"Never have we said that the Church is “proclaiming a false gospel.” What we have said is quite different. There are elements of the gospel that the Lord “sent” to us in 1888 that have been “kept away” from our people and from the world. What was rejected by leadership and “kept away” from the church and the world was the message God intended would prepare that generation to meet the final issues and to be ready for the coming of Christ in that era. The church is not preaching a false gospel; it desperately needs the enrichment that “the Lord sent” in the 1888 truths." ~Robert J. Wieland
"But, it being true that the promised Messiah was known from the time of the fall, the supposition that Christ, between his crucifixion and his resurrection, went to preach the gospel to those who lived before the time of Abraham, or before the flood, amounts to nothing." ~Ellet J. Waggoner
To make preparing for this coming Sabbath's lesson on the Goodness of God broader, 3 articles have been selected. These articles form a part of the understanding on the "Goodness" of God that will be studied this Sabbath. ~Daniel Peters
"To have faith is not merely to trust the Lord like you trust the bank or the insurance company. You can do that and still remain as selfish as you were before, because such trust is a self-centered concern. The John 3:16 idea of faith solves the problem and lifts our naturally self-centered hearts out of a dark cave into the sunlight: faith is a heart-melting appreciation of what it cost the Son of God to save us." ~Paul E. Penno
Now, we return to our question: does it make sense that we, sinful selfish people by nature can be changed, converted, purified, transformed, even "sanctified," by believing those "promises"? ~Robert J. Wieland
"You may suffer problems in your family (so did David, and so did Jesus), or at work, or even (could it be so?) in your church--the place where you expected peace and harmony." ~Robert J. Wieland
"The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended."