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from several sources: Adventists believe in “conditional immortality.” Only the redeemed are granted immortality. Those who are not redeemed are snuffed out of existence.
Ben Carson believes in hell, but he believes it will happen at a point in the future, when God renders judgement on the unsaved.
SDA’s are a restorationist cult who have a prophet (like the Mormons) who are pacifists and believe we should not celebrate most holidays like Christmas because they are pagan (like the JWs).
SDAs also have a great disdain for Christian groups esp Evangelicals and Catholics (spend a couple of hours on a debate board and you will see what I mean).
They are legalists who reject grace in favor of works and place the writings of Ellen G White over the Bible.
A key statement is "I see God as ...". This is a man-centered statement. It is God's world and God can do what He pleases and this would have been a better statement for Ben to make then distracting his campaign with his 'opinions' on theology.
maybe you can start a thread about your angst against the godless bammey....or hitlery...or any other of thousands of leftists running this country into the ground.
How do we know Trump is a Christian? If you’re going down this path be ready for the consequences when your candidate is judged on this
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31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Yeah ben. Hitler was only really evil for a few good years after all.
I won’t vote for him even though I share his religious beliefs.
I don’t believe in hell. I believe if you haven’t repented of your sins you will be burned but not forever.
neither he nor dear leader are Christians- Christians are people who believe I na resurrected Christ who died for our sins and who is the Son of God-
Carson is also no republican- His despicable views on abortion, gun control, and euthanasia of the elderly are vile and despicable
What Did Christ Actually Teach?
Many are firmly convinced Jesus must have taught the immortality of the soul, because they have heard that He actually taught this doctrine.
But did He?
Let's find out what the Bible says.
When Jesus sent out His disciples on a training mission during His ministry, He gave them instructions for their journey. He knew they would come in contact with men who hated the truth, who would even try to kill some of them. Because of this, He said, "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matt. 10:28). Christ said very plainly the "soul" (Greek — psuche) can be destroyed by a fire!
When a young man came to Jesus and asked what good thing he should do to obtain eternal life, Christ didn't inform him that he already possessed it, in the form of an "immortal" soul. Rather, He said, "...but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. 19:17). The "golden text" of the Bible is another proof "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but [on the other hand] have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Even this most-often-quoted scripture of the Bible shows that Jesus Christ came that humans would not perish, and that they might, on the other hand, enter into everlasting life. Christ told a group of people when they told Him of the dead Galileans, "I tell you, Nay: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3-5).
What About Lazarus? Most professing Christians believe the basis for the doctrine of the "immortality" of the soul is found in Christ's parable of Lazarus and the rich man. But, most do not realize what the Bible actually says about this parable. You will see that the beggar and the rich man BOTH DIED (Luke 16:22). Space does not permit a full, detailed explanation of this parable here. If you have not yet read the amazing booklet Is There A Real Hell Fire?
Some astounding questions would be precipitated if the pagan doctrine of the immortal soul were true. Why, if the "soul" immediately departs to go to its "heavenly reward" at death, did Jesus Christ resurrect His beloved friend Lazarus?
Why, if the whole purpose of Jesus Christ was to save our souls, did He call Lazarus back into the frail, human body, when he had been experiencing "heavenly bliss" for four whole days? (John 11.) Does this make sense? Is it logical?
The answer is obvious.
Jesus did not teach any such doctrine of the "immortality of the soul" at all! Rather, He taught that the "soul" would perish unless it repented, and He showed that God had the power to burn it up in Gehenna fire, which is the second death.
What About the Early Church? The major teaching of the early New Testament Church centered around Jesus Christ — and His resurrection from the dead!
Paul, in His inspired letter to the Corinthians, explained: "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain" (I Cor. 15:12-14).
But — why would a resurrection of the body be needed, if the soul were already in heaven? The answer is simple — the entire New Testament proves it — the soul does not go to heaven — it dies, and goes to the grave.
The only real hope of a Christian, as taught by the original inspired Church, was to attain to the resurrection. They knew and understood the only way to attain eternal life was through a resurrection from the dead. "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead" (Phil. 3:10-11).
Paul repeatedly explained this great mystery, and preached it unceasingly to the Gentile Christians of his day. Paul said, "Christ died for our sins" (I Cor. 15:3), and went on to explain, in the entire fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians, that the dead must be raised, or else our entire faith is vain (verses 16-17); that the physical man is earthy (verse 47); and that a change via a resurrection is necessary before we may have eternal life (verse 52).
On the day of Pentecost, when the Church was built, God inspired the Apostle Peter to say, "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day" (Acts 2:29).
Peter went on to say, "For David is not ascended into the heavens.. ." (verse 34). Did you notice it? David, a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22), was not up in heaven!
Souls Under the Altar WHAT are the "souls under the altar" mentioned in Revelation 6:9-11? Some claim these verses prove the immortality of the soul. But the Bible itself proves that souls are mortal by nature, and that the entire description is symbolic.
John was "in the spirit" (Rev. 4:2) during the entire duration of the opening of the Seven Seals. The events John saw in spirit were not happening! They were to happen "hereafter" (Rev. 4:1) .
What did John see? He saw in vision a book, or scroll, which Jesus began to open (Rev. 5:5). As each seal was revealed, John saw a heavenly enactment of what was to take place on earth.
As Christ came to the Fifth Seal, John "saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain." The biblical interpretation of these Seven Seals is given in Matthew 24. The Fifth Seal is symbolic of the tribulation (Matt. 24:9-28).
The tribulation came on the saints of God in type, during the Middle Ages, and it will come yet again. The souls that "were slain" were told to "rest yet for a little season, until their fellows wants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled" (Rev. 6:9, 11).
The souls crying "Avenge our blood" are analogous to Abel's blood "crying unto God from the ground" (Gen. 4:10). Blood doesn't talk! The representation is obviously not literal, but symbolic.
The "souls under the altar" are merely a symbolic representation of the martyrdom of saints. Just as the blood of the bullock in Old Testament sacrifices was poured under the altar (Lev. 4:7), so these saints appear to John to be under the altar. Just as the prayers of saints are compared to incense brought to a heavenly altar (Rev. 5:8; 8:3), so the prayers of these martyred saints come up to God's altar, in symbolic vision.
These saints who have died in Christ are not in heaven, on earth, in limbo, purgatory, or any other animated state. They are "asleep" in their graves, awaiting the resurrection at Christ's coming (I Thess. 4:15-17). At that time, they will "reign on the earth" (Rev. 5:10; 20:4).
He not only appears to be not a true Christian, but he has NO business running for POTUS.
A white man with Carson’s ‘qualifications’ would have been laughed off the stage long ago.
Drop it, Carson- and by the way, stop prescribing yourself those ‘pills’. It shows via your sleepy demeanor, confusion and glassy eyes.
One can be a follower of Christ and still have faulty theology. We are saved by Christ, not by correct doctrine.
The conclusion of this article is heartless, even dangerous. Orthodoxy doesn’t save us, Christ does.
I’m a Cruz girl through and through but I study the Bible and he’s right in that there is no EARLY rapture, where Christians disappear and leave non believers to languish here for 7 years. Also, the lake of fire burns them up and they’re gone forever, they are not continually burned. That is what he’s saying. The torment is from being seperated from God forever.
Oh for crying out loud. He is wrong, but it doesn't make him the anti-Christ. He's a material heretic, since he holds his belief in good faith, is not a formal member of Christ's Church, and does not deliberately reject the Teaching of Christ's Church.
We're probably all material heretics in some way.
And if Carson isn't a Christian because he rejects hell, then what is Trump, the man who doesn't need forgiveness?
I think Carson has some serious defects but I won't call him "not Christian" as that is something nobody but he and Jesus know for sure.
Yes, Jesus mentioned the Rapture. But I don’t get wrapped up in it like I see a lot of Christians doing. Where ‘when will rapture happen,’ how to prepare, etc and the entire “left behind” series of novels. to some that will probably not make me a true Christian either.
I leave it to Jesus to decide whether or not Ben Carson is a “true Christian.” And the last time I looked at the constitution there was NOT a religious test to be president.
He is NOT a Christian. Period.