and we end up either an agnostic, unsure if we can really know anything, or a pluralist, accepting every position because we are not sure which, if any, is right.

Absolute truth is defined as that which matches reality, that which corresponds to its object, telling it like it is. Some say there is no such thing as absolute truth, but taking such a position becomes self-defeating. For example, the relativist says, “All truth is relative,” yet one must ask: is that statement absolutely true? If so, then absolute truth exists; if not, then why consider it? Postmodernism affirms no truth, yet it affirms at least one absolute truth: postmodernism is true. In the end, absolute truth becomes undeniable.

Further, absolute truth is naturally narrow and excludes its opposite. Two plus two equals four, with no other answer being possible. This point becomes critical as different belief systems and worldviews are compared. If one belief system has components that are proven true, then any competing belief system with contrary claims must be false. Also, we must keep in mind that absolute truth is not impacted by sincerity and desire. No matter how sincerely someone embraces a lie, it is still a lie. And no desire in the world can make something true that is false.

The answer of question one is that absolute truth exists. This being the case, agnosticism, postmodernism, relativism, and skepticism are all false positions.

This leads us to the next question of whether reason/logic can be used in matters of religion. Some say this is not possible, but—why not? The truth is, logic is vital when examining spiritual claims because it helps us understand why some claims should be excluded and others embraced. Logic is absolutely critical in dismantling pluralism (which says that all truth claims, even those that oppose each other, are equal and valid).

For example, Islam and Judaism claim that Jesus is not God, whereas Christianity claims He is. One of the core laws of logic is the law of non-contradiction, which says something cannot be both “A” and “non-A” at the same time and in the same sense. Applying this law to the claims Judaism, Islam, and Christianity means that one is right and the other two are wrong. Jesus cannot be both God and not God. Used properly, logic is a potent weapon against pluralism because it clearly demonstrates that contrary truth claims cannot both be true. This understanding topples the whole “true for you but not for me” mindset.

Logic also dispels the whole “all roads lead to the top of the mountain” analogy that pluralists use. Logic shows that each belief system has its own set of signs that point to radically different locations in the end. Logic shows that the proper illustration of a search for spiritual truth is more like a maze—one path makes it through to truth, while all others arrive at dead ends. All faiths may have some surface similarities, but they differ in major ways in their core doctrines.

The conclusion is that you can use reason and logic in matters of religion. That being the case, pluralism (the belief that all truth claims are equally true and valid) is ruled out because it is illogical and contradictory to believe that diametrically opposing truth claims can both be right.

Next comes the big question: does God exist? Atheists and naturalists (who do not accept anything beyond this physical world and universe) say “no.” While volumes have been written and debates have raged throughout history on this question, it is actually not difficult to answer. To give it proper attention, you must first ask this question: Why do we have something rather than nothing at all? In other words, how did you and everything around you get here? The argument for God can be presented very simply:

Something exists.
You do not get something from nothing.
Therefore, a necessary and eternal Being exists.

You cannot deny you exist because you have to exist in order to deny your own existence (which is self-defeating), so the first premise above is true. No one believes you can get something from nothing (i.e., that ”nothing” produced the universe), so the second premise is true. Therefore, the third premise must be true—an eternal Being responsible for everything must exist.

This is a position no thinking atheist denies; they just claim that the universe is that eternal being. However, the problem with that stance is that all scientific evidence points to the fact that the universe had a beginning (the ‘big bang’). And everything that has a beginning must have a cause; therefore, the universe had a cause and is not eternal. Because the only two sources of eternality are an eternal universe (proven to be untrue) or an eternal Creator, the only logical conclusion is that God exists. Answering the question of God’s existence in the affirmative rules out atheism as a valid belief system.

Now, this conclusion says nothing about what kind of God exists, but amazingly enough, it does do one sweeping thing—it rules out all pantheistic religions. All pantheistic worldviews say that the universe is God and is eternal. And this assertion is false. So, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and all other pantheistic religions are ruled out as valid belief systems.

Further, we learn some interesting things about this God who created the universe. He is:

• Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation)
• Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known)
• Eternal (self-existent, as He exists outside of time and space)
• Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it)
• Timeless and changeless (He created time)
• Immaterial (because He transcends space)
• Personal (the impersonal can’t create personality)
• Necessary (as everything else depends on Him)
• Infinite and singular (as you cannot have two infinites)
• Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity)
• Intelligent (supremely, to create everything)
• Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything)
• Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver)
• Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

This Being exhibits characteristics very similar to the God of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, which interestingly enough, are the only core faiths left standing after atheism and pantheism have been eliminated. Note also that one of the big questions in life (origins) is now answered: we know where we came from.

This leads to the next question: can we know God? At this point, the need for religion is replaced by something more important—the need for revelation. If mankind is to know this God well, it is up to God to reveal Himself to His creation. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all claim to have a book that is God’s revelation to man, but the question is which (if any) is actually true? Pushing aside minor differences, the two core areas of dispute are 1) the New Testament of the Bible 2) the person of Jesus Christ. Islam and Judaism both claim the New Testament of the Bible is untrue in what it claims, and both deny that Jesus is God incarnate, while Christianity affirms both to be true.

There is no faith on the planet that can match the mountains of evidence that exist for Christianity. From the voluminous number of ancient manuscripts, to the very early dating of the documents written during the lifetime of the eyewitnesses (some only 15 years after Christ’s death), to the multiplicity of the accounts (nine authors in 27 books of the New Testament), to the archaeological evidence—none of which has ever contradicted a single claim the New Testament makes—to the fact that the apostles went to their deaths claiming they had seen Jesus in action and that He had come back from the dead, Christianity sets the bar in terms of providing the proof to back up its claims. The New Testament’s historical authenticity—that it conveys a truthful account of the actual events as they occurred—is the only right conclusion to reach once all the evidence has been examined.

When it comes to Jesus, one finds a very curious thing about Him—He claimed to be God in the flesh. Jesus own words (e.g., “Before Abraham was born I AM”), His actions (e.g., forgiving sins, accepting worship), His sinless and miraculous life (which He used to prove His truth claims over opposing claims), and His resurrection all support His claims to be God. The New Testament writers affirm this fact over and over again in their writings.

Now, if Jesus is God, then what He says must be true. And if Jesus said that the Bible is inerrant and true in everything it says (which He did), this must mean that the Bible is true in what it proclaims. As we have already learned, two competing truth claims cannot both be right. So anything in the Islamic Koran or writings of Judaism that contradict the Bible cannot be true. In fact, both Islam and Judaism fail since they both say that Jesus is not God incarnate, while the evidence says otherwise. And because we can indeed know God (because He has revealed Himself in His written Word and in Christ), all forms of agnosticism are refuted. Lastly, another big question of life is answered—that of ethics—as the Bible contains clear instructions on how mankind ought to live.

This same Bible proclaims that God cares deeply for mankind and wishes all to know Him intimately. In fact, He cares so much that He became a man to show His creation exactly what He is like. There are many men who have sought to be God, but only one God who sought to be man so He could save those He deeply loves from an eternity separated from Him. This fact demonstrates the existential relevancy of Christianity and also answers that last two big questions of life—meaning and destiny. Each person has been designed by God for a purpose, and each has a destiny that awaits him—one of eternal life with God or eternal separation from Him. This deduction (and the point of God’s becoming a man in Christ) also refutes Deism, which says God is not interested in the affairs of mankind.

In the end, we see that ultimate truth about God can be found and the worldview maze successfully navigated by testing various truth claims and systematically pushing aside falsehoods so that only the truth remains. Using the tests of logical consistency, empirical adequacy, and existential relevancy, coupled with asking the right questions, yields truthful and reasonable conclusions about religion and God. Everyone should agree that the only reason to believe something is that it is true—nothing more. Sadly, true belief is a matter of the will, and no matter how much logical evidence is presented, some will still choose to deny the God who is there and miss the one true path to harmony with Him.

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Many people have resolutions to lose weight during a new year. Here is an excellent recipe that will help you with your nutritional needs and give you abundant energy. Starting an exercise program along with this recipe can bring you permanent weight loss. I made this smoothie about an hour ago and notice my energy level is thriving. I am headed out for a brisk hike on this cold and wet winter morning after writing this post.
You can do what is known as a juice fast with this recipe. Just divide the finished smoothie into 3 glasses and do not eat any solid food on the day you juice fast. This recipe has enough nutrition to help you make it through the day without eating solid food. I would strongly suggest you take the last glass at 17:00 hours ( 5:00 pm ) so you don’t have trouble falling asleep.
I have this smoothie for breakfast and lunch. I recommend you only drink this at breakfast and lunch because the Caldera Greens gives you natural energy without caffeine. If you drank this at supper, you may have a hard time falling asleep.
In a six cup blender add:
1 Cup No Sugar Added Juice (apple, cranberry, orange or pineapple)
1 Cup Pure Water
10 Almonds
1 Teaspoon Pumpkin Seeds
1 Teaspoon Sunflower Seeds
1 Heaping Tablespoon Caldera Greens Vegetable Juice Powders
1-2 Tablespoon(s) Organic Flaxseed Oil
1 Apple
1 Banana ( peel and freeze in chunks over night )
1 Piece of a Mango or Papaya
1 Orange
1/2 Cup Frozen Blueberries, Raspberries, or Strawberries
Divide a Whole Pineapple into six sections and add one section
Optional: one half of a lemon and include the pulp. Add a handful of organic baby spinach leaves if you have them. Baby spinach leaves just increases the amount of green vegetable in smoothie.
Blend this mixture for about 30 seconds and enjoy. By adding the frozen berries, your juice will be chilled slightly. You can also use other tropical fruits like acai berries, kiwis, mangos and pineapples. My blender was full with the above ingredients so depending on your blender size, don’t overload your blender.
I had enough smoothie for breakfast and lunch as I poured a 2 cup glass and set it in the fridge for lunch time. There was another 6 ounces extra so I had that with breakfast to get the immediate energy boost. There is plenty of protein in the sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
The seeds also have amino acids and you can replace your breakfast and lunch with this smoothie and be confident your body is getting a balance of enzymes, minerals and vitamins with the Caldera Greens. I eat some raw vegetables for dinner with some 100 % Whole Wheat bread. I also have a pear for desert and the natural sugar satisfies my appetite. A pear is much healthier than cake, cookies, ice cream or pie. Pears have pectin in them.
You can also use the Weight Loss Smoothie as a Juice Fast. Here is an informative call with Dr. James Chappell sharing how important detoxing the body is and how he fasts on a regular basis.
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The soil is rich in fulvic acid and minerals. Many people are sharing how much more energy and stamina they have from using the greens.
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Treat Disease Symptoms or Root Cause

Here is an excellent article that I found researching health.

Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D writes: Throughout history, cultures have adopted a variety of explanations and philosophies in the continuing quest for health. Illness has been attributed in turn to evil spirits, divine retribution, and bugs. Our contemporary model (allopathy) is built largely on the contagion theory of disease and the suppression of symptoms, and therefore promotes medicines and counter measures that fight harmful agents and their effects.

This “opposite” model of therapy is logical, but narrow. It precludes other mechanisms, such as the “like cures like” principle used in homeopathy. Here, minute quantities of the very agent that causes the symptom also causes the immune system to handle it. The holistic approach takes the broadest possible view of illness and disease, identifying multiple causes (both internal and external), and offering multi-dimensional “healing,” as opposed to specific “cures”. It is as concerned with one’s propensity towards disease as it is with its transmission.

Why does one person get colds or infections more easily than another, or at different times? Can we render ourselves more hardy and disease-resistant before medical intervention is necessary, and more resilient when illness does occur? The holistic view says yes. For 80% of our modern health complaints – the lifestyle, stress, and behavioral disorders – natural, holistic self-care methods are a viable alternative to drug-dependence, side effects, and expensive, hi-tech intervention. The fundamental premise is that your body knows how to be well, given the proper support.

Taking into account one’s body, mind, emotions, and spiritual life, holistic health combines the best of modern scientific diagnosis and monitoring techniques with both ancient and innovative health promotion methods. These include natural diet and herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, exercise, relaxation, psycho-spiritual counseling, meditation, breathing exercises, and other self-regulatory practices. It addresses not only symptoms, but the entire person, and his or her current life predicament, including family, job, and religious life. It emphasizes prevention, health maintenance, high-level wellness and longevity. It views the client as an active participant in the healing process, rather than simply a passive recipient of “health care.” At once personal, ecological, and transcultural, holism has become the new health paradigm for the 21st century.

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Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D. is the author of “Enlightenment In Our Time”, “Meditation ? Beginners? Questions & Answers” and “Self-Actuated Healing”. His writings on holistic health and healing appear on AOL’s Alternative Medicine Forum (Keyword AltMed), and in Alternative Health Practitioner, New Age, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications. Dr. Brown is a holistic health counselor in Harrisville, New Hampshire, and teaches meditation, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. All material provided in this site is provided for educational purposes only. The information provided may not be relied upon for diagnosis or treatment of any disease or medical condition. Seek advice from your health care professional regarding the applicability of any information, opinion or recommendation for diagnosis or treatment of any symptoms or medical condition. Statements about products and health conditions have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Long Term Solutions to Help You Lose Weight

Much of my success in maintaining a healthy weight is attributed to an exercise program. I have studied and read much about what the benefits of exercising are and have incorporated a program into my daily life. Did you know that if you walk for just 30 minutes a day, you will be healthier and help the body in a number of ways? Studies show that an early morning workout which includes a 30 minute walk will increase your metabolism rate. The rest of the day you can be sitting at a desk and the rate you burn calories will be increased because you walked. Walking also is excellent for the digestive system and your cardiovascular system. I also do a program that includes basic exercises:

1. Exercise ball

2. Inversion table for 10 minutes

3. Push-ups

4. Sit-ups

5. Stretching for flexibility

6. Yoga

The total time I spend to accomplish this every morning is around 90 minutes. The time spent exercising pays off. My most recent blood pressure was 103 over 72 and Heartrate was 64. I feel great and have been told I also look good as far as having strong and toned muscles. I find the key is to never miss a morning unless it is an emergency. I have plenty of cold weather gear for winter walks and have the gear for walking in the rain as well. Make sure you drink one half your ideal body weight in pure water each day. Water is needed by every cell in your body and helps remove toxins and promotes weight loss.

Only Sick People Get Sick! If we live a healthy life of proper diet, hydrate the body with pure water, and get sunshine and exercise every day, we will stay healthy. Disease thrives in an acidic environment. Disease cannot exist if you take care of your body by following the above principles.

Genesis 6:5-8
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

God talks about the wickedness in the earth. Natural disasters are frequent. It may seem like God is losing the Great Controversy. Cain chose wickedness. Abel chose the righteousness of God. God’s true loyal followers have always been faithful and always will stand on God’s side.

Seth and his descendants chose to follow the line of the loyal. Cain’s descendants followed wickedness. The families of Seth and Cain started to intermingle and out of these marriages many chose to follow wickedness. Do you want to be part of the Line of the Loyal?

Enoch was an incredible man. He remained faithful even while he was surrounded by evil. Enoch did not withdraw from contact with the world. Enoch showed us how to be in the world but not of the world. We can chose to be like Enoch. It is possible to live a righteous life. Biblical repentance is turning away from sin. Turn to Jesus and He will change your life. God wants all to be saved.

We love God and can have power to turn away and resist sin. God’s grace is big enough to keep us from sin. We will always need the grace of God. Lean on God. Jesus has the power to transform and change.

Noah was in the Line of the Loyal. Noah preached for many years and only 8 human beings walked onto the ark. If we are not right with Jesus, how are we going to be ready when Jesus comes again?

In verse 8, Noah found grace. He was a sinner and made mistakes but he realized he needed Jesus. God honors the humble and extends grace. The Devil and Jesus both want us to see how bad we are. The difference is that the devil blinds us in our sense of running and needing Jesus. Jesus says come to me and I will raise you up.

It is easier to be saved than to be lost. World was evil beyond description. God sent the flood. Noah’s descendants then fell into evil after the flood. The people started building the ‘Tower of Babel’ that was going to reach up to the heavens. Then the language differences confused the builders and caused problems. God is our tower of strength. God’s people stand for God’s word. World may say we are crazy or a kook. God’s faithful people stand for God’s word.

The towers of evolution, science, prosperity religion, and new age philosophy are dominant in today’s world. A new Babylon is being built right now. The new Babylon won’t last.

Revelation 18:2-4
And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”
4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

God is asking: “What is your Babylon today?” Is anything in your life taking the place where God should be? All humans have a soul that needs God since God created us so He could have a place to dwell. Do you have financial situations? Is money more important than keeping the Sabbath?

Jesus said come out of Babylon. Do you have temptations in your daily life? God will take care and provide for you. Do you want to be in the Line of the Loyal and make God the priority in your life? Jesus is pleading. Don’t resist the Holy Spirit. Place your life in God’s hands and stand up for Jesus. Ask for Jesus to come into your heart and accept the Savior of the world.

This was Pastor Brandon Korter’s sermon from 19 March 2011 at Bellingham, Washington Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is number 3 of a series of sermons.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

God created us because He wants a place to dwell. God is in more than just humans. God exists in every living thing. We have a responsibility to care for our temple.

1 Corinthians 10:31
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Do the right thing for your body. God wants us to be healthy and happy.

Proverbs 23:26-35
My son, give me your heart,
      And let your eyes observe my ways.
       27 For a harlot is a deep pit,
      And a seductress is a narrow well.
       28 She also lies in wait as for a victim,
      And increases the unfaithful among men.
       29 Who has woe?
      Who has sorrow?
      Who has contentions?
      Who has complaints?
      Who has wounds without cause?
      Who has redness of eyes?
       30 Those who linger long at the wine,
      Those who go in search of mixed wine.
       31 Do not look on the wine when it is red,
      When it sparkles in the cup,
      When it swirls around smoothly;
       32 At the last it bites like a serpent,
      And stings like a viper.
       33 Your eyes will see strange things,
      And your heart will utter perverse things.
       34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
      Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:
       “They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?”
      
Some Christians still use Alcohol. The Bible makes it very clear that alcohol is very dangerous-Do not look at wine is what God says in the Bible. The impact of alcohol on society is staggering. Broken homes, divorces, deaths, illness, disabilities are some of the problems caused directly by alcohol.

1 Timothy 5:21-23
I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality. 22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.
23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

God says to take the subject of strong drink seriously. The Greek word ‘Oinos’ means fermented and unfermented wine. The fruit of the vine is unfermented wine which we call juice. Paul is referring to grape juice to heal Timothy’s stomach problems. Grape juice has more health benefits than fermented wine. Grape juice is great for the heart and strengthening the immune system. Alcohol destroys blood platelets.

Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the LORD:
As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, For a blessing is in it,’ So will I do for My servants’ sake, That I may not destroy them all.

Deuteronomy 29:18-20
So that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood; 19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.
20 “The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

Alcohol is a poison and acts like gall inside the body. Gall is like a parasite. Some Christians say that Jesus turned the water into wine-that Jesus drank wine and made wine. Fermentation is decomposition which is a result of sin. Another word is rotting. In order to get alcohol you have to have decomposition. If Jesus had ever made real alcoholic wine he would have created fermented wine as a result of sin. Jesus would thus have created a way for people to fall into sin. Impossible! Jesus is the only human that has been on the earth without sin. Jesus did not create alcoholic wine. He was sinless on the earth. Jesus did make grape juice.

Leviticus 11:46-47
‘This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.’

God gives us clear instruction about what we should eat and put into our bodies.

Leviticus 11:1-20
Foods Permitted and Forbidden

 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth: 3 Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud—that you may eat. 4 Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; 5 the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; 6 the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; 7 and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.
9 ‘These you may eat of all that are in the water: whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers—that you may eat. 10 But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you. 11 They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination. 12 Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be an abomination to you.
13 ‘And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 14 the kite, and the falcon after its kind; 15 every raven after its kind, 16 the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind; 17 the little owl, the fisher owl, and the screech owl; 18 the white owl, the jackdaw, and the carrion vulture; 19 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 ‘All flying insects that creep on all fours shall be an abomination to you.

Many animals have 3 or 4 stomachs. Pigs only have sweat glands at the hoof and snout. Pigs are very toxic animals. God said don’t eat pork because it is unclean.

Acts 10:1-15
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. 3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
4 And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, lord?”
So he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. 5 Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter. 6 He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do.” 7 And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on him continually. 8 So when he had explained all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Peter’s Vision

9 The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. 10 Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance 11 and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 13 And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”

Acts 10:28
Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

God gave Peter a vision that had nothing to do with what to eat. The vision was about being a Jew and mingling with Gentiles.

Isaiah 66:17
Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, To go to the gardens After an idol in the midst, Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse, Shall be consumed together,” says the LORD.

Abomination is referring back to Leviticus 11.

1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

1 Timothy 4:1-5
The Great Apostasy
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

God has set apart in His Word what is clean and unclean. When Paul wrote this letter, only the Old Testament existed. The Word of God set apart what to eat.

Deuteronomy 32:31-33
For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter. 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

The word gall appears again. The vine is a poisonous plant that produced poppy which is where heroin comes from. Drug usage was going on during Sodom and Gomorrah before the Flood. It is wrong to do drugs including substances like nicotine, caffeine, and heroin. God wants us to be happy. We should give up bad habits that God says to avoid at all cost. We can have victory over substances when we ask God into our hearts.

This is the Bible study given on 16. March 2011 at Bellingham, Washington Seventh-day Adventist church by Pastor Korter.

I had a business commitment the night Pastor Korter presented this Bible study about the remnant church. I copied the verses Brandon gave and will share them here without any commentary. If you are in Bellingham, Washington on Wednesday evening, come to the Bellingham Seventh-day Adventist church for an excellent Bible study at 7pm.

1 Timothy 3:15
But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
 
Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
 
Acts 2:47
Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
 
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all. 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
     
Revelation 19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 22:8-9
Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 Then he said to me, See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.

Revelation 12:14-17
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:6-7
Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people— 7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.

Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Revelation 13:11-18
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Makes about 4 cups

1 Large yam, peeled ( 2 to 3 cups diced )
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Crisp green apple, peeled
1 Cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
1/4 Cup Orange juice concentrate
2 Tablespoons maple syrup
2 Tablespoons water

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Cut peeled yams into 1/2-inch cubes ( you should have 2 to 3 cups ). Toss with oil and spread in a 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Top with diced apple and cranberries.

Mix orange juice concentrate, maple syrup, and water and pour evenly over yam mixture. Cover and bake until yams are tender when pierced with a fork, about 1 hour. Recipe from The Survivor’s Handbook: Eating Right for Cancer Survival by Neal Barnard, M.D.; recipe by Jennifer Raymond.

Yams and other orange-colored fruits and vegetables such as carrots, squash, cantaloupe, mango and pumpkin contain beta-carotene, a potent immune-booster and cancer-fighting antioxidant. Studies have shown that people consuming diets rich in beta-carotene have lower risks of many types of cancer survival rates. The function of white blood cells is improved by as little as 30 milligrams (mg) of beta-carotene per day-the amount in two medium carrots or one small yam.

The Cancer Project is a nonprofit organization advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research. Your source for free nutrition information, cancer fighting recipes, and educational materials.

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It is not popular in today’s society to chose sides. Imagine being a writer that has worked on getting a book published. You have submitted your manuscript to a publisher. After a couple of weeks, the publisher responds that you left out one important element in your manuscript. There is no conflict in your story so the book is rejected.

Conflict is non-negotiable, it is an essential and fundamental reality of life on this planet today. Here are just a few examples of conflict:

Husband and wife arguing
Political parties bashing each other
A fight right inside of you – your good side versus your bad side.

God is a good God – a God of Peace. Time is coming soon when the world will be a place of peace. There will be no more conflict. Conflict is the fruit of sin. Our culture today does not want to accept and believe that. Sin’s lowest common denominator is selfishness. Lucifer started selfishness.

Isaiah 14:12-15
The Fall of Lucifer
12 How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘ I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.

Lucifer’s selfishness is that he was the greatest creation of God and he said he will take the place of God. Lucifer developed ‘I’ trouble – it’s all about me. Whenever self gets in the way, conflict is the result. People get self absorbed. This is where the Great Controversy began – the great war that lead to all future wars in this world.

Imagine going into an art gallery and you are blind folded. You are placed right up against a wall and the blind fold is removed. You are asked what you see. You notice some yellow and grey because you are just one inch from the wall. You are told to move a couple of inches away from the wall and then you are asked to share what you now see. You can see some parts of the body and a few more colors. Then you are asked to move a few feet away from the wall and you then realize you are looking at the Mona Lisa that was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

This story is showing us that we may not see the big picture until we can look from a different perspective. Before sin came into the world there were no sides. After the Great Controversy happened in heaven, we had to chose sides. The choices have been:

Good versus evil
Positive versus negative
Light versus dark
Christ versus satan

Some people chose neither side. When you are traveling on an airplane and a conversation begins with those sitting around you, sooner or later you ask each other what your occupation is. When Pastor Korter was flying home from his recent trip to Venezuela, he had a conversation with a woman sitting close by. When Pastor Korter disclosed that he was a Pastor, the woman became defensive and looked at him differently. She would not keep eye contact and stated that she felt there was more than 2 sides to the Great Controversy. This woman says she is independent.

The root of wanting to be independent is sin. If we are going to be a real Christian, we need to be rooted in God and be a part of His Church. To not chose is to chose the other side away from God. When we feel that it is all about I and me, we are on a slippery slope and have landed on Satan’s side.

We must chose where we will stand. People who admire their own intellectual power may protest. Post modernism says there is not one truth – what is true for you may not be true for me. Many people are comfortable with many shades of grey even though it is a black and white topic.

Joshua 24:15
15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

There is such a thing with pure truth – love – being totally loyal – God’s truth has no error in it. Compromise may seem possible but it is not if we are going to make it into heaven. Choosing God’s side is being in the minority.

Matthew 7:13-14
 
13 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Many people will walk through the narrow gate but just a few are trying to apply the truth in their life. Many are not looking. It seemed Adam and Eve were doomed. God could have said: “You sinned – that’s it, you had your chance – you’re gone. But God chose to give them a choice to be saved. You and I have been given the same choice.

Abel brought a lamb to sacrifice on the altar to God. Abel’s lamb represented Jesus. Cain brought the fruit of his labor to the altar. Cain trusted more in his own human effort. God accepted Abel’s sacrifice – Cain got jealous and killed his brother Abel. This very same principle applies to us today.

Patriarchs and Prophets written by Ellen White page 72
[This chapter is based on Genesis 4:1-15.]

Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, differed widely in character. Abel had a spirit of loyalty to God; he saw justice and mercy in the Creator’s dealings with the fallen race, and gratefully accepted the hope of redemption. But Cain cherished feelings of rebellion, and murmured against God because of the curse pronounced upon the earth and upon the human race for Adam’s sin. He permitted his mind to run in the same channel that led to Satan’s fall–indulging the desire for self-exaltation and questioning the divine justice and authority.

These brothers were tested, as Adam had been tested before them, to prove whether they would believe and obey the word of God. They were acquainted with the provision made for the salvation of man, and understood the system of offerings which God had ordained. They knew that in these offerings they were to express faith in the Savior whom the offerings typified, and at the same time to acknowledge their total dependence on Him for pardon; and they knew that by thus conforming to the divine plan for their redemption, they were giving proof of their obedience to the will of God. Without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin; and they were to show their faith in the blood of Christ as the promised atonement by offering the firstlings of the flock in sacrifice. Besides this, the first fruits of the earth were to be presented before the Lord as a thank offering.

The two brothers erected their altars alike, and each brought an offering. Abel presented a sacrifice from the flock, in accordance with the Lord’s directions. “And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.” Fire flashed from heaven and consumed the sacrifice. But Cain, disregarding the Lord’s direct and explicit command, presented only an offering of fruit. There was no token from heaven to show that it was accepted. Abel pleaded with his brother to approach God in the divinely prescribed way, but his entreaties only made Cain the more determined to follow his own will. As the eldest, he felt above being admonished by his brother, and despised his counsel.

Cain came before God with murmuring and infidelity in his heart in regard to the promised sacrifice and the necessity of the sacrificial offerings. His gift expressed no penitence for sin. He felt, as many now feel, that it would be an acknowledgment of weakness to follow the exact plan marked out by God, of trusting his salvation wholly to the atonement of the promised Savior. He chose the course of self-dependence. He would come in his own merits. He would not bring the lamb, and mingle its blood with his offering, but would present his fruits, the products of his labor. He presented his offering as a favor done to God, through which he expected to secure the divine approval. Cain obeyed in building an altar, obeyed in bringing a sacrifice; but he rendered only a partial obedience. The essential part, the recognition of the need of a Redeemer, was left out.

So far as birth and religious instruction were concerned, these brothers were equal. Both were sinners, and both acknowledged the claims of God to reverence and worship. To outward appearance their religion was the same up to a certain point, but beyond this the difference between the two was great.

“By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.” Hebrews 11:4. Abel grasped the great principles of redemption. He saw himself a sinner, and he saw sin and its penalty, death, standing between his soul and communion with God. He brought the slain victim, the sacrificed life, thus acknowledging the claims of the law that had been transgressed. Through the shed blood he looked to the future sacrifice, Christ dying on the cross of Calvary; and trusting in the atonement that was there to be made, he had the witness that he was righteous, and his offering accepted.

Cain had the same opportunity of learning and accepting these truths as had Abel. He was not the victim of an arbitrary purpose. One brother was not elected to be accepted of God, and the other to be rejected. Abel chose faith and obedience; Cain, unbelief and rebellion. Here the whole matter rested.

Cain and Abel represent two classes that will exist in the world till the close of time. One class avail themselves of the appointed sacrifice for sin; the other venture to depend upon their own merits; theirs is a sacrifice without the virtue of divine mediation, and thus it is not able to bring man into favor with God. It is only through the merits of Jesus that our transgressions can be pardoned. Those who feel no need of the blood of Christ, who feel that without divine grace they can by their own works secure the approval of God, are making the same mistake as did Cain. If they do not accept the cleansing blood, they are under condemnation. There is no other provision made whereby they can be released from the thralldom of sin.

Cain and Abel represent the two classes or choices. One chose following God, the other chose to rebel. Jesus is asking us today – What will your choice be? If you were only person on this planet, Jesus would have come to die for you! Jesus is coming soon – will you chose obedience to God? Choosing obedience is not popular. People say it is legalism – this statement is straight from the devil. Jesus wants us to be free. The Devil wants you to think you will be in bondage.

Reality is that a person that accepts Jesus in their heart is the happiest person in the world. Choose our works or choose Jesus. Say this prayer today:

Jesus, I love you with all my heart, I know you are coming soon, I want you to come into my heart. Ask for Christ and make the choice for following Jesus. Is there a habit that you need to let go of? Choose to believe in the truth not the lies of Satan. God has always had a people. He still has a people today. There are only 2 sides. God, give me the power to make the right choice I pray, Amen.

This is the sermon preached by Pastor Brandon Korter on Sabbath, 5. March 2011 at Bellingham Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church.

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