The Great Controversy: Liberty of Conscience Threatened—Chapter 35, Part 2

Protestants have tampered with and patronized popery; they have made compromises and concessions which papists themselves are surprised to see and fail to understand. Men are closing their eyes to the real character of Romanism and the dangers to be apprehended from her supremacy. The people need to be aroused to resist the advances ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Liberty of Conscience Threatened—Chapter 35, Part 2”

The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3

All who indulge sinful traits of character, or willfully cherish a known sin, are inviting the temptations of Satan. They separate themselves from God and from the watchcare of His angels; as the evil one presents his deceptions, they are without defense and fall an easy prey. Those who thus place themselves in his power littleContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3”

The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1

The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darknessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1”

The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 4

In sparing the life of Cain the murderer, God gave the world an example of what would be the result of permitting the sinner to live to continue a course of unbridled iniquity. Through the influence of Cain’s teaching and example, multitudes of his descendants were led into sin, until “the wickedness of man wasContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 4”

The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 3

Let us consider what the Bible teaches further concerning the ungodly and unrepentant, whom the Universalist places in heaven as holy, happy angels.GC 540.1 “I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21:6. This promise is only to those that thirst. None but those who feelContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 3”

The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2

Satan is seeking to overcome men today, as he overcame our first parents, by shaking their confidence in their Creator and leading them to doubt the wisdom of His government and the justice of His laws. Satan and his emissaries represent God as even worse than themselves, in order to justify their own malignity andContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2”