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18 February 2025| The following is an announcement from the Iowa-Missouri Conference The Iowa-Missouri Conference is pleased to announce that Melissa Morris has been appointed Executive Secretary, transitioning from her current role as Education Superintendent. Morris, commissioned as a teacher in 2018, brings extensive administrative experience and a proven track record of leadership within the […] Source: https://atoday.org/melissa-morris-named-executive-secretary-of-iowa-missouri-conference/
Un comentarista en Facebook escribió esto recientemente: Aquí en Australia, durante la pandemia, algunos adventistas locales repartían literatura adventista en las protestas anti-vaxx, anti-gobierno y anti-cierre en la ciudad. Resultado: conversos anti-vaxx, anti-gobierno, anti-cierre con poca o ninguna motivación u orientación para moderar sus puntos de vista, y un círculo ya hecho de compañeros contrarios […] Source: https://atoday.org/nos-llego-la-hora-nuestras-conspiraciones-y-las-suyas/
From skeptic to devoted Bible student, William Miller’s transformation began in this very room. His studies in prophecy led him to a life-changing conclusion about the sanctuary and its cleansing. What did Miller uncover, and why does it still matter today? Watch and be inspired by his journey of faith. #WilliamMiller #FaithAndProphecy #ChristianLegacy #awr #adventistworldradio #short Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eF3b3j5oE
by Richard W. Coffen | 18 February 2025 | Story one: Waterbury, Connecticut Grandpa Roberts owned and operated a brass plating factory at the beginning of a dirt road. About a half mile up the same country lane stood a three-story clapboard house, which he also owned. Here Annette and Lester Hayward raised 10 children. […] Source: https://atoday.org/family-matters-and-why-we-feel-differently-about-abortion-than-you-might/
Comments of the Week Feb 10-18 “I think it might be useful to mention that most employers do not give any details about the decision to terminate an employee. They are not required to do so and as someone who has terminated employees, I can tell you that an employer does not wish to incur […] Source: https://atoday.org/comments-of-the-week-feb10-18/
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 19th of February 2025
The Greek term translated “predestination” here and elsewhere in Scripture (prohorizo) does not itself teach that God causally determines history. Rather, the Greek term simply means “to decide beforehand.”
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Of course, one can decide something beforehand unilaterally, or one can decide something beforehand in a way that takes into account the free decisions of others. Scripture teaches that God does the latter.
Here and elsewhere (for example, Romans 8:29-30), the term translated “predestined” refers to what God plans for the future after taking into account what God foreknows about the free decisions of creatures. Thus, God can providentially guide history to His desired good ends for all, even while respecting the kind of creaturely freedom that is required for a genuine love relationship.
Ephesians 1:11 proclaims that God “works all things according to the counsel of His will” (NKJV). Does this mean that God determines everything to happen just as He desires? Read in isolation, Ephesians 1:9-11 might seem to affirm this view. However, this interpretation would contradict the many texts we saw earlier that show that people sometimes reject “the will of God” (Luke 7:30, NKJV; compare with Luke 13:34, Psalms 81:11-14). If the Bible does not contradict itself, how can these passages be understood in a way that is consistent with one another?
This passage makes perfect sense if one simply recognizes a distinction between what we might call God’s “ideal will” and God’s “remedial will.” God’s “ideal will” is what God actually prefers to occur and which would occur if everyone always did exactly what God desires. God’s “remedial will,” on the other hand, is God’s will that has already taken into account every other factor, including the free decisions of creatures, which sometimes depart from what God prefers. Ephesians 1:11 appears to be referring to God’s “remedial will.”
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So powerful is God’s foreknowledge of the future that, even knowing all the choices, including the bad choices, that people will make, He can still work “all things together for good” (Romans 8:28, CEB). What comfort can you draw from this truth? |
(1)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-08-gods-ideal-and-remedial-wills/
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