Posted on 10/26/2015 3:12:44 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ben Carson's faith as a Seventh-day Adventist came under fire at a Donald Trump rally on Saturday when the billionaire suggested his Presbyterian faith was superior.
Having recently slipped behind Carson in the Iowa polls, Trump told a crowd in Florida, "I love Iowa. And, look, I don't have to say it, I'm Presbyterian. Can you believe it? Nobody believes I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian . . . Boy, that's down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."
On Sunday, Carson was given the opportunity to respond on Fox News, but said "I really refuse to really get into the mud pit" with Trump. Gathered below are 12 things you may or may not know about Seventh-day Adventists and their unique system of belief.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
SMH over anyone who identifies primarily with a denomination. It’s stupid for Donald and it’s stupid for Ben. Here’s what would have been REALLY classy from Ben: “I’m a Christian and I go to a Seventh Day Adventist church. It is Christ that has made me a Christian. Don’t know about Donald, though he’s welcome to tell us.”
It’s not just his religion we are worried about, it’s everything about him:
If Iowans think Carson is their cup of tea believe me, he is a snake in the grass:
Ben Carson Pretends He Doesn’t Really Want To End Medicare By Heather
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As we already discussed here, GOP presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson told Politico that he wants to replace Medicare and Medicaid with cradle-to-grave health savings accounts. When asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if he really wants to put an end to Medicare, Carson stammered and stuttered his way through the interview and tried to pretend that’s not what he wants to do, even though we all know that would be the end result if you move the funds from one program to the other.
Here’s more from The Hill on Carson’s train wreck of an interview on Fox: Ben Carson says he won’t end Medicare: Republican Ben Carson on Sunday rejected the notion that he will end Medicare if he is elected president. “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Carson if his plan was to end the program, which serves 49 million senior citizens. “That’s completely false, Carson said. “That’s a narrative someone’s putting out there to scare people.”
Carson said the program he’s outlined uses health savings accounts starting from the time a person is born until their death to largely eliminate the needs for people to be dependent on government programs. “I would never get rid of the programs,” he said. “I would provide people with an alternative and I think they will see the alternative we’re going to outline is so much better than anything else.”
Wallace pushed Carson on what appeared to be a policy change, asking him if people will have a choice between health savings accounts and the traditional Medicare “I do not believe in imposing things on people,” Carson said. “I believe in presenting things that are so attractive that people will quickly migrate to them.”
It’s pretty bad when even a host on Fox isn’t buying the B.S. you’re shoveling. Wallace pushed and pushed Carson on where the money would come from for his program, and Carson either doesn’t even understand what his own health care proposal would do, or he’s just lying through his teeth.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/17/top-carson-aide-wants-taxpayers-to-fund-farrakhan/
https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates/candidates/ben-carson#article-11
http://www.unz.com/article/the-ben-carson-money-machine/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/ben-carson-liberal-views-2016
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ben-Carson-race-divide-cameras/2014/11/30/id/610131/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/10/dr-ben-carson-says-al-sharpton-and-i-have-the-same-goals/#WeUr0xizscWSsjA7.99
k Ben Carson is up to the job, think again...
I should correct one thing. Adventists don’t believe the dead are unconscious. The term sleeping is just a more gentle way to say nonexistent. Adventists believe that life is the combination of the breath of life and the physics body. When they are separated, that person ceases to exist.
The ones I know are also vegetarians. Good people, though. The Seventh Day hospital system in Colorado is one of the top hospital systems.
As long as he is not a Muzzie leghumper like our current Anus in Chief... His Religiosity is not a concern for me.
Not wanting to start a religion bashing thread here, but SDA is based on the prophecies and teachings of Ellen G. White, who made several prophecies that did not come true.
We tend to think our earthly time line is the reference point to all reality when it is the other way around.
In a sci-fi like lingo, we might say the dead are time tunneled to the resurrection point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
One of the founders of the 7th Day Adventists was William Miller who believed Jesus would return to Earth in 1844.
Most of the 7th day Adventists I’ve heard of are black...like Prince and Sheila Jackson Lee.
BEN CARSON’S statements on Marriage, Abortion, the Abortion Pill, Amnesty are bothersome also.
- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates/candidates/ben-carson#article-11
DEATH PANELS: He’s for a panel to decide which seniors deserve life saving treatment/end of life care, and which ones don’t. *From his 1999 book, The Big Picture
Ben Carson is wrong on the 2nd Amendment and that makes him too risky to me.
When he was on Glenn Beck’s show he said that he thought the 2nd Amendment applied to people differently based upon where they lived. According to Carson if you live in a city you have no right to own a semi-automatic firearm but he might be okay with some rural people owning such weapons.
Sorry, but right there he’s dead to me.
That’s right. Seventh-Day Adventists believe that people die, and that the dead know not anything. We believe that the dead rest in the faith that God will return for them. Their bodies waste away and yet somehow God promises to bring them back.
We don’t know all the ways of God, so we can’t explain this.
There are many questions I look forward to asking Jesus.
Your hate boner for Ben is rockhard. Let it go.
RE: SDA is based on the prophecies and teachings of Ellen G. White, who made several prophecies that did not come true.
Well, she was a supporter of the Millerites.
In 1840, at age 12, her family became involved with the Millerite movement.
As she attended William Miller’s lectures, Ellen felt guilty for her sins, and she was filled with terror about being eternally lost. She describes herself as spending nights in tears and prayer, and being in this condition for several months.
On June 26, 1842, She was baptized Portland, Maine, and eagerly awaited Jesus to come again.
In her later years, she referred to this as the happiest time of her life.
The Great Disappointment in the Millerite movement was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller’s proclamations that Jesus Christ would return to the earth in 1844. Many followers had given away all of their possessions and were left bereft when the prophecy proved false.
Her family’s involvement with Millerism caused them to be disfellowshipped by the local Methodist church.
Seventh Day Aventists make great comic books!
I don’t have anything against SDA, but I do have a question if someone knows...
The part about the righteous ruling in heaven with Christ and the consuming of the unrighteous with fire, are SDA adherents the only righteous souls, or can other religions or people in general be righteous?
As Adventists understand the Bible, it’s like thus. When a person dies, assuming they went peacefully, it feels like one has fallen asleep though they actually ceased to exist. Their next moment of awakening, assuming they are saved, will be rising up in the air to meet Jesus.
SDA is not an enemy
woe is America if a candidate is knocked out of the race for being an SDA Christian
especially when it is still forbidden in the mass media to even mention the IslamoNazi in our WH
what the Hell (excellent, tho accidental word choice here) has our mass media come to, anyway!?
the mass media has been infiltrated and taken over by the enemy... .the mass media is pretty much our enemy in America these days, NOT one Christian denomination whether SDA or Baptist or Nazarene or Catholic or whatever
Here’s the real concern about SDA and Carson. Is he, because of his beliefs, too pacifist to be Commander in Chief.
Not wanting to point a gun at someone is one thing. What about a battle group? Or a Battalion?
A pacifist will not be able to clean up the mess of this Administration.
The Nazis killed seventh day Adventists because they didn’t believe in war.
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