I agree that anything that is stated here or elsewhere to be evidence should be examined to determine whether or not it is proven evidence, however, it must be based on publically written stated evidence either from a book or a web site, and must stay focused on the proposed evidence itself and not on the person(s) behind the evidence, unless it can be proven that the person(s) are knowingly and purposefully producing falsified evidence, if you know what I mean by that.

Daryl, I think most people here would say a very big AMEN to your comment: "If God said it, that settles it."

The problem seems to be that people disagre as to what God said, and how it is to be applied to one's life.

Learning,

People disagree as to what God said?

What do you mean by that?

Daryl,

As for the problem that "People disagree as to what God said," consider the words of God in Genesis 3:16: "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

Is this a "curse" on all females, a curse on Eve, or is this a prediction of the conditions Eve and her daughters would find in the world outside the Garden of Eden? Disagreement on the interpretation of this one text has caused unending problems throughout history and today the debate goes on even in our own church.

There is a similar point I want to address in regard to "mis-information." Many authors of scripture use idiomatic expressions in their writings just as we do today. Some of these expressions we recognize such as "God's wrath" which is probably unrelated to either God or His temper and "in the spirit" which probably is unrelated to anything God's Spirit does. There are probably many other idioms in scripture which we haven't recognized. Every one of them is a potential source of misinformation. Because of this alone, we should be careful about criticizing another persons understanding of scripture.

Bob Lee

Daryl:

Boblee has made an excellent post to your question to Learning.

I would add a second part to the response. Leaning mentioned application to life. The Bible tells us that we are to remember to keep the Sabbath holy. Within Adventism there are large differences as to what that means--i.e. how one should practice the keeping of the Sabbath.

But is it misinformation, or misinterpretation, or a combination of the two?

Daryl:

For the point that Learning made, it is not important whether or not it is missinformation of a difference in intreptation. The reality is that even with what God has said, it is often not settled, and it is often not settled among those who take the word of God as authorative.

Then is that why we have so many denominations to add to the confusion?

It isn't the misinformation of the Bible that is the main problem. It is man's own misinterpretation without the aid of the Holy Spirit who's functikon is to guide us into all truth.