Comments on: Adventists in Peru Join Catholics and Andean Spiritualists in Ecumenical Respect for Pachamama, the Inca Mother Earth Goddess https://adventmessenger.org/adventists-in-peru-join-catholics-and-andean-spiritualists-in-ecumenical-respect-for-pachamama-the-inca-mother-earth-goddess/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: YesMsJane https://adventmessenger.org/adventists-in-peru-join-catholics-and-andean-spiritualists-in-ecumenical-respect-for-pachamama-the-inca-mother-earth-goddess/comment-page-1/#comment-85050 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:46:03 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=22671#comment-85050 Shameful, they need not attend such events, the message attendance sends isn’t how friendly you are, but that your faith is the same!!!

]]> By: Michel Herman https://adventmessenger.org/adventists-in-peru-join-catholics-and-andean-spiritualists-in-ecumenical-respect-for-pachamama-the-inca-mother-earth-goddess/comment-page-1/#comment-85007 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:26:28 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=22671#comment-85007 Many who imitate the customs and fashions of the world claim that they do this in order to have an influence with worldlings. But here they make a sad and fatal mistake. If they would have a true and saving influence, let them live out their profession, show their faith by their righteous works, and make wide the distinction between the Christian and the world. Our words, our dress, our actions, should tell for God. Then all will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus. Unbelievers will see that the truth which we profess has a holy influence, that faith in Christ’s coming affects our character. If any wish to have their influence tell in favor of the truth, let them live it out, and thus imitate the humble Pattern. RH December 12, 1882, par. 11

]]> By: Jon https://adventmessenger.org/adventists-in-peru-join-catholics-and-andean-spiritualists-in-ecumenical-respect-for-pachamama-the-inca-mother-earth-goddess/comment-page-1/#comment-85003 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:43:36 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=22671#comment-85003 It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894

The church that holds to the word of God is irreconcilably separated from Rome. Protestants were once thus apart from this great church of apostasy, but they have approached more nearly to her, and are still in the path of reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Rome never changes. Her principles have not altered in the least. She has not lessened the breach between herself and Protestants; they have done all the advancing. But what does this argue for the Protestantism of this day? It is the rejection of Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity. It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894

It is souls like Luther, Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, and the thousands of noble men who were martyrs for the truth’s sake, who are the true Protestants. They stood as faithful sentinels of truth, declaring that Protestantism is incapable of union with Romanism, but must be as far separated from the principles of the Papacy as is the east from the west. Such advocates of truth could no more harmonize with “the man of sin” than could Christ and his apostles. In earlier ages the righteous felt that it was impossible to affiliate with Rome, and, though their antagonism to this system of error was maintained at risk of property and life, yet they had courage to maintain their separation, and manfully struggled for the truth. Bible truth was dearer to them than wealth, honor, or even life itself. They could not endure to see the truth buried under a mass of superstition and lying sophistry. They took the word of God in their hands, and raised the standard of truth before the people, boldly declaring that which God had revealed unto them through diligent searching of the Bible. They died the cruelest of deaths for their fidelity to God, but by their blood they purchased for us liberties and privileges that many who claim to be Protestants are easily yielding up to the power of evil. But shall we yield up these dearly bought privileges? Shall we offer insult to the God of heaven, and, after he has freed us from the Romish yoke, again place ourselves in bondage to this antichristian power? Shall we prove our degeneracy by signing away our religious liberty, our right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience? – ST February 19, 1894

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