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&lt;article style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has launched an  investigation into allegations of extensive sexual abuse of children at a school  run by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.&lt;/article&gt;&lt;article&gt;
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According to preliminary reports, at least ten children - mainly boys  under the age of 16 - may have been molested over a period of two decades at  &lt;i&gt;Toivonlinna&lt;/i&gt;, an Adventist boarding school in Piikkiö in the Southwest of  Finland. There are also suspicions of abuse during school camps.  
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&lt;b&gt;The main suspect&lt;/b&gt; resigned last year, but police say that a number of  other people have also been implicated.  &lt;/div&gt;
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Many of the alleged victims are already adults. NBI investigator  &lt;b&gt;Harri Rahikka&lt;/b&gt; has appealed to other possible victims to come forward.&lt;br /&gt;
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Reports of child abuse within the Seventh Day Adventist Church were the  topic of the investigative news programme &lt;i&gt;MOT&lt;/i&gt; on YLE TV-1 on Monday  evening. According to the programme "a pastor who was part of the top leadership  of the church suddenly resigned last autumn. No specific reason was given for  the resignation, but there are suspicions among the members of the church that  sexual abuse of children was the reason for the move".  &lt;/div&gt;
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The programme also claimed the church did not report the allegations to  the police or child welfare authorities. Also, the administration of the  Adventist Church received a letter last autumn in which 16 church members  demanded action against two pastors for inappropriate behaviour with children  and young people.  
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&lt;b&gt;The letter alleged&lt;/b&gt; that the silence of the church leaders was leading  to disaster, warning that "the Adventist Church could experience what the  Catholic Church and the Missionary Society have experienced".  &lt;/div&gt;
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The signatories felt that failure to confront the problem has meant that  "wrongdoers have been protected, while the victims have been condemned to silent  suffering. Parents have also not been able to protect their children against  abuse."  
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&lt;b&gt;A spokesman of the Adventist Church&lt;/b&gt; was not available for comment on  Monday.  &lt;/div&gt;
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In a statement sent to the Finnish News Agency STT the Adventist Church  said that it was sorry if young people have had to undergo disturbing  experiences.  &lt;/div&gt;
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"We are sad if one or more of our workers have not behaved according to  the principles of our church. We apologise to everyone involved", the statement  said.  &lt;/div&gt;
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STT also reports that the International Adventist Church published a  statement six years ago on sexual abuse of children, and the Finnish Adventist  Church adopted a programme to promote child and youth welfare, including  instructions on dealing with suspicions of abuse. The community also has a  committee for the welfare of children and young people.&lt;/div&gt;
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A universidade Andrews nos EUA, juntamente com o UNASP – Engenheiro 
Coelho/SP são as “cabeças” espirituais do adventismo mundial, e é da 
Universidade de Andrews que vem a mensagem deste post. Samuele 
Bacchiocchi, PH.D., Professor aposentado de Teologia e de História da 
Igreja (Adventista) na Universidade de Andrews. Este senhor foi uma das 
autoridades em história do adventismo a nível mundial, uma das obras 
dele, mais conhecidas no meio adventista é o livro “Do sábado para o 
domingo”; e o que ele disse irá fazer muitos adventistas se chocarem. 
Muitos vão refutar e tudo mais, mas para aqueles que são sinceros, a 
reflexão dos fatos fará uma grande diferença. Leia o relato &amp;nbsp;a seguir:&lt;/div&gt;
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Há algumas semanas atrás eu recebi várias mensagens e telefonemas de 
irmãos que expressaram seu profundo desapontamento a respeito da nova 
interpretação simbólica do número da besta – o 666 – apresentada em 
informativos anteriores. Eles acreditam que a identificação tradicional 
do 666 com o título dos papas “Vicarius Filli Dei” – Vigário do Filho de
 Deus, é correta porque este título está inscrito na coroa papal, e o 
valor numérico de suas letras somam 666.&lt;/div&gt;
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Eles rejeitam qualquer prova em contrário, mesmo se as razões 
apresentadas na Lição da Escola Sabatina de 1º a 7 de junho de 2002, 
forem muito convincentes. Eles vêem o abandono da interpretação 
tradicional como traição aos ensinos da Igreja Adventista. Obviamente 
eles ignoram que a interpretação do número da besta, jamais foi um 
ensino oficial da Igreja Adventista. Resumidamente, veremos que, em 
várias ocasiões, a Conferência Geral tem desencorajado semelhante 
interpretação.&lt;/div&gt;
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No Sábado passado um irmão levantou esta questão pertinente durante o
 período de perguntas e respostas do meu seminário: “Como nossa 
interpretação numérica sobre 666 pode estar errada se ela é claramente 
apresentada e defendida por Urias Smith em seu livro DANIEL E 
APOCALIPSE, que tem sido vendido até mesmo em tempos recentes, e nossa 
igreja o têm usado por mais de um século como uma fonte confiável de 
estudo sobre Daniel e Apocalipse? Como pôde nossa Igreja Adventista ter 
aceitado a interpretação de Urias Smith por tanto tempo, se ela está 
errada?” Esta é uma questão legítima que preocupa alguns de nossos 
irmãos – uma questão que merece sérias considerações.&lt;/div&gt;
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Uma irmã me contou ao telefone que sua fé estava muito abalada pela 
nova interpretação simbólica sobre o número da besta. A razão que ela me
 deu, foi que tomou a decisão de fazer parte da Igreja Adventista na 
noite em que ouviu o sermão evangelístico sobre “A Marca da Besta”. Ela 
disse: “Quando eu aprendi que o papa é a besta de Apocalipse 13, 
especialmente porque o título Vicarius Filli Dei está inscrito em sua 
coroa somando 666, então eu me convenci que os ensinos da Igreja 
Adventista estavam corretos e decidi finalmente me unir à igreja”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Descobrir que uma interpretação profética particular estava errada, 
poderia trazer confusão para aqueles que colocaram sua fé sobre ela. 
Partilho da dor daqueles que se sentem confusos ou enganados por aquilo 
que foram ensinados. No entanto, cobrindo os erros do passado, iremos 
apenas adiar a solução do problema.&lt;/div&gt;
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As poucas reações apaixonadas contra as interpretações simbólicas de 
666 me lembram o fato de que as lendas que aprisionam a imaginação 
popular, parecem jamais terem morrido, não importa quão ilógicas possam 
ser. Ao retornar de Roma, eu me lembrei de algumas lendas populares que 
têm se tornado parte da cultura religiosa católica.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;UM EXEMPLO DA NATUREZA IMORTAL DAS LENDAS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Por exemplo, os cidadãos de Nápoles reuniam-se todos os anos no dia 
19 de setembro em uma rica capela de seu santo padroeiro, São Genaro, 
para observarem seu sangue ressecado preservado em vidros, tornar-se em 
líquido semelhante ao sangue vermelho de um ser humano vivo. Os devotos 
de São Genaro acreditam que se seu sangue se transforma em líquido no 
aniversário do seu martírio em 19 de setembro, assim, a cidade 
continuará a gozar de sua proteção contra eventos cataclísmicos como, 
erupções vulcânicas do Vesúvio, inundações, terremotos, ou qualquer 
outra coisa que ameace suas vidas e prosperidade.&lt;/div&gt;
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Esta lenda está profundamente enraizada na cultura religiosa popular 
dos Napolitanos, até quando, em 1964 O Concílio Vaticano II tentou 
acabar com esta celebração religiosa, tal tentativa causou um tumulto em
 Nápoles, tanto que o Vaticano foi forçado a desistir de sua decisão. O 
Vaticano se comprometeu a restringir a celebração religiosa de São 
Genaro apenas a Nápoles, excluindo o resto do país.&lt;/div&gt;
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Em 1980, quando Nápoles sentiu-se vítima de um terremoto devastador, 
os Napolitanos não responsabilizaram seu santo padroeiro por deixar de 
protegê-los. Em vez disso, eles responsabilizaram o Vaticano por 
desacreditar o status de santidade de São Genaro. Isto serve para 
mostrar quão difícil é, mesmo para o Vaticano, pôr fim a uma lenda 
popular que não está em conformidade com seus critérios canônicos.&lt;/div&gt;
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O que é verdadeiro para a Igreja Católica, também é verdadeiro em alguma
 extensão para nossa Igreja Adventista. Isso é difícil, se não 
impossível, arrancar pela raiz a crença popular na suposta inscrição 
Vicarius Filii Dei na coroa papal. Seria presunção assumir que pesquisas
 recentes feitas por competentes Adventistas Acadêmicos e apresentadas 
numa recente lição da Escola Sabatina, fossem acabar com a crença 
popular Adventista de que o número da besta é encontrado no título dos 
papas inscrito na coroa papal.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Fatos Fundamentais a Respeito da Interpretação Adventista sobre o Número 666 da Besta&lt;/strong&gt; (Apocalipse 13:18)&lt;/div&gt;
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1) Os pioneiros adventistas identificaram a Marca da besta com a 
observância forçada do domingo, mas estiveram em dúvida com respeito ao 
significado do número da besta (666).&lt;/div&gt;
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2) Inicialmente, alguns pioneiros adventistas, incluindo J. N. 
Andrews, acreditavam que o número 666 da besta era composto de 
aproximadamente 666 seitas protestantes que aceitaram o ensino e 
autoridade da Igreja Católica.&lt;/div&gt;
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3) Urias Smith mostrou ter sido o primeiro líder adventista a 
mencionar Vicarius Filii Dei como uma possível interpretação do número 
da besta, o 666. Sua primeira proposta aparece em um editorial publicado
 na edição da REVIEW AND HERALD de 20 de novembro de 1866.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
4) Finalmente a interpretação de Urias Smith tornou-se largamente 
aceita devido à influência dos seus livros Daniel e Apocalipse e Os 
Estados Unidos à Luz da Profecia.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
5) As fontes citadas por Urias Smith para apoiar sua identificação do
 número da besta com o título papal Vicarius Filii Dei, é a descrição 
feita por duas testemunhas que declararam ter visto a inscrição na coroa
 papal quando estiveram em Roma. Uma declarou ter visto a inscrição na 
coroa papal no Museu do Vaticano e a outra testemunha disse que a viu 
durante a celebração da missa em comemoração à páscoa.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Ambas as descrições são duvidosas pelo fato de que as coroas não 
estão expostas no Museu do Vaticano, nem o papa coloca a coroa para 
celebrações da missa. A Tiara com três coroas de ouro tem sido usada 
primariamente para a coroação do papa – uma prática que não tem sido 
usada pelos últimos três papas, João Paulo I, João Paulo II e Bento XVI.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
6) Uma significante pesquisa sobre a inscrição na coroa papal foi 
feita em 1905 Chas T. Everson, um missionário adventista servindo na 
Itália. Á pedido de vários líderes da igreja, especialmente o Professor 
William Prescott, um líder educador adventista, Everson conduziu uma 
investigação completa que providencialmente o levou para dentro do 
vestiário do papa, onde algumas coroas são guardadas.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Apesar desta oportunidade única para observar as coroas de tão perto,
 Everson ficou desapontado por não encontrar a inscrição Vicarius Filli 
Dei em alguma delas. Ele escreveu “Enquanto estávamos felizes em ver as 
brilhantes coroas, todavia ficamos desapontados em não encontrar o 
objeto de nossa pesquisa; pois a inscrição Vicarius Filli Dei, não foi 
encontrada em nenhum lugar ou escrita na coroa, como mostram claramente 
as fotografias em anexo”. Ele conclui seu relatório dizendo: “A fim de 
sermos perfeitamente corretos em nossas declarações, nós não podemos 
afirmar que existe uma inscrição desta natureza na coroa até o presente 
momento”. (Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, July 27, 1905, p. 10).&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
7) Uma das impressionantes fotografias da coroa papal enviadas por 
Everson para a Conferência Geral, foi modificada por um artista 
adventista que adicionou as palavras Vicarius Filli Dei na coroa de 
ouro. A Southern Publishing Association usou esta “doutorada” fotografia
 da coroa papal na edição revisada de Daniel e Apocalipse de autoria de 
Urias Smith. Quando confrontada com a prova incriminadora, a Conferência
 Geral ordenou que parassem imediatamente a impressão de qualquer cópia 
do livro, até que a fotografia fraudulenta fosse removida.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
8) Prescott solicitou uma oportunidade para fazer uma apresentação 
para os oficiais da Conferência Geral. Alguns dos oficiais foram 
convencidos pelos argumentos de Prescott, mas outros entenderam que o 
assunto necessitava de estudo posterior.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
9) Este episódio logo foi esquecido. Vicarius Filli Dei de Apocalipse
 13:18 já se encontrava por demais adiantada para ser facilmente 
abandonada, e assim continuo a ser uma interpretação popular, apesar da 
ação tomada pela Conferência Geral.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
10) Em 1935 Francis Nichols, Editor de Present Truth (Verdade 
Presente), publicou um artigo alegando que Vicariu Filii Dei era o 
título oficial do papa, inscrito na coroa papal. Pouco tempo após o 
aparecimento do artigo, a revista popular católica, OUR SUNDAY VISITOR 
(Nosso Visitante Dominical), desafiou Nichols a produzir evidências ou 
então parar de usar fontes desonestas e anti-católicas para fazer 
semelhante declaração. Nichols pediu para o professor Prescott ajudá-lo a
 fim de justificar a declaração, mas o professor respondeu que não 
existia maneira de fazer isso.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
11) Eventualmente um grupo de estudo especial foi organizado pela 
Conferência Geral conduzida pelo irmão Howell, esperando que mais alguma
 informação confiável pudesse ser encontrada sobre o uso do título papal
 Vicarius Filii Dei. Leroy Edwin From foi enviado ao Vaticano para uma 
tarefa especial de pesquisa em busca de informação sobre o título do 
papa Vicarius Filii Dei, mas não encontrou nada significativo.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
12) Em 1948, Leroy Froom, Editor da Ministry, publicou uma forte 
advertência contra o uso de coroas fraudulentas em encontros 
evangelísticos. Ele escreveu: “Em nome da verdade e honestidade este 
jornal protesta contra qualquer membro da Associação Ministerial da 
Denominação Adventista do Sétimo Dia, da qual o Ministro é parte oficial
 da Organização por semelhante uso. A verdade não precisa de 
falsificação para apoiar ou suprimir. É muito natural evitar qualquer 
manipulação ou duplicidade. Não podemos tentar fazer parte de uma 
fraude.” (The Ministry, November, 1948, p.35.)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
13) As advertências dadas pela Conferência e pela Ministry não 
pararam a pregação e escritos sobre o título Vicarius Filii Dei, 
supostamente inscrito na coroa papal. A razão foi mencionada 
anteriormente: Lendas que aprisionam a imaginação popular, parecem que 
jamais morrem, não importa quão inacreditável possam ser. Isto me deu 
razão para crer que nenhum montante de pesquisas convincentes feitas por
 competentes e dedicados adventistas acadêmicos, jamais suprimirá aquilo
 que se tornou uma interpretação Adventista popular.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
14) Recentes estudos adventistas sobre o livro de Apocalipse têm 
concluído que a interpretação numérica tradicional do número da besta – o
 666, carecem de apoio histórico e exegético. Assim, eles têm proposto 
uma interpretação simbólica do número 666 sobre as bases de históricas e
 exegéticas considerações.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
15) A Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia geralmente esteve bem informada
 a respeito da nova interpretação do número 666, o número da besta, pela
 Lição da Escola Sabatina de 1 a 7 de junho de 2002. A lição trata 
especificamente da Marca e o número da besta (Apoc. 13:16-18;14:1). O 
autor principal da Lição do trimestre é Angel Rodrigues, Ph. D. Ele tem 
servido por vários anos como Diretor do Instituto de Pesquisa Bíblica da
 Conferência Geral.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
16) A respeito do número da besta, Dr. Rodrigues escreve: “O número 
da besta. A marca, o nome, e o número da besta são relatados em detalhes
 (Apocalipse 13:17). Muitas sugestões têm sido feitas para explicar o 
significado de 666. Aqui devemos ser bastante cuidadosos. A Bíblia não 
diz o que o número da besta é a soma de valores numéricos das letras de 
um nome… Alguns vêem no significado do 666 como um símbolo da humanidade
 separada de Deus. Os seres humanos foram criados no sexto dia, e o 
número pode permanecer como um símbolo da humanidade sem o descanso 
divino ( o sétimo dia)”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Dr. Rodrigues conclui, dizendo: “Até o presente momento, o simbolismo
 de rebelião intensificada, o seis usado três vezes, e a total 
independência de Deus parece ser a melhor opção. O tempo irá revelar o 
completo significado do símbolo” (quinta-feira, 6 de junho de 2002).&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
17) O Dr. Rodrigues continua dando três razões para rejeição da 
interpretação tradicional de Vicarius Filii Dei. Ele escreve: “Primeiro,
 não está claro que este título é algo oficial. “Minha pesquisa tem 
mostrado que Vicarius Filii Dei tem sido usado como um dos títulos 
papais, mas não é o título oficial. A razão é que o papa tem muitos 
títulos não UM título oficial. O título mais comum é Vicarius Christi, 
que é similar a Vicarius Filii Dei”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
18) A segunda razão que o Dr. Rodrigues dá é que a frase “é um número
 humano” (v18), sugere que o número representa “seres humanos separados 
de Deus”. Este é um ponto importante, ignorado por muitas pessoas, 
porque a King James Version equivocadamente escreve: “é o número de um 
homem” (Apoc. 13:18). A frase chave em grego se escreve: “arithmos 
anthropou” (Apoc. 13:18), significa “número humano”. “A frase sugere que
 não se trata de número de um nome, mas o número representando a 
condição humana de rebelião contra Deus. O triplo seis sugere a 
tentativa determinada da besta para promover a adoração de si mesma, em 
lugar de Deus”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
19) A terceira ração apresentada pelo Dr. Rodrigues para a rejeição 
da interpretação de Vicarius Filii Dei é que o texto não especifica na 
linguagem que o valor numérico de letras deve ser calculado. Ele 
escreve: “terceiro, aqueles que insistem em contar os valores numéricos 
das letras se deparam com o problema de decidir que linguagem deve ser 
usada. Pois o texto não identifica alguma linguagem, a escolha de uma 
particular será um tanto quanto arbitrário.” (Sexta-feita, 7 de junho de
 2002).&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Esta é uma observação decisiva. É um absurdo assumir que os 
receptores originais do Apocalipse poderiam identificar o número 666 com
 o título papal Vicarius Filii Dei. Porque? Por duas razões. Primeiro, 
este título era desconhecido nos dias de João como ela foi criada oito 
séculos depois pela doação de Constantino. Segundo, a linguagem latina 
também era largamente desconhecida para João e seus leitores que falavam
 grego. Seu chamado por sabedoria para compreender o número 666 não 
teria qualquer sentido, se a informação necessária para o entendimento 
do número estivesse disponível apenas oito séculos no futuro, e se a 
linguagem do título estivesse alheia aos receptores do Apocalipse.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
20) Minhas razões pessoais para a aceitação da interpretação 
simbólica do número 666 apresentado pelo Dr. Rodrigues na Lição da 
Escola Sabatina, estão baseadas sobre considerações principais: 1. O uso
 de números em Apocalipse. É a chave para compreender o significado de 
números no Apocalipse. Muito pouca atenção tem sido dada nos estudos 
Adventistas para o uso simbólico de números, especialmente nos livros 
proféticos de Daniel e Apocalipse. 2. A importância do número 666 na 
adoração pagã de Babilônia e da antiga Roma. 3. O significado simbólico 
de 666 na Bíblia. 4. A relação entre a marca da besta e o número da 
besta.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
“ELLEN GO&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;D WHITE = 666&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
“VICAR&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;S FILII DEI” = 664&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
O resultado 666 (no caso do suposto título papal) é obtido mediante 
um “artifício”, em que uma regra dos algarismos romanos é desrespeitada:
 O “i” antes do “U” vale quatro, e não seis, pois o “U” equivale nos 
numerais romanos ao “V” ; &amp;nbsp;IV = (4) &amp;nbsp;[&lt;strong&gt;Nota do Foconaverdade&lt;/strong&gt;:
 se é desrespeitada a regra dos algarismos romanos, ou se tem um erro 
proposital ou por descuido (eu dúvido), mas continua sendo um erro, e 
como instituição religiosa, os adventistas moralmente não deveriam levar
 um erro adiante somente para satisfazer suas doutrinas.]&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Não é o caso do nome da profetiza, onde o “U” antes do “L” juntos não tem significado numérico próprio.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Em outras palavras: &lt;strong&gt;UL&lt;/strong&gt; (que corresponde a VL em Latin) não é uma associação significativa em algarismos romanos, e representa apenas 5 e 50.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Mas, a associação &lt;strong&gt;IU&lt;/strong&gt; é uma representação de algarismos romanos, que corresponde ao dígito 4.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Conclusão&lt;/strong&gt;: “Ellen Gould White” realmente soma 666, 
mas “Vicarius Filii Dei” soma 664. (além desse título não ser usado pelo
 Papa em tempo algum)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Outra coisa, o verso 18 manda calcular o nome de um homem, (genérico) e não um título honorífico.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Conclusão Geral&lt;/strong&gt;. A profecia da marca e do número da 
besta é crucial no Apocalipse. Ela representa a tentativa diabólica 
final para forçar a falsa adoração através da trindade imunda 
representada pelo dragão, a besta do mar e a besta da terra.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
A profecia chama os crentes para reconhecer, não títulos papais, 
códigos de barras, ou biochips, mas a natureza global da falsa adoração 
promovida por uma variedades de agencias, incluindo o catolicismo. Como 
adventistas, devemos reconhecer que a falsa adoração assume diferentes 
formas enganadoras. Algumas vezes estas formas podem encontrar caminhos 
até mesmo em algumas igrejas adventstas, onde a adoração é focalizada 
sobre a estimulação física no lugar da elevação espiritual. Nossa melhor
 porteção contra o engano final de falsa adoração é o selo de Deus, 
manifestado na vida pelo habilitador poder do Espírito Santo em 
obediência aos mandamentos de Deus.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Fonte:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Biblical Perspectives&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;NewsLetter nº 145 – Site oficial Samuele Bacchiocchi&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://foconaverdade.wordpress.com/category/apocalipse/"&gt;http://foconaverdade.wordpress.com/category/apocalipse/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #2a221a; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Onde está o Ministério Público que não fiscaliza as  programações das Igrejas? Nelas ocorre uma verdadeira avalanche de hipnotismo de  massa, às vezes acontecendo à noite, com os membros mais susceptíveis devido ao  cansaço pelo dia de trabalho... Acontece charlatanismo barato, curandeirismo e  exploração da consciência, da boa-fé alheias... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #2a221a; font-family: Georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A mesma coisa fazem nos hospícios da Mundial,  Renascer, R.R. Soares, Valdemiro e demais congêneres. &lt;/div&gt;
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Todas prestam um desserviço à saúde mental  pública e saúde social, &lt;u&gt;ao mesmo tempo em que promovem uma perseguição  sistemática, metodológica e rigorosamente desumana aos grupos que se opõe a  eles.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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Qual a razão de tanto ódio aos já supostamente  ex-membros?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #2a221a; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Se a pessoa acredita ou não em determinado assunto, isso  é matéria de decisão de uma igreja ou da simples interpretação da Bíblia? Um  pastor deve ditar normas ou dizer quais práticas são antinormativas?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #2a221a; font-family: Georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Parece que a crítica à Igreja Católica, de ter  perseguido os que eram contrários às suas imposições no passado; aplica-se hoje  em dia às suas co-irmãs...&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2a221a; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Nota: Já recuperamos a grande  maioria dos Artigos do Blog e breve, breve teremos novidades no ar. Pedimos um  pouco mais de paciência aos nossos amigos leitores...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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        &lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Manuel Nunes Marques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Origem e evolução do nosso
        calendário&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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        &lt;td width="480"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"&gt;Desde a
        pré-história que o Homem ficou deslumbrado pela
        sucessão dos dias e das noites e pelo desenrolar das
        fases da Lua: estes fenómenos conduziram às noções de
        dia e de mês. A noção de ano é menos evidente e foi
        só com o desenvolvimento da agricultura que os povos
        primitivos se aperceberam do ciclo das estações. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;São,
        portanto, o dia, o mês lunar ou lunação e o ano os
        períodos astronómicos naturais utilizados em qualquer
        calendário&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"&gt;. Vamos precisar melhor cada um deles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;hr style="text-align: justify;" /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conceitos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;dia solar verdadeiro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,
        intervalo de tempo entre duas passagens consecutivas do
        Sol pelo meridiano dum lugar, varia entre 23h 59m 39s
        e 24h 00m 30s. Estas variações, devidas às
        desigualdades que afectam a ascensão recta do Sol,
        obrigam-nos a utilizar um dia civil, com a duração de
        24 horas. Este dia, definido em função do dia solar
        médio, começa à meia-noite e termina à meia-noite
        seguinte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;lunação&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, intervalo de
        tempo entro duas conjunções consecutivas da Lua com o
        Sol, também não é um valor constante, mas varia entre
        29 dias e 6 horas e 29 dias e 20 horas. O seu valor
        médio, conhecido com grande precisão, é de 29d 12h
        44m 02,8s. A revolução sinódica da Lua está na
        origem dos calendários lunares, em que os meses têm
        alternadamente 29 dias e 30 dias. O seu valor médio é,
        portanto, de 29,5 dias, diferindo 44m do mês sinódico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Em Astronomia consideram-se
        várias espécies de ano. Iremos referir-nos apenas ao
        ano sideral e ao ano trópico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ano sideral&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, duração
        da revolução da Terra em torno do Sol, é igual a 365d
        06h 09m 09,8s. É este ano que intervém na terceira
        lei de Kepler da mecânica celeste, ao ligar as
        durações das revoluções dos planetas com os eixos
        maiores das órbitas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ano trópico&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, tempo
        decorrido entre duas passagens consecutivas do Sol médio
        pelo ponto vernal, é actualmente de 365d 05h 48m 45,3s. É mais curto do que o ano sideral, devido à
        precessão dos equinócios, que faz retrogradar o ponto
        vernal de 50,24 segundos de arco por ano. É o ano
        trópico que regula o retorno das estações e que
        intervém nos calendários solares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Há ainda os &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;calendários
        luni-solares&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, que procuram harmonizar as lunações
        com a revolução trópica do Sol. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
O &lt;u&gt;protótipo actual de&lt;/u&gt;
        &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;calendário lunar é o calendário islâmico&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; do
        &lt;span style="color: lime; font-weight: bold;"&gt;calendário solar é o calendário gregoriano&lt;/span&gt;; do &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;calendário
        luni-solar&lt;/i&gt; é o calendário israelita&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Mas também o
        calendário gregoriano conserva, de certo modo, uma base
        luni-solar no que diz respeito às regras para a
        determinação da data da Páscoa, a que procuraremos
        mais adiante fazer referência.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Um outro período de tempo
        utilizado nos calendários é &lt;u&gt;a semana de sete dias&lt;/u&gt;, cuja
        origem se desconhece. &lt;u&gt;É provável que estivesse
        relacionada com o mês lunar, visto que sete dias são
        aproximadamente um quarto de lunação, o intervalo
        aproximado entre a Lua cheia e o quarto minguante&lt;/u&gt;, ou
        talvez com o número dos sete astros principais do
        firmamento (os cinco planetas conhecidos na Antiguidade
        mais o Sol e a Lua). Mas é provável que a escolha de um
        intervalo de sete dias se deva ao carácter sagrado do
        número sete entre os judeus. Seja como for, o ciclo
        semanal de sete dias propagou-se inicialmente para
        oriente e só bastante mais tarde chegou ao ocidente,
        encontrando-se hoje praticamente incorporado em todos os
        calendários, como ciclo regulador das actividades
        laborais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Calendários antigos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Os mais primitivos calendários
        do velho Continente, de que a História nos proporciona
        uma informação concreta, são o hebreu e o egípcio.
        Ambos tinham um ano civil de 360 dias: curto para
        representar o ciclo das estações, mas grande para
        corresponder ao chamado "ano lunar" , que se
        define como um período de tempo igual a 12 lunações
        completas existentes no ano trópico, ainda desconhecido.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Ignora-se como os hebreus
        dividiam o ano, mas depreende-se que já utilizavam a
        semana, visto que seguiam o mesmo princípio para contar
        os anos, agrupando-os em &lt;i&gt;septanas&lt;/i&gt; ou semanas de
        "sete anos". Pelo contrário, os egípcios
        dividiam o ano em 12 meses de 30 dias e cada mês em
        três décadas. Os egípcios também dividiam o ano em
        três estações, de acordo com as suas actividades
        agrícolas dependentes das cheias do Nilo: a estação
        das inundações; a estação das sementeiras e a
        estação das colheitas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Não satisfeitos com o ano de
        360 dias, estes povos procuraram aperfeiçoar o seu
        calendário, embora seguindo caminhos diferentes. Os
        hebreus voltaram-se para o sistema luni-solar, ajustando
        os meses com o movimento sinódico da Lua e coordenando o
        ano com o ciclo das estações. Por sua vez, os egípcios
        abandonaram por completo o sistema lunar para seguir
        unicamente o ciclo das estações, tal como as observavam
        no Egipto, visto desconhecerem ainda a duração do ano
        trópico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Depois de muitas reformas, por
        volta do ano 5000 a. C., os egípcios estabeleceram um
        ano civil invariável de 365 dias, conservando a
        tradicional divisão em 12 meses de 30 dias e 5 dias
        adicionais no fim de cada ano. O atraso aproximado de 6
        horas por ano em relação ao ano trópico motivou que,
        lentamente, as estações egípcias se fossem atrasando,
        originando uma rotação destas por todos os meses do
        ano. Por esse motivo, os egípcios começaram uma
        cuidadosa observação no ano 2783 a. C., comprovando que
        em 1323, também a. C., as estações voltavam a
        coincidir nas mesmas datas do calendário. A este
        período de 1461 anos egípcios e que corresponde a 1460
        anos julianos, deu-se o nome de &lt;i&gt;período sotíaco, &lt;/i&gt;de
        Sothis ou Sirius, em cujo nascimento helíaco se basearam
        as observações.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Apesar desta comprovação, os
        egípcios não fizeram qualquer correcção no seu &lt;i&gt;ano
        vago &lt;/i&gt;e&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;um segundo período sotíaco seria
        iniciado em 1323 a. C. Porém, no ano 238 a. C., houve
        uma tentativa para reformar o calendário egípcio por
        forma a pô-lo de acordo com o ciclo das estações mas
        sem êxito, devido à oposição de determinadas classes
        sacerdotais. Só no ano 25 a. C. foi adoptada a reforma
        juliana, introduzindo, de 4 em 4 anos, 6 dias adicionais
        em vez de 5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Os gregos estabeleceram um ano
        lunar de 354 dias, que dividiram em 12 meses de 30 e 29
        dias, alternadamente. Por conseguinte, tinha menos 11
        dias e 6 horas do que a ano trópico, sendo necessário
        fazer intercalações para estabelecer a devida
        correspondência. Estas intercalações tinham o nome de &lt;i&gt;dietérida,
        &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;ciclo de dois anos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;; trietérida, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;ciclo de três anos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; , etc. Os meses, como no calendário
        egípcio, eram dedicados aos deuses e neles se celebravam
        festas, não só em honra do deus correspondente, mas
        também muitas outras dedicados aos astros, às
        estações, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;No primitivo calendário romano,
        o ano tinha 304 dias distribuídos por 10 meses. Os 4
        primeiros tinham nomes próprios dedicados aos deuses da
        mitologia romana e provinham de tempos mais remotos, em
        que, provavelmente, se aplicaram às 4 estações; os 6
        restantes eram designados por números ordinais,
        indicativos da ordem que ocupavam no calendário, segundo
        o esquema:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Martius &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias, dedicado a Marte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Aprilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias, dedicado a Apolo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Maius (maior)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias, dedicado a Júpiter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Junius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias, dedicado a Juno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quintilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias (n.º ordinal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sextilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;7.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;October&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;9.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;November&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="10%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;10.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="17%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Como se depreende, tratava-se
        dum calendário sem qualquer base astronómica, pois os
        períodos nele definidos não tinham qualquer relação
        com os movimentos do Sol ou da Lua. Por isso, no tempo de
        Rómulo já foram introduzidas algumas intercalações
        por forma a harmonizar o calendário vigente com os
        citados períodos astronómicos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O calendário de Rómulo foi
        reformulado por Numa Pompílio, o qual, seguindo o
        exemplo dos gregos, estabeleceu o ano de 12 meses, mas
        introduzindo em primeiro lugar o mês de &lt;i&gt;Januarius, &lt;/i&gt;dedicado
        a Jano, e em último lugar o mês de &lt;i&gt;Februarius, &lt;/i&gt;dedicado
        a Februa, ao qual os romanos ofereciam sacrifícios para
        expiar as suas faltas de todo o ano. Este foi o motivo
        por que o mês de Februarius foi colocado no fim. Mas
        Numa modificou também a duração dos meses, deixando o
        calendário do seguinte modo:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="text-align: justify; width: 288px;"&gt;
            &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Januarius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Martius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Aprilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Maius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Junius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quintilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;7.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sextilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;9.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;October&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;10.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;November&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;11.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;12.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Februarius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;27 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="21%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="44%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;TOTAL&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="34%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;354 dias&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Consequentemente, o ano tinha
        354 dias (ano lunar dos gregos). Mas esta estranha
        distribuição dos dias pelos meses era devida à
        superstição dos romanos que tomavam por nefastos os
        números pares. Pela mesma razão, consideraram nefasto o
        ano de 354 dias e aumentaram-no para 355 dias, atribuindo
        o dia excedente a Februarius, que passou a ter 28 dias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Entretanto, os romanos sentiram
        também a necessidade de coordenar o seu ano lunar com o
        ciclo das estações e seguindo, de certo modo, o exemplo
        dos gregos, estabeleceram um rudimentar sistema
        luni-solar, introduzindo no seu calendário, de dois em
        dois anos, um novo mês: &lt;i&gt;Mercedonius,&lt;/i&gt; assim
        chamado por estas intercalações serem feitas na época
        em que os senhores outorgavam as suas mercês aos
        escravos (uma espécie de gratificações voluntárias
        pelos serviços prestados).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O&lt;i&gt; Mercedonius, &lt;/i&gt;cuja
        duração alternava de 22 ou 23 dias, intercalava-se
        entre 23 e 24 de Februarius, que se interrompia,
        completando-se depois da mesma. O ano assim formado
        tinha, em média, 366,25 dias, portanto mais um dia do
        que o ciclo das estações. Foram estabelecidos várias
        normas para atender a esse aspecto que na prática não
        resultaram, pois as intercalações passaram a ser feitas
        de acordo com interesses particulares ou políticos: os
        pontífices alongavam ou encurtavam o ano conforme os
        seus amigos estavam ou não no poder. A desordem atingiu
        tal ponto que o começo do ano já estava adiantado de
        três meses em relação ao ciclo das estações.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Calendário juliano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Foi esta desordem que Júlio
        César encontrou ao chegar ao poder. Decidido a acabar
        com os abusos dos pontífices, chamou a Roma o astrónomo
        grego Sosígenes, da escola de Alexandria, para que
        examinasse a situação e o aconselhasse nas medidas que
        deveriam ser adoptadas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Estudado o problema, Sosígenes
        observou que o calendário romano estava adiantado de 67
        dias em relação ao ano natural ou ciclo das estações,
        Para desfazer essa diferença, Júlio César ordenou que
        naquele ano (708 de Roma, ou 46 a.C.), além do
        Mercedonius de 23 dias que correspondia intercalar
        naquele ano, fossem adicionados mais dois meses, um de 33
        dias, outro de 34 dias, entre os meses de November e
        December. Resultou assim um ano civil de 445 dias, o
        maior de todos os tempos, único na história do
        calendário e conhecido pelo nome de &lt;i&gt;Ano da confusão,
        &lt;/i&gt;pois, devido à grande extensão dos domínios de
        Roma e à lentidão dos meios de comunicação de então,
        nalgumas regiões a ordem foi recebida com tal atraso que
        já havia começado um novo ano. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Foi então abolido o calendário
        lunar dos decênviros e adoptou-se o calendário solar,
        conhecido por &lt;i&gt;Juliano, &lt;/i&gt;de Júlio César, que
        começou a vigorar no ano 709 de Roma (45 a.C.), mediante
        um sistema que devia desenrolar-se por ciclos de quatro
        anos, com três comuns de 365 dias e um bissexto de 366
        dias, a fim de compensar as quase seis horas que havia de
        diferença para o ano trópico. Suprimiu-se o Mercedonius
        e Februarius passou a ser o segundo mês do ano.
        Consequentemente, os restantes meses atrasaram uma
        posição, além da que já haviam atrasado na primeira
        reforma de Numa, com a consequente falta de sentido dos
        meses com designação ordinal. O valor médio do ano
        passou a ser de 365,25 dias e o equinócio da primavera
        deveria ocorrer por volta de 25 de Março.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Era a seguinte a ordenação e
        duração dos meses no primitivo calendário juliano:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="text-align: justify; width: 297px;"&gt;
            &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Januarius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Februarius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;29 ou 30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Martius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Aprilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Maius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Junius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;7.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quintilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sextilis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;9.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;10.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;October&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;11.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;November&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="29%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;12.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="35%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="36%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Como se pode observar, a
        distribuição dos dias do ano fez-se alternando os meses
        de 30 e 31 dias, consoante fosse par ou ímpar a sua
        ordem no calendário nos anos bissextos, ficando
        Februarius com 29 dias nos anos comuns. Assim, por
        disposição de Júlio César, os romanos tiveram de
        abolir a sua prevenção contra os meses de dias pares,
        que sempre haviam considerado nefastos ou de mau agoiro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Evolução do
        calendário juliano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Durante o consulado de Marco
        António, reconhecendo-se a importância da reforma
        introduzida no calendário romano por Júlio César, foi
        decidido prestar-lhe justa homenagem, perpetuando o seu
        nome no calendário, de maneira que o sétimo mês,
        Quintilis, passou a chamar-se &lt;i&gt;Julius.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Também no ano 730 de Roma, o
        Senado romano decretou que o oitavo mês, Sextilis,
        passasse a chamar-se &lt;i&gt;Augustus, &lt;/i&gt;porque durante este
        mês começou o imperador César Augusto o seu primeiro
        consulado e pôs fim à guerra civil que desolava o povo
        romano. E para que o mês dedicado a César Augusto não
        tivesse menos dias do que o dedicado a Júlio César, o
        mês de Augustus passou a ter 31 dias. Este dia saiu do
        mês de Februarius, que ficou com 28 dias nos anos comuns
        e 29 nos bissextos. Também para que não houvesse tantos
        meses seguidos com 31 dias, reduziram-se para 30 dias os
        meses de September e November, passando a ter 31 dias os
        de October e December. Assim se chegou à distribuição
        sem lógica alguma dos dias pelos meses, que ainda hoje
        perdura e que transcrevemos a seguir com os nomes actuais
        em língua portuguesa:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="text-align: justify; width: 283px;"&gt;
            &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Janeiro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Fevereiro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;28 ou 29 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Março&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Abril&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Maio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Junho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;7.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Julho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Agosto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;9.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Setembro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;10.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Outubro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;11.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Novembro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;30 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;12.º&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="47%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dezembro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top" width="38%"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;31 dias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;De princípio, o calendário
        juliano conservou as letras nundinais para determinar a
        data dos mercados públicos, a divisão dos meses pelas
        calendas, nonas e idus e a nomenclatura ordinal dos dias.
        O dia excedente de Februarius, nos anos bissextos, era
        intercalado &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; como o fora anteriormente o mês
        Mercedonius &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; entre os dias 23 e 24. Quando Februarius
        passou a ter 28 dias nos anos comuns, o seu 23.º dia era
        o 6.º antes das calendas de Março. Portanto, o dia
        seguinte, que era intercalado de 4 em 4 anos, passou a
        designar-se por &lt;i&gt;bissextocalendas &lt;/i&gt;(ou&lt;i&gt; bissextus
        dies&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;ante calendas Martii&lt;/i&gt;). Daí o nome de &lt;i&gt;dia
        bissexto &lt;/i&gt;e, por arrastamento, de &lt;i&gt;ano bissexto &lt;/i&gt;que
        hoje se dá aos anos em que o mês de Fevereiro tem 29
        dias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Mas o ciclo de 4 anos de
        Sosígenes começou por ser mal aplicado, pois em vez de
        se contarem 3 anos comuns e um bissexto, como, de facto,
        recomendava aquele astrónomo, os pontífices romanos
        falsearam a contagem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; ou a
        interpretaram mal, ainda que isso não pareça muito
        provável dada a sua simplicidade &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; e intercalaram um ano bissexto de 3 em 3
        anos. Assim, durante os primeiros 36 anos de vigência do
        calendário juliano foram intercalados 12 bissextos em
        vez de 9. Para remediar este erro, e como 12 bissextos
        correspondiam a 48 anos, César Augusto suspendeu as
        intercalações durante 12 anos, começando então a ser
        feita de 4 em 4 anos, como era correcto. Em geral, a
        cronologia não refere este facto e admite-se que o
        calendário juliano seguiu correctamente desde o
        princípio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Por aquela época tiveram lugar
        na Terra Santa os mistérios da Vida, Paixão, Morte e
        Ressurreição de Jesus Cristo, o advento do cristianismo
        e a difusão desta doutrina. Tal ocorrência acabaria por
        ter bastante influência na evolução do calendário
        juliano: a fixação das regras para a determinação da
        data da Páscoa e a adopção oficial da semana no
        calendário romano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Os cristãos da Ásia Menor
        celebravam a Páscoa cristã no dia 14 da primeira Lua
        que começasse em Março, qualquer que fosse o dia da
        semana em que ocorresse essa data. Pelo contrário, os
        cristãos do Ocidente celebravam-na no domingo seguinte a
        esse dia. Esta discrepância entre os cristãos do
        Oriente e do Ocidente na comemoração de tão importante
        acontecimento, deu origem a sérias polémicas entre os
        altos dignatários das duas Igrejas. A questão foi
        resolvida no &lt;i&gt;concílio de Niceia &lt;/i&gt;(ano 325 da nossa
        era): Jesus Cristo ressuscitou num domingo, 16 Nissan do
        calendário judeu, coincidente com o plenilúnio do
        começo da primavera. O concílio decidiu manter estes
        três símbolos e acordou que a Páscoa passaria a ser
        celebrada universalmente, no domingo seguinte ao
        plenilúnio que tivesse lugar no equinócio da primavera
        ou imediatamente a seguir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Os cristãos, que entretanto iam
        ganhando posições em toda a parte, precisavam da semana
        hebraica para o seu culto, visto que tinham de guardar o
        preceito do descanso ao sétimo dia e, assim, a semana
        acabou por ser adoptada no calendário romano,
        abolindo-se, pouco a pouco, as letras nundinais e o uso
        das calendas, nonas e idus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Convém salientar que o ano de
        365,25 dias do calendário juliano é cerca de 11m 14s
        mais longo do que o ano trópico. A acumulação desta
        diferença ao longo dos anos representa um dia em 128
        anos e cerca de três dias em 400 anos. Assim, o
        equinócio da primavera que no tempo de Sosígenes
        ocorria por volta de 25 de Março, ao realizar-se o
        concílio de Niceia, quase quatro séculos depois, teve
        lugar a 21 de Março.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Problemas com o
        calendário juliano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Este deslocamento do equinócio
        no calendário, que não foi tomado em consideração
        pelos padres conciliares de Niceia, continuou a
        produzir-se à razão de um dia em cada 128 anos,
        causando várias preocupações à Igreja durante toda a
        Idade Média, visto que esse atraso poderia dar origem a
        novas discrepâncias sobre a data da Páscoa. O problema
        foi tratado nos concílios de Constança (1414) e
        Basileia (1436 e 1439), mas não foi possível chegar a
        qualquer acordo. Em 1474, o Papa Sixto IV encarregou Juan
        Muller de estudar o meio de reformar o calendário, mas
        este sábio alemão, conhecido pelo nome de &lt;i&gt;Regiomontano,
        &lt;/i&gt;morreu dois anos depois sem ter apresentado as
        conclusões do seu trabalho. No concílio de S. João de
        Latrão (1511 a 1515) foi novamente abordado o problema e
        no de Trento (1545 a 1563) chegou a ser discutido um
        projecto de reforma que não pôde ser concretizado,
        apesar dos esforços do Papa Pio IV, dada a escassa
        preparação científica de então para reconhecer as
        vantagens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Foi necessária a autoridade de
        um Papa com a cultura e a tenacidade de Gregório XIII
        para conseguir impor a reforma. Entretanto, o equinócio
        da primavera ocorria já por volta de 11 de Março.
        Depois de várias consultas a instituições
        científicas, em 1576 foi criada uma comissão
        encarregada de estudar o problema e as várias propostas
        existentes para o resolver. Nesta comissão, constituída
        pelos melhores astrónomos e matemáticos da época, teve
        papel preponderante o célebre padre jesuíta &lt;i&gt;Clavius,
        &lt;/i&gt;que estudara matemática em Coimbra com Pedro Nunes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Foi preferido o projecto de
        reforma apresentado pelo astrónomo &lt;em&gt;Luís&lt;/em&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lílio
        &lt;/i&gt;e comunicado em 1577 e 1578 a numerosos príncipes,
        bispos e universidades para darem a sua opinião. Só
        depois de analisadas pela comissão todas essas
        respostas, se resolveu adoptar finalmente o projecto de
        Lílio e em 24 de Fevereiro de 1582 Gregório XIII
        expediu a bula &lt;i&gt;Inter Gravíssimas,&lt;/i&gt; que estabelecia
        os pontos essenciais do novo calendário.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Calendário
        gregoriano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A reforma gregoriana tinha por
        finalidade fazer regressar o equinócio da primavera a 21
        de Março e desfazer o erro de 10 dias já existente.
        Para isso, a bula mandava que o dia imediato à
        quinta-feira 4 de Outubro fosse designado por sexta-feira
        15 de Outubro. Como se vê, embora houvesse um salto nos
        dias, manteve-se intacto o ciclo semanal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Para evitar, no futuro, a
        repetição da diferença foi estabelecido que os anos
        seculares só seriam bissextos se fossem divisíveis por
        400.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Suprimir-se-iam, assim, 3 dias em cada 400
        anos, razão pela qual o ano 1600 foi bissexto, mas não
        o foram os anos 1700&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;1800 e 1900, que teriam sido
        segundo a&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;regra juliana, por serem divisíveis por
        4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A duração do ano gregoriano
        é, em média, de 365d 05h 49m 12s, isto é, tem
        actualmente mais 27s do que o ano trópico. A
        acumulação desta diferença ao longo do tempo
        representará um dia em cada 3000 anos. É evidente que
        não valia a pena aos astrónomos de Gregório XIII
        atender a tão pequena e longínqua diferença, nem na
        actualidade ela tem ainda qualquer importância. Talvez
        lá para o ano 5000 da nossa era, se ainda continuarmos
        com o mesmo calendário, seja necessário ter isso em
        consideração.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Portugal, Espanha e Itália
        foram os únicos países que aceitaram de imediato a
        reforma do calendário. Em França e nos Estados
        católicos dos Países Baixos a supressão dos 10 dias
        fez-se ainda em 1582, durante o mês de Dezembro (9 para
        20 em França, 14 para 25 nos Países Baixos). Os Estados
        católicos da Alemanha e da Suíça acolheram a reforma
        em 1584; a Polónia, após alguma resistência, em 1586 e
        a Hungria em 1587. A repugnância foi grande mesmo nos
        países católicos, pois isso significava sacrificar 10
        dias e romper aparentemente com a continuidade do tempo.
        Estas reacções mostram que o calendário toca o
        coração das pessoas e que convém tratar a questão com
        prudência.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Nos países protestantes a
        recusa foi mais longa. O erudito francês Joseph
        Scaliger, pelas suas críticas, contribuiu para organizar
        a resistência. "&lt;i&gt;Os protestantes&lt;/i&gt;, dizia
        Kepler, &lt;i&gt;preferem antes estar em desacordo com o Sol do
        que de acordo com o Papa&lt;/i&gt;". Os protestantes dos
        Países Baixos, da Alemanha e da Suíça só por volta de
        1700 aceitaram o novo calendário. Mas nalgumas aldeias
        suíças foi preciso recorrer à força para obrigar o
        povo a fazê-lo. A Inglaterra e a Suécia só o fizeram
        em 1752; foi preciso então sacrificar 11 dias, visto que
        tinham considerado 1700 como bissexto. O problema na
        Inglaterra agravou-se mais porque também nesse ano fora
        decidido que o início do ano seria transferido para o
        dia 1 de Janeiro (até então o ano começava a 25 de
        Março). Deste modo, em Inglaterra haviam-se suprimido
        quase três meses no início do ano e em Setembro, com a
        adopção do calendário gregoriano, eram suprimidos mais
        11 dias. Era demais para um povo fiel às tradições.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Os russos, gregos, turcos e,
        duma maneira geral, os povos de religião ortodoxa,
        conservaram o calendário juliano até ao princípio
        deste século. Como tinham considerado bissextos os anos
        de 1700, 1800 e 1900, a diferença era já de 13 dias. A
        URSS adoptou o calendário gregoriano em 1918, a Grécia
        em 1923 e a Turquia em 1926.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Em conclusão, actualmente o
        calendário gregoriano pode ser considerado de uso
        universal. Mesmo aqueles povos que, por motivos
        religiosos, culturais ou outros, continuam agarrados aos
        seus calendários tradicionais, utilizam o calendário
        gregoriano nas suas relações internacionais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A seguir à implantação da
        reforma gregoriana, os cristãos suprimiram o descanso ao
        sábado, transferindo-o para o domingo em comemoração
        perpétua da Ressurreição de Cristo. Assim se quebrou a
        unidade de descanso no sétimo dia, estabelecido por
        Moisés há mais de 5700 anos. Seguindo o exemplo dos
        cristãos, também os muçulmanos renunciaram ao preceito
        mosaico de descanso ao sábado e transferiram-no para
        sexta-feira, em cujo dia da semana, dez séculos antes, o
        Alcorão foi revelado a Maomé e se deu a fuga deste de
        Meca para Medina (15 de Julho do ano 622 da era cristã).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Defeitos do
        calendário gregoriano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O calendário gregoriano
        apresenta alguns defeitos, tanto sob o ponto de vista
        astronómico (estrutura interna), como no seu aspecto
        prático (estrutura externa). Por isso, vários
        investigadores pertencentes a várias igrejas ou
        organismos internacionais e mesmo privados se têm
        ocupado activamente da reforma do calendário.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Sob o ponto de vista
        astronómico, o seu principal defeito é ser ligeiramente
        mais longo do que o ano trópico, o que se traduz por uma
        diferença de um dia em cerca de 3000 anos. Porém, esta
        pequena diferença não tem qualquer inconveniente
        imediato e uma reforma do calendário destinada a
        corrigi-la traria sérios problemas, porque iria criar
        uma descontinuidade com as consequentes complicações
        cronológicas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O mesmo não acontece sob o
        ponto de vista prático, em que, de facto, se justifica
        uma modificação. Com efeito, o número de dias de cada
        mês é muito irregular (28 a 31 dias). O mesmo acontece
        com a semana, adoptada quase universalmente como unidade
        laboral de tempo, que não se encontra integrada nos
        meses e muitas vezes repartida por dois meses diferentes.
        Estas duas anomalias têm sérios inconvenientes numa
        distribuição racional do trabalho e dos salários, que
        são maiores do que à primeira vista se pode pensar.
        Até a própria economia doméstica se recente, visto que
        um salário mensal fixo tem de ser distribuído por um
        número diferente de dias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Mais grave ainda é a mobilidade
        da data da Páscoa, que oscila entre 22 de Março e 25 de
        Abril, com as consequentes perturbações da duração
        dos trimestres escolares e de numerosas outras
        actividades (judiciais, económicas, turísticas, etc.)
        particularmente nos países cristãos em que as festas da
        Semana Santa têm uma grande importância. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Há ainda um outro ponto que
        julgo ser de interesse salientar. Diz respeito ao
        tratamento desigual que foi dado à Lua e ao Sol. Com
        efeito, os padres do concílio de Niceia e o Papa
        Gregório XIII ligaram o calendário ao Sol &lt;i&gt;verdadeiro,
        &lt;/i&gt;mas tomaram para Lua pascal uma Lua &lt;i&gt;média &lt;/i&gt;que,
        por vezes, se afasta bastante da Lua astronómica. Por
        esse motivo, podem dar-se desvios de uma semana ou mesmo
        de um mês na data da Páscoa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Dada a importância do ciclo
        semanal no relacionamento entre os diferentes
        calendários e, inclusive, na resolução de algumas
        dúvidas, julgamos de interesse dizer mais alguma coisa
        sobra o assunto. No quadro junto estão indicados os
        respectivos nomes em latim e a sua correspondência com
        as línguas latinas. Só o português é que se afasta um
        pouco da tradição.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Domingo: dia do Senhor. &lt;/i&gt;Dedicado
        ao Sol. O astro-rei era tudo para o homem primitivo:
        espantava as trevas, aquecia os corpos, amadurecia as
        colheitas. Enfim, o Sol era Deus; daí a designação de
        Dia do Senhor entre os latinos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Segunda-feira: dia da Lua. &lt;/i&gt;Depois
        do Sol e sempre no céu, a Lua era a impressão mais
        forte recebida pelo homem. Influía nas marés, no
        plantio, no corte das madeiras, talvez mesmo no
        nascimento das crianças. Daí a atribuir-lhe um dia da
        semana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Terça-feira: dia de Marte. &lt;/i&gt;Na
        escala dos poderes que governavam os céus, as trevas e
        os seres humanos, Marte pontificava. Era o senhor da
        guerra e, portanto, dos destinos das nações e dos
        povos. A sua influência era tão grande que, inclusive,
        no calendário romano lhe foi destinado um mês (Março).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Quarta-feira: dia de Mercúrio. &lt;/i&gt;Era
        o deus do comércio, dos viajantes e dos ... ladrões!
        Mensageiro e arauto de Júpiter, protegia os comerciantes
        e os seus negócios; dada a importância que estas
        criaturas tiveram em todos os tempos e em todos os
        lugares, alcançaram para o seu deus a consagração de
        um dia da semana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Quinta-feira: dia de Júpiter. &lt;/i&gt;Honraria
        conferida ao pai dos deuses pagãos, comandante dos
        ventos e das tempestades. Daí a ideia de lhe atribuir um
        dia da semana, talvez para aplacar a sua fúria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Sexta-feira: dia de Vénus. &lt;/i&gt;Nascida
        da espuma do mar para distribuir belezas pelo mundo,
        Vénus representava para os pagãos os ideais da
        formosura, da harmonia e do amor. Daí a razão de
        merecer a homenagem de um dia da semana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Sábado: dia de Saturno. &lt;/i&gt;Saturno,
        deus especialmente querido dos Romanos, foi despojado,
        pelo uso e pelo tempo, da homenagem consistente em dar
        nome a um dia da semana. Em Roma eram celebrados grandes
        festejos em sua honra &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¾&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; as&lt;i&gt;
        Saturnais &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¾&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;realizadas em Dezembro e que se
        prolongavam por vários dias. Mas a homenagem a Saturno,
        correspondente a um dia da semana, perdeu-se nas línguas
        latinas, em que se deu preferência ao termo hebraico &lt;i&gt;Shabbath,
        &lt;/i&gt;que significa &lt;i&gt;repouso, &lt;/i&gt;indicado na velha lei
        judaica como sendo o dia dedicado ao descanso e às
        orações. Mas a língua inglesa permaneceu fiei ao velho
        Saturno, chamando ainda ao seu sábado &lt;i&gt;Saturday.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quadro comparativo dos nomes
        dos dias da semana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="text-align: center;"&gt;
            &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Latim&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Italiano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Francês&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Espanhol&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Português&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Dies Dominica&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia do Senhor)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Domenica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Dimanche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Domingo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Domingo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Lunae dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia da Lua)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Lunedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Lundi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Lunes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Segunda-feira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Martis dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia de Marte)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Martedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Mardi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Martes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Terça-feira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Mercurii dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia de Mercúrio)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Mercoledi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Mercredi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Miércoles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Quarta-feira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Jovis dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia de Júpiter)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Giovedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Jeudi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Jueves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Quinta-feira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Veneris dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia de Vénus)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Venerdi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Vendredi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Viernes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Sexta-feira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: navy;"&gt;Saturni dies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;(Dia de Saturno)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Sabbato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Samedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Sábado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;Sábado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As Eras&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Ao longo desta exposição
        referimo-nos várias vezes à era de Roma e à era
        cristã. Talvez seja vantajoso dizer mais alguma coisa
        sobre o assunto. Os romanos datavam os seus anos a partir
        da fundação de Roma, &lt;i&gt;"ab&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;urbe
        condita" &lt;/i&gt;que, de acordo com a opinião de
        Varrão, remonta a 753 antes da era cristã. Mas os
        romanos contavam a sua era a partir de 21 de Abril.
        Assim, o ano 1 da era cristã corresponde cerca de 4
        meses ao ano 753 de Roma e o resto ao ano 754. Por
        comodidade, recua-se muitas vezes de alguns meses a era
        de Roma e faz-se coincidir o ano 1 da nossa era com o ano
        754 de Roma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Só alguns séculos após o
        nascimento de Cristo é que se pôs a questão de ligar
        este acontecimento a uma origem de contagem do tempo. A
        proposta foi apresentada pelo monge cita &lt;i&gt;Dionísío o
        Exíguo &lt;/i&gt;por volta do ano 532 da nossa era.
        Imediatamente adoptada pela Igreja, ela foi-se
        generalizando a todos os países católicos. Em Portugal
        utilizou-se a era de César ou hispânica até ao ano
        1422. Esta era havia sido introduzido na Península
        Ibérica no século V para recordar a conquista da
        península por Caio Júlio César Augusto no ano 38 a. C.
        (ano 716 de Roma). Por determinação de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/H01_a.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;D. João I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;, foi abolida a era de César e o ano
        1460 desta era passou a ser o ano 1422 da era cristã.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Dionísio o Exíguo supunha, de
        acordo com as suas investigações, que Jesus Cristo
        tinha vindo ao mundo em 25 de Dezembro (VIII das calendas
        de Janeiro) do ano 753 de Roma e fixara nessa data o
        início da era cristã. Mas os cronologistas introduziram
        um atraso de sete dias, de maneira que o início da era
        cristã foi transferido para o dia 1 de Janeiro do ano
        754 de Roma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Actualmente parece provado que
        os cálculos não estavam correctos e que Cristo deveria
        ter nascido 5 a 7 anos antes da data em que se celebra o
        seu nascimento. Com efeito, essa data é posterior ao
        édito do recenseamento do mundo romano (ano 747 de Roma
        ou mais cedo) e anterior à morte de Herodes (ano 750 de
        Roma). Para alguns cronologistas, é sugerida a data de
        747 de Roma, porque nesse ano Júpiter e Saturno
        estiveram em conjunção na constelação dos Peixes em
        Setembro e em Novembro e eles vêem neste fenómeno a
        "estrela de Belém". Mas, para não perturbar a
        cronologia já estabelecida, foi mantida a data
        inicialmente proposta, embora tivesse deixado de
        corresponder ao significado inicial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;É importante notar que na era
        cristã os anos são referidos a uma &lt;i&gt;escala&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;sem
        zero&lt;/i&gt;, isto&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;é, a contagem inicia-se no ano 1
        depois de Cristo, designando-se o ano anterior como ano 1
        antes de Cristo. Por conseguinte, qualquer acontecimento
        ocorrido durante o primeiro ano da era cristã, embora
        seja apenas de um dia ou de um mês, conta-se como tendo
        ocorrido no ano 1 depois de Cristo. Por esta razão, o
        primeiro século, ou intervalo de 100 anos, da era
        cristã, terminou no dia 31 de Dezembro do ano 100 d. C.,
        quando haviam decorrido os primeiros 100 anos após o
        início da era. O século II começou no dia 1 de Janeiro
        do ano 101 d. C. e assim sucessivamente.
        Consequentemente, o século XX começou no dia 1 de
        Janeiro do ano 1901 e terminará no dia 31 de Dezembro do
        ano 2000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Esta forma pouco lógica de
        numerar os anos do calendário é particularmente
        inconveniente quando se trata de determinar intervalos de
        tempo que começam antes da origem da era cristã e
        terminam depois. Assim, por exemplo, o intervalo entre os
        anos 50 a.C. e 50 d.C. não é de 100 anos, mas apenas de
        99. Em geral, estes intervalos de tempo obtêm-se
        diminuindo um ano, o que é necessário ter em conta ao
        investigar acontecimentos históricos ou fenómenos
        astronómicos da Antiguidade datados segundo a era
        cristã.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Este inconveniente é facilmente
        resolvido com a introdução dos números negativos, como
        aliás o fazem os astrónomos. Assim, o ano 1 a.C.
        corresponde ao ano 0, o ano 2 a.C. ao ano -1 e assim
        sucessivamente. As datas depois de Cristo exprimem-se da
        mesma maneira. Esquematizamos na figura junta a relação
        entre as duas contagens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1" cellpadding="4" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
            &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;Era cristã&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;3 a.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;2 a.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;1 a.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;1 d.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;2 d.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;Cômputo astronómico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;-2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;+1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;+2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Para evitar estas dificuldades
        cronológicas do calendário, o erudito francês Joseph
        Scaliger propôs em 1582, no mesmo ano da reforma
        gregoriana do calendário, contar ininterruptamente os
        dias correspondentes a um período que fosse múltiplo
        dos períodos lunares e solares normalmente utilizados no
        calendário e suficientemente extenso para abarcar
        acontecimentos históricos desde a mais remota
        Antiguidade. Obteve assim um período de 7980 anos
        julianos, a que deu o nome de &lt;i&gt;período juliano. &lt;/i&gt;Tomando
        como unidade prática o dia solar médio, começou a
        contar os dias numa sucessão contínua a partir do
        meio-dia do dia 1 de Janeiro do ano 4713 a.C. A escolha
        desta data, que à primeira vista pode parecer
        arbitrária, foi também determinada em função dos
        períodos utilizados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Convém esclarecer que até 1925
        o tempo solar médio era contado em astronomia a partir
        do meio-dia, para que as observações nocturnas caíssem
        sempre dentro do mesmo dia e não a partir da meia-noite,
        como é usual no tempo civil. O dia solar médio era
        então chamado &lt;i&gt;dia astronómico. &lt;/i&gt;A partir de 1925,
        por acordo internacional, os dias solares médios
        passaram a contar-se com início à meia-noite tanto em
        astronomia como na vida civil e a designação de dia
        astronómico caiu em desuso. Mas os dias do período
        juliano, que começaram a contar-se de meio-dia a
        meio-dia segundo o uso astronómico da época, continuam
        a contar-se da mesma maneira, por razões óbvias de
        continuidade da escala.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manuel
        Nunes Marques&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Eng. Geógrafo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Director do Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
Tapada da Ajuda&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;1349 - 018 L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"&gt;ISBOA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;email: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:mmarques@oal.ul.pt"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;mmarques@oal.ul.pt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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As a Christian who keeps Saturday as the Sabbath (Friday sunset to &amp;nbsp;Saturday sunset), I am sometimes a source of bewilderment to others &amp;nbsp;not familiar with my beliefs. They persistently think that I am either a Jew or a Seventh-day Adventist. I am neither. But in the eyes of many, these are the only religions observing the Seventh-Day Sabbath.&lt;/div&gt;
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Most people have heard of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews. The well-known Seventh-day Adventists number in the millions. Yet most Seventh-day Adventists know little or nothing of the hundreds of other Sabbath-keeping groups who believe the Messiah has come. For a listing, with addresses and in many cases a summary of their distinctive doctrines, write for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Bible Sabbath Association, 3316 Alberta Drive, Gillette, WY 82718&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Seventh-day Adventists should know more about others who hold very similar beliefs. Their fellow Sabbath-keepers live in the same communities as Adventists, yet in many cases neither knows about the existence of the other. Both know little about the doctrinal beliefs or the history of the other. This is really not too surprising. The typical Protestant or Catholic knows little about the history and doctrines of his own denomination, let alone that of another. Few will bother to know what their church believes, fewer still will find out what others believe.&lt;/div&gt;
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I have written extensively on Sabbatarian history and have closely examined Adventist doctrine, as well as that of many other Sabbath-observing groups. There are very sincere and dedicated Seventh-day Adventists. I share many beliefs with Adventists. Yet they are lacking in two areas: (1) Adventists need to know their own history, and (2) Adventists need to know their fellow Sabbath-keepers and their doctrines.&lt;/div&gt;
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The oldest continuously organized and operating Christian Sabbath-keeping church, the Mill Yard Church in London, England, is not, and never was, Seventh-day Adventist. The first Christian Sabbath-keeper on the American continent came about 200 years before there was a Seventh-day Adventist. The first Sabbath-keeping settler in the Oregon country was not an Adventist either.&lt;/div&gt;
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There has never been a time since the Seventh-day Adventist church was formed in the 1860s that all Christian Sabbath-keepers were in their fold. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not the only descendant of the Adventist movement led by the Sunday-keeping William Miller in the 1840s. The largest non-SDA body of Sabbath-keepers, the various Churches of God, were not an "offshoot" of the Seventh-day Adventists, but existed long before the SDA denomination was formed. They parted company over the visions of Ellen G. White and various other doctrinal views.&lt;/div&gt;
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I urge that my SDA friends read my two books:&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;History of the Seventh Day Church of God, Volume I&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Six Papers on the History of the Church of God&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, available from:&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Giving &amp;amp; Sharing, PO Box 100, Neck City, Missouri 64849&lt;/b&gt;. The SDA Loma Linda and James Andrews Universities have requested these books.&lt;/div&gt;
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Regretfully, the history of SDA�s and non-SDA�s has been marked by much dissension and mutual name-calling. SDA official writings have denounced those in the Church of God as "fanatics" and "rebels," who in turn denounced Ellen G. White�s visions as from the devil. Her husband James White referred to Church of God people as "bold slanderers" and "baptized liars."&lt;/div&gt;
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But then there are many Sabbath-keepers who have never had close relationships historically or doctrinally with SDA�s. The Seventh Day Baptists were the first Sabbatarian settlers of the New World. Some of the Adventists learned about the Sabbath from a Seventh Day Baptist lady in New Hampshire. Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh Day Baptists continue to be the two best known long-established Sabbath-keeping groups. However, Church of God leader H.E. Carver of the Marion, Iowa, Church of God Seventh Day, in a letter written in the February 8, 1872, Seventh Day Baptist&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sabbath Recorder&lt;/i&gt;, noted that at that time there were "hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Sabbath-keepers scattered over the land, from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Pacific, who do not belong either to your church organization [SDB�s], or that of the Seventh-day Adventists. Some of these are lonely ones, having no church privileges."&lt;/div&gt;
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This is even more true today. But it is a fact not well-known among Seventh-day Adventists.&lt;/div&gt;
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Here is a brief outline of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the major Messianic Sabbatarian groups, broken down in broad classifications:&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;b&gt; Seventh Day Baptists&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;number about 5,000 in the USA, and over 50,000 overseas. Their USA headquarters is in Janesville, Wisconsin. The oldest SDB church, the Mill Yard church in London, England, dates back at least to the 1600s. SDB churches have considerable local autonomy. Their first church in America was organized in 1671 in Newport, Rhode Island. Their magazine, The&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sabbath Recorder&lt;/i&gt;, started in 1844 and is still being published. SDB�s are much like other Baptists doctrinally, but keep the Sabbath. There are independent SDB groups as well.&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;2&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;b&gt; Seventh-day Adventists&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;number over 4.5 million (1986) with nearly a million members in North America. This is a 50% increase since the 1970s. They easily dwarf all other Sabbatarian groups in sheer size. Their hospitals, colleges and universities, publishing houses, literature, radio (&lt;i&gt;Voice of Prophecy&lt;/i&gt;, H.M.S. Richards), and TV make them well-known. Their teaching on vegetarianism is well-known, but few know of their other teachings which differ from mainline Protestants (man is mortal, the dead sleep, immortality will be conferred upon the righteous at Christ�s second coming, the millennium in heaven).&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt;) The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Church of God&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;numbers from 300,000-500,000. This broad classification includes those who trace their history back to Sabbath-keeping Adventists (not SDA�s) who did not go along with the visions of Ellen G. White. Seventh Day Churches of God have never been united in one organization comparable to that of SDA�s. Their history has been characterized by local autonomous groups, and splits into factions when groups did organize.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Church of God (Seventh Day)&lt;/b&gt; is a subgroup of dozens of independent groups, the largest of which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. This grouping is the subject of my books on Church history. The Denver group has about 6,000 North American members and 30,000 overseas. It publishes the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Bible Advocate&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(began in 1863 as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The Hope of Israel&lt;/i&gt;) and is organized into conferences of local churches similar to that of Adventists. Major distinguishing beliefs are: annual observance of the Lord�s Supper, abstinence from unclean meats, a Wednesday crucifixion, Sabbath resurrection of Christ (three days and three nights in the tomb), the millennium on the earth, the Holy Spirit not a Trinity but the mind and power of God, and nonobservance of Christmas and Easter. Some of the other headquarters of Church of God (Seventh Day) groups are Meridian, Idaho; Salem, West Virginia; Caldwell, Idaho; and Jerusalem, Israel. Tens of thousands of local Church of God believers in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana primarily), India, the Philippines, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, are affiliated, but not solidly tied to any organization. Beliefs vary. Some keep the Biblical Holy Days, some do not, etc.&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;b&lt;/b&gt;) The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Worldwide Church of God&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and its offshoot groups is a large and well-known Sabbath-keeping body other than SDA�s. At one time, the parent organization had over 100,000 members, but in the mid 1990s, splits had reduced its membership by 60% or more. Founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in 1933-34, the WWC had a worldwide coverage due to its&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;World Tomorrow&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;television program, and large circulation&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Plain Truth&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;magazine. It had offices and churches in many countries, and is controlled centrally from Pasadena, California. Herbert Armstrong was ordained by the Church of God (Seventh-Day) and was ousted from them in 1937 over his doctrines of Anglo-Israelism and Biblical Holy Days (ideas which some in the Seventh Day Church of God had held long before him, and which many continued to hold who were never associated with him). The Worldwide Church of God�s classical distinctive teachings were: belief in the Holy Days described in the Old Testament, that the United States and the British Commonwealth are mainly the descendants of Israel, in the three tithes described in the Old Testament, non-observance of holidays such as Christmas and Easter, and abstinence from pork and shellfish. After Armstrong�s death in 1986, the Church had abandoned its "Anglo-Israel" teaching, accepted the Trinity doctrine, rejected the Biblical requirement to observe the Sabbath and Holy Days, and approved eating unclean meats. Its classical doctrines were continued by offshoots such as the United Church of God, Global Church of God, Living Church of God, and the Church of God, International.&lt;/div&gt;
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Since its inception, numbers have left Armstrong�s organization, but until the late 1960s, the Worldwide Church was growing rapidly. There were major splits in the period of 1974-1978, climaxed by the ouster of Herbert Armstrong�s own son, Garner Ted Armstrong, who for years was the radio and TV voice of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;World Tomorrow&lt;/i&gt;. Garner Ted leads the much smaller Intercontinental Church of God, after being himself ousted from his own Church of God, International, because of public revelation of his sexual improprieties. Many former Worldwide ministers broke away and started various smaller independent groups. In the mid-1990s, major doctrinal changes led to the formation of the United Church of God and the Global Church of God (later, the Living Church of God).&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;4&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;b&gt; Sacred Name Assemblies&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;all told may number up to 50,000 worldwide. This classification of Sabbath-keeping groups is distinguished by their insistence that the Hebrew names for God (Yahweh or Yahvah, etc.) and Jesus Christ (Yahshua Messiah, etc.) must be used exclusively, rather than the English terms, which they label as "pagan." The term "assembly" rather than "church" is used. Most groups observe the Biblical Holy Days, but usually with a calendar other than the one used by most Jews. Otherwise, they have much similarity to their ancestors, the Church of God (Seventh-Day).&lt;/div&gt;
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The largest Sacred Name group is the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Assemblies of Yahweh&lt;/i&gt;, Bethel, Pennsylvania, headed by Jacob O. Meyer since the late 1960s. His&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sacred Name Broadcast&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;radio program and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sacred Name Broadcaster&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;magazine have wide coverage. "Yahwists," as they call themselves (rather than "Christians") are even more prone to local independence and splits than the Church of God (Seventh-Day). In the early 1980s, Donald Mansager led a major defection from Meyer�s group and formed what later became known as Yahweh�s New Covenant Assembly headquartered in Missouri. They publish&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Light&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;magazine. Many other Sacred Name groups have existed from the 1930s to the present. Historical leaders were C.O. Dodd (a former Seventh Day Church of God elder), and A.B. Traina, who wrote a Sacred Name Bible. See my short history of Sacred Name groups in Volume II of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;History of the Seventh-Day Church of God&lt;/i&gt;, available from Giving &amp;amp; Sharing.&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;5&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;b&gt; Pentecostal Sabbatarian Groups&lt;/b&gt;. "Pentecostal" is a term referring to fiery, charismatic preaching and sometimes to "speaking in tongues." Pentecostal-type churches exist in the Church of God and Sacred Name groups. Here covered specifically are groups unrelated to the above. Two well-known groups are:&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;) Church of God and Saints of Christ was founded in 1896 by a Negro cook on the Santa Fe Railroad, William S. Crowdy, who claimed to have visions from God. This group keeps the Biblical Holy Days and has a center in Cleveland, Ohio. Membership is said to be around 40,000.&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;b&lt;/b&gt;) Church of God, Jerusalem Acres, is a Sabbath-keeping descendent of Pentecostalist A.J. Tomlinson�s work in the early 1900s. It has about 1,000 members in America and 6,000 overseas, with headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee.&lt;/div&gt;
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(&lt;b&gt;6&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;b&gt; Other Sabbath-keeping Groups&lt;/b&gt;. Like Heinz, there are more than 57 varieties of Sabbath-keeping groups. I can�t list all the groups here. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;is updated every few years by the Bible Sabbath Association, a nondenominational association founded in 1945 to promote fellowship and co-operation between all Sabbath-keepers and the worldwide restoration of the seventh-day Sabbath. Its magazine,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Sabbath Sentinel&lt;/i&gt;, contains articles from Sabbath-keepers of many faiths. Its President is a former Seventh-day Adventist, its secretary-treasurer is from the Church of God (Seventh Day), and several of its presidents have been former members of the Worldwide Church of God.&lt;/div&gt;
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Seventh-day Adventists should write the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Bible Sabbath Association, 3316 Alberta Drive, Gillette, WY 82718&lt;/b&gt;, to obtain the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Directory&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sabbath Sentinel&lt;/i&gt;, and learn more about their Sabbath-keeping neighbors.&lt;/div&gt;
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Seventh-day Adventists: there are many others out there who also keep the Sabbath!&lt;/div&gt;
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Several years ago my wife was being "bothered" by various religious workers who appeared on our front door step. A bit peeved, she wanted to politely get them to leave. "We�re not interested," she said, "we are Sabbath-keepers!" This got rid of most, except the time when the evangelizers were Seventh-day Adventists! Here we were, Sabbath-keepers in the same community, and we didn�t even know each other! Can�t we know each other and respect each other�s differences? Or will we instead pull into our religious cocoon and be unaware of anyone outside our group?&lt;/div&gt;
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It is sad but true, that often as I meet and talk with other Sabbatarians, that I know more of their history and doctrines than they do themselves. It must be that their church group is merely a social club, not the most important activity on earth. This article is not just for Seventh-day Adventists; it is for all Sabbath-keepers. Know what you believe, and why! Don�t be totally ignorant of your Sabbatarian cousins. Realize that we can all learn from each other. Yes, we are all different. But then there will come a time when we shall all see eye to eye!&lt;b&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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� written by Richard C. Nickels&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="gText" id="dnn_ctr560_ICTRNewsDetail_lbl_NewsDetail"&gt;The joint trial of Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (77), former senior Pastor of the  Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Rwandan region of Kibuye and his son Gérard  Ntakirutimana (43), former Medical Doctor in Kibuye, opened today with the  Prosecutor telling the court that the two were not helpless witnesses to  genocide. In response counsel for the accused said that the charges against  these men made no sense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="gText" id="dnn_ctr560_ICTRNewsDetail_lbl_NewsDetail"&gt;Mr. Charles Adeogun-Phillips (Nigeria and UK), leading the Prosecution team,  explained how the two allegedly betrayed their Tutsi colleagues to the killers,  refused to provide sanctuary to those hunted and participated in widespread  killings of Tutsis in Kibuye. The accused jointly face five counts charging them  with genocide, or in the alternative complicity in genocide, as well as  conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="gText" id="dnn_ctr560_ICTRNewsDetail_lbl_NewsDetail"&gt;The Prosecution said that witnesses would describe the accused as predators,  who delivered thousands to their deaths and actually committed murders  themselves. “They will testify to their shock and bewilderment at the behavior  of people such as the accused persons in whom they had trusted and thought of as  ‘good Christians’.” Anticipating violence, the Tutsis decided to take the women  and children and seek refuge at the Mugonero Church and Hospital complex.  Instead the accused, are alleged to have betrayed them and organised and  participated in killing them in Mugonero, and later at Murambi Church and on the  hills of Bisesero. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;"Meus irmãos e irmãs em Cristo Jesus, o aborto está provando a igreja.&lt;br /&gt;Por 190 a 58 votos pedimos que os hospitais "Washington Adventist e Shady Grove, proibam abortos por razões economicas e por conveniência..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/December/potomac-constituency-votes-abortion-appeal"&gt;http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/December/potomac-constituency-votes-abortion-appeal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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" My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, abortion is testing our church." So began a daylong discussion that ended with Potomac Conference delegates voting by an overwhelming majority to request that two Adventist hospitals strictly limit abortions performed. The official action occurred during a special constituency meeting on Sunday, September 29, in Vienna, Virginia&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;By a vote of 190 to 58, delegates passed this resolution: "We, the Potomac Conference constituency, appeal to Washington Adventist Hospital and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital to immediately adopt and implement abortion policies that institutionally prohibit abortions for social or economic reasons including convenience, birth control, gender selection, or avoidance of embarrassment; limiting the abortion procedure to those times when a pregnancy threatens the mother's physical life, when the fetus is gravely abnormal, and in cases of rape and incest. The appointment of a committee charged with prospectively reviewing all requests for abortion would be essential to ensure implementation of these guidelines."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;A política frouxa e indefinida da Igreja Adventista de mais de duas décadas sobre o aborto, visa favorecer a parte comercial dos hospitais Adventistas dos Estados Unidos, confirmando a denuncia do maior jornal da Capital dos Estados Unidos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Washington Post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;O aborto por simples manifestação da vontade da gestante é legal nos Estados Unidos até 6 meses, quando o feto ainda não tem condições de viver fora do útero. Esse tipo de aborto chamado de "elective abortion" não inclue casos em que houve estupro e nem quando a mãe corre risco de vida.&amp;nbsp; (no Brasil é crime)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2014/11/quanto-ted-wilson-e-o-responsavel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><enclosure length="200591" type="application/pdf" url="http://www.sdadefend.com/MINDEX-E-F/Folkenberg-853.pdf"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Quanto a&amp;nbsp;TED WILSON, é o RESPONSÁVEL DIRETO, e quem faz&amp;nbsp; "vista grossa" para os abortos em Hospitais Adventistas, nos Estados Unidos.&amp;nbsp; --- Certamente dará contas a Deus por centenas de crianças mortas, numa transgressão do&amp;nbsp; 6° Mandamento da Lei de Deus. Não é Ennis Meier quem afirma, e sim o maior jornal da Capital dos Estados Unidos ! http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2011/01/adventists_and_abortion.html&amp;nbsp; Washington Post &amp;nbsp; "But the denomination may be the only theologically conservative Protestant group that allows elective abortions. Many of their own members didn't know that their worldwide hospital network performed the procedure, which has been quite the discussion on the&amp;nbsp;Adventists for Life Facebook page. A number of posters were shocked to learn the denomination's stance."Tradução do texto ao lado do jornal Washington Post Mas&amp;nbsp;a denominação&amp;nbsp;pode ser&amp;nbsp;o único grupo&amp;nbsp;teologicamenteconservador&amp;nbsp;protestante&amp;nbsp;que permite&amp;nbsp;abortos eletivos.&amp;nbsp;Muitos de seuspróprios membros,&amp;nbsp;não sabem&amp;nbsp;que a sua&amp;nbsp;rede hospitalar&amp;nbsp;em todo o mundo&amp;nbsp;realiza o&amp;nbsp;procedimento,&amp;nbsp;que tem causado&amp;nbsp; bastante&amp;nbsp;discussão sobre&amp;nbsp;os adventistas&amp;nbsp;na&amp;nbsp;página do Facebook.&amp;nbsp;Uma série deapresentadores ficaram chocados&amp;nbsp;saber&amp;nbsp;a posição da&amp;nbsp;denominação. NOTA:&amp;nbsp;O aborto eletivo não inclue razões terapeuticas ou deformidades do feto podendo ser feito legalmente nos US até os 6 meses de gestação (no Brasil é crime) Dramático apelo da Associação Potomac. (região de Washington) "Meus irmãos e irmãs em Cristo Jesus, o aborto está provando a igreja. Por 190 a 58 votos pedimos que os hospitais "Washington Adventist e Shady Grove, proibam abortos por razões economicas e por conveniência..." http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/December/potomac-constituency-votes-abortion-appeal Written by&amp;nbsp;Martin Weber Potomac constituency votes abortion appeal " My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, abortion is testing our church." So began a daylong discussion that ended with Potomac Conference delegates voting by an overwhelming majority to request that two Adventist hospitals strictly limit abortions performed. The official action occurred during a special constituency meeting on Sunday, September 29, in Vienna, Virginia By a vote of 190 to 58, delegates passed this resolution: "We, the Potomac Conference constituency, appeal to Washington Adventist Hospital and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital to immediately adopt and implement abortion policies that institutionally prohibit abortions for social or economic reasons including convenience, birth control, gender selection, or avoidance of embarrassment; limiting the abortion procedure to those times when a pregnancy threatens the mother's physical life, when the fetus is gravely abnormal, and in cases of rape and incest. The appointment of a committee charged with prospectively reviewing all requests for abortion would be essential to ensure implementation of these guidelines." Nossa Nota:&amp;nbsp;O apelo se limita aos hospitais que ficam na área da Associação Potomac, onde se situa a Conferência Geral. Você só vai entender a razão de toda a inércia da Conferência Geral, agora por 2 décadas, se entender que o faturamente dos hospitais Adventistas em grande parte se deve ao fato de terem se tornado "clínicas de aborto", e para onde foram parar os&amp;nbsp;7.5 milhões de dólares&amp;nbsp;embolsados pelos 2 funcionários do Chady Grove Hospital como bônus de Natal em 1999. (apenas "testas de ferro")Você só vai entender como, com um salário de pastor de 60 mil dólares por ano, um Presidente de Conferência Geral, podia ter um avião Cessna, 2 motores e 10 lugares, no valor de mais de 1 milhão de dólares para aventuras e negócios. (&amp;nbsp;http://www.sdadefend.com/MINDEX-E-F/Folkenberg-853.pdf&amp;nbsp; de uma doação para fins missionários, o avião foi trocado por um muito mais rápido que era usado para negórios e aventuras do Presidente da Conferência Geral) BÔNUS DE NATAL: Defendido na Review and Herald. (Revista Adventista americana) 4.74 milhões de dolares&amp;nbsp;de bonificação de Natal para o administrador Bryan Breckenridge. 3.1 milhões de dolares de bonificação&amp;nbsp;de Natal para o administrador Edmund R. Peters.&amp;nbsp; Veja em:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;http://adventistas.ws/veja345.htmInformativo Oficial da Igreja Adventista libera os Adventistas do Quênia a votarem em referendum sobre aborto, como bem entenderem, e acrescenta: &amp;nbsp; "A Igreja Adventista a nível mundial nunca liberou um comunicado oficial sobre o aborto, mas oferece&amp;nbsp;diretrizes&amp;nbsp;sobre o assunto." http://news.adventist.org/pt/archive/articles/2010/05/07/in-kenya-adventist-leadership-distancing-itself-from-proposed-abortion-law/&amp;nbsp; A política frouxa e indefinida da Igreja Adventista de mais de duas décadas sobre o aborto, visa favorecer a parte comercial dos hospitais Adventistas dos Estados Unidos, confirmando a denuncia do maior jornal da Capital dos Estados Unidos,&amp;nbsp;Washington Post. O aborto por simples manifestação da vontade da gestante é legal nos Estados Unidos até 6 meses, quando o feto ainda não tem condições de viver fora do útero. Esse tipo de aborto chamado de "elective abortion" não inclue casos em que houve estupro e nem quando a mãe corre risco de vida.&amp;nbsp; (no Brasil é crime)</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Quanto a&amp;nbsp;TED WILSON, é o RESPONSÁVEL DIRETO, e quem faz&amp;nbsp; "vista grossa" para os abortos em Hospitais Adventistas, nos Estados Unidos.&amp;nbsp; --- Certamente dará contas a Deus por centenas de crianças mortas, numa transgressão do&amp;nbsp; 6° Mandamento da Lei de Deus. Não é Ennis Meier quem afirma, e sim o maior jornal da Capital dos Estados Unidos ! http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2011/01/adventists_and_abortion.html&amp;nbsp; Washington Post &amp;nbsp; "But the denomination may be the only theologically conservative Protestant group that allows elective abortions. Many of their own members didn't know that their worldwide hospital network performed the procedure, which has been quite the discussion on the&amp;nbsp;Adventists for Life Facebook page. A number of posters were shocked to learn the denomination's stance."Tradução do texto ao lado do jornal Washington Post Mas&amp;nbsp;a denominação&amp;nbsp;pode ser&amp;nbsp;o único grupo&amp;nbsp;teologicamenteconservador&amp;nbsp;protestante&amp;nbsp;que permite&amp;nbsp;abortos eletivos.&amp;nbsp;Muitos de seuspróprios membros,&amp;nbsp;não sabem&amp;nbsp;que a sua&amp;nbsp;rede hospitalar&amp;nbsp;em todo o mundo&amp;nbsp;realiza o&amp;nbsp;procedimento,&amp;nbsp;que tem causado&amp;nbsp; bastante&amp;nbsp;discussão sobre&amp;nbsp;os adventistas&amp;nbsp;na&amp;nbsp;página do Facebook.&amp;nbsp;Uma série deapresentadores ficaram chocados&amp;nbsp;saber&amp;nbsp;a posição da&amp;nbsp;denominação. NOTA:&amp;nbsp;O aborto eletivo não inclue razões terapeuticas ou deformidades do feto podendo ser feito legalmente nos US até os 6 meses de gestação (no Brasil é crime) Dramático apelo da Associação Potomac. (região de Washington) "Meus irmãos e irmãs em Cristo Jesus, o aborto está provando a igreja. Por 190 a 58 votos pedimos que os hospitais "Washington Adventist e Shady Grove, proibam abortos por razões economicas e por conveniência..." http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/December/potomac-constituency-votes-abortion-appeal Written by&amp;nbsp;Martin Weber Potomac constituency votes abortion appeal " My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, abortion is testing our church." So began a daylong discussion that ended with Potomac Conference delegates voting by an overwhelming majority to request that two Adventist hospitals strictly limit abortions performed. The official action occurred during a special constituency meeting on Sunday, September 29, in Vienna, Virginia By a vote of 190 to 58, delegates passed this resolution: "We, the Potomac Conference constituency, appeal to Washington Adventist Hospital and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital to immediately adopt and implement abortion policies that institutionally prohibit abortions for social or economic reasons including convenience, birth control, gender selection, or avoidance of embarrassment; limiting the abortion procedure to those times when a pregnancy threatens the mother's physical life, when the fetus is gravely abnormal, and in cases of rape and incest. The appointment of a committee charged with prospectively reviewing all requests for abortion would be essential to ensure implementation of these guidelines." Nossa Nota:&amp;nbsp;O apelo se limita aos hospitais que ficam na área da Associação Potomac, onde se situa a Conferência Geral. Você só vai entender a razão de toda a inércia da Conferência Geral, agora por 2 décadas, se entender que o faturamente dos hospitais Adventistas em grande parte se deve ao fato de terem se tornado "clínicas de aborto", e para onde foram parar os&amp;nbsp;7.5 milhões de dólares&amp;nbsp;embolsados pelos 2 funcionários do Chady Grove Hospital como bônus de Natal em 1999. (apenas "testas de ferro")Você só vai entender como, com um salário de pastor de 60 mil dólares por ano, um Presidente de Conferência Geral, podia ter um avião Cessna, 2 motores e 10 lugares, no valor de mais de 1 milhão de dólares para aventuras e negócios. (&amp;nbsp;http://www.sdadefend.com/MINDEX-E-F/Folkenberg-853.pdf&amp;nbsp; de uma doação para fins missionários, o avião foi trocado por um muito mais rápido que era usado para negórios e aventuras do Presidente da Conferência Geral) BÔNUS DE NATAL: Defendido na Review and Herald. (Revista Adventista americana) 4.74 milhões de dolares&amp;nbsp;de bonificação de Natal para o administrador Bryan Breckenridge. 3.1 milhões de dolares de bonificação&amp;nbsp;de Natal para o administrador Edmund R. Peters.&amp;nbsp; Veja em:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;http://adventistas.ws/veja345.htmInformativo Oficial da Igreja Adventista libera os Adventistas do Quênia a votarem em referendum sobre aborto, como bem entenderem, e acrescenta: &amp;nbsp; "A Igreja Adventista a nível mundial nunca liberou um comunicado oficial sobre o aborto, mas oferece&amp;nbsp;diretrizes&amp;nbsp;sobre o assunto." http://news.adventist.org/pt/archive/articles/2010/05/07/in-kenya-adventist-leadership-distancing-itself-from-proposed-abortion-law/&amp;nbsp; A política frouxa e indefinida da Igreja Adventista de mais de duas décadas sobre o aborto, visa favorecer a parte comercial dos hospitais Adventistas dos Estados Unidos, confirmando a denuncia do maior jornal da Capital dos Estados Unidos,&amp;nbsp;Washington Post. O aborto por simples manifestação da vontade da gestante é legal nos Estados Unidos até 6 meses, quando o feto ainda não tem condições de viver fora do útero. Esse tipo de aborto chamado de "elective abortion" não inclue casos em que houve estupro e nem quando a mãe corre risco de vida.&amp;nbsp; (no Brasil é crime)</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Aborto, Ética</itunes:keywords></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-6061520464293644744</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T11:55:08.332-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Adventismo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Decalógo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Justificação Pelas Obras</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Legalismo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sabatismo</category><title>Lei X Graça</title><description>&lt;span class="hit-counter"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;

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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Edwardian Script ITC'; font-size: 36pt;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;m
 primeiro lugar devemos saber que Deus não depende das escrituras para 
santificar, purificar, justificar e salvar os que crêem em Jesus como o 
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 fé não é somente você crer em Jesus e pronto: Está salvo... A fé não é 
só relacionada à salvação, ela também está ligada com a santificação e 
isso é muito importante, pois muitos usam a lei com instrumento de 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Não existe “&lt;i&gt;auto-santificação&lt;/i&gt;”,
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adventistas gostam muito sobre o sábado, vejam (grifos e destaques 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Tu,
 pois, fala aos filhos de Israel, dizendo: Certamente guardareis meus 
sábados; porquanto isso é um sinal entre mim e vós nas vossas gerações; 
para que saibais que E&lt;u&gt;u sou o Senhor, que vos santifica&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”. Êxodo 31:13 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Então veja: Para que o sábado serviu de sinal entre Deus e o povo? Para que eles soubessem que é “&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;o&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Senhor que santifica&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;” certo? A santificação é dom de Deus; não vem dos homens...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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viveram em um contexto em que não existiam Bíblia, lei, nem escritura 
alguma e mesmo assim foram tidos como justos por Deus: “&lt;i&gt;pois o justo viverá da fé&lt;/i&gt;”, e quem vive da fé é santificado por Deus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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que Paulo, quando pregou aos gentios, pregou em um contexto em que as 
pessoas também não tinham Bíblias, pois ela nem mesmo ainda existia... 
As pessoas não tinham acesso às escrituras (Antigo testamento), pois só 
os judeus tinham; isso sem falar que, mesmo se tivessem; as pessoas não 
entenderiam nada sobre as escrituras em posse dos judeus. Levando esse 
fato em consideração; descobrimos que mesmo assim, Paulo não pregou a 
lei, não divulgou os manuscritos antigos em posse dos judeus; mas correu
 o mundo afora apenas dizendo: ''&lt;i&gt;Crê no Senhor Jesus e serás salvo!&lt;/i&gt;''. Hoje em dia é muito fácil, pois temos Bíblias em casa: Você tem, os adventistas também tem e por ai vai...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Imaginem o Apóstolo Paulo naquela época; andando entre uma e outra comunidade de gentios; carregando um “&lt;i&gt;calhamaço&lt;/i&gt;”
 de leis, profecias, genealogias, histórias e etc... Aí ele sai 
distribuindo aquele monte de rolos falando sobre o sábado, o decálogo, 
adoração, proibições diversas e etc. Imaginaram o tempo que o Apóstolo 
gastaria, só para explicar para os outros o porquê deles não poderem 
caminhar mais de 2 km no sábado? E fazer fogo? Imaginem:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Gentios:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Mas Paulo; e se eu andar 2 km e escorregar mais 2 cm?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas Paulo; comida fria é ruim demais; não pode nem um foguinho pra esquentar o rango? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas Paulo; e as parteiras; Deus vai parar os partos aos sábados?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas Paulo; e os guardas; quem vai vigiar a cidade aos sábados?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas Paulo; que negócio é esse de proibir nossa moqueca de camarão? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas Paulo; mas Paulo; mas Paulo; mas Paulo......................................”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;CHEGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VAMOS FAZER O SEGUINTE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt;"&gt;“Todavia, quanto aos que crêem dos gentios, já nós havemos escrito, e achado por bem, &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;que nada disto observem&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;; mas que só se guardem do que se sacrifica aos ídolos, e do sangue, e do sufocado e da prostituição.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt;"&gt;Atos 21:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 de falarmos sobre o concílio de Jerusalém descrito em Atos 15, vamos 
falar sobre nossa natureza pecaminosa, que é a base para o pleno 
entendimento da lei e a da Graça. Todos nós temos uma natureza 
pecaminosa herdada de Adão, todos nós temos uma natureza rebelde contra 
Deus, todos nós somos adúlteros, ladrões, assassinos, mentirosos por 
natureza... E essa nossa natureza pecaminosa herdada de Adão &lt;u&gt;é a nossa carne&lt;/u&gt;!
 É a carne que te faz pecar, é a carne que te condena, é a carne que 
transgride as leis, é a carne que te afasta de Deus. Não há um homem 
sequer na face da Terra que esteja sujeito a lei de Deus... A não ser 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“De maneira que, irmãos, somos devedores, não à carne para viver segundo a carne.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porquanto a inclinação da carne é inimizade contra Deus, pois não é sujeita à lei de Deus, nem, em verdade, o pode ser.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque, se viverdes segundo a carne, morrereis; mas, &lt;u&gt;se pelo Espírito&lt;/u&gt; mortificardes as obras do corpo, vivereis”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Porque, &lt;u&gt;quando estávamos na carne&lt;/u&gt;, as paixões dos pecados, que são pela lei, operavam em nossos membros para darem fruto para a morte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 7:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Para que a justiça da lei se cumprisse em nós, que não andamos segundo a carne, mas segundo o Espírito.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque a inclinação da carne é morte; mas a inclinação do Espírito é vida e paz.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Mas revesti-vos do Senhor Jesus Cristo, e não tenhais&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;cuidado da carne em suas concupiscências.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 13:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque
 eu sei que em mim, isto é, na minha carne, não habita bem algum; e com 
efeito o querer está em mim, mas não consigo realizar o bem.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 7:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Dou Graças a Deus por Jesus Cristo nosso Senhor. Assim que eu mesmo com o entendimento sirvo à lei de Deus, &lt;u&gt;mas com a carne à lei do pecado.&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 7:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Vós, porém, não estais na carne, mas no Espírito, se é que o Espírito de Deus habita em vós. Mas, se alguém não tem o Espírito de Cristo, esse tal não é dele.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Portanto, agora nenhuma condenação há para os que estão em  Cristo Jesus, que não andam segundo a carne, mas segundo o Espírito.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Romanos 8:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E agora digo isto, irmãos: que a carne e o sangue não podem herdar o reino de Deus, nem a corrupção herdar a incorrupção.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 1º Coríntios 15:50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E os que são de Cristo crucificaram a carne com as suas paixões e concupiscências.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque
 a carne cobiça contra o Espírito, e o Espírito contra a carne; e estes 
opõem-se um ao outro, para que não façais o que quereis.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque
 o que semeia na sua carne, da carne ceifará a corrupção; mas o que 
semeia no Espírito, do Espírito ceifará a vida eterna.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Gálatas 6:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Digo, porém: Andai em Espírito, e não cumprireis a concupiscência (cobiça) da carne.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Entre
 os quais todos nós também antes andávamos nos desejos da nossa carne, 
fazendo a vontade da carne e dos pensamentos; e éramos por natureza 
filhos da ira, como os outros também.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Efésios 2:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque a circuncisão somos nós, que servimos a Deus em espírito, e nos gloriamos em Jesus Cristo, e não confiamos na carne.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Filipenses 3:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 principalmente aqueles que segundo a carne andam em concupiscências de 
imundícia, e desprezam as autoridades; atrevidos, obstinados, não 
receando blasfemar das dignidades;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 2 Pedro 2:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque,
 falando coisas mui arrogantes de vaidades, engodam com as 
concupiscências da carne, e com dissoluções, aqueles que se estavam 
afastando dos que andam em erro,”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 2º Pedro 2:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque
 tudo o que há no mundo, a concupiscência da carne, a concupiscência dos
 olhos e a soberba da vida, não é do Pai, mas do mundo.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 1 João 2:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque
 as obras da carne são manifestas, as quais são: ADULTÉRIO, 
prostituição, impureza, lascívia, IDOLATRIA, feitiçaria, inimizades, 
porfias, emulações, iras, pelejas, dissensões, heresias, Invejas, 
HOMICÍDIOS, bebedices, glutonarias, e coisas semelhantes a estas, acerca
 das quais vos declaro, como já antes vos disse, que &lt;u&gt;os que cometem tais coisas não herdarão o reino de Deus.”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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quando damos vazão a nossa carne; pecamos, e quem viver segundo a carne 
não será salvo... Portanto cai por terra essa de falar que: “&lt;i&gt;Tenho fé e sou salvo”;&lt;/i&gt; caem por terra também as palavras dos adventistas quando dizem que &lt;i&gt;“guardam a lei, não para serem salvos e sim, porque já estão salvos”.&lt;/i&gt; As escrituras mostram que quem mata, adultera, rouba, idolatra e etc., não será salvo - &lt;u&gt;O
 problema dos ASD, é que eles tentam guardar a lei com seu próprio 
esforço, como se fosse possível dominar a carne, mas isso é impossível! &lt;/u&gt;Toda
 a lei, incluindo os 10 mandamentos, só condena as obras da carne, ou 
seja, o pecado é a transgressão da lei e quem transgride a lei é a 
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 havia entre os fariseus um homem, chamado Nicodemos, príncipe dos 
judeus. Este foi ter de noite com Jesus, e disse-lhe: Rabi, bem sabemos 
que és Mestre, vindo de Deus; porque ninguém pode fazer estes sinais que
 tu fazes, se Deus não for com ele. Jesus respondeu, e disse-lhe: Na 
verdade, na verdade te digo que aquele que não nascer de novo, não pode 
ver o reino de Deus. Disse-lhe Nicodemos: Como pode um homem nascer, 
sendo velho? Pode, porventura, tornar a entrar no ventre de sua mãe, e 
nascer? Jesus respondeu: Na verdade, na verdade te digo que aquele que 
não nascer da água e do Espírito, não pode entrar no reino de Deus. &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;O que é nascido da carne é carne,&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;e o que é nascido do Espírito é espírito.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Não te maravilhes de te ter dito: Necessário vos é nascer de novo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; João 3:1-7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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de Adão e estamos sujeitos a essa natureza que é a carne. Somos 
naturalmente pecadores e rebeldes contra Deus. &lt;u&gt;Só vai herdar o reino de Deus quem nascer de novo&lt;/u&gt;, fazendo morrer a carne através do Espírito. Agora atentem bem a esse detalhe: &lt;u&gt;Quem faz morrer a nossa carne é o Espírito e tudo isso é pela fé, não vem dos homens; a carne não se converte nunca&lt;/u&gt;! Devemos viver uma vida guiada pelo Espírito de Deus, ou seja, devemos viver pela fé “&lt;i&gt;pois o justo viverá da fé”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 que obediência é ter fé! Não é tentar cumprir mandamentos aqui e acolá 
(e pelas metades ainda) com seu esforço pessoal, pois dessa forma você 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Mas o justo viverá da fé; E, se ele recuar, a minha alma não tem prazer nele.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Hebreus 10:38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Sabendo isto, &lt;u&gt;que a lei não é feita para o justo&lt;/u&gt;,
 mas para os injustos e obstinados, para os ímpios e pecadores, para os 
profanos e irreligiosos, para os parricidas e matricidas, para os 
homicidas, Para os devassos, para os sodomitas, para os roubadores de 
homens, para os mentirosos, para os perjuros, e para o que for contrário
 à sã doutrina,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Que diremos pois? Que os gentios, que não buscavam a justiça, alcançaram a justiça? Sim, mas a justiça que é pela fé. &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Mas
 Israel, que buscava a lei da justiça, não chegou à lei da justiça. Por 
quê? Porque não foi pela fé, mas como que pelas obras da lei; tropeçaram
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homem. Os adventistas sempre falam que os 10 mandamentos foram escritos 
com o próprio dedo de Deus nas tábuas de pedra, mas esquecem que na nova
 aliança, ela foi escrita no coração. Não precisamos mais ficar com os 
olhos o tempo todo nas pedras... Não matamos, não adulteramos, não 
roubamos, porque tudo está devidamente escrito em nossas consciências...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Anulamos, pois, a lei pela fé? De maneira nenhuma, antes estabelecemos a lei.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 fé estabelece ou confirma a lei, pois é pela fé que Deus escreve a sua 
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 É tudo pela fé, pela fé nascemos de novo, pela fé Deus escreve suas 
leis no nosso coração, pela fé somos guiados pelo Espírito de Deus e 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E &lt;u&gt;é evidente que pela lei ninguém será justificado diante de Deus&lt;/u&gt;, porque o justo viverá da fé. Ora, &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;a lei não é da fé...&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 3:11-13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Como falamos anteriormente: É quando o Espírito de Deus passa a&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;habitar em nós que a carne é mortificada e não pelo meu esforço: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;"Porque, se viverdes segundo a carne, morrereis; &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;mas, se pelo Espírito mortificardes as obras do corpo, vivereis&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E &lt;u&gt;os que são de Cristo crucificaram a carne&lt;/u&gt; com as suas paixões e concupiscências.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Sabendo isto, que o &lt;u&gt;nosso homem velho foi com ele crucificado&lt;/u&gt;, para que o corpo do pecado seja desfeito, para que não sirvamos mais ao pecado”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 6:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Assim, meus irmãos, &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;também vós estais mortos para a lei pelo corpo de Cristo&lt;/u&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; para que sejais de outro, daquele que ressuscitou dentre os mortos, a fim de que demos fruto para Deus.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 7:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;De maneira que a lei nos serviu de aio, para nos conduzir a Cristo&lt;/u&gt;, para &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;que pela fé fôssemos justificados&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mas, depois que veio a fé, já não estamos debaixo de aio&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;u&gt;Porque todos sois filhos de Deus pela fé em Cristo Jesus&lt;/u&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 3:24-26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Mas, &lt;u&gt;se sois guiados pelo Espírito, não estais debaixo da lei&lt;/u&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque todos &lt;u&gt;os que são guiados pelo Espírito de Deus, esses são filhos de Deus&lt;/u&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 8:14-15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque &lt;u&gt;o pecado não terá domínio sobre vós&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;pois não estais debaixo da lei&lt;/u&gt;, mas debaixo da Graça.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;” Romanos 6:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porque o pecado, &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;tomando ocasião pelo mandamento&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;me enganou, &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;e por ele (mandamento) me matou.&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 7:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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lei: O pecado usa a própria a lei contra quem tenta guarda-la! (Os 
Ex-adventistas que o digam: Quanto mais nos esforçávamos em guardar a 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Todos aqueles, pois, que são das obras da lei estão debaixo da maldição&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;; porque está escrito: &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Maldito todo aquele que não permanecer em todas as coisas que estão escritas no livro da lei, para fazê-las&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Gálatas 3:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Na sua carne desfez a inimizade, isto é, a lei dos mandamentos, que consistia em ordenanças,&lt;/span&gt; para criar em si mesmo dos dois um novo homem&lt;/u&gt;, fazendo a paz.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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porque não estão debaixo da Graça e sim debaixo da lei; simples assim. 
Normalmente os adventistas dizem que a expressão “&lt;i&gt;debaixo da lei&lt;/i&gt;” significa “&lt;i&gt;debaixo da condenação da lei&lt;/i&gt;”; vamos ver outros textos com essa expressão para ver se isso é coerente:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E fiz-me como judeu para os judeus, para ganhar os judeus; &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;para os que estão debaixo da lei, como se estivesse debaixo da lei, para ganhar os que estão debaixo da lei&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;1 Coríntios 9:20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Paulo estaria dizendo, que “&lt;i&gt;se fez judeu para os que estão sob a condenação da lei”&lt;/i&gt;, &amp;nbsp;colocando a si próprio sob a “&lt;i&gt;condenação da lei para ganhar os que estão sob a condenação da lei”&lt;/i&gt;? Isso faz sentido? Quando Paulo diz “&lt;i&gt;debaixo da lei”&lt;/i&gt;, diz “&lt;i&gt;debaixo de todas as ordenanças da lei&lt;/i&gt;” incluindo o decálogo. Não tem nada a ver com “&lt;i&gt;sob a condenação da lei”&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Dizei-me, os que quereis estar debaixo da lei, não ouvis vós a lei&lt;/u&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 4:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Paulo estaria dizendo: “&lt;i&gt;Dizei-me os que quereis estar &lt;u&gt;debaixo da condenação lei&lt;/u&gt;, não ouvis vós a lei”&lt;/i&gt;?
 Será que Paulo estaria afirmando aqui que alguém gostaria ou preferiria
 estar debaixo da condenação da lei? É claro que não! Paulo está dizendo
 que tem pessoas que queriam estar &lt;i&gt;“debaixo das ordenanças da lei”&lt;/i&gt; como se não tivesse nascido de novo. E Paulo pergunta: ''&lt;i&gt;...não ouvis&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;vós a lei?&lt;/i&gt;'' De que lei Paulo esta falando? A única lei que existia na época é a &lt;i&gt;Torah,&lt;/i&gt; que corresponde aos livros de Gênesis, Exodo, Levítico, Números e Deuteronômio. Veja a continuação do texto:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Dizei-me, os que quereis estar debaixo da lei, &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;não ouvis vós a lei?&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Porque está escrito que Abraão teve dois filhos, um da escrava, e outro da livre.&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 4:21-22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Paulo pergunta se eles não ouviram na lei (&lt;i&gt;torah&lt;/i&gt;),
 que está escrito que Abraão teve dois filhos, um da escrava e outro da 
livre, ou seja; na lei está escrito sobre Abraão? Qual parte do decálogo
 fala de Abraão? Não é no livro de Gênesis? Será que o termo &lt;i&gt;“debaixo da lei”&lt;/i&gt; significa &lt;i&gt;“estar sob a condenação da lei”&lt;/i&gt;
 por transgredi-la? A punição, que é a morte, veio pela transgressão da 
lei de Moisés ou pela transgressão de Adão? Todos em Adão pecaram, todos
 em Adão morreram, todos em Adão foram condenados; por favor, pensem 
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 analisemos: Somos pecadores porque herdamos de Adão uma natureza 
pecaminosa; não somos pecadores porque transgredimos a lei de Moisés! 
Isso é o que alguns não conseguem entender: A condenação da humanidade 
veio sobre a transgressão de Adão e não sobre a transgressão da lei:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E não foi assim o dom como a ofensa, por um só que pecou. &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Porque o juízo veio de uma só ofensa&lt;/u&gt;,
 na verdade, para condenação, mas o dom gratuito veio de muitas ofensas 
para justificação. Porque, se pela ofensa de um só, a morte reinou por 
esse, muito mais os que recebem a abundância da Graça, e do dom da 
justiça, reinarão em vida por um só, Jesus Cristo. &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Pois assim como por uma só ofensa veio o juízo sobre todos os homens para a condenação&lt;/u&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 assim também por um só ato de justiça veio a Graça sobre todos os 
homens para justificação de vida. Porque, como pela desobediência de um 
só homem, muitos foram feitos pecadores, assim pela obediência de um, 
muitos serão feitos justos.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Romanos 5:16-19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 anularia a existência do pecado; isso mais uma vez prova que os 
adventistas se baseiam em ensinamentos humanos, uma vez que crêem que &lt;u&gt;o pecado procede da transgressão da lei dada a Moisés&lt;/u&gt;
 e não da transgressão de Adão. Eles afirmam ainda, que só os que 
transgridem a lei é que recebem a condenação, porém isso é doutrina de 
homens! A doutrina da verdade do evangelho diz que todos &lt;u&gt;já estão condenados&lt;/u&gt; em Adão &lt;u&gt;e só se livram da condenação em Cristo:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 dizer que a lei, de uma certa forma, foi abolida sim, para os que 
nasceram de novo. Na verdade nós estamos mortos para a lei, mas a lei 
continua acusando os que vivem segundo a carne. Quando dizemos que 
estamos “&lt;i&gt;mortos para a lei&lt;/i&gt;” ou que ela foi &lt;i&gt;“abolida”&lt;/i&gt; isso 
inclui os 10 mandamentos, pois toda a lei foi feita para quem vive na 
carne. Se você nasceu de novo, se você foi feito nova criatura em 
Cristo, se você pode dizer o que Paulo disse: “&lt;i&gt;não vivo eu, mas Cristo vive em mim&lt;/i&gt;”,
 porque se preocupar com mandamentos de não matar, não adulterar, não 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Qualquer que é nascido de Deus não comete pecado&lt;/u&gt;; porque a sua semente permanece nele; e não pode pecar, porque é nascido de Deus.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 1 João 3:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Quem
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porventura pecar é porque você naquele momento que pecou, estava sendo 
guiado pela sua carne e a vida pela carne é inimizade contra Deus. E se 
você pecar? Vai fazer o&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;que? Vai recorrer a lei? De maneira nenhuma; a lei só te acusa...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E isto disse ele do Espírito que haviam de receber os que nele cressem; &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;porque o Espírito Santo ainda não fora dado,&lt;/u&gt; por ainda Jesus não ter sido glorificado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; João 7:39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 digo-vos a verdade, que vos convém que eu vá; porque, se eu não for, o 
Consolador não virá a vós; mas, quando eu for, vo-lo enviarei. &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;E, quando ele vier (não tinha vindo ainda ), convencerá o mundo do pecado, e da justiça e do juízo&lt;/u&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; João 16:7-8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Não existe essa coisa de “&lt;i&gt;lei moral x lei cerimonial”&lt;/i&gt; analisem conosco: Antes era &lt;i&gt;“debaixo da lei”, &lt;/i&gt;ou seja, debaixo das prescrições e/ou ordenanças da lei, incluindo o decálogo. Agora é “&lt;i&gt;debaixo da Graça”,&lt;/i&gt;
 guiados pelo Espírito de Deus. A Bíblia é clara em afirmar sim, um 
período específico da lei e outro exato período da Graça - Não que a 
Graça não tenha existido antes, porém ela foi manifestada 
verdadeiramente depois da glorificação de Jesus, que rasgou o véu da 
separação e nós que &lt;i&gt;“estávamos destituídos da glória de Deus”&lt;/i&gt; podemos ter livre acesso ao Pai pela fé em Jesus, “&lt;i&gt;pois pela fé somos feitos filhos de Deus&lt;/i&gt;” assim como Jesus é.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Não é mais necessário oferecer sacrifícios, pois Jesus nos santificou pela “&lt;i&gt;oblação&lt;/i&gt;”
 (oferta) de si mesmo. Os sacrifícios de animais, de maneira nenhuma 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Pois tendo sido uma vez purificados os que prestavam o culto, nunca mais teriam consciência de pecado. Mas nesses sacrifícios &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;cada ano se faz&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;RECORDAÇÃO dos pecados&lt;/u&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;porque é impossível que o sangue de touros e de bodes tire pecados.&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Hebreus 10:2-4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 ou seja, faziam que as pessoas se lembrassem, de que todos os homens 
permaneciam debaixo do pecado, como escravos do pecado. Os sacrifícios 
pelos pecados testemunhavam que o homem ainda permanecia com a natureza 
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removida, não há mais necessidade de ofertas pelo pecado. Porém, se sua 
natureza pecaminosa permanece, ainda se faz necessária a oferta pelo 
pecado. Como Jesus é o sacrifício perfeito, o único caminho é ter fé no 
seu sacrifício, ou seja, se os adventistas dizem que não tem mais 
sacrifício, mas dizem que você tem de observar os 10 mandamentos para se
 salvar, isso significa que o sacrifício de Cristo não é suficiente; o 
pecado tem domínio sobre sua vida; você não nasceu de novo, não é guiado
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Ter
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Não sabeis que os injustos (os que não vivem da fé) não hão de herdar o reino de Deus&lt;/u&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;
 Não erreis: nem os devassos, nem os idólatras, nem os adúlteros, nem os
 efeminados, nem os sodomitas, nem os ladrões, nem os avarentos, nem os 
bêbados, nem os maldizentes, nem os roubadores herdarão o reino de Deus.
 E é o que alguns têm sido; mas haveis sido lavados, &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;mas haveis sido santificados&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;mas haveis sido justificados em nome do Senhor Jesus, e pelo Espírito do nosso Deus&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 1 Coríntios 6:9-11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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mas quanto ao sábado? O sábado também foi feito para quem vive na carne:
 Ele foi feito para que o homem tivesse um dia de comunhão com Deus, 
pois se Deus não desse esse mandamento, o povo não teria nenhum dia de 
comunhão com Ele. Aquele povo era carnal, não tinha recebido o Espírito 
Santo ainda, pois Jesus não tinha sequer nascido; aquele povo era 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;O mandamento do sábado foi feito para que houvesse comunhão com Deus, para que o povo descansasse em Deus, &lt;u&gt;pois o descanso é Deus&lt;/u&gt;:
 Quem dá descanso a si mesmo é a carne. Era um dia de vida espiritual e 
mesmo assim vemos nas escrituras os judeus profanando sempre o sábado; 
mas por quê? Porque eram carnais! Viviam guiados pela carne e tentavam 
descansar na carne (igual a certos crentes hoje em dia, que de tanto se 
esforçar para guardar o sábado, acabam não descansando nem no espírito, 
nem na carne, nem em nada). Se vivessem da fé como Abraão, teriam a lei 
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Porquanto&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Abraão obedeceu à minha voz, e guardou o meu mandado, os meus preceitos, os meus estatutos, e as minhas leis.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gênesis 26:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Ora, tendo a Escritura previsto que Deus havia de justificar pela fé os gentios&lt;u&gt;, &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;anunciou primeiro o evangelho a Abraão&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/u&gt; dizendo: Todas as nações serão benditas em ti.”&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  Gálatas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; 3:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mas
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para nos libertar dessa natureza. Vemos incontáveis testemunhos mundo a 
fora, de pessoas que abandonaram as drogas, que eram violentas, que 
viviam uma vida devassa, que contavam mentiras e agora foram 
transformadas por Jesus, que envia seu Espírito a todos os que o buscam 
pela fé. As pessoas não são transformadas porque a lei proíbe isso ou 
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 vós, perante os olhos de quem Jesus Cristo foi evidenciado, 
crucificado, entre vós? &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Só quisera saber isto de vós: recebestes o Espírito pelas obras da lei ou pela pregação da fé?&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;Sois vós tão insensatos que, tendo começado pelo Espírito, acabeis agora pela carne?&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Será em vão que tenhais padecido tanto? Se é que isso também foi em vão. &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Aquele&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;, pois, que vos dá o Espírito, e que opera maravilhas entre vós, fá-lo pelas obras da lei, ou pela pregação da fé?&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 3:1-5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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no Éden; pois Adão e Eva já tinham plena comunhão com Deus, já 
descansavam todos os dias em Deus. A palavra sábado é sequer mencionada no livro de Gênesis e o &lt;i&gt;“descanso de Deus”&lt;/i&gt;
 representava a plena comunhão de Deus com Adão e Eva. Deus criou o 
homem no sexto dia e o colocou no seu descanso/comunhão no sétimo dia. 
Depois que o pecado entrou no mundo por Adão, fomos destituídos da 
glória de Deus e perdemos a comunhão plena com Deus. Essa comunhão só 
foi restabelecida em Cristo e hoje nós, os que cremos, já estamos no 
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 Nós não matamos, não adulteramos, não furtamos, entramos no descanso, 
não desonramos nossos pais e etc., porque o Espírito de Deus habita em 
nós e não porque guardamos mandamentos com nosso próprio esforço. A lei é
 muito mais do que simples e limitados 10 mandamentos! Não se esqueçam 
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 de maneira que os filhos de Israel não podiam fitar os olhos na face de
 Moisés, por causa da glória do seu rosto, a qual era transitória, &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Como não será de maior glória o ministério do Espírito?&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; 2º Coríntios 3:7-8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 não matamos, não adulteramos, não furtamos, amamos o próximo, amamos a 
Deus e etc., porque o Espírito Santo de Deus habita em nós e não porque 
nós guardamos dez secas regras. Nós, seres humanos, não temos nada de 
bom e que agrade a Deus; o que temos é uma natureza caída e rebelde 
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 10 mandamentos foram abolidos para quem nasceu de novo, porém, se você 
viver na carne, eles continuarão te acusando, pois ela só faz isso: Te 
acusar e te amaldiçoar. A lei não pode trazer vida ao homem, só a morte:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Porque, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;se fosse dada uma lei que pudesse vivificar, a justiça, na verdade, teria sido pela lei.&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 3:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 coloca Jesus como alguém importante, mas não como o centro da mensagem;
 o foco está sempre no esforço humano. Em suas pregações, mais se fala 
da lei do que de Cristo, mais se fala de detalhes e regras a serem 
cumpridas a todo custo; que se deve fazer isso, não se deve fazer 
aquilo, exatamente como os fariseus faziam no passado. Mas na profecia 
da nova aliança, vemos Deus dizendo: “&lt;i&gt;porei&lt;/i&gt;”, “&lt;i&gt;farei&lt;/i&gt;”, “&lt;i&gt;livrar-vos-ei&lt;/i&gt;”, “&lt;i&gt;dar-vos-ei”&lt;/i&gt;, sempre é Deus fazendo a obra em nós, não o contrário.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Então alguns que tinham descido da Judéia ensinavam assim os irmãos: &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Se não vos circuncidardes conforme o uso de Moisés, não podeis salvar-vos.&lt;/u&gt;
 Tendo tido Paulo e Barnabé não pequena discussão e contenda contra 
eles, resolveu-se que Paulo e Barnabé, e alguns dentre eles, subissem a 
Jerusalém, aos apóstolos e aos anciãos, sobre aquela questão.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"&gt; Atos 15:1-2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“E,
 quando chegaram a Jerusalém, foram recebidos pela igreja e pelos 
apóstolos e anciãos, e lhes anunciaram quão grandes coisas Deus tinha 
feito com eles. Alguns, porém, da seita dos fariseus, que tinham crido, 
se levantaram, dizendo que era mister circuncidá-los e &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;mandar-lhes que guardassem a lei de Moisés.&lt;/u&gt; Congregaram-se, pois, os apóstolos e os anciãos para considerar este assunto.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Atos 15:4-6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;E,
 havendo grande contenda, levantou-se Pedro e disse-lhes: Homens irmãos,
 bem sabeis que já há muito tempo Deus me elegeu dentre nós, para que os
 gentios ouvissem da minha boca a palavra do evangelho, e cressem. &lt;u style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;E
 Deus, que conhece os corações, lhes deu testemunho, DANDO-LHES O 
ESPÍRITO SANTO, assim como também a nós; E não fez diferença alguma 
entre eles e nós, PURIFICANDO Os SEUS CORAÇÕES PELA FÉ.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Atos 15:7-9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Resumindo:
 Deus não depende das escrituras para santificar as pessoas, é tudo pela
 fé: Pela fé nascemos de novo, pela fé recebemos o Espírito Santo, pela 
fé Deus escreve sua vontade em nossos corações... Em Atos 15, os 
apóstolos não disseram nada de mandamentos, pois Deus, “&lt;i&gt;purificou os corações pela fé”&lt;/i&gt;.
 Eles concluíram que nada da lei era mais necessário. Nunca se esqueça 
que toda a virtude vem Deus e não dos homens, e se você não mantiver a 
chama da fé acesa, inevitavelmente vai voltar a viver na carne, porque a
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opõem-se um ao outro, para que não façais o que quereis&lt;u&gt;. &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Mas, se sois guiados pelo Espírito, não estais debaixo da lei.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; Gálatas 5:17-18.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Faz algum tempo, um pastor adventista exclamou (berrou) em caixa alta nos comentários:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;A IASD é a igreja que mais cresce no mundo!”&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Será mesmo? Leiam a noticia abaixo, com especial atenção a parte em destaque. Também
 confiram os gráficos (abaixo da matéria) que conseguimos nos próprios 
websites oficiais da IASD. Na seqüência; mais um texto para apreciação 
dos nossos queridos leitores. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;SÃO
 PAULO - A cidade de São Paulo viveu uma pulverização evangélica sem 
precedentes na última década. Segundo novos dados do Censo, o número de 
evangélicos sem laços com uma igreja determinada aumentou mais de quatro
 vezes entre 2000 e 2010, enquanto a quantidade de fiéis que freqüentam 
templos menores cresceu 62% nesse período. Juntos, esses dois grupos 
foram responsáveis por 96% do crescimento do rebanho evangélico da 
capital em uma década, de 825 mil fiéis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Os
 evangélicos não determinados englobam tipos diferentes. Entram na conta
 os que se dizem apenas evangélicos, sem especificar a igreja ou a 
corrente, os que freqüentam cultos diferentes e os que fazem parte de 
pequenas igrejas não pentecostais. Em São Paulo,
 o crescimento dos evangélicos não determinados foi tão grande que eles 
hoje representam a terceira maior corrente religiosa da cidade – perdem 
para os católicos e os sem religião, mas ultrapassaram a Assembléia de 
Deus, denominação evangélica que tem o terceiro maior rebanho do País.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Já
 a corrente dispersa formada por pessoas que freqüentam templos 
pentecostais ou neopentecostais menores deixou para trás, em uma década,
 dois gigantes do pentecostalismo evangélico – a Igreja Universal do 
Reino de Deus e a Congregação Cristã do Brasil, que perderam fiéis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Segundo
 o antropólogo Ronaldo de Almeida, da Unicamp e do Cebrap, o novo mapa 
da configuração evangélica da capital paulista é fruto da 
especialização. "&lt;i&gt;Há uma diversificação e uma maior infidelidade a uma
 instituição específica. O sujeito ainda se identifica principalmente 
como evangélico, mas hoje ele molda sua experiência religiosa. Quando 
quer ouvir um louvor com mais música, vai a uma igreja, quando quer 
cura, vai a outra, quando busca mensagem espiritual mais forte, busca 
outras.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;A
 antropóloga Diana Nogueira, da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro,
 faz um paralelo com pessoas que querem perder peso e vão migrando de 
médico em médico. "&lt;i&gt;A religião fortalece e ajuda as pessoas, mas não 
resolve muitos dos desafios que uma vida de periferia urbana lhes impõe.
 Com isso, algumas dessas pessoas vão de igreja em igreja, buscando 
soluções"&lt;/i&gt;, diz Diana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Além da busca diversificada, há o surgimento de igrejas voltadas a nichos específicos, como a &lt;i&gt;Crash Church Underground Ministry&lt;/i&gt; – que atrai roqueiros adeptos do &lt;i&gt;thrash metal&lt;/i&gt; em seu templo no Ipiranga –, ou a Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana, em Santa Cecília, voltada para o público homossexual.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;O
 crescimento das igrejas evangélicas menores é muito visível. São as 
chamadas comunidades. Seus fundadores são pastores que já pertenceram a 
igrejas evangélicas maiores&lt;/i&gt;", diz o vereador evangélico Carlos Apolinário (DEM).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Levantamento feito em 2008 pela equipe de Apolinário enumerou mais de 18 mil templos evangélicos em São Paulo,
 a maioria nas zonas leste e sul. Ele estima que outras 2 mil tenham 
sido criadas desde então. Para se ter uma idéia, o total de paróquias 
católicas não chega a 500 na capital paulista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 dados do Censo chamaram a atenção. A Assembléia de Deus teve um aumento
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Entre as pentecostais, o destaque vai para a perda acentuada de fiéis em São  Paulo da Congregação Cristã (27%) e da Igreja Universal (37%), enquanto no País o rebanho de cada uma encolheu 10%.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Se no começo ela era a “&lt;i&gt;igreja verdadeira&lt;/i&gt;”, hoje não é mais. Se é verdadeira hoje, não pode negar que seu início foi uma grande mentira e “&lt;i&gt;nenhuma verdade subsiste fundada em cima duma mentira.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;A
 IASD está atravessando sua maior crise existencial, face às descobertas
 que cada vez mais membros têm feito; não só sobre sua antiquada e 
pesada estrutura burocrático-empresarial, onde o nepotismo é política 
dominante; como também no campo doutrinário. Este último, de cunho muito
 mais grave, por adentrar em questões indiscutivelmente anti-bíblicas.
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 na história, a informação esteve tão ao alcance do ser humano quanto 
hoje - Graças a Deus. Se no passado uma simples carta demorava meses 
para chegar ao seu destino, com o advento da moderna tecnologia as 
notícias andam na velocidade da luz... É muito mais informação do que 
damos conta de processar e com a chegada da internet, temos não somente 
uma, mas muitas bibliotecas e videotecas a nossa disposição. Vale 
ressaltar que elas estão cada vez mais extensas e ao nosso alcance – 
através apenas de alguns cliques - qualquer área do conhecimento humano 
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Nessa
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 que se destinam à persuasão podem parecer convincentes para grande 
parte do público apesar de conterem falácias, mas não deixam de ser 
falsos por causa disso.&lt;/u&gt; Reconhecer as falácias é por vezes difícil. &lt;u&gt;Os argumentos falaciosos podem ter validade emocional, íntima, psicológica ou emotiva, mas não validade lógica&lt;/u&gt;.
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Tem
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persuasão sobre as massas, especialmente líderes políticos e líderes 
espirituais (virá um Artigo específico sobre esse tema). Adolf Hitler 
foi um grande orador; ele simplesmente usava de seu carisma e boa 
oratória para persuadir as multidões a apoiarem seus planos loucos. 
Martin Luther King foi outro grande orador. Também vemos na TV; falsos 
líderes religiosos, lobos mercenários que só querem a “&lt;i&gt;gordura do rebanho&lt;/i&gt;”,
 levarem as multidões ao êxtase e conseguirem seu intento. Não nos 
esqueçamos dos fanáticos Jim Jones e David Coresh que levaram seus fiéis
 ao sacrifício de suas próprias vidas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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 os quais utilizam o dom da oratória – vulgo “lábia” - para proveito 
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 membros a doutrina e manter o rebanho quieto. Felizmente (ou 
infelizmente, depende de quem está lendo) para um grupo crescente de 
membros adventistas, tem ficado cada vez mais claro, pelo simples uso da
 Lógica, que a liderança adventista se encontra num verdadeiro atoleiro 
de areia movediça: Quando mais esperneiam, quanto mais se debatem, mais 
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 (do grego clássico λογική logos, que significa palavra, pensamento, 
idéia, argumento, relato, razão lógica ou princípio lógico), é uma 
ciência de índole matemática e fortemente ligada à Filosofia. Já que o 
pensamento é a manifestação do conhecimento, e que o conhecimento busca a
 verdade, é preciso estabelecer algumas regras para que essa meta possa 
ser atingida. Assim, a lógica é o ramo da filosofia que cuida das regras
 do bem pensar, ou do pensar correto, sendo, portanto, um instrumento do
 pensar. A aprendizagem da lógica não constitui um fim em si. Ela
 só tem sentido enquanto meio de garantir que nosso pensamento proceda 
corretamente a fim de chegar a conhecimentos verdadeiros. Podemos, 
então, dizer que a lógica trata dos argumentos, isto é, das conclusões a
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dos anos (especialmente nos dias de hoje) é muito simples e não requer 
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 - Se a Igreja Adventista foi um movimento originado e estabelecido por 
Deus, o qual teria escolhido uma voz autorizada na pessoa de Ellen G. 
White para orientar seu povo remanescente na igreja verdadeira; ao 
adotar a doutrina da trindade em 1980, em Dallas, essa Igreja se desviou
 da verdade, pois os pioneiros fundadores da igreja, juntamente com 
Ellen White, &lt;u&gt;não eram trinitarianos&lt;/u&gt; e taxavam tal crença de grave heresia – “&lt;i&gt;doutrina de demônios&lt;/i&gt;” - advinda do catolicismo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 - Se a Igreja Adventista de hoje estiver correta ao professar uma 
doutrina que não era aceita como verdadeira, nem pelos fundadores desse 
movimento, nem pela suposta mensageira do Senhor; o “&lt;i&gt;castelo de cartas&lt;/i&gt;”
 desmorona, levando-nos inevitavelmente à conclusão de que tudo não 
passou de uma articulação humana: A doutrina adventista desmente Ellen 
White ao mesmo tempo em que prega ter sido tal mulher a “representante” 
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Vamos
 repetir mais uma vez para que fique bem claro - Este é o duro dilema a 
ser esclarecido pela IASD: Se no começo ela era a igreja verdadeira, 
hoje não é mais. Se é verdadeira hoje, seu início foi uma grande mentira
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 há meio termo: Ou é verdade ou é mentira! Ou a IASD admite ter se 
desviado de sua doutrina original; pedindo milhões de desculpas aos seus
 enganados membros e tenta reparar a brecha que ela própria abriu, ou a 
crise se avolumará cada vez mais; ao ponto de vermos nos gráficos um 
número cada vez maior de membros deixando suas fileiras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Muitos Dentre Os Fundadores Do Adventismo Não Se Uniriam À Igreja Hoje&lt;/u&gt;, Se Eles Tivessem Que Subscrever As Crenças Fundamentais Da Denominação... &lt;u&gt;Não Concordariam Com A Crença Nº 2,  a qual trata da doutrina da trindade&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;George Knight, Professor de história da igreja na Andrews University ver. Ministério, jan. E fev. De 1994, pág. 15.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;A grande falta da Reforma foi que os reformadores pararam de reformar. Se tivessem levado avante, &lt;u&gt;não teriam deixado nenhum vestígio do papado atrás&lt;/u&gt;, tal como a imortalidade da alma, o batismo por aspersão&lt;u&gt;, a trindade&lt;/u&gt;, a guarda do domingo, e a igreja agora estaria livre de erros escriturísticos."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;Review and Herald, 1856&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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"&lt;i&gt;Os pontos fundamentais de nossa fé da forma como cremos hoje foram 
firmemente estabelecidos. Ponto após ponto foi claramente definido, e 
toda a irmandade está em harmonia. Todos os crentes foram unidos na verdade. &lt;u&gt;Existem aqueles que vem com doutrinas estranhas, mas nós nunca estaríamos com medo de enfrentá-los&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;MS 135, 1903. (Ellen G. White, The Early Years Volume 1 - 1827-1862, pág. 145)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;"&lt;u&gt;Nenhum alfinete deve ser removido no que o Senhor estabeleceu...&lt;/u&gt; Nós encontraríamos segurança em menos do que o Senhor nos tem dado nesses últimos cinqüenta anos?&lt;/i&gt; " &lt;b&gt;Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, May 5. 1905.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;"Aqueles
 que procuram remover os velhos marcos, não estão retendo firmemente; 
eles não estão se lembrando de como receberam e ouviram. &lt;u&gt;Os que 
tentam introduzir teorias que removeriam os pilares de nossa fé quanto 
ao santuário ou quanto à personalidade de Deus ou de Cristo, estão 
agindo como cegos.&lt;/u&gt; Estão procurando introduzir incertezas e deixar o povo de Deus à mercê das ondas, sem uma âncora."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Ellen G. White, Manuscript Release 760, Págs. 9 e 10.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;"&lt;u&gt;A doutrina da Trindade foi estabelecida na igreja pelo concílio de Nicéia em 325 a.d. Essa doutrina destrói a personalidade de Deus e seu Filho Jesus Cristo, nosso Senhor&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;J. N. Andrews, Advent Review, 6 de março de 1855.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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"&lt;u&gt;Esta doutrina da Trindade foi trazida para a igreja no mesmo tempo 
em que a adoração de imagens, e a guarda do domingo e não é mais do que a
 doutrina dos persas remodelada.&lt;/u&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;J. N. Advent Review, 5 de Novembro de 1861.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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tipo de falácias temos: As duas proposições (que demonstramos a alguns 
parágrafos atrás) se excluem, não podem ao mesmo tempo, serem 
verdadeiras e falsas. Uma elimina a outra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;A igreja está numa situação que “se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come!”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;Condição estranha pra uma igreja que se intitula “a única verdadeira” não?.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Esse é o “&lt;i&gt;calcanhar de Aquiles&lt;/i&gt;”
 dessa denominação e não pode subsistir justamente pela peculiaridade 
das doutrinas da IASD e de sua origem, supostamente divina. O fato é que
 em certo momento da história, a Igreja Adventista do sétimo dia passou a
 negar a si mesma, numa total incoerência. É embaraçosa a situação da 
IASD, constrangedora e até mesmo insustentável. A pergunta que fica é: 
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Infelizmente; boa parte do rebanho desta igreja pertence à “&lt;i&gt;geração decoreba&lt;/i&gt;",
 que se satisfaz em repetir tudo o que os pastores falam do púlpito, sem
 fazer maiores investigações, como condiz a qualquer cristão autêntico. 
Na verdade alguns membros são mal informados, porque só querem saber de 
coisas que lhes convém - que lhes agradam - ignorando todo o resto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;. Assim sendo; deve ser moleza lidar com um rebanho que diz “amém” para tudo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Pessoas
 passivas, sem iniciativa própria - É o que tenho visto durante todos os
 meus mais de trinta anos nesta igreja... Dormem o terrível sono da 
indiferença... Muitos chegam ao cúmulo de exclamar: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;“Isso não é da minha conta”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;
 Será mesmo? Bem, se a doutrina do sábado é tão importante para eles, 
porque seria de menor importância todo o resto? De que adianta “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;coar um mosquito e engolir um camelo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Os
 tempos mudaram e mudaram muito. Hoje, por exemplo, na disputa do 
mercado de trabalho, não se leva mais em conta somente a formação 
acadêmica do candidato; mas também sua maturidade psicológica, sua 
capacidade de liderança, iniciativa, autoconfiança, etc. Não basta 
somente o QI (quociente de inteligência), porém o setor de recursos 
humanos vai além, quer aferir o QE (quociente emocional) do indivíduo. 
Pode-se ter um QI avançado, colecionar inúmeros diplomas, mas se for uma
 pessoa inibida, complexada, desmotivada, cuja única habilidade é a 
decoreba, tudo indica que será um grande fracassado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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com a questão da IASD? É que os líderes religiosos, ao contrário das 
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;1- Alta capacidade de decorar e absorver (internalizar) doutrinas,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 se alguma ovelha começa agir além do esperado, alcançando maturidade 
espiritual suficiente para discernir o real quadro da situação, logo ela
 é punida exemplarmente e excluída bem rápido, antes que possa "&lt;i&gt;contaminar&lt;/i&gt;" com seu conhecimento o restante do rebanho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Ao invés de amadurecer o rebanho na graça e no conhecimento de Deus, a Igreja usa técnicas de “&lt;i&gt;lavagem cerebral&lt;/i&gt;”:
 A velha “decoreba” com intermináveis repetições, infinitas “ameaças” e 
um sem fim de falácias e termos desconexos e confusos. Mas infelizmente,
 esse é o premio para as mentes incautas, que nunca querem realmente 
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maturidade na fé, nos pensamentos, nos sentimentos e em todo o nosso 
comportamento; para que possamos experimentar na prática o conselho do 
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;É
 sempre bom usar das faculdades que Deus nos deu: A inteligência, o 
raciocínio e a lógica, caso contrário, estaremos fadados a sempre sermos
 enganados. O Raciocínio Lógico reprova a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo 
Dia e não é preciso ser nenhum Albert Einstein para provar isso, os 
fatos estão aí para quem quiser ver. Mas infelizmente, membros 
desprovidos de inteligência emocional; logo saem taxando de “hereges” os
 irmãos pesquisadores. Esses irmãos fanáticos demonstram inúmeros 
sintomas de imaturidade: Ora partem para o lado pessoal, saindo do campo
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;E que o Altíssimo conceda o bendito dom de admitirmos os nossos erros.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Para saber mais:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cacp.org.br/adventismo/artigo.aspx?lng=PT-BR&amp;amp;article=1409&amp;amp;menu=1&amp;amp;submenu=6"&gt;http://www.cacp.org.br/adventismo/artigo.aspx?lng=PT-BR&amp;amp;article=1409&amp;amp;menu=1&amp;amp;submenu=6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Fonte dos gráficos:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adventiststatistics.org/"&gt;http://www.adventiststatistics.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;* Parte deste Artigo foi baseada na colaboração de um leitor muito especial, que preferiu ficar no anonimato.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Meu
 nome é Rodrigo Alves. Fui membro da IASD por quatro anos a contar do 
dia em que eu e minha família começamos a congregar, no&amp;nbsp;inicio&amp;nbsp;de 2006. 
Hoje sou membro da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil e gostaria de 
contar-lhes meu testemunho, para que outras pessoas sejam advertidas 
sobre tais&amp;nbsp;engodos...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Muitas
 pessoas me perguntam como foi ter mudado de religião... Muitos até se 
surpreendem quando declaro ser um ex-adventista, mas, eu acredito que 
essa mudança signifique mais que uma troca de nomes, tem mais a ver com 
minha busca pessoal por Deus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 uma espécie de adventismo ainda criança, quando aos três anos eu e meus
 familiares fomos incentivados por parentes a freqüentar os cultos da 
Igreja Adventista da Promessa (dissidente carismática do adventismo), 
onde permanecemos até meus 11 anos. Por iniciativa materna nos 
desligamos sem nunca termos sido batizados; isso devido a 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Meu despertar religioso começou a intensificar-se aos 13 anos, quando em 26 de Setembro de 2006, fui batizado em uma Igreja Adventista
 do Sétimo Dia, em Guarulhos (SP). Sempre apaixonado por missões, estava
 à frente da ação missionária e no período de um ano (2008) prestei 
auxílio ao pastor na visita de lares, estudos bíblicos e apelos 
batismais. Em uma só conferência conseguimos reunir 30 pessoas de 
diferentes famílias, entre essas, 25 foram batizadas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 perseguição na escola por ministrar estudos bíblicos na classe e tive 
que transferi-los para uma praça pública onde nos reuníamos com 
freqüência, além disso, nas sextas-feiras estávamos todos na igreja; 
posteriormente, um dos amigos da escola também foi batizado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 um defensor ferrenho do adventismo, debatendo sempre que necessário com
 pessoas de outras religiões, o Sábado era sempre o tema mais polêmico. 
Tudo começou a mudar quando cheguei a escola certo dia e uma colega 
católica me presenteou com uma pequena revista chamada "&lt;i&gt;Fé para Hoje&lt;/i&gt;" (Editora Fiel) que comentava as doutrinas da graça sob o tema "&lt;i&gt;O novo nascimento&lt;/i&gt;".
 No início eu até pensei que fosse um material adventista pelo nome ser 
semelhante a um programa de TV desta igreja, mas, ao ler, notei que se 
tratava de algo completamente novo, uma coisa que nunca tinha ouvido 
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 colega me contou que ia jogar a revista no lixo, pois ela já havia 
ganhado de outra pessoa, uma senhora de religião espírita que também 
jogaria no lixo, sendo assim, o material foi resgatado de virar lixo 
duas vezes; até chegar as minhas mãos. Mesmo não sabendo bem do que se 
tratava, pude reconhecer alguns aspectos que me intrigavam como 
predestinação e &lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monergismo"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;monergismo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, ainda assim, as palavras pareciam invadir cada centímetro da minha alma e fui-me enchendo das palavras de graça. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 devoção do pôr do sol às sextas-feiras, eu costumava ler a revista e 
mesmo depois de ler várias vezes não pude enjoar, porque a palavra de 
vida renovava-se sempre que a lia. Cheguei a levar parte do tema a um 
sermão meu ainda na Igreja Adventista e as pessoas também foram 
inflamadas pelas chamas da verdade, ao final recebi muitos 
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 a revista a um pastor que não negou o monergismo, mas considerou o 
conteúdo da revista como avesso a opinião oficial da igreja, ele chegou 
até mesmo a pregar parte dele em um sermão de Santa Ceia e o xerocou, 
porque segundo ele, "&lt;i&gt;era uma valiosa verdade!&lt;/i&gt;". Conforme me 
aproximava mais da fé reformada, os sermões adventistas coçavam ao meu 
ouvido, a regeneração que deveria ser atribuída ao Espírito Santo era 
desviada para o batismo, como se as águas do tanque fossem mágicas; a 
graça era sufocada pelas Leis baseadas no cerimonial judeu e instruções 
das literaturas da Sr.ª Ellen G. White; o juízo final que, segundo a 
Bíblia, será único, era esfacelado em três partes seguindo a teoria do “&lt;i&gt;juízo pré-investigativo&lt;/i&gt;” que teria iniciado em 22 de Outubro de 1844. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 adventistas crêem em duas ressurreições com intervalo de 1.000 anos 
entre uma e outra, contrariando a ortodoxia das Escrituras. Eles também 
comparam os escritos de Ellen White à Bíblia Sagrada, reivindicando a 
legitimidade do seu "&lt;i&gt;dom profético&lt;/i&gt;" colocando-a em pé de igualdade com Profetas e autores bíblicos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;O sábado usurpava o lugar do Espírito Santo e era chamado de "&lt;i&gt;selo de Deus&lt;/i&gt;";
 que marca os seres humanos como fiéis e verdadeiros. Por isso, não pude
 desligar-me da instituição rapidamente; tive que passar por um processo
 doloroso de ruptura, porque no adventismo, negar o sábado, o juízo 
pré-investigativo e Ellen White; é motivo suficiente para condenação 
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 de mais dois amigos, deixei de ir a escola sabatina e só freqüentava os
 cultos; além disso, iniciamos um estudo bíblico na minha casa; o 
primeiro chamamos de "&lt;i&gt;seitas e heresias&lt;/i&gt;" que procurava desmascarar as falsas doutrinas e religiões (na época, opostas a “&lt;i&gt;verdade iminente&lt;/i&gt;” do adventismo), o segundo, chamamos de "&lt;i&gt;aceitando as seitas&lt;/i&gt;" que estudava movimentos do povo de Deus que por algum período foram taxados como "&lt;i&gt;seita&lt;/i&gt;"
 no contexto religioso da afirmação (incluíamos até então o adventismo),
 nesse estudo. Nesses estudos descobrimos o calvinismo e finalmente pude
 perceber onde os autores daquela revista "&lt;i&gt;Fé para Hoje&lt;/i&gt;" (Editora fiel) estavam embasados, até ali havia um ano que ela estava comigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Levou algum tempo ainda para que eu pudesse me desprender do "&lt;i&gt;visgo do diabo&lt;/i&gt;", e por diversas vezes chorei pelo "&lt;i&gt;grande conflito&lt;/i&gt;"
 em que se achava minha mente. Levou um tempo ainda, até que, no começo 
de 2010, resolvi pedir remoção da instituição; nesse tempo fazia meses 
que já não ia à igreja e mesmo não compreendendo bem, já aceitava os &lt;a href="http://www.ipbahia.org.br/ipbahia/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=64&amp;amp;Itemid=31"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;Cinco Pontos do Calvinismo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (TULIP). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Por
 fim; escrevi uma carta para a igreja adventista; negando o adventismo e
 afirmando minha conversão ao Cristianismo Protestante de João Calvino, 
George Whitefield, John Knox, Guilaume Farel, Charles Spurgeon e tantos 
outros. A carta foi lida na comissão e aprovaram minha remoção. Recebi a
 visita de um Ancião (Presbítero) da igreja e um diácono na minha casa, 
ocasião em que pudemos expor as divergências entre as posições 
teológicas. Acabado, não me restava dúvida de que havia tomado à decisão
 correta renunciando o erro. No mesmo dia, fui até uma Igreja 
Presbiteriana para esclarecer os novos pontos e de primeira contei com a
 surpresa dos irmãos por ser ex-adventista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Após
 receber instruções de um seminarista; comecei a ler um livro de Edward 
Donelly sobre o Céu e o Inferno, aceitei a doutrina e os credos 
históricos; também passei a estudar as confissões e os catecismos de 
Westminster. Talvez o que tenha me influenciado bastante nesse período 
tenham sido as opiniões de um amigo adventista de Caruaru (PE), que 
antes havia sido presbiteriano e naquele momento estava arrependido da 
mudança. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Nós
 éramos moderadores em uma comunidade multi-institucional no orkut e por
 meio da internet ele me incentivava a abandonar o espírito do 
adventismo e se firmar a fé reformada; hoje ele continua na igreja 
adventista e diz ter superado o arrependimento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Os
 amigos que me acompanhavam na igreja adventista, acabaram por me 
acompanhar também no calvinismo, mesmo porque, havíamos estudado juntos,
 agradeço muito a eles por tanto esforço e paciência para que hoje 
pudéssemos conhecer a verdade do evangelho. Desde então, fui e tenho 
sido por diversas vezes convidado a voltar, mas, a resposta será sempre a
 de Lutero: “&lt;i&gt;Não posso nem quero retratar-me de coisa alguma, pois ir contra a consciência não é justo nem seguro. Deus me ajude. Amém&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Como eu, hoje, muitos irmãos estão espalhados pelos “&lt;i&gt;currais do erro&lt;/i&gt;”, Jesus tem desejado ansiosamente tratar destas almas através do "&lt;i&gt;evangelho que é o poder que concede salvação para todo aquele que crê&lt;/i&gt;". Eu sei que muitas instituições ameaçam seus adeptos com promessas de maldição, tais como "&lt;i&gt;você nunca vai ser feliz em outra igreja&lt;/i&gt;", mas não é&amp;nbsp; esse o&amp;nbsp; pensamento de Jesus e a única promessa válida é a Dele que diz:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Todo o que o Pai me der virá a mim, e quem vier a mim eu jamais rejeitarei&lt;/i&gt;." (João 6:37)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Extraído do Blog Ex-adventistas.com &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2013/02/o-fim-de-o-grande-conflito.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-1945968410746065832</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T11:56:59.500-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Abuso Sexual</category><title>A Different Ministry: Adventist Risk Management's Effort to Protect Children Against Sexual Abuse</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_qJjXJStwZs/UBM22OKSZnI/AAAAAAAAAyc/v7OOruN2hOs/s1600/issue_header_2012-1519-34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="176" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_qJjXJStwZs/UBM22OKSZnI/AAAAAAAAAyc/v7OOruN2hOs/s400/issue_header_2012-1519-34.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="byline2" style="background-color: white;"&gt;BY JULIO MUÑOZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postdate" style="background-color: white;"&gt;Posted July118, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="cap"&gt;&lt;span class="cap" style="background-color: white;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;hat is Adventist Risk Management, and what does it do? Insurance? Yes. And much more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Adventist Risk Management (ARM) is a ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ARM is a team of risk management professionals who are passionate about the mission of the church. ARM believes in being wise stewards of the resources God has entrusted to His church. ARM believes in protecting our churches, institutions, missionaries, and members, especially our children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Why does the church need a risk management and insurance company? The vast majority of church ministry activities take place without major incident or loss. The church is really quite blessed! However, accidents do sometimes happen; and natural disasters strike indiscriminately. Good stewards of the church must always be prepared.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Head2"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Protecting the Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, Adventist Risk Management started as a dream of William Benjamin and an investment of $25,000 by the General Conference. Benjamin, an Adventist insurance professional, saw the need for an organization to protect the assets of the Adventist Church from various types of loss.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ki4EKk6GNe0/UBM3id6iypI/AAAAAAAAAyk/_-Pae4p37U4/s1600/2012-1519-page34-intext1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ki4EKk6GNe0/UBM3id6iypI/AAAAAAAAAyk/_-Pae4p37U4/s1600/2012-1519-page34-intext1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Today the ministry of ARM serves the risk management needs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world through its family of eight companies, located in four countries, with a staff of more than 130 insurance professionals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;But what exactly is risk management? Risk management is not just about insurance; risk management is about being good stewards of the resources that have been entrusted to us by God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;In practical terms, risk management encompasses three important aspects of stewardship:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;1. Risk Prevention.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; ARM provides education and guidance directly to church organizations to help prevent risks such as accidents, fires, or leaky pipes--anything that can lead to possible injury to individuals or the destruction of church property.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;2. Control of Loss. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;In the event that an accident, injury, or destruction of property cannot be prevented, risk management asks how losses can be minimized both to individuals and to the organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;3. Risk financing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;. This is where insurance comes in. If a significant loss cannot be prevented (such as hail or hurricane damage), then as stewards of the church’s resources, leaders must look for ways to effectively insure the assets of the church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;“The Adventist Risk Management ministry is one of the [church’s] best-kept secrets--and we’re fine with that. We are here to serve other ministries,” says Bob Kyte, president of ARM. “To this end ARM has invested its resources to providing protection of the church, its members, and its properties and resources. Our ministry is to protect your ministry!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Head2"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Why ARM?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Why does the church need an organization like ARM when many other insurance companies are available to insure the activities and properties of the church? Simply put, many activities and risks are unique to our church and make it difficult to get affordable coverage for our needs. ARM’s units are called captive insurance companies, or companies owned by the Adventist Church to insure only the church. We are able to obtain insurance coverage for property, liability, and employment practices--including sexual molestation--that meets our needs at reasonable prices. This insurance model, pioneered by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is now common practice among many denominations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;There are a number of ways in which ARM is a distinctive option for risk management and risk financing:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;First, ARM understands the needs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ARM leaders and employees are members of the church. ARM is a team of people passionate about the church’s mission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Second, ARM is the risk manager for the church. Unlike profit-driven insurance companies, ARM is a self-sustaining ministry. More important, ARM invests large amounts of funding to support the risk management and loss control education for various church organizations. This is accomplished through close collaboration with church entities, site visits, risk management conferences, as well as numerous other learning opportunities to educate church leaders and those responsible locally for risk management.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Third, while ARM is a ministry of the church, its unique mission draws on Adventist insurance professionals to manage these special programs for the church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;As a ministry, ARM is committed to being a good steward of the resources turned over to its care. In the area of risk financing, commonly known as insurance, the captive insurance units of ARM are there to help churches, schools, and other organizations when something goes wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;In 2011 the ARM family of companies’ revenue totaled $47 million, out of which it reinvested substantially in risk prevention and management programs for the church. Additionally, the ARM captive insurance units paid slightly more than $33 million for resolving claims across the various product lines it insures; $18.5 million alone was paid for property claim settlements from all the church properties insured by ARM around the world that are valued at $12.5 billion. The year 2011 was exceptional in the insurance industry worldwide because of the huge property losses that resulted from catastrophic weather: tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and devastating hail. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not immune to such disasters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Head2"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Our Most Serious Charge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Another loss that draws great concern and is a priority for ARM and the Adventist Church is child abuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="background-color: white;"&gt;1  &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;While child protection is a priority for ARM, it is not the denomination’s area of greatest financial loss. Throughout the past 20 years, ARM has paid slightly more than $1.5 million per year (a total of $30 million) in settling claims involving sexual misconduct in the United States for the entities we insure. This accounts for about 400 claims involving 526 victims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="background-color: white;"&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Property claims alone incur far greater financial losses for the church. But child protection is critically important because it involves victims who are children. Like a severe physical injury that can impair one’s life, these acts of abuse can have an ongoing impact in the lives of children and their families.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Working with the Adventist Church in North America, ARM has taken significant, positive steps to prevent this problem from occurring in our churches and schools. All teachers in Adventist schools across North America, and every volunteer involved in activities with children, must be screened for criminal conduct that would prevent them from working with minors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;“The Adventist Church in North America is committed to preventing these incidents from occurring. We have zero tolerance with persons who commit these criminal acts,” says Dan Jackson, president of the Adventist Church in North America. “The church and our partner ARM are committed to making our churches and schools safe for children.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;ARM has developed guidelines to help direct the church through this difficult issue. Additionally, some aspects of child abuse are not just a matter of following guidelines but of following the law. Offenders, for example, should be reported to the police and other appropriate authorities immediately. In fact, in many states failure to report such incidents is a violation of law. Church organizations have to cooperate fully with investigating agencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Equally important, ARM recommends that all church organizations become involved with the victim and family of such abuse early in the process in order to provide appropriate counseling and support, and the alleged perpetrator must be immediately suspended from any contact with children. Those who are found to have committed these acts should be permanently removed from all activities with children in the church. If they are employees of the church they should be terminated from their employment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;While it is understood that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is grace-oriented and forgiveness is part of the church’s belief structure, when an individual has been proven to have abused a minor, he or she must live with the consequences of those acts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Head2"&gt;Risk Prevention Resources for Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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ARM Web site: &lt;a href="http://www.adventistrisk.org/"&gt;www.adventistrisk.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Subscribe to our free, electronic, monthly newsletter filled with simple solutions to help minimize risks and prevent accidents at your home, school, or place of business. E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:subscribe@adventistrisk.org"&gt;subscribe@adventistrisk.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Online ARM Prevention Resources: &lt;a href="http://www.adventistrisk.org/prevention.aspx"&gt;www.adventistrisk.org/prevention.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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ARM YouTube Channel: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube/user/adventistriskmgmt"&gt;www.youtube/user/adventistriskmgmt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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ARM Facebook Page: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/adventistrisk"&gt;www.facebook.com/adventistrisk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Follow ARM on Twitter: &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/adventistrisk"&gt;www.twitter.com/adventistrisk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Sometimes people cannot believe such acts were committed by these individuals. ARM has received phone calls from pastors or conference administrators trying to deal with these challenges. Church members often want to forgive and let the offender not only attend church but also be active in church leadership positions. While forgiveness is always appropriate, continued service as a leader is inappropriate. It must not be forgotten that the primary concern in these situations is to safeguard the children entrusted to the church for worship, school, or other activities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The church’s response in the aftermath of a sexual molestation is vitally important. The focus should be on doing what’s right for the victims involved. While some insurance companies may take the position that they do not want to hear from the insured church organization until a lawsuit is filed, ARM takes a proactive position in assisting church organizations in addressing the needs of the victim and providing legal defense in the event of a lawsuit against the church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;However, if there is abuse, and the church has failed in its duties to protect a child, ARM does not fight that child’s rights to a fair redress of wrongs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;ARM aims to do the right thing and compensate the victim appropriately for the injury suffered. We know that money will never correct the trauma inflicted against a child, and we work to include counseling and other necessary assistance. It should be noted that ARM does not provide a legal defense of the alleged perpetrator if authorities proceed with criminal charges, as is often the case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The church has a moral and legal obligation to protect our children and to provide them with a safe environment for worship, study, and play. But whether it is protecting our precious children, our churches, or our ministries, ARM is committed to be wise stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us and to help the church do the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;ARM’s profile in the overall ministry of the church is low in relation to the impact we have on the mission of the church. And that’s as it should be. It is not the purpose of ARM to be the center of attention. Rather, it is educating to prevent losses, helping to control losses, and assisting the church when a loss occurs that makes Adventist Risk Management a successful ministry. ARM provides simple solutions to minimize risk for the church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;ARM’s ministry is to protect the church’s ministry!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: sub;"&gt;1 See the article “Abuse Prevention a Priority for Adventist Risk Management,” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: white; vertical-align: sub;"&gt;Adventist Review&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: sub;"&gt;, March 8, 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: sub;"&gt;2  Financial data as of December 31, 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: white;"&gt;________________&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="background-color: white;"&gt;Julio C. Muñoz is a marketing specialist for Adventist Risk Management.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Li0YPkXlG0/T9b4ZS6-lAI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/y2pfoEMVm8g/s1600/novo-manual-da-igreja-adventista-2010-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Li0YPkXlG0/T9b4ZS6-lAI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/y2pfoEMVm8g/s320/novo-manual-da-igreja-adventista-2010-1.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Em nome do Pai, do Filho, do Espírito Santo, e de EGW.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tenho 32 anos, sendo que passei
21 anos na IASD. Durante o tempo que fiquei na igreja, pude ver que a maioria
dos membros são muito desinformados quanto às doutrinas, a maioria nunca havia
lido o manual da igreja, nem conhecia a fundo ou havia estudado as 28 doutrinas
fundamentais. Para aqueles que afirmam que EGW não é considerada uma luz menor,
ou que hoje é vista como algo secundário na IASD, gostaria de tecer alguns
comentários:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mc 16:16 Quem crer e for
batizado será salvo, mas quem não crer será condenado.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;ou seja: a salvação depende de
Crer em Jesus e ser batizado.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vejamos dois dos votos do
batizando na IASD (manual da IASD 17ed, 2008 -p63-64)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;8. Aceita o ensino bíblico dos dons espirituais, e crê que o
dom de profecia é uma das características identificadoras da igreja
remanescente?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2d3037;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;13. Aceita e acredita que a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia é
a Igreja remanescente da profecia bíblica, e que pessoas de todas as nações,
raças e línguas são convidadas a fazer parte da sua comunhão, e a ser nela aceites?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Deseja ser membro desta congregação local da Igreja mundial?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2d3037;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Se o candidato ao batismo
disser que não acredita nestes 2 itens, não poderá ser batizado, por
consequência, não terá direito à salvação.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Daí o candidato pode perguntar
o que é o tal dom de profecia. Novamente entra o manual da IASD para
esclarecer:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;manual, p 42:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;18. O Dom de Profecia Um dos dons do Espírito Santo é a
profecia. Este dom é uma característica identificadora da Igreja remanescente e
foi manifestado no ministério de Ellen G. White. Como mensageira do Senhor, os
seus escritos são uma contínua e autorizada fonte de verdade e proporcionam
conforto,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;orientação, instrução e correcção à Igreja. Eles também
tornam claro que a Bíblia é a norma pela qual deve ser provado todo o ensino e
experiência.(Joel 2:28 e 29; Actos 2:14-21; Heb. 1:1-3; Apoc. 12:17; 19:10.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2d3037;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bem, até aqui apenas citei
partes do manual da IASD, mas já evidenciamos algo que considero muitíssimo
grave em uma religião que se diz cristã:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;O Batismo em nome de Ellen Gould
White.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Não adianta negar, buscar
respaldo nesta ou naquela referência.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Está no manual da IASD,
atualizado, disponível na rede para qualquer pessoa baixar, ler e analisar.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fica bem claro para qualquer
pessoa que a IASD exige que o batizando creia em Deus, em Jesus, no Espírito
Santo e &lt;st1:personname productid="em Ellen G. White" w:st="on"&gt;em Ellen G.
 White&lt;/st1:personname&gt;, do contrário o indivíduo não poderá ser batizado,
perdendo o direito da salvação.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isso para mim supera qualquer
crítica à IASD. Mesmo se pudessem provar que EGW foi realmente inspirada por
Deus (e nem entro na questão aqui) nunca poderiam buscar respaldo bíblico para
a inclusão da crença em uma quarta pessoa no batismo. Não precisamos aqui
discutir doutrinas alimentares, sábado, questão do bode emissário representando
satanás, inspiração de EGW, igreja remanescente, restauração da verdade,
santuário celestial, porta fechada, marcação de datas para a volta de Cristo...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;A maioria dos ASD não se dão
conta da gravidade do assunto do batismo em nome de EGW. Se você não tivesse
religião, mas conhecesse um pouco o cristianismo, a ponto de se sentir atraído,
e buscasse uma igreja, para poder ser instruído, e batizado... você aceitaria
se dissessem assim: bem, meu amigo, você só poderá ser batizado se afirmar crer
em Deus, Jesus, Espírito Santo, e Ellen Gould White....?!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nem os membros da IASD notam
que são batizados em nome de 4 pessoas.. converso ainda com meus irmãos e mãe
(todos ainda na IASD): TODOS concordam que nunca haviam se dado conta do
batismo em nome de EGW, e concordam plenamente que é algo absurdo, que a IASD
deveria rever a questão. E qualquer pessoa assim concordaria, adventista ou
não.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Esse foi o principal motivo que
me levou, inicialmente a não mais levar ninguém para a IASD (pq o sujeito seria
batizado em nome de EGW), e que depois culminou com minha saída da instituição.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ainda mantenho muitos amigos
por lá, alguns também buscando por conta o esclarecimento sobre tudo o que lá é
falado.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Se ofendi algum ASD peço
humildemente desculpas. Só escrevi neste blog pois acredito que muitos membros
da IASD possam começar a estudar por si mesmos tudo o que lá é repassado como
verdade. Mas a verdade sempre aparece, mais cedo ou mais tarde. Pensem no
assunto do batismo, é realmente algo muito sério.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Finalizando, respondendo à
Andreinha quanto à questão dos alimentos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;1- dieta vegetariana estrita
está longe de ser a melhor dieta. Hoje, a ciência comprova que a dieta do
mediterrâneo é a mais adequada para a saúde, e envolve a ingestão moderada de
carne, e consumo moderado de álcool, dentre outras coisas..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;2- Deus deu a Noé e sua família
TODOS os animais da terra por alimento (Gen 9:3). Se a IASD afirma que os
animais impuros de Lev 11 fazem mal à saúde, então afirmam automaticamente que
Deus, apesar de salvar Noé e sua família do dilúvio, quis prejudicar sua saúde,
dando a ele uma nova dieta que seria prejudicial ao seu organismo...?!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bem, fico por aqui... Espero
ter ajudado a esclarecer a seriedade do assunto do batismo na IASD, a única
igreja que batiza em nome de 4 pessoas!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fonte: Manual da IASD 17ed,
2008.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Que Deus nos abençoe e que o
Espírito nos Ilumine!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah, e já que citaram
anteriormente números, aí vão alguns:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;População mundial: 7 bilhões&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #2d3037;"&gt;Igreja Católica Apostólica
Romana: 1,2 Bilhões&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Igreja Católica Ortodoxa: 300
milhões&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Igrejas Protestantes: 600 Milhões&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Igreja Adventista: 16 milhões&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Já ouvi um ASD comentar sobre a
estatística: lembre-se que a salvação vem pela porta estreita.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Respondi: ser cristão hoje já é
a porta estreita, já que somos apenas 1/3 da pop mundial.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #2d3037; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ou será que a porta é tão
estreita a ponto de salvar apenas 0.2% da população mundial?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2d3037;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2d3037;"&gt;Postado por O Peregrino&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Extraído do site ELLEN WHITE (A
MENTIRA BRANCA)&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2012/06/o-batismo-em-nome-de-ellen-g-white.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Li0YPkXlG0/T9b4ZS6-lAI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/y2pfoEMVm8g/s72-c/novo-manual-da-igreja-adventista-2010-1.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-1166195171535446049</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T11:58:16.014-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Escândalos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tragédia Waco</category><title>Ex-Adventistas Sobreviventes de Tragédia no Texas Exigem Indenização</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.adventistas.com/images/reuters20000619048.jpg" height="332" width="400" /&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td bgcolor="#a7af57" style="text-align: right;" width="180"&gt;&lt;span class="legenda" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O cerco de 51 dias acabou com o incêndio da granja  (Arquivo/Reuters)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Segunda,  19 de junho de 2000, 16h02min&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sete anos depois da desastrosa operação do FBI  contra uma granja da seita dos davidianos em Waco, no Texas, sobreviventes e as  famílias das vítimas exigem das autoridades federais uma indenização de US$ 675  milhões.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="texto"&gt;O julgamento, que começou segunda-feira em Waco com a escolha do  júri, decidirá se o governo é responsável pela morte de 86 membros da seita,  entre eles 17 crianças, durante o ataque ao local, em seguida a um cerco de 51  dias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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"De um lado há um grupo de cidadãos que denunciam graves abusos de  poder cometidos pelo Estado. Do outro, há um governo que terá que explicar seus  atos", disse Bill Underwood, professor de direito da Universidade de  Baylor.&lt;/div&gt;
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Dia 28 de fevereiro de 1993 centenas de agentes do órgão federal  encarregado de fiscalizar as armas de fogo foram em busca de armas e explosivos  à granja ocupada por adeptos da seita Davidiana, grupo dissidente da Igreja  Adventista do Sétimo Dia liderado por David Koresh.&lt;/div&gt;
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Os agentes foram  recebidos a bala. No tiroteio morreram quatro agentes e numerosos integrantes da  seita.&lt;/div&gt;
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Em resposta, o FBI cercou a granja e, ao final de 51 dias, Koresh  aceitou libertar algumas mulheres e crianças, mas não quis se render.&lt;/div&gt;
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Dia  19 de abril, o FBI tentou atacar a granja numa ação que incluiu o uso de carros  blindados, granadas e gases lagrimogêneos. A granja não demorou a ser devorada  por um incêndio e apenas poucos membros da seita conseguiram se salvar.&lt;/div&gt;
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A  ministra da Justiça, Janet Reno, que deu a ordem de ataque, chegou a dizer que  "não há absolutamente nenhuma dúvida que (o incêndio) tenha sido iniciado pelos  membros da seita".&lt;/div&gt;
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Oito davidianos sobreviventes foram condenados em 1994  a penas de até 40 anos de prisão por homicídio e posse ilegal de armas. Há uma  semana a Suprema Corte reduziu as sentenças por considerar que o juiz se  excedeu.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="texto" style="font-size: large;"&gt;As circunstâncias exatas da tragédia continuam polêmicas. Os davidianos dizem  que o incêndio começou com o uso de gás inflamável por parte dos federais.  Também dizem que os agentes dispararam contra os membros da seita que tentavam  fugir do incêndio.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="texto" style="font-size: large;"&gt;A descoberta de dois filmes sobre o ataque feitos por um avião de vigilância  forçou o FBI a admitir o uso de gás inflamável, um fato que negou durante seis  anos.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="cartolamundo" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Copyright 2000 AFP&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Fiquei
 admirada ao saber que existe um site de ex-adventistas e não pude 
deixar de falar um pouco da experiência que tive nos 9 anos que estive 
nessa igreja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Logo
 que me casei (em Minas), mudei pra Brasília e comecei a fazer os 
estudos bíblicos com uma pessoa que sem nenhum problema me disse que 
logo precisaria  me batizar, "&lt;i&gt;porque senão o diabo iria roubar minha alma&lt;/i&gt;".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Isso com apenas um mês de estudo! Eu uma ex-católica que não conhecia muito bem a Bíblia, de imediato obedeci.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Depois
 disso, mergulhei profundamente na doutrina adventista, totalmente cega e
 fanática, defendia essa igreja como sendo a única verdadeira... 
Participava do ministério pessoal da igreja, me doando de corpo e alma 
pra defender essa igreja e é claro, apontando o dedo pra todas as outras
 como sendo filhas de Babilônia... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"&gt;Mas
 a  frieza das pessoas me incomodava muito, eles se auto intitulavam 
igreja de Laodiceia, que tem toda a verdade, mas a segunda parte do 
verso me deixava apavorada, quando Jesus dizia que estava a ponto de 
vomitá-la.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Comecei
 a orar e pedir para o Senhor acordar sua igreja, botar amor  pelas 
almas, afinal, éramos a "única" igreja verdadeira, aquela que tem "toda a
 verdade", mas estávamos mornos, soberbos por todo conhecimento.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Fiz isso durante muito tempo, até que um dia o Espírito Santo me levou a ler Gálatas e Romanos e algo impressionante aconteceu:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Eu
 já tinha lido esses livros não sei  quantas vezes, mas naquele dia meus
 olhos se abriram e pude ver claramente que nada que eu fizesse me 
salvaria e que todo peso da lei que me era imposta, já tinha passado, 
que eu estava livre...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Chorei compulsivamente... Eu não conseguia entender como aquilo esteve ali  o  tempo todo e eu nunca tinha visto...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Imediatamente deixei de ir à igreja e comecei a pesquisar sobre a mesma. O que descobri me deixou em estado de choque:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Descobri
 que tudo aquilo que eu acreditava era mentira, que Ellen G. White não era uma 
profetisa e, sim, uma farsante, que a doutrina do santuário desmerece a 
obra expiatória de Jesus...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Nunca mais fui  àquela  igreja; foi aí que recebi um telefonema de um irmão dizendo que a igreja adventista era "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: large;"&gt;a arca&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;" e que "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: large;"&gt;era melhor eu estar de joelhos dentro da arca, que de  pé fora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Soube ainda que falavam que eu estava endemoniada, pois "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: large;"&gt;é impossível uma pessoa conhecer a “verdade” e abandona-la"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Depois
 de tanto tempo hoje,  com maturidade, posso ver que a igreja adventista
  tem zelo com as coisas de Deus, isso eu não posso negar e que eu gosto
 do estilo de vida deles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Mas
 simplesmente não dá pra fingir que não sei o que sei! Li os livros a 
Mentira branca e a Nuvem branca, li tudo que o CACP escreveu sobre a 
igreja sempre verificando na&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;palavra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Os adventistas têm certo zelo, mas os erros vão além de qualquer coisa boa que podemos encontrar lá.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Eles
 põem os livros de EGW em igualdade com a Bíblia e também o sábado como 
ponto de salvação e mesmo que digam que não, esta é a mais pura verdade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Gosto
 do canal Novo Tempo, mas algum tempo atrás, assisti algo que  de novo 
me deu vontade de sair gritando e imediatamente desliguei a TV:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;O
 pastor Luis Gonçalves, explicando “numa viagem total" que mesmo que a 
pessoa tenha confessado Jesus, mesmo que ela tenha intima comunhão com 
Ele através da oração e da palavra, mesmo que tenha sido&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;batizada
 por imersão, se Jesus voltar hoje ela não  se salvará, porque além de 
estar numa igreja que é filha de babilônia, ela não guarda o quarto 
mandamento, então,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;simplesmente Jesus não a aceitaria...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Meu Deus!!! Dá uma revolta tão grande! Como pode... Como se vangloriam de conhecer a verdade, se não seguem essa verdade!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Não gostaria que meu nome fosse divulgado, mas gostaria de me juntar a tantos outros, que tiveram seus olhos abertos pra “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: large;"&gt;verdadeira Verdade&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;”:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;A nossa salvação é por fé e só é preciso confessar Jesus como meu Senhor e Salvador; mais nada...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Sábado? Não é, nem nunca será ponto de salvação para ninguém. Aleluia!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Espero ter contribuído, fiquem todos com Deus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Irmã anônima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In a year when Mitt Romney, a prominent and accomplished Mormon, is running for president, I have lately had numerous inquiries from people who know that I am an attorney for child abuse victims, asking me about child sexual abuse in the Mormon Church. Here is a summary of what I often say:&lt;/div&gt;
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has historically had a significant problem with child sexual abuse in its midst. While there are to my knowledge no reliable statistics on the numbers of incidents or abusers, it is my sense that the scale and scope of the problem was at least as serious as that in the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, the Seventh Day Adventists, or other similar organizations that have had documented and severe child abuse problems.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Over the last decade, I have handled probably two dozen cases of child sexual abuse in the Mormon Church, and have consulted with another 40-50 people who were abused in the LDS context. These victims of abuse have come from all over the country, but especially, of course, from the West: Utah, Arizona, and California, obviously, but also, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii. The stories I have heard and the evidence I have seen convince me that there was, and maybe still is, a deep and pervasive problem with child sexual abuse in the Mormon Church.&lt;/div&gt;
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The structure of the LDS Church has contributed to the problem. By this statement, I mean that, unlike, say, the Catholic Church, with its rigid hierarchy of ministry and its well-defined concept of who is a “minister,” the Mormon Church’s local leadership structure—Stake Presidents and Bishops being lay, not professional, ministers, and serving on a rotating, and not permanent, basis— made it harder for the Church to educate, train and supervise the local leadership to screen, monitor and supervise those who are in a position to abuse children.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Additionally, given the large number of church tasks delegated by the Church to its members via “callings”—home teachers, Sunday School teachers, quorum leaders, bishoprics, Scout leaders, etc—the number of “relationships of trust” between “official” church leaders and children are many times the number in other churches and youth organizations.&lt;/div&gt;
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The LDS Church’s response to child abuse in its midst, until relatively recently, did not materially differ from that of other churches—the Catholics, the Adventists, the Jehovah’s Witnesses and others.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There was historically a consistent tendency to try to bury the problem, to encourage or coerce victims to stay silent, to “let the Bishop handle it” and other similar responses, when an allegation of child abuse arose.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Of course, as in any religious context, in the Mormon culture there immediately arose for a victim or for his or her family a kind of conflict of interest, or religious duress, where to take action to report or prosecute an abuser could be seen as attacking or harming the Church. This kind of dilemma for victims and their families, in any religious setting, is always deeply tormenting, even traumatic, especially when in the context of a church such as the LDS, where loyalty to the Church was expected to be complete.&lt;/div&gt;
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There also seems to have been an extraordinary reluctance by Stake Presidents, Bishops and other Church leaders to report such allegations to law enforcement.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Perhaps this reluctance resulted from some of the historic tensions in the United States between Mormons and the civil governments under which they lived, perhaps it flowed from the history of polygamy in the Mormon Church, perhaps it came from the well-documented hostility and even persecution that Mormons often experienced in the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;and even 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;centuries.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;But whatever the cause, it seems that the habitual reaction of many LDS Church leaders historically was to do whatever they could to keep allegations of child sexual abuse quiet and under the social and legal radar.&amp;nbsp;Since we know that child abuse thrives in secret, and secret systems are its favorite breeding place, this tendency toward secrecy contributed to the prevalence and depth of the overall LDS child abuse problem. Indeed, compared to the numbers of victims of abuse by Catholic priests, Boy Scout leaders and other similar trusted adults, the relatively small numbers of Mormon child abuse survivors who have come forward to break their silence or bring legal claims seems to underscore the heaviness of outing the secrets.&lt;/div&gt;
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Perhaps surprisingly to some, to its credit the LDS Church has, in the last decade or so, been much more responsible, at least in my experience, in responding to the problem of abuse than have many of the other institutions I regularly deal with.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For one thing, the Church has a more sophisticated understanding of abuse, and, though there is still much room for improvement, the Church has created better training programs to prevent and recognize abuse.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;And though I have had several hard-fought lawsuits with the Church there have been a dozen or so cases fully litigated around the country, for the most part, and increasingly, the Church has attempted to resolve such claims early: it has often offered ongoing support for those who need it: mental health counseling (within or without the Church social services structure), pastoral and spiritual assistance for those who want it, and even material and financial support. Of course, my job as an advocate for survivors is to make sure that there is also fair financial restitution to victims, measured by the nature and extent of the abuse, the extent to which Church authorities failed to protect a child, and other relevant legal considerations.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;But, even apart from that, it is worth noting that overall, the LDS Church has been doing a better job than many other churches and youth organizations at resolving claims fairly and expeditiously.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Whether these efforts are simply attempts to keep cases out of the public eye, or whether they are genuine attempts to accept responsibility for abuse in its midst, the LDS Church seems to have decided that doing the smart thing and doing the right thing is often&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;the same thing&lt;/i&gt;, and the result has been that Church authorities have often worked in good faith to resolve legal claims. Indeed, other churches and institutions of trust that deal with abused children could learn some things from the LDS approach.&lt;/div&gt;
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It will be interesting to see, as this year rolls on and a highly charged election approaches, if the question of child sexual abuse in the Mormon Church is a topic that draws much attention.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In the meantime, perhaps this brief introduction to child sexual abuse in the Mormon Church can help the public in understanding a complex and largely still unrecognized problem.&lt;/div&gt;
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The man beaten by elders on Sabbath&lt;/div&gt;
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SOME Seventh Day Adventist Church deacons in Lusaka last Saturday abandoned their faith and instead pounced on a suspected thief who was found trying to steal a side mirror from a parked vehicle belonging to a church member.&lt;/div&gt;
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A Supreme Timers Staffer&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Lydia Mudenda,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;who was at the scene, reports that a deacon of Lusaka Central SDA church for some unknown reasons decided to leave the church service and started to wander around and about.&lt;/div&gt;
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In the recent past, there have been complaints from church members that they found their side mirrors and other valuables stolen from the vehicles especially Toyota Corolla.&lt;/div&gt;
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“I saw this thief (pointing at the lynched man) loitering in the car park, so I decided to monitor him. Upon realizing that I was monitoring him, he pretended to have gone away. I also pretended to have gone to church” the deacon was heard boasting to his associate after the incident.&lt;/div&gt;
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Mudenda reports that when the deacon went into the church to inform another deacon that there was a man planning to steal some valuables from the vehicles in the car park.&lt;/div&gt;
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She reports that as the two deacons went to check on the situation in the car park, they found the man stealing the side mirror from a vehicle belonging to a church member.&lt;/div&gt;
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The two deacons then tactfully pounced on the man before that started beating him ruthlessly.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Church service however remained uninterrupted.&lt;/div&gt;
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That was good instant justice. People should learn to respect other people’s rights to conscience and religion. Even Jesus whipped those he found abusing the worshipping place. The gentleman should be an example to would be thieves!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;PC&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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That is what we used to call physical counselling in my SDA church before I left Zambia. You can imagine you get a loan to buy a car only for a chap who does not even sweat to come and feast on your hard earned property. Any way, nowadays such a one should have been taken for overnight prayers.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Mwape D&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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I have no pity for a thief. They should have killed him. He wanted to take advantage of worshipers? To hell with him, deacons, a well done job. Be on the lookout and should you find nother, chop off his legs, they are very stupid. They think we just get vehicles? We sweat for them but he wants to get a side mirror. If i was around i would kill him, they are making our tribe dirty. How i wissh i was of another tribe not known on planet earth. Come on head deacon! Come on Barbra!&lt;/div&gt;
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you are lucky mr thief the youth, especially the Master Guides didnt pour out their zeal on you, next time you wont be so lucky. guys be careful sda’s and catholicas we dont want rwanda genocide! the wise shall understand&lt;/div&gt;
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@nsama, u are hopeless-wanisekesa mu bemba wakantu iwe&lt;/div&gt;
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if you are a male, stop thinking with your dick.a female no words&lt;br /&gt;
WANT THE DEACONS DID WAS BEST.VERY VERY GOOD.&lt;/div&gt;
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The deacons beat up a thief, so what! You people who call yourselves worshipers have also stolen, lied, committed adultery, fornicated, contributed to rumors, back stabbers, laughed and mock people you know who have lost their wealth. Christian Nation? I wonder. Hypocrites.&lt;/div&gt;
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I am an Adventist, and I am saddened that this happened. The thief was apparently caught in the act. It is not our duty to exact vengeance. That is God’s duty. He could have simply been detained and either carried to the police, or held until the police arrived.&lt;/div&gt;
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As it is, my dear brothers responsible for the physical damage to the man could possibly be themselves liable to criminal sanction. I understand why they may have done it, but it does not justify them. I hope they understand not only the spiritual condemnation upon their actions, but also the impact it will have on efforts by those same Central Church members in witnessing to anyone.&lt;/div&gt;
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I am curious, did anyone pray with or for the thief in his presence? If he resisted and they had to exert physical force to detain him, that is different. It seems to me though that more than necessary physical force to detain him was utilized.&lt;/div&gt;
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Please pray to God for your forgiveness, and ask this man for forgiveness too.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Phacetious Plebbe&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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tuma corolla nisochabe.anyway its so painful to hv ur property temperd with&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;anone&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Am an Adventist but this is just plain wrong, whether done on Sabbath or any other day.&lt;/div&gt;
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Interesiting reading..to be honest these thieves in Lusaka have taken advantage of worshipers. I do not know the experience in other churches. am also an Adventist but not from central church. we have reached an extent to ensure some deacons are put on outside security to guard vehicles for worshipers because of thieves. at my church we used to replace toilet accessories every week. Why should people who are not disabled decide to take advantage of others who meet for worhip?? I think they did well to beat except maybe baliuma sana. its very frustrating and annoying. it means people now shud stop concentrating during worship.others come into church as though they come to worship and search ladies bags when people are praying. As a result now some deacons have to remain with eyes wide open during prayers to catch such people. the one who talks about Ellen G. White as a false prophet does not even know what kind of books she wrote. Look for one and read it and comment after reading if you will still maintain your stance.&lt;br /&gt;
Others come in the name of being stranded, e.g. am from mpika so i need transport, if you want to take them to intercity to buy them tickets they get angry with you.&lt;/div&gt;
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There is alot happening in churches these days.Its now time for professional thieves. Who said the christian should always be taken for granded. someone will go and shit just because its in church ground and expects deacons to come and pray for him?? No ways. Let him go to the devil who influenced him that christians do not entertain stealing, let him steal from fellow thieves&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;KAss&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Good !! these thieves need to be pounded so as to deter would be pompwes.&lt;/div&gt;
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Am surprised that a wrong act is being attributed to one’s tribe and origin. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Am not saying the thief was right but we should be careful how we use words. Don’t forget the Rwanda genocide. A wrong is a wrong and I’m sure it’s not only Bembas in prisons. Are we forgetting the killer Chilala, does that make all Tongas murderers? We are all Zambians let’s not be divisive.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;NC&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The name for the thief is andrew Mulenga from Kanyama compound…judge for yourself.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;I HATE FORNICATORS.&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The blogger who writes that ” no wonder they are following their false prophet , Ellen White” is just unfair to the members of this church. I wonder what kind of people others are that they have open hatred of certain religious groups. Please do not be a judge leave that one to god alone. Concentrate on your perceived true faith and let’s see it will take you to heaven instead of calling people of other faiths names.&lt;/div&gt;
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A Thief deserves that kind of treatment. Who ever is critising the act is full of pretence, just wait till you are visited we will see your actions.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;zuze zuze&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The thief is a caholic, in fact a former seminarian from chilonga mission. He is Bemba and was in he same intake with bakateka.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Yama Mwintombela kwipaya&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Iris And Nathan&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Shame on you so called deacons, who gave you the authority to judge and sentence this man, he should have been taken to the custodians of the law. Never read the bible HE WHO HAS NOT SINNED, CAST THE FIRST STONE?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://zambianwatchdog/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Kubweka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
14:46&lt;/div&gt;
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Bakamuuma bakacita kabontu maningi. What happenned was good for a reason. It was not new to the SDA members loosing their valuables at Central during worshipping. He is lack he was not stonned to death. Because we worship God of second chance it is time for him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal saviour and let him confess his sin for Jesus is just to forgive those who humbly bow, plead and seek His face.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;mainza&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
14:40&lt;/div&gt;
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No wonder they follow a false prohetess by the name of Ellen G, white&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Judge Kajimanga&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
14:20&lt;/div&gt;
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No comment! Was this wrong or right and why?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Headman Kagoli - Monze District&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The physical counciling was too much bros to the extent of engaging the outsiders sure.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://www.kowa/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;kenny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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If the ansestors of bembas first camped in baroste or tonga land before settling in those kolwe infested jungles of northern province am sure things would be different for their sons and daughters today. I pity this bemba thief! Like its a picture from that movie ‘the passion of christ’ sure!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Kanyakula&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Deacons please visit this man where ever he is. Pray with him that you taught him a lesson physically please also teach him spiritually. Amen&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Captain&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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I thinking of producing a short movie based on this story. Title is “THE PASSION OF A THIEF!”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Peso&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Hehehehe, it was a special baptism for the thief on the Sabbath, am sure he repented truely and never to steal again. Thieves targeting side mirrors are too much especially at car parks around ZSIC building, Premium House in Kamwala.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Tione&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Mama&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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This is what happens when the Police and Laywers(Nchito)cannot help or they are corrupt. Even Jesus chased those who were selling in a place of worship. Deacons, please repent as what you did is wrong!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;BAROTSELAND BOYS!&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Decons are the security people so biting some one is one of the duties of security. GO on decon bit them.&lt;/div&gt;
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If the devil attacks you physically, Do not hesitate to attack the devil physically….!! whatever your hand findeth to do, do it with all your mighty…..&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;dot com&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Christ when he was here on earth he taught his followers how to keep the sabbath holy though actions and words. Christ said that it is right to do what is good on the sabbath. You see the sabbath was made for man not the man for sabbath, this means that man should not be a slave on this day but it must be a day of freedom and liberty from sin and physical pains unto salvation. This thief was supposed to find salvation from sin from this deacon. Any one who keep the sabbath should make sure that on this day any evil man or sick man must meet Jesus through him. It is sad that this thief as a sinner didn’t meet Jesus Christ on this day through that deacon. The deacon was supposed to tkae that thief and treat him as Christ would have treated a sinner by showing him the way to eternal life. He was suppsed to make that sinner free from sin of stealing spiritually than physically.&lt;br /&gt;
Both the thief and the deacon never kept the sabbath day holy and they are wrong in the eyes of God they both need confession of this sin to God. Sabbath is holy, so nothing should be done unholy.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ha ha ha koma benze bamuchaya bad ka. Akungo ipweteka chabe.&lt;br /&gt;
stealing at church. he must go to hell.&lt;/div&gt;
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Both parties, the thief and the “deacons” got it wrong. “Thou shall not steal” [THIEF], “Violence I do hate” ["DEACONS"].&lt;/div&gt;
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These Deacons should be charged by police&lt;br /&gt;
for assaulting the thief.They have committed&lt;br /&gt;
a crime after another crime.The thief should&lt;br /&gt;
have been apprehended and handed over to the&lt;br /&gt;
police.What has happened to human rights in&lt;br /&gt;
Zambia kanshi?Deacons,you cant just take the&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;BE MY GUEST&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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This treatment should be meted out to those chaps who want to steal K14 Billion from DBZ&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Chi Ukwa Tiyeuko!&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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A thief deserves equal justice whether instant or judiciary.Well done SDA Deacons.&lt;/div&gt;
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CHISE,Mpika&lt;/div&gt;
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well done decons i even regret missing the service….But did he repent of his sins after reseving good beatings from men of God?hehehehe&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;REX&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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I have enjoyed the for and aganist debate. It is difficult to say who is right or wrong, I have purely learnt from you all bloggers. I am sure the debate continues.Decon or thief who to support? Could this be compared to Mohan and a judge in the Mmembe saga? Please note that both these cases involve humans who have fallen short of God’s glory before.&lt;/div&gt;
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Well done men of God .This thief must go and ask for spare change from Sata ,Mmembe and Nchito.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;utu jiri jiri&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Church must have been boring for the deacon to go and pass time outside, anyway he must be from armcor or G3 and was doing rehearsals before warming up for work&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Kabwe resident&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Ala mwebene chalo, we have seen for ourselves that it does not pay to steal but you can ask and your request will be given.&lt;/div&gt;
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I support the deacons for what they did coz, if he was taken to police, he would have returned the same day to steal from the same place. We mob justice as our security organs are sleeping.&lt;/div&gt;
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What I know is that, where ever a good number of people gather, at least there should an officer or two.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;JINX-CHINA&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Edward.from your reaction i can only conclude that you are of this man’s tribe where you dont see anything wrong in stealing.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;wangu&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Barotseland black bull, what would you do if you found a neighbour fisting on your wife in your own house as you return from a Barotse Freedom meeting? Are you going to let the man free, probably, untill Barotseland finally secceds from zambia since you guys have no regard for ZP?&lt;/div&gt;
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he got wt he dzved.dont blame da church.u guyz who blaming da church,if u think umambala is gud,try it ku kopala sda church and see hw we are going to baptise u&lt;/div&gt;
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Bibles says a thief comes to steal and kill so i dont blame the deacons for teaching that man to respect other peoples property. Just last months, thieves broke into my house and stole electronics plus some cash when my family and i were at church. It pained me big. Police, very useless! They wanted me to start spending money on them to ivestigate the case. Well done deacons!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;J J&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Good job deacons! Thats the work of deacons – to serve others!&lt;/div&gt;
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This is the fix our nation finds itself. There is no confidence building No hope inspiration only talk about corruption in the home, outside home, at work, and every where. Those who talk against are themselves called corrupt, those who do not talk are themselves called corrupt and Zambia today is a corrupt organism with no hope to go by. How do I know that? Tell me which part of our society has not been called corrupt? The words that add salt to morality are all thrown away. For instance the word “Some” like in Some judges, Some policemen, Some community members etc. If you say Zambians are corrupt it means all except none, If you say the Police is corrupt it means all policemen except none, If you say Politicians are corrupt it means all except none etc. What a shame we have become from top to bottom!!!!!!! Shame on us indeed!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Zondani Lungu&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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we ourselves are busy destroying this country, how can we talk of Bembas as thievies or Tongas as SDAs, a thief is a thief .be it as Assemblies of God Catholic or Jehova`s witness. which church member would take a thief as a goodman, if thieves ve not stollen frm yo home or attacked you in anyway, yes you can say the deacons were wrong but surely losing a view mirrors and drive in Lusaka isnt that suicide?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://yahoo/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;frank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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You shall not steal. The wage of SIN is death. He got the benefit of what he was looking for and taking advantage og the Sabbath Keepers.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Teddy&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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if u break the law, you face stoning! the deacons applied the law. infact they were supposed to cut off his hands hehe lol sabbath&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Yayayaya!&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Pipo stop lying,deacons were not supposed to beat the thief, rather apprehend and surrender him to the law enforcers. To make the matter worse it was on sabbath,what they did was contrary to wat they preach-repent its not to let!!&lt;/div&gt;
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Nearly All the towns on the Copper belt,you can see sanity even on the road’s Pedestrian crossing, because, as soon as you enter, you observe motorists driving respectfully.Wall fences are also a rare sight.Not so in the Capital city; YOU ‘VE to Run for your life.Lets respect peoples’Life and Property.&lt;/div&gt;
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The man was sent by the devil.The wages of sin is death. He is lack he didnt die.Basopo kawalala.&lt;/div&gt;
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Please, dont blame the deacons. They are Zambians also and they know well how our justice system works. If they took him to Police he would be arrested and appear in court. If he pleads guilty in court right away the court would demand that he proves his guilty. If he pleads not guilty trial would continue. In all this process, lawyers as usual would be there to confuse themselves taking opposite sides until they have all been paid what is due to them. It’s better to be a deacon to unleashes instant justice on a thief on the sabbath than a lawyer who lies in court on monday to save a thief.&lt;/div&gt;
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please do not say that the deacon was “wandering” and waiting for the service to end that is wrong. the deacons are there to monitor what is happening. do not tarnish the names of other people okay.&lt;/div&gt;
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Kabwalala ngu kabwalala sabata olo nsondo,trying to use sabath as an advantage tachibeleki tulimu makide alimwi muchiumwa&lt;/div&gt;
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Well done deacons, after all you are the church’s security/investigative wing! Spot-on!&lt;/div&gt;
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Well done Deacons for being vigilant.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Ugly Truth&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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ill informed thief, he thought sabbath was open for his activities. well done deacons he got his share of sabbath. no wonder God says thou shall not steal.&lt;/div&gt;
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Xactly Zega bondo,edward nsma…..taking the law in their own hands ka?? Police station mudala. If Zambians think like you guys then will be heading somewhere unlike nowhere. Or xpose him to church members and pray for him coz the gentleman needs deliverance thats all he has a demon of stealing ..easy&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;kanthu&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
10:26&lt;/div&gt;
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Dear all, it is good that some of you have even commented on this story without getting the whole truth about it. This story is not true, and the image projected is not real. There was no person who wanted to still the car mirror on Sabbath. The only free advise i would like to give to all news reporters is that they should stop abusing the media for their personal gains.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;C.N.Imolo&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
10:20&lt;/div&gt;
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oh,that brocken down man is a bemba beaten by SDA Tongas.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;loyola&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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This should move the deacons to understand the bible well. There was nothing wrong in them doing any physical GOOD work on sabbath or any other day according to the bible. every day should be “sabbath” to Christians in that we are supposed to be doing things in accordance to bible principles. Here they are, protecting their assets on the “sabbath”. was this wrong? would God punish them for cooking food for their family on “sabbath? would he punish them for taking their sick child to hospital on “sabbath”? let them Go back to the bible.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;kanthu&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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That brocken down man looks like a Tonga beaten by SDA Tongas on sabath.&lt;/div&gt;
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The deacons must be tongas and the thief obviously is a bemba looking for “more money in his pockets” with blessings from the president.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Jacob Zume&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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HAS IT GOT TO DO WITH TONGA AS TRIBE . BWALYA YOU ARE TRIBALIST MR BROTHER YOU NEED JESUS. WHAT WAS THAT THIEF ? I HOPE IT IS NOT WHAT I SUSPECT.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;wapya munzi&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The wages of sin is death, but free gift God is life through our Lord Jesus Christ.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://www.eafca.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Sachi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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This really shocking and intriguing news. God help us!!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://www.yahoo.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Firestone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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I really thank the deacons for their effort to apprehend the thief however they should have taken the thief to the law enforcement officers.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;clement shimumbi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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SDA at it again They must be Tonga Deacons I remember at school 90% members used to come from monze , bweegwa etc.&lt;/div&gt;
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They should have preached to him and help him with capital to start a kantemba&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Octopus paul Bwalya&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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The Deacons are just human.They did well to that Devil who was trying to take advantage of the Sabath.Thieves should not be tolerated.You should have killed the bugger.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Boma Ni Boma&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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What happened to the law of keeping the sabath holy and not engaging in any physical activity on this holy day, deacons?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Deep Thinker&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
09:41&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;preacherman&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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They did well why steal at church, he thought if they caught him they will give him more ahahahahahah.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;&lt;a class="url" href="http://yahoo/" rel="external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0a9cc1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;chanda mwamba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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hahahahahahahahahha pweketest hahahahhah&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;THE REPORTER&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Yolinda Nduu&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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U may use force if does not want surrender. There was nothing wrong about what the deacon did. The role of deacon/ like usher in other churches is to maintain law and order at the church. even your child is crying its actually the deacon’s duty to help u calm it donw.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;sTATE@MMM.COM&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Well done deacon. The thief should look for “more money” elsewhere….&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;Taxi Driver Hooting &amp;amp; Celebrating&lt;/cite&gt;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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its good that he was beaten he was disciplined because that is what he deserves at all&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;XER REEVES&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Thats typical of SDAs’. In Matero they encronched a public road until the LCC put a stop to it.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;hallo&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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Biblically the thief should have been apprehended, and minimmum force should have been exercised on the thief to avoid breaking the Sabbath. However, the decision to apprehend the thief on the Sabbath is justified. In Israel the IDF work on the Sabbath to maintain security, and even during the times of Israel, the Jews had an army that would defen itself even on holy days including the Sabbath. Just because it is the Sabbath does not mean you can allow someone pick your pocket and all you do is smile at them. Thats why I pray with my eyes open when Iam in Lusaka. Therefore, the devil should not think he cannot be man handled on the Sabbath just because it is the Sabbath. However, worhsippers should know what is adequate restraint and not go beyond to meting out instant justice of the thief has already been immobilised or apprehended. I rest my case.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;SDA Deacon&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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wat do yu expect? he deserved the servicing&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;cite class="fn"&gt;chali&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;- May 22, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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KWENA MULI BAWELEWELE, YOU MEAN YOU CANT JUST COUNSEL THIS PERSON OR JUST TO TAKE HIM TO THE LAW ENFORCING AGENCIES THAN TO POUNCE ON HIM LIKE THAT? YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE SOCIETY. AND YOU DON’T DESERVE TO BE DEACONS BECAUSE YOU ARE THUGS.THE ONLY APOLOGY YOU CAN GIVE TO THE NATION IS TO STEP DOWN AS CHURCH DEACONS. AND START BOXING INSTEAD. MWEFIPUMBU MWE!!!!&lt;/div&gt;
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Hehehehehehehe,they served him well on sabbath!!!&lt;/div&gt;
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Christians? My foot. Why take the law in your own hands instead of taking the thief to the police? Some people just hide in the church, they themsleves are thugs. I am not supporting the car mirror thief, but all I am saying is that this guy should have been handed over to the police.&lt;/div&gt;
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST OREGON ADVENTIST CONFERENCE, AND ROSEBURG JUNIOR  ACADEMY FOR 1992 RAPE OF FIVE YEAR-OLD&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Sally Roe v. Western Oregon Conference Association of Seventh Day Adventists&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Portland, Ore&lt;/strong&gt;—A new childhood sexual abuse lawsuit was filed today in Multnomah County Circuit Court against the &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Western Oregon Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, and the Roseburg Junior Academy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, a &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;private religious school run by the Adventists in Roseburg&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.  The suit alleges that in 1992 a five year old girl was subject to sexual abuse and rape by an Adventist pastor who was assigned to Roseburg  Junior Academy to conduct a “week of prayer.”  The suit alleges that the pastor, utilizing the respect, trust, and obedience that a five year-old Adventist child would have for a pastor secluded her into an isolated area of the school, sexually abused and raped her.&lt;/div&gt;
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“What we intend to prove will write an awful story, one of the worst I have seen,” said Kelly Clark, attorney for the victim, who frequently handles childhood sexual abuse cases.  “The story this young woman, now 21, tells is chilling.  She absolutely trusted the Church, the school, and anyone affiliated with them, especially a pastor there for week of prayer.  To say she has been traumatized, confused, ashamed and psychologically wounded by this would be a massive understatement.  This was not the kind of sexual abuse, like we often see, where the perpetrator feigns affection and tenderness.  This was an outright assault, complete with cruelty, force, and threats.”&lt;/div&gt;
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The suit was filed in &lt;b&gt;Multnomah County&amp;nbsp;Circuit Court&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;under a provision of Oregon law that allows a lawsuit to be filed any place where a defendant regularly conducts business, according to Clark, and since the Adventists’ conference and churches are in Multnomah County, venue is proper there.  According to Clark, the suit, should it proceed along normal lines, would process through document exchange, depositions, investigation, and motions, and would likely be ready for a jury trial late this year or early 2010.&lt;br /&gt;
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According to Clark, the victim is now a young woman, 21, attending community college.  She has not been identified in the suit, under standard practice in Oregon courts.  “She’s struggling,” said Clark, “but she doing the right things to get healed.  It will be a long road.”&lt;/div&gt;
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Just before Christmas yet another case against the Adventists, was resolved, said Clark this one arising out of sexual abuse of a child at the East Salem Seventh Day Adventist Church by convicted serial pedophile  Harrison, who in 1994 was convicted for sexually abusing numerous children both at the Adventist Church and at the Oregon School for the Blind.  The case was settled just before trial for an amount that is confidential.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Elizaphan Ntakirutimana,&lt;/b&gt; (81) &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;former senior pastor of the Seventh-day  Adventist church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; who on 19 February 2003 was sentenced to ten years’  imprisonment after being convicted of aiding and abetting genocide in Rwanda,  was today released from prison at the end of his sentence.&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2012/05/elizaphan-ntakirutimana-released-after.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKvy1F3B7oOsBsTW825dIW56C9rK3qPUh9iPOwyH18lb2oAFFkRseWSNw5UCNZYCC49rKXoegNZvZCWone49z6kxA5ULXUwXNz_VL6k3UgIU0-gCzbqyyFuGonWhD0LQJCurEmDUn6lum/s72-c/ntakrutmana.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-5396343249784788935</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 03:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T12:01:44.452-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Legalismo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Relação Igreja X Estado</category><title>Adventista do Sétimo Dia Não Tem Direito a Tratamento Diferenciado Para a Realização da Prova em Concurso Público</title><description>&lt;div class="divImagem" id="ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_ucConteudoNoticia_divImagem" style="background-color: white; color: #576f85; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span class="fontSize12px" id="ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_ucConteudoNoticia_lblConteudoNoticia" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A Procuradoria da União no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte contestou Mandado de Segurança em que o impetrante buscava a concessão de provimento jurisdicional que lhe assegurasse a realização de todas as provas do VII Concurso Público para provimento de Cargos de Juiz Substituto do TRT-21º Região em dia de domingo. Alternativamente, requereu que lhe fosse permitido ficar confinado em sala especial até o pôr do sol do sábado, quando poderia realizar o exame sem burlar os dogmas de sua crença religiosa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Alegou o impetrante que é membro regular da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, a qual prega ser o sábado o dia destinado ao descanso, adoração e ministério, motivo pelo qual não poderia se submeter ao exame na data originalmente escolhida no Edital do certame.&lt;/div&gt;
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A segurança foi liminarmente denegada pelo Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 21º Região.&lt;/div&gt;
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Em sua contestação, a União alegou, preliminarmente, ter havido perda do objeto do writ, e, no mérito, que o tratamento diferenciado pleiteado pelo candidato causa a quebra do princípio da isonomia, basilar constitucional dos concursos públicos em geral, e, na esteira do que restou decidido pelo Desembargador Relator, que o Estado Brasileiro é laico, estando desvinculado de qualquer religião.&lt;/div&gt;
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A Advogada da União atuante no feito, Dra. MARIA HELOISA DE SENA PINHEIRO, defendeu, ainda, que a Constituição Federal assegura a liberdade de crença e o livre exercício dos cultos religiosos, e não a adequação da máquina administrativa aos preceitos religiosos de qualquer crença que seja.&lt;/div&gt;
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O mandamus, que tramita no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 21º Região, segue para julgamento.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ref.: processo nº 8800-90.2012.5.21 - TRIBUNAL REGIONAL DO TRABALHO DA 21ª REGIÃO&lt;/div&gt;
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A Procuradoria da União no Rio Grande do Norte é unidade da Procuradoria-Geral da União, órgão da AGU.&lt;/div&gt;
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Concurso Público para Provimento de Cargos de Juiz do Trabalho Substituto do TRT 
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;21/03/2012 07:19:17 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Redistribuído por impedimento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Redistribuído para Relator(a)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 17:11:41 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 17:15:54 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Remetidos os Autos para SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO para 
redistribuir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 09:52:26 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 11:41:17 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;GABINETE DO DESEMBARGADOR JOSÉ RÊGO JÚNIOR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Conclusos para decisão/despacho redistribuição&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 09:52:16 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;20/03/2012 09:52:16 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Redistribuído por impedimento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Redistribuído para Relator(a)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;19/03/2012 15:42:29 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;19/03/2012 15:49:15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Remetidos os Autos para SECRETARIA DO TRIBUNAL PLENO para 
redistribuir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 12:51:30 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 15:13:08 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SECRETARIA JUDICIARIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Remetidos os Autos para SECRETARIA JUDICIARIA por impedimento 
ou suspeição&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Para redistribuir. (Impedimento)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:24:08 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:55:45 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;GABINETE DO DESEMBARGADOR ERIDSON MEDEIROS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Conclusos para decisão/despacho distribuição&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:23:58 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:23:57 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SERVIÇO DE CADASTRAMENTO PROCESSUAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Distribuído por sorteio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:23:57 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap=""&gt;&lt;span class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;15/03/2012 09:23:57 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;SERVIÇO DE CADASTRAMENTO PROCESSUAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td class="Textos"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Autuado o processo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2012/05/adventista-do-setimo-dia-nao-tem.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7-l2Ca99MMc/T68tSfe-rzI/AAAAAAAAAxk/aNxvlKGWvrI/s72-c/AGU" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-6998352246062473096</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 02:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T12:02:30.903-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Adventismo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Autoridade Escriturística</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Decálogo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ellen G. White</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ex-adventistas (Testemunhos)</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Expiação</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Interpretação Profética</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Justificação Pelas Obras</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Juízo Investigativo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Legalismo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Plágio</category><title>Testemunho de Phillipe Hotman</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: blue; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Introdução&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;"Como alguém pode deixar a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, a não ser por estar fraco na fé?" Esta era a pergunta que eu fazia quando achava que alguém estava prestes a deixar o barco da única igreja verdadeira.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Infância e Adolescência&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Minha história pessoal se confunde e se mescla com a história da igreja nas últimas quatro décadas no Brasil. Na minha infância, um colportor levou os livros da Igreja até minha casa, de tal forma que, após alguns anos, estávamos frequentando a Igreja Adventista, onde prosseguimos nos últimos quarenta anos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Como dedicados adventistas, meus irmãos e eu participávamos de tudo na Igreja, inclusive do clube dos desbravadores. Aos quinze anos eu já havia lido “O Grande Conflito”, “Mensagens aos Jovens” e vários outros livros da Igreja e da sra. White. Naquela época, ainda éramos os ‘Missionários Voluntários’ (depois o nome mudou para Jovens Adventistas).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;A Igreja Adventista que frequentei nos anos 1970&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;A Igreja que eu frequentei e vivi plenamente, pregava com entusiasmo várias coisas. Nos estudos bíblicos que recebemos e nas pregações da Igreja aprendemos que o papa era a cabeça da Besta do Apocalipse e a Igreja Católica era a Besta que emerge do Mar. A Igreja Adventista era a única igreja verdadeira, pois era a única que guardava os dez mandamentos de Deus. Além disso, tínhamos uma profetisa infalível. Fomos informados que havia um plano ecumênico em andamento para a união das igrejas, mas a igreja adventista jamais se uniria a elas, pois nem mesmo fazíamos parte do Conselho Mundial das Igrejas. Todas as profecias da nossa profetisa tinham se cumprido e outras ainda iriam se cumprir e isso nos fazia sentir muito seguros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Na época comentava-se muito sobre o fato da Igreja Adventista ser a segunda instituição mais organizada do mundo, atrás apenas da SHELL numa pesquisa feita nos Estados Unidos. O livro de nossa profetisa sobre a vida de Jesus (O Desejado de todas as nações) era considerado a melhor história já contada da vida de Jesus por alguém muito importante que trabalhava na Biblioteca do Congresso Americano. Sabíamos também que dentre os adventistas mais consagrados, no tempo do fim estariam os 144.000, e cada um de nós se esforçava pra estar entre eles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Participávamos das caravanas dos Festivais de Fé, das reuniões de Koinonia e cada notícia mais alarmante era para nós um sinal evidente do fim do mundo e isso era amplamente pregado e comentado por várias semanas. Aguardávamos e comentávamos com ares de surpresa e inquietação qualquer notícia relacionada ao domingo, ansiosos pelo decreto dominical. Pois para nós, a guarda do domingo era um sinal da besta. Em cada sábado à tarde, líamos porções do livro Mensagens aos Jovens, procurando ver em qual ponto deveríamos nos aperfeiçoar ainda mais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;E eu, como um ótimo adventista, acreditava e procurava viver plenamente tudo. Minha dedicação também se refletia na minha frequência, pois eu não perdia um único culto. Observando o meu comportamento, vários membros da Igreja diziam que eu deveria ir para um de nossos internatos e estudar para ser pastor da Igreja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Um fato estranho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Mas antes que eu tomasse tal decisão, aconteceu algo estranho em minha Igreja, que era a sede do distrito em nossa cidade no interior de Santa Catarina: alguns membros foram afastados da Igreja pelo pastor por um motivo inusitado. O que me surpreendeu foi que estes irmãos eram muito zelosos e me pareciam adventistas e cristãos autênticos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Curioso, perguntei a um dos líderes sobre o caso e ele me disse que o motivo era ‘apostasia’. E completando, recomendou-me que não me aproximasse de forma alguma desses ex-membros. Não satisfeito com a resposta, pois eu não podia entender como irmãos tão zelosos poderiam ter se apostatado, perguntei a uma pessoa que ainda era amiga de um dos (agora) ex-adventistas. Ela disse-me que era por que eles estavam seguindo as ideias de um pesquisador adventista chamado Desmond Ford que contestava importantes doutrinas da Igreja. Diante dessa explicação, julguei que a Igreja tinha procedido corretamente naquele caso e tranquilizei-me sobre o assunto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Fui para um de nossos colégios, buscando preparar-me ainda mais espiritualmente para seguir a carreira ministerial que me aguardava. Após concluir o segundo grau, transferi-me para um dos dois internatos que ofereciam o curso de Teologia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Sonho dos sonhos: eu, um simples jovem do interior do Brasil, estava ali no Seminário da Igreja que eu amava, preparando-me para ser um pastor. Tudo ocorria de forma maravilhosa e busquei aproveitar ao máximo o curso. Gostava muito das aulas do professor de Daniel e Apocalipse que frequentemente repetia: “Um texto fora do contexto é um pretexto”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Da época do teológico, além das boas lembranças, dois incidentes, completamente distintos, trouxeram-me alguma perturbação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Um colega de quarto um dia me chamou e leu um trecho de Ellen White, perguntando-me se eu achava que aquelas eram palavras de uma pessoa inspirada por Deus. O trecho em questão tratava Jesus como infantil e fraco, e eu disse ao colega que devia ser um erro de tradução. É claro que ele não ficou satisfeito, mas eu procurei ‘esquecer’ o assunto, pois não queria, conforme o dito popular, colocar ‘minhoca’ em minha cabeça.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Em outra ocasião, um professor do Teológico, Doutor em Teologia, recém-chegado da Andrews University, foi afastado do curso e excluído por ensinar em classe, doutrinas conflitantes com as defendidas pela Igreja. Outro professor, também Doutor em Teologia e professor de Oratória, foi afastado do curso e forçado a se aposentar porque gostava de falar ‘umas verdades’ que desagradavam a liderança do colégio e da obra. Eu gostava destes professores e me entristeci com estes fatos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Achava essas coisas estranhas, mas eu era jovem e meu foco era para mim muito claro: ser pastor da Igreja. Formei-me e fui chamado: meu sonho estava se realizando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Como pastor, aprofundei ainda mais meus estudos para preparar meus sermões e logo encontrei um foco para minhas mensagens: vida saudável, trabalho missionário, leitura dos livros do espírito de profecia e fidelidade aos princípios da igreja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Mas o conhecimento aliado a inteligência é perigoso na Igreja Adventista. Ao estudar com diligência e oração, logo começaram minhas dúvidas e inquietações em questões que envolviam Ellen White e as doutrinas. E das suas, uma: ou eu encontrava uma maneira de silenciar minhas inquietações, ou teria problemas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;E durante vários anos eu escolhi silenciar minhas inquietações com paliativos que à época pareciam satisfatórios: Ellen White era uma profetiza inspirada por Deus – logo suas palavras tinham o mesmo peso dos profetas bíblicos; a Igreja devia ter um bom motivo para acreditar dessa maneira; a Igreja Adventista era a igreja verdadeira e cumpria um papel singular na história do mundo; era meu emprego, minha carreira, minha escolha de vida, afinal de contas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Outra coisa que me inquietava eram os erros, mandos e desmandos que eu via em diferentes setores da ‘obra’. Havia também uma inquietação entre vários obreiros das missões: o peso ‘morto’ que na época significavam as uniões, que apenas repassavam orientações vindas da divisão para as associações e missões. Mas eu novamente me tranquilizava afirmando para mim mesmo que ‘fora’ da obra, deveria ser muito pior, e que aquelas pessoas e os dirigentes que faziam coisas erradas e tomavam decisões que prejudicavam a obra e a igreja como um todo, no juízo final teriam de Deus a justa recompensa por suas más obras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Realizando uma semana especial sobre o Espírito de Profecia, uma das senhoras, membro de nossa Igreja, trouxe uma inquietação: ela estava entusiasmada com a semana de oração e foi tentar evangelizar seu bairro. Nessas tentativas, sua vizinha lhe disse que não acreditava na profetiza adventista, pois Ellen White era racista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Tranquilizei a irmã dizendo que aquilo era um absurdo, e que a vizinha dela mostrava apenas preconceito contra a Igreja e um total desconhecimento dos escritos da sra. White. A irmã adventista se deu por satisfeita com minha resposta superficial, mas eu não. Comecei a revirar meus livros em busca das referências sobre o assunto, disposto a provar que o que eu disse era correto, como era do meu costume.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Mas fiquei desapontado com o que encontrei, pois mesmo considerando o contexto dos Estados Unidos do século XIX, aquelas afirmações presentes nos ‘escritos inspirados’ eram claramente racistas. Não voltei a falar no assunto com a irmã e fiquei feliz por que ela não me procurar para falar sobre isso. A partir desse incidente, minha consciência não mais me deixou tranquilo com relação a Ellen White e comecei a centrar minhas pregações apenas na Bíblia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Após alguns anos, convidado pela própria organização, deixei o ministério e dediquei-me a atividades administrativas. Sentindo-me cada vez mais apto e vocacionado para esse tipo de trabalho (as atividades administrativas), após alguns comecei a considerar a possibilidade de abrir minha própria empresa num ramo específico de negócios. Na administração conheci mais de perto algumas coisas na obra com as quais muitos adventistas não concordariam. Comecei a desejar não trabalhar na ‘obra’. Minha família e eu oramos muito sobre isso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Após muita reflexão e oração, decidi deixar a obra, fundar minha empresa e servir a Deus como um simples membro de Igreja, atuando como fosse necessário, tanto fazia se fosse um professor da escola sabatina ou um ancião. Por outro lado, minha futura empresa parecia-me um lugar onde eu poderia criar um bom ‘ambiente de obra’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Enfim, tudo indicava que eu serviria melhor a Deus fora da organização. Voltei para a capital do meu estado e comecei meu empreendimento, sem me descuidar das coisas da igreja, pois além de ajudar na liderança local da congregação, eu dava muitos estudos bíblicos e pregava frequentemente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Livre das amarras organizacionais, dei vazão ao meu desejo de investigar e pesquisar qualquer assunto que me viesse, mantendo sempre um lema que aprendi com o apóstolo Paulo: “Examinai tudo, retende o que é bom”. Além dos livros, a internet estava agora disponível a todos e a Igreja facilitou nesse ponto, pois os sites organizacionais transformaram-se em ferramentas de informação e evangelização.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;As pesquisas traziam, entretanto, cada vez mais surpresas e decepções. No site da Igreja, com tristeza, descobri pela primeira vez que Ellen White havia copiado indiscriminadamente de outros autores e que, ao longo de vários anos e décadas, tanto ela como a administração da Igreja negaram esse fato. Além disso, também fiquei sabendo pela primeira vez que ela havia feito várias profecias que não haviam se cumprido e que deixara como herança para filhos, netos e bisnetos, o fruto de seu dom espiritual, quando em seus escritos, ela mesma recomendava o contrário. Vi pelo site do Centro White que ela mentira para José Bates a fim de ganhá-lo para a Igreja. Senti-me muito mal e de verdade, chorei por dentro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Minha geração foi educada no conceito de que Ellen White era uma cristã devota, uma pessoa tremendamente espiritual, inspiradora e que jamais poderia (pelo menos na idéia que a Igreja passara para nós) fazer coisas daquela natureza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Eu pensava e questionava: como e porque a Igreja não me contou essas coisas? Afinal de contas, eu havia estudado no Seminário da Igreja e, se havia algo para esconder dos membros de uma forma geral (o que não seria correto), nada deveria ser escondido dos pastores. Eu simplesmente não conseguia entender.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Nessa ocasião descobri que a maioria dos sites na internet que falam sobre Ellen White pertence a ex-adventistas que criticam os escritos e o ministério dela.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Foi aí que uma simples constatação fez meu espanto e surpresa atingir o ápice: todas as inconsistências, incoerências, erros, mentiras e enganos estão apresentados nos sites oficiais da Igreja e do Espírito de Profecia, (logicamente) com as respectivas explicações defendendo Ellen White e os pontos de vista da Igreja. Em outras palavras, os administradores devem ter pensado: já que as críticas se baseiam em coisas, escritos e fatos reais, vamos colocá-los nos sites oficias da igreja, mas vamos defender Ellen White em cada uma das questões, acusações e problemas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Emagreci de nervosismo e tristeza, pensando durante muito tempo em como aquelas coisas poderiam ser possíveis. Aflito, mas com oração e genuinamente decidido a não permitir que aquilo abalasse minha fé, decidi investigar ainda mais. Por outro lado, comecei a reler a Palavra de Deus, buscando crescer apenas por ela.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Decidi continuar minhas pesquisas da mesma forma que eu já vinha conduzindo: somente investigar pelas fontes da Igreja e não pelos críticos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ou seja, se um membro decide ‘investigar’, basta ele ler as fontes bibliográficas e o próprio site da Igreja. Embora possa parecer simples, pois fui aos poucos percebendo as incoerências, acredito que a maioria dos membros está condicionada a ver apenas o que querem ver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ao relembrar como eu mesmo tinha me calado e tampado meus ouvidos para coisas evidentes, vi que minha própria experiência revelava como as pessoas só veem o que estão preparadas para ver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Além disso, os adventistas não são diferentes das pessoas em geral, pois a ‘verdade’ para eles acaba sendo uma questão de quem dá as explicações que ‘parecem’ mais convincentes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ao longo de seis meses, descobri mais sobre a Igreja Adventista e suas doutrinas do que em quase quarenta anos de adventismo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Não pude entender como eu não havia aberto os olhos para aquelas questões. Aí me lembrei tanto de meu colega do teológico, como daquela irmã que trouxera a mim a questão do racismo nos escritos inspirados e vi que, durante muitos anos, eu havia consciente e inconscientemente me recusado a ‘arrazoar’ e ‘questionar’ estes temas sensíveis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Percebi com muita clareza que várias doutrinas e subdoutrinas adventistas não estavam fundamentadas na Bíblia, mas sim nos escritos de Ellen White, como o decreto dominical, o juízo investigativo, a perfeição dos santos sem um mediador, o selo de Deus, o dízimo e ainda várias questões relativas a 1844 e ao santuário.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Descobri que temos um ‘Talmude’ Sabático Adventista, com centenas de advertências, indicações, regras e orientações que se deve do que não se deve fazer no sábado, e o quanto isso foge do simples ensinamento bíblico do sábado passado por Jesus Cristo. Vi que do púlpito, em variadas ocasiões criticamos os judeus por seu legalismo e regras absurdas sobre o sábado, mas com tristeza, percebi que criamos as nossas próprias regras legalistas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Claro que o sábado é sagrado e deve ser observado. Mas Ellen White, à semelhança dos judeus, tornou a observância desse dia um fardo. Eu não pensava assim, mas isso é porque eu não havia lido e nem tentado seguir todas as recomendações que ela faz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Descobri que os pioneiros adventistas não entrariam na Igreja Adventista de hoje e isso me chocou. Como é possível que Tiago White, José Bates, John Andrews e John Loughbourough não aceitariam ser adventistas? Mas isso está revelado na própria literatura da Igreja, em função da mudança de várias doutrinas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Atônito com tantas revelações e descobertas, decidi analisar a fundo todas as informações divulgadas pelo Centro de Pesquisas Ellen G. White. O incrível é que no site oficial está tudo, tudo mesmo (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitestate.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;www.whitestate.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Há demasiadas evidências que mostram que ela não era de fato uma profetisa. Suas visões não seguem o padrão bíblico como alguns historiadores adventistas querem fazer parecer e ela não passa nem mesmo no teste estabelecido pela própria igreja para um profeta verdadeiro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Quando comparada com os profetas bíblicos, Ellen White teve visões em excesso (mais de duas mil) e numa infeliz coincidência, em quase todas as vezes, ela só tinha a visão depois de ter tido contato com pessoas ou assuntos que foram o tema da visão. Em outras palavras, suas visões não eram uma antecipação como os historiadores e teólogos tentam fazer-nos acreditar, mas simples ‘confirmações’ de assuntos em pauta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;E se nos basearmos na narrativa oficial, ela teve até quarenta vezes mais visões do que todos os profetas bíblicos juntos e isso não faz o menor sentido. (EGW - 2000 visões. Profetas e Apóstolos - 50 visões).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ellen White relata mais de cem encontros com "anjos" ao passo que, somados todos os encontros ou visões de todos os personagens bíblicos que envolviam anjos, teremos apenas quarenta e dois encontros (em toda a Bíblia).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ao contrário do que diz o livro “Nisto Cremos”, Ellen White teve visões que resultaram em &amp;nbsp;várias afirmações e doze profecias que não se cumpriram, além de se contradizer diversas vezes e fazer afirmações contrárias às encontradas nas Escrituras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ellen White afirmava estar sendo 'inspirada' pelo Espirito Santo e dizia que recebia muitas vezes 'as palavras diretamente do anjo' ao mesmo tempo em que copiava de outros autores sem dar-lhes o devido crédito. E ela negou esse fato explicita ou implicitamente diversas vezes numa atitude que pode ser facilmente classificada como hipocrisia ou falsidade. Ou seja, ela "copiava" trechos das obras de outros autores e depois afirmava tranquilamente que isso veio do "Senhor".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ellen White apoderou-se de escritos e pensamentos alheios para montar seus livros e exigiu para si direitos autorais que depois foram repassados aos seus filhos, netos e bisnetos. Será que há dúvidas de que ela 'comercializou' o dom profético ao deixar um ‘testamento’ dos direitos autorais?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Sob 'inspiração divina' Ellen White afirmou verdadeiras barbaridades científicas sobre a amalgamação entre homens e animais, masturbação, perucas, cosméticos, planetas, estrelas, vulcões, etc. Também falou coisas das quais a maioria dos adventistas se envergonharia em questões ligadas ao racismo e a educação de crianças.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Se os fiéis de qualquer congregação se escandalizam com os pastores que pregam o que não vivem, imagine o que pensariam da "mensageira do Senhor" que falava contra a carne e continuava fazendo uso dela? Isto sem contar as ostras, o camarão, a manteiga, o queijo, os ovos, etc., tudo depois da visão da reforma da saúde e no mesmo momento que os seus escritos recomendavam o contrário. Em se tratando desse assunto, por mais de quarenta anos, Ellen White pregou, condenou pastores, criticou membros, mas não viveu a mensagem de saúde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Fiquei pasmo ao saber que ela fez uso de informações passadas por terceiros para escrever cartas de admoestação a outras pessoas e tratava essas informações como vindas de Deus. E como explicar seu sonho no qual Tiago White, já falecido, lhe dá conselhos como numa visão espírita, e ela atribui isso a Deus?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ela disse que recebeu em visão as orientações divinas sobre a doutrina da porta fechada (doutrina que limitava a salvação ao grupo envolvido no episódio de 1844) e durante muitos anos pregou sobre isso. Mas depois ela mesma negou a validade dessa doutrina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Para mim foram muitas coisas, muitas descobertas, muita frustração, muito sofrimento para quem aprendeu a amar Ellen White como uma profetisa de Deus para a Igreja remanescente. Como fruto de minhas pesquisas surgiu um documento de mais de 100 páginas com todos os assuntos, comentários e itens de pesquisa e suas respectivas fontes (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Diante de tudo isso, fui forçado, não porque eu queria, mas pelo peso das evidências, a concluir que Ellen G. White não era uma profetiza inspirada por Deus. Isso não foi fácil, mas acreditar de forma diferente à luz de todas essas revelações a partir das fontes oficiais seria uma insanidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Fiquei depressivo, doente e emagreci como resultado de minhas pesquisas. A Igreja e a profetiza que eu tanto amava tinham me decepcionado em alto grau. A única força que eu possuía, felizmente, estava na Bíblia e foi ela que me deu forças para atravessar esse período difícil de descobertas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Numa retrospectiva, percebi que durante várias décadas, eu havia sido um fiel e dedicado membro da igreja, tendo levado muitas pessoas a aceitarem a fé adventista. Eu dedicara toda a minha vida a essa Igreja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Aflito, resolvi me abrir com o pastor local, que parecia uma pessoa muito confiável e falei com ele das minhas inquietações. Comecei apenas com um assunto. Falei-lhe sobre a falta de lógica do juízo investigativo e da falta de embasamento bíblico para essa doutrina. Para minha surpresa, ele disse que não acreditava no juízo investigativo e jamais pregava sobre esse tema. Ufa, pensei, que bom, então podemos prosseguir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Então conversamos sobre Ellen White durante várias horas, onde eu apresentava progressivamente minhas dúvidas, tanto com relação ao seu dom, como aos seus escritos, sempre a partir das informações do site da Igreja. Ele me ouviu atentamente e disse que iria checar no site para ver se as coisas eram como eu estava falando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Dias depois encontrei-me com ele, ansioso para saber a que ponto a ‘pesquisa’ o havia levado. Atentamente ouvi ele me dizer que acreditava que todas aquelas informações faziam parte de uma grande conspiração e complô para desmerecer o Espírito de Profecia. Calado e incrivelmente surpreso, mudei de assunto e vi que a tarefa de esclarecer outros era bem mais difícil do que eu poderia imaginar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Tentei, com muito critério, partilhar um pouco com outros irmãos que eu julgava esclarecidos, mas eles me olharam como um louco. O que estava acontecendo? Por que meus irmãos de fé não me davam ouvidos? Porque, mesmo tendo as informações disponíveis, vindas de fontes confiáveis, eles não buscavam saber a verdade?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Percebi que a questão é intrigante e grave, e que o maior problema não era o acesso deles a essas informações embaraçosas. A questão era outra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Percebi que a mentalidade deles estava aprisionada no modelo de vida adventista: no sistema de valores, na visão estratificada, estagnada e acima de tudo aprisionada nos lemas e&amp;nbsp; slogans adventistas (“Nos temos a verdade"; "Somos o Israel moderno"; "Somos o povo da profecia"; "Temos uma luz maior"; "Somos a Igreja de Laodiceia") e isso praticamente os impedia de pensar. Isso mesmo: o adventista simplesmente aceita todo aquele conjunto de crenças sem pensar, sem analisar a fundo. A Igreja traz conforto, limites e segurança e isso é suficiente para praticamente todos. Para eles, a verdade de fato, ou, sendo redundante, a verdadeira verdade é apenas um detalhe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Sem dúvida, em minha pesquisa, acabei me deparando com movimentos independentes que se afastaram da Igreja por questionar alguns dos pontos que mencionei. A princípio pensei que, se a Igreja não tinha razão, então eles deveriam ter. Mas, ‘gato escaldado’, pus-me a analisar estes grupos e seus ensinamentos antes de me envolver com eles. Descobri que quase todos são ferrenhos na defesa dos escritos do Espírito de Profecia. Isso para mim, por si só, já invalidava os esforços deles, depois de tudo o que descobri de Ellen White.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Ir a Igreja tornou-se um dilema, pois em cada sermão, lá vinha a mesma expressão de dependência e apoio nos escritos de Ellen White (“... de acordo com o Espírito de profecia..., a irmã White disse...”). E, com menos frequência, ouvia algumas pregações de doutrinas sem embasamento bíblico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Tentar esclarecer os outros irmãos tornou-se uma tarefa ingrata: em sua maioria, as pessoas não estão de fato interessadas na verdade, apenas em conforto e acolhimento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Em minhas pesquisas, algo me intrigava.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Por que pessoas capazes e questionadoras como W.W. Prescott, Desmond Ford, Sammuelle Bachiochi e Raymond Cottrell apontaram ou apontam falhas em nossas doutrinas e interpretações proféticas e permaneceram ainda assim na Igreja Adventista?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Porque Fletcher e Conradi continuaram a crer na integridade básica da mensagem adventista mesmo após serem desligados?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Porque Walter Rea acreditava até o momento em que foi tirada a sua credencial de pastor, que poderia permanecer como obreiro na Igreja Adventista ao tentar ‘destruir’ o mito Ellen G. White?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Por que Dirk Anderson, um dos maiores críticos de Ellen G. White na atualidade, em seu depoimento pessoal não aconselha as pessoas a saírem da Igreja Adventista (pelo menos não diretamente)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Por quê?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Mas está certo permanecer numa igreja que negou suas raízes, modificou suas doutrinas, apoia (com conhecimento) as inúmeras irregularidades nas questões que envolvem Ellen White?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Está certo permanecer na Igreja depois de se conscientizar que ela se tornou mais legalista com relação a diversos critérios (sábado, exclusão por crenças individuais diferentes [trindade]) e moralmente duvidosa em outros (apoio do aborto em hospitais adventistas americanos, mal uso de recursos ‘sagrados’, acobertamento de erros e trapaças dos líderes)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Existe uma Religião cujas doutrinas, interpretação profética e linha de ação possam ser analisadas ponto a ponto diante da palavra de Deus e sair completamente aprovada?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Na verdade, quando se lê o Novo Testamento só se consegue ter certeza da existência de um povo espalhado pelo mundo, que constitui a “igreja de Deus e de Cristo”.&amp;nbsp; Três textos são suficientes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;“Mestre, vimos um homem que em Teu Nome expulsava demônios, e nós lho proibimos, porque não nos seguia. Jesus, porém, respondeu:&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;Não lho proibais&lt;/u&gt;; porque ninguém há que faça milagre em Meu Nome e possa logo depois falar mal de Mim; pois&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;quem não é contra nós, é por nós&lt;/u&gt;. Portanto,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;qualquer que vos der a beber um copo de água em Meu Nome&lt;/u&gt;, porque sois de Cristo, em verdade vos digo que&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;de modo algum perderá a sua recompensa&lt;/u&gt;.” Marcos 9: 38-40&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;O segundo texto é Atos 10:35: “Em cada nação&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deus tem aqueles que o adoram, praticam boas obras e são aceitáveis a Ele&lt;/u&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;E o último e mais incisivo: “A religião pura e imaculada diante de nosso Deus e Pai é esta; Visitar os órfãos e as viúvas nas suas aflições e guardar-se incontaminado do mundo”. Tiago 1:26-27.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Assim, concluí que existe um povo remanescente espalhado pela face da Terra, que vive a virtude, crê em Deus e naquele dia maravilhoso, será levado para o céu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Comecei essa narrativa de minha experiência com a pergunta "Como alguém pode deixar a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, a não ser por estar fraco na fé?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Eu sei a resposta. Pessoas fortes na fé também saem da Igreja Adventista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Buscando a verdade de coração e com fé, uma pessoa sincera e de mente aberta, ao encontrar as respostas, certamente deixará a Igreja Adventista, por não aceitar conviver com todas essas irregularidades e erros. Mas pode ser que alguém ainda queira permanecer para ajudar os que estão lá.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Minha Decisão: seguir a Cristo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Depois de muita reflexão, oração e conversas com minha família, decidi sair da Igreja, pois não encontrei um caminho melhor para seguir a Cristo. Hoje sou um cristão que vive plenamente a mensagem de Apocalipse 14:12 (um remanescente que guarda os mandamentos de Deus e mantem a fé em Jesus).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Não quero em mim nenhum rótulo de Igreja e Instituições. Estou muito feliz e seguro na mensagem bíblica. Ainda tenho muito carinho pelos adventistas, mas não sou mais um deles. Sou apenas e tão somente um cristão, com muita fé em Deus, amor a sua palavra e satisfação de seguir a Cristo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Phillipe Hotman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2012/05/testemunho-de-phillipe-hotman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-7298170042959703677</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T12:02:50.872-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dízimo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Escândalos</category><title>Escola Adventista Deve Desisitir de Descontar 10% do Salário de Empregados</title><description>&lt;div class="news_heading" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, Trebuchet, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
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Uma prática tradicional nas igrejas que se tornou comum em partidos políticos chegou agora às instituições de ensino. Depois de descontar o dízimo (valor referente a 10% do salário) diretamente no contracheque de seus empregados distribuídos nas unidades do Distrito Federal, de Mato Grosso, de Mato Grosso do Sul, de Tocantins e de Goiás — que reúnem mais de 3 mil funcionários —, a Escola Adventista precisou assinar um termo com o Ministério Público do Trabalho. Para não pagar uma multa, ela se comprometeu a não fazer mais a arrecadação a partir deste mês.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em alguns locais, a cobrança era feita havia mais de um ano. A procuradora do Trabalho da 10ª Região Valesca Monte explicou que a denúncia surgiu em Araguaína (TO), onde a instituição de ensino primeiro fez o compromisso de não exigir mais a contribuição. “O processo veio para que pudéssemos ajustar isso nacionalmente, para que todas as unidades da escola fossem obrigadas a se adequar à lei”, disse.&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Segundo a procuradora, pela legislação, o empregador não pode fazer qualquer desconto no salário dos empregados, exceto a título de adiantamento ou nos casos em que há regulação por lei específica ou por contrato coletivo. Outra hipótese é a autorização prévia do trabalhador para que ele participe de programa odontológico, médico, de previdência privada ou se associe a alguma cooperativa. “O dízimo não está previsto em nenhuma dessas hipóteses. O desconto é ilegal”, afirmou Valesca.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Escola Adventista alegou que a prática era realizada a pedido dos funcionários que são membros da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, por uma questão de comodidade para eles, que não precisavam levar o dinheiro para os seus locais de culto. “O desconto não era feito de todos, nem mesmo da metade. Até porque, nas nossas escolas, a maioria dos funcionários não é adventista. O dinheiro ia diretamente para as igrejas”, disse Denison Lehr Unglaub, advogado da escola.&lt;br /&gt;
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Valesca observou, no entanto, que, mesmo que não seja imposta, a contribuição fere a legislação. “O empregado pode ser discriminado por não querer colaborar. No ambiente de trabalho, as partes não estão em pé de igualdade”, ressaltou.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;É 
possível que alguém entenda a Justificação pela Fé de forma legalista? Sim, é 
possível. É interessante como as mensagens de hoje são legalistas sem que os 
próprios difusores se apercebam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Uma 
frase do sermão de hoje, na Igreja do Unasp, São Paulo, proferida no último dia 
da semana de oração (Pastor Benedito Muniz), sintetiza tudo. Ele até disse que o 
cristão que profere tal frase merece ser disciplinado: “não faço isso porque a 
minha religião não permite”. Depois ele enfatizou como a frase deveria ser: “não 
faço isso porque desagrada meu Deus”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Os 
pregadores adventistas sempre tiveram imensa dificuldade em conciliar a &lt;b&gt;Justificação pela Fé&lt;/b&gt; com a &lt;b&gt;guarda dos mandamentos&lt;/b&gt; (decálogo). A 
mensagem até segue perfeita, rumo a excelência da Justificação pela Fé, quando o 
pregador desfaz tudo o que construiu, ao incentivar os membros a “peitar” o 
mundo, dizendo não, ao que se entende como quebra da Lei. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;O 
que se deveria inferir é bem simples: aquele que é justificado pela fé não se 
insurge contra qualquer ato nocivo aos costumes éticos e morais contidos na Lei 
de Deus. Depois de justificado o que o ser humano faz? Ele consegue fazer alguma 
coisa? Não seria Deus efetivando nele o querer e o realizar? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;O 
que realmente significa tudo isso? Se Deus está na pessoa, qual a necessidade 
que ela tem de sair vociferando pelo mundo que não tem medo de nada? O pior 
mesmo é que os pregadores adventistas não conseguem se desapegar do “grande 
fardo”, dentro do “fardo” da Lei: o sábado! O exemplo é quase sempre o mesmo: os 
filhos teocêntricos de Deus não estudam no sábado, não trabalham no sábado, não 
fazem suas obrigações no sábado. O “calcanhar de Aquiles” dos ASD: a maldição da 
falsa guarda do sábado. O sábado é um dia que os ASD pouco fazem pelo próximo, 
mas usufruem o que o próximo produz. Eles não trabalham no sábado, mas usam 
todos os serviços que são disponibilizados nele. É um povo cujo testemunho 
consiste, hoje, em explorar o que o próximo faz no “santo dia”, sem a sua 
colaboração.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;O 
pregador derruba todo o arrazoado da Justificação pela fé, ao tornar a guarda da 
lei como um exercício da vontade humana. Piora ainda mais o quadro quando dá a 
entender que a lei se resume ao quarto mandamento. Leva o quadro ao fundo do 
abismo quando leva o leigo a acreditar que o quarto mandamento só trata do 
sábado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Sim 
meus caros amigos. Existem pessoas que só enxergam a Justificação pela Fé sob o 
fardo da Lei. Infelizmente esse foi o produto final da Semana de Oração no 
Unasp, São Paulo, encerrada hoje. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Aí 
eu pergunto: Isso é Justificação pela Fé? Isso é pregar sobre a Graça? Existe 
graça paga pelo próprio homem, que "peita" o mundo para mostrar que ele guarda a 
Lei? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;A 
semana de oração do Unasp, São Paulo, prometia muito e pouco ofereceu. &lt;b&gt;Ainda 
assim os membros se julgam cheios, a despeito de terem se alimentado de 
vento...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;A 2ª Turma do Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 10ª Região - DF/TO Condenou a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;INSTITUIÇÃO ADVENTISTA CENTRAL BRASILEIRA DE
EDUCAÇÃO E ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a devolver dízimo de ex-empregada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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O dízimo descontado do salário a título de “cumprimento de voto religioso” não encontra amparo legal.&amp;nbsp; Por
 este motivo, a 2ª Turma do TRT-10ª Região determinou a devolução dos 
descontos feitos nos salários de ex-empregada do Instituto Adventista 
Central Brasileiro de Educação. A funcionária assinou autorização para o
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 relator do processo, desembargador Brasilino Santos Ramos, considerou 
ilícitos os descontos porque ao empregador só é permitido descontar do 
salário, com autorização prévia e por escrito do empregado, pagamentos a
 planos de assistência médico-odontológica, seguro, previdência privada 
ou entidade cooperativa, cultural ou recreativo-associativa dos 
trabalhadores.&amp;nbsp; Como os abatimentos a título de 
contribuição religiosa não fazem parte dos descontos elencados no artigo
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feita dentro de um contrato de trabalho, o que já demonstra a 
subordinação dela perante o empregador. “O contrato de trabalho e a 
convicção religiosa não se misturam”, afirma o relator em seu voto.&amp;nbsp; A
 Turma determinou, ainda, que sobre as parcelas restituídas sejam 
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Acórdão do(a) Exmo(a) Desembargador(a) Federal do Trabalho &lt;b&gt;BRASILINO SANTOS RAMOS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Ementa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:
 1. DESCONTOS EFETUADOS NO SALÁRIO OBREIRO A TÍTULO DE DÍZIMO. AUSÊNCIA 
DE PREVISÃO LEGAL. CONSTRANGIMENTO. ILICITUDE. DEVOLUÇÃO DEVIDA. Do teor
 do art. 462 da CLT e da Súmula nº 342 do col. TST, depreende-se que os 
descontos efetuados pela ré no salário da autora a título de dízimo são 
ilícitos. Revela-se, ademais, que a autorização e solicitação  foram 
ofertadas com vício de consentimento, uma vez que em contexto de  
subordinação à reclamada, além de que “em cumprimento ao voto religioso”
 da demandante. Desse modo, devem os valores correspondentes serem 
devolvidos.
2. Recurso ordinário conhecido e provido.


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Relatório&lt;/h3&gt;
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A MM. 9.ª Vara do Trabalho de Brasília/DF, mediante a r. sentença a fls.
 94/96 julgou improcedentes os pedidos formulados na inicial.
Interpõe recurso ordinário a reclamante. Almeja a devolução dos 
descontos efetuados em sua remuneração (a fls. 100/102).
Embora regularmente intimada, a reclamada deixou de ofertar 
contrarrazões (a fls. 104).
Manifestação do Ministério Público do Trabalho, na forma da certidão de 
julgamento.
É o relatório.

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1. ADMISSIBILIDADE

Preenchidos os pressupostos objetivos e subjetivos de admissibilidade, 
conheço do apelo.

2. MÉRITO

A demandante, na inicial, alegou que, por todo o pacto laboral, a 
demandada efetuava descontos na ordem de 10% (dez por cento) da sua 
remuneração a título de dízimo. Sustentou que tal abatimento é indevido e
 ilegal, já que, além de ter de suportá-lo, traduz-se em doação de 
índole religiosa, desvinculada da relação laboral mantida com a 
acionada. Pediu, assim, a respectiva restituição.
Em contestação, a ré aduziu que está ligada à Igreja Adventista do 
Sétimo Dia e que parte de seus empregados, na condição de membros dessa 
comunidade, solicitam prévia e expressamente e sem qualquer coação o 
desconto salarial referente ao mencionado donativo. Referiu que nem 
todos os membros requerem a aludida dedução, adiantando que a autora, 
mesmo depois de ter autorizado o desconto na folha de pagamento, poderia
 ter solicitado sua cessação. Disse que, assim, não feriu o princípio da
 intangibilidade salarial.
O MM. Juízo a quo acolheu a tese defensiva, ante a “falta de indícios de
 coação ou qualquer outro vício de consentimento da reclamante” (a fls. 
95).
As razões recursais renovam o pleito de devolução dos descontos. 
Assevera que a acionada não pode abater o valor relativo ao dízimo de 
seu salário, já que vincula sua atividade religiosa com a de 
empregadora. Sugere que a sua insurgência traduziria a automática perda 
do posto de trabalho. Sinala que os descontos se dirigiam a todos os 
empregados.
Nos termos do art. 462 da CLT, o qual contempla a intangibilidade 
salarial, é vedado ao empregador efetuar desconto nos salários do 
obreiro, salvo quando esse desconto advier de adiantamento, de 
disposição de lei ou de convenção coletiva de trabalho.
Lado outro, a Súmula nº 342 do col. TST estabelece que os 
Descontos salariais efetuados pelo empregador, com a autorização prévia e
 por escrito do empregado, para ser integrado em planos de assistência 
odontológica, médico-hospitalar, de seguro, de previdência privada, ou 
de entidade cooperativa, cultural ou recreativo-associativa de seus 
trabalhadores, em seu benefício e de seus dependentes, não afrontam o 
disposto no art. 462 da CLT, salvo se ficar demonstrada a existência de 
coação ou de outro defeito que vicie o ato jurídico.

No caso concreto, observa-se que a reclamante professava a mesma fé 
religiosa da mantenedora do colégio em que ela trabalhava. 
Percebe-se, também, que consta solicitação e autorização da obreira para
 que se proceda ao desconto concernente ao dízimo, a fls. 89, documento o
 qual não foi impugnado pela recorrente.
Apesar disso, verifica-se que os abatimentos levados a efeito não 
condizem com nenhuma das autorizações previstas no caput do art. 462 da 
CLT. Nem se relacionam àquelas delineadas no conteúdo do enunciado 
sumular referido.
Diga-se, também, não se poder considerar que a autorização e solicitação
 tenham se dado sem maiores constrangimentos. Isso porque realizada em 
contexto de contrato de trabalho, por meio do qual a autora se 
encontrava em subordinação à reclamada.
Fosse suficiente, o documento a fls. 89 foi emitido em 1º/9/2007, dia em
 que a obreira ingressou nos quadros da ré (a fls. 11). Nota-se, 
outrossim, do teor daquele documento que a “contribuição” se dava “em 
cumprimento ao voto religioso” da demandante. Infere-se que a 
contratação estava condicionada à “doação” à Igreja.
Ilícitos, portanto, os descontos.
Consoante esse entendimento, vejam-se os seguintes arestos:
EMENTA: DÍZIMO. DESCONTO EM FOLHA. ILÍCITO. O contrato de trabalho e a 
convicção religiosa não se misturam. Enquanto o primeiro se sujeita ao 
mandamento legal, a segunda rege-se pela fé. O desconto sob a rubrica 
'dízimo' não se encontra autorizado pelo art. 462 da CLT. A devolução é 
medida que se impõe. (TRT2ªR, RO-02042200731102007, Relator 
Desembargador Rovirso A. Boldo, Ac. 8ª T, publicado em 31/08/2007.)
 
EMENTA: Desconto Salarial em Folha. Donativo - Dízimo. Autorização 
concedida durante a vigência contratual, em que a empregada se encontra 
em estado de subordinação, não detém a espontaneidade necessária para 
legitimar a oferenda de donativo - Inteligência do preceituado no caput e
 § 4º do artigo 462 da CLT. (TRT/15ªR, RO-0030200-07.2006.5.15.0076, 
Relatora Juíza Tereza Aparecida Asta Gemignani, Ac. 1ª T., 1ª Câmara, 
publicado em 31/8/2007.)
 
Dessa maneira, sob pena de restar violado o caput e o § 4º do art. 462 
da Norma Consolidada, a r. sentença merece reforma, a fim de que a 
reclamada seja compelida à devolução dos descontos efetuados no salário 
obreiro a título de dízimo, observando-se os recibos de pagamento 
acostados aos autos.
Dou provimento.

CONCLUSÃO

Ante o exposto, conheço do recurso e, no mérito, dou-lhe provimento para
 condenar a reclamada a restituir os  descontos efetuados no salário 
obreiro a título de dízimo, devendo ser observados os recibos de 
pagamento acostados aos autos. 
A parcela ostenta natureza salarial (art. 832, §3.º, da CLT), devendo a 
reclamada proceder ao recolhimento da contribuição previdenciária. 
Comprovados os recolhimentos, autoriza-se a dedução do crédito da 
reclamante os valores correspondentes à cota por ela devida, respeitados
 os percentuais e o teto de contribuição, conforme art. 198 do Decreto 
n.º 3.048/1999. 
Incide, também, imposto de renda, que será calculado na forma das 
instruções normativas e da legislação vigente à época da execução do 
julgado. A reclamada comprovará também tais recolhimentos nos autos. 
Incidência de correção monetária a partir do 1.º dia útil do mês 
subsequente ao mês da prestação de serviços (Súmula n.º 381 do col. 
TST). 
Juros moratórios na forma simples, a partir do ingresso da presente 
ação.
Inverto o ônus da sucumbência e arbitro o valor da condenação em 
R$4.000,00(quatro mil reais) e fixo as custas processuais, a cargo da 
acionada, em R$80,00(oitenta reais).
Diante da irregularidade constatada, e tendo em conta que a aludida 
prática patronal é reiterada e aplicada a todos os empregados, expeça-se
 ofício ao Ministério Público do Trabalho, com cópia da presente 
decisão, para as providências que julgar necessárias.
Tudo nos termos da fundamentação.
É o voto.

&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;


Acórdão&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 40%;"&gt;
ACORDAM
 os integrantes da Segunda Turma do Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 
10.ª Região, conforme certidão de julgamento a fls. retro, aprovar o 
relatório, conhecer do recurso e, no mérito, dar-lhe provimento para 
condenar a reclamada a restituir os  descontos efetuados no salário 
obreiro a título de dízimo, devendo ser observados os recibos de 
pagamento acostados aos autos. A parcela ostenta natureza salarial (art.
 832, §3.º, da CLT), devendo a reclamada proceder ao recolhimento da 
contribuição previdenciária. Comprovados os recolhimentos, autoriza-se a
 dedução do crédito da reclamante os valores correspondentes à cota por 
ela devida, respeitados os percentuais e o teto de contribuição, 
conforme art. 198 do Decreto n.º 3.048/1999. Incide, também, imposto de 
renda, que será calculado na forma das instruções normativas e da 
legislação vigente à época da execução do julgado. A reclamada 
comprovará também tais recolhimentos nos autos. Incidência de correção 
monetária a partir do 1.º dia útil do mês subsequente ao mês da 
prestação de serviços (Súmula n.º 381 do col. TST). Juros moratórios na 
forma simples, a partir do ingresso da presente ação. Inverte-se o ônus 
da sucumbência e arbitra-se o valor da condenação em R$4.000,00(quatro 
mil reais), fixando-se as custas processuais, a cargo da acionada, em 
R$80,00(oitenta reais). Diante da irregularidade constatada, e tendo em 
conta que a aludida prática patronal é reiterada e aplicada a todos os 
empregados, expeça-se ofício ao Ministério Público do Trabalho, com 
cópia da presente decisão, para as providências que julgar necessárias. 
Tudo nos termos do voto do Desembargador Relator. 
Brasília (DF),21 de março de 2012(data do julgamento).

       BRASILINO SANTOS RAMOS
       Desembargador Relator  



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&lt;h3&gt;


Certidão(ões)&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;
       &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td width="10%"&gt;Órgão Julgador:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2ª Turma&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;8ª Sessão Ordinária do dia 21/03/2012&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td&gt;Presidente:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargador&amp;nbsp;ALEXANDRE NERY DE OLIVEIRA&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td&gt;Relator:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargador BRASILINO SANTOS RAMOS&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;Composição:&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td align="left" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="3" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;
       &lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargador MÁRIO MACEDO FERNANDES CARON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Presente&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;NORMAL&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargador BRASILINO SANTOS RAMOS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Presente&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;NORMAL&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargador JOÃO AMÍLCAR&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ausente&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;FERIAS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Desembargadora MARIA PIEDADE BUENO TEIXEIRA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ausente&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;FERIAS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
     &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="justify"&gt;
aprovar  o relatório, conhecer do recurso e, no mérito, por
maioria,  dar-lhe  provimento  para  condenar a reclamada a
restituir  os  descontos  efetuados  no  salário  obreiro a
título  de  dízimo,  devendo  ser  observados os recibos de
pagamento  acostados  aos autos. A parcela ostenta natureza
salarial  (art.  832,  §3.º,  da  CLT), devendo a reclamada
proceder  ao  recolhimento  da contribuição previdenciária.
Comprovados  os  recolhimentos,  autoriza-se  a  dedução do
crédito da reclamante os valores correspondentes à cota por
ela   devida,  respeitados  os  percentuais  e  o  teto  de
contribuição,  conforme art. 198 do Decreto n.º 3.048/1999.
Incide,  também,  imposto  de  renda, que será calculado na
forma  das  instruções normativas e da legislação vigente à
época da execução do julgado. A reclamada comprovará também
tais   recolhimentos  nos  autos.  Incidência  de  correção
monetária  a  partir  do 1.º dia útil do mês subsequente ao
mês  da prestação de serviços (Súmula n.º 381 do col. TST).
Juros  moratórios na forma simples, a partir do ingresso da
presente  ação. Inverter o ônus da sucumbência e arbitrar o
valor  da  condenação  em  R$  4.000,00 (quatro mil reais),
fixando  as  custas processuais, a cargo da acionada, em R$
80,00 (oitenta reais). Diante da irregularidade constatada,
e tendo em conta que a aludida prática patronal é reiterada
e  aplicada  a  todos  os  empregados,  expeça-se ofício ao
Ministério  Público  do  Trabalho,  com  cópia  da presente
decisão,  para as providências que julgar necessárias, tudo
nos  termos  do  voto  do  Desembargador Relator. Vencido o
Desembargador  Alexandre  Nery  de  Oliveira que lhe negava
provimento,  nos  termos  do  voto que fará juntar. Obs.: O
representante do Ministério Público do Trabalho opinou pelo
prosseguimento do recurso.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fonte:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.trt10.jus.br/"&gt;www.trt10.jus.br/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;Algumas
semanas atrás, quando eu estava conversando com um professor universitário
aposentado e evangelista a quem eu muito admiro pela sua dedicação à missão
adventista, fiquei surpreso com o seguinte comentário que ele fez:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Todo adventista
deveria ler este livro."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;Ele
estava referindo-se à Bíblia?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"&gt;Não,
pois a maioria dos adventistas estão lendo ou já leu a Bíblia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
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Será
que ele tem em mente um dos livros de Ellen White?&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Não é assim, já que um grande número
de adventistas le um pouco do que ela escreveu, quer diretamente a partir de um
de seus livros ou material de leitura Adventista contendo algumas de suas
citações.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Então, a que livro ele
estava se referindo?&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ele estava
falando sobre um livro recentemente publicado sobre lidar com a nova atitude da
Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia em relação ao aborto.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Um
objetivo pouco utópico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Todavia,
desde que eu sou o autor do referido livro, os meus ouvidos têm sido animados e,
então, decidi mastigar alguns números.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Há
cerca de 17 milhões de adventistas no mundo, e a maioria deles não vai comprar
meu livro sobre sua própria iniciativa, o que significa que eu tenho de
presentear a maioria deles com um exemplar.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Então,
quanto dinheiro preciso para tal projeto?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
Aproximadamente
300 milhões de dólares, a menos que eu encontre outra editora que me forneça o
seu serviço a um preço muito menor por livro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O
problema é que eu não sou rico.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Eu
defini um fundo muito modesto que cresceu graças a alguns poucos doadores
generosos que já leram ou estão lendo o livro. Isso me permitiu doar 80 exemplares
até agora.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
Então,
como agora eu estou do meu objetivo final?&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Bem,
17 milhões menos 80 é igual 16,999.020 exemplares para serem vendidos ou
cedidos gratuitamente.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Não espera
que &amp;nbsp;eu possa atingir esse objetivo, nos
poucos anos que me resta neste lado da eternidade? Claro que não!&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Isso me faz lembrar provérbio latino
que diz: &lt;i&gt;"Pedes in terra ad sidera
visus"&lt;/i&gt; [Os pés no chão e os olhos para as estrelas].&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;A
proposta mais modesta&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Uma
meta mais modesta seria o que é um renomado professor aposentado de ética da LLU
me disse: &lt;i&gt;"Este livro deve estar em
cada biblioteca da escola adventista"&lt;/i&gt; De qualquer maneira, o objetivo
é além dos meus limitados recursos financeiros, mas o Senhor é rico e ele pode
fornecer a meios para alcançar um desses dois objetivos.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Talvez
você tenha lido o que alguns críticos têm escrito sobre o meu livro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Aqui está um exemplo para você
considerar.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A seguir foi tomada a
partir da página da editora, onde o livro está aberto para venda ao público.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;A
opinião dos críticos&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;10
de janeiro de 2012, By Michael Senseney&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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No
início dos anos 90, como uma pessoa idosa em minha igreja Adventista do Sétimo
dia, eu me correspondia com os presidentes da União Columbia e da Conferência
Geral sobre a questão dos abortos que estão sendo realizados em hospitais
adventistas de Maryland.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Na
primeira, o presidente do sindicato tentou assegurar-me que fui levado pelos
rumores maliciosos.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Obtive
estatísticas que mostram milhares de abortos que eram realizados trazendo
milhões de dólares.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Quando os
fatos foram apresentados à liderança da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, a
correspondência terminou em nada, mas o silêncio ignorando os meus fundamentos.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Infelizmente, este parece ser o procedimento
operacional padrão utilizado pela liderança da igreja em relação a qualquer e
todos os adventistas pró-vida.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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O
livro de Nic Samojluk revela... em grande detalhe e uma prova irrefutável, esta
abordagem pela liderança da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia sobre a questão do
aborto em hospitais adventistas e o compromisso da liderança para com o aborto
eletivo e seletivo da vida humana de pré-natal.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Deve-se perguntar por quê?.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Um bom lugar para começar é seguir o
dinheiro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp; O &lt;/span&gt;Sr. Samojluk fornece
detalhes sonoros que mostram a origem da política Adventista de aborto nos
ganhos financeiros, para concretizar esta diabólico sede de sangue em continuar
a matar seres humanos inocentes.&lt;/div&gt;
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Este
é, talvez, o livro mais importante para os adventistas do sétimo dia do século
21.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp; O &lt;/span&gt;Sr. Samojluk fornece em
grande detalhe, o debate sobre a política do aborto na denominação Adventista
do Sétimo Dia, e como ela era muito bonita, empurrou goela abaixo dos leigos adventistas
do sétimo dia, a maioria dos quais parece contrário ao aborto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O futuro de dois caminhos para o
adventismo sobre esta questão única... para matar ou não matar a vida humana
inocente. Toda a autoridade moral, se alguma vez realmente existiu, na igreja
Adventista do Sétimo Dia, deve ser considerada nula e sem efeito, desde que
assumir o posto com total desrespeito pela vida humana preciosa.&lt;/div&gt;
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Além
do debate aprofundado e confusão entre a liderança Adventista do Sétimo Dia e
leigos tão claramente revelada neste livro, O Sr. Samojluk apresenta alguns dos
melhores lógica e raciocínio para sustentar uma posição pró-vida é apenas a
posição &amp;nbsp;que uma auto-organização
professamente cristã pode suportar de boa fé.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Este
livro, apesar da tragédia do tema, é uma delícia de ler por causa das idéias
claras apresentadas pelo Sr. Samojluk.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Às
vezes, lágrimas vieram aos meus olhos, como quando se lê que a solução apresentada
pelo Presidente da Associação Geral da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, Ted Wilson,
para a fome no mundo pode ser encontrada na matança de seres humanos que um dia
vai alimentar-se de comida, e não em alimentar os famintos, conforme ordenado
pelo nosso Senhor e Salvador, ou o terrível abraço da eugenia por James W.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Walters e seus sofismas sobre a
personalidade.&lt;/div&gt;
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Todos
os escritos do Sr. Samojluk sobre este assunto vale a pena ser lidos, e uma
leitura obrigatória para todos os adventistas do sétimo dia.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Um dos meus preferidos era a sua peça
criativa intitulada &lt;i&gt;"Caso A Stigmata
em Loma Linda"&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Embora
esta seja uma leitura obrigatória para todos os adventistas do sétimo dia, na
esperança de recuperar o dano causado pela posição da igreja sobre o aborto,
esta é uma leitura obrigatória para todos os não-adventistas que desejam
compreender esta denominação, especialmente aqueles que podem estar
considerando ingressar na Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Note que a chamada para sair da
Babilônia é mais aplicável para os adventistas do que para os não-adventistas.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Alguém &lt;/span&gt;tem que saber o quanto do Remanescente:
Permanece.&lt;/div&gt;
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Este
livro aponta uma das principais falácias do adventismo em particular e do
protestantismo em geral, isto é, que a Bíblia é a autoridade da verdade para um
cristão.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;É claro que, se a
liderança e os teólogos adventistas podem fornecer &lt;i&gt;"prova"&lt;/i&gt; da Bíblia de que o aborto é bíblica não é um
grande problema.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Acho que nada
pode ser provado a partir da Bíblia se coloca a sua mente para ela.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;1 Tim.3: 15 nos diz que a Igreja é a
coluna e o fundamento da verdade, não a Bíblia.&lt;/div&gt;
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Como
descobri o erro de ensino adventista sobre o aborto, eu continuava a encontrar
o erro do adventismo em outras doutrinas.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Em
2009 entrei para a Igreja Católica e chegou em casa para o pilar e fundação da
Verdade.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Gostaria de convidar
todos os adventistas pró-vida para sair da Babilônia e voltar para casa, para
Roma.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ela esteve lá desde o
início e sua vida por 2.000 anos não é nada menos do poder de sustentação
milagrosa de Deus na face da contínua oposição e ameaça.&lt;/div&gt;
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Mas
até que esteja pronto para voltar para casa, eu recomendo o livro de Nic
Samojluk e sugiro que todos os adventistas do sétimo dia o leiam e incentivem
todos os seus amigos a lerem este livro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Este
é o livro mais importante no adventismo, escrito por adventista, no século 21.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;17
de janeiro, 2012, By Teresa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A
maioria dos adventistas do sétimo dia tenta equilibrar uma posição pró-vida
moral e, ao mesmo tempo, ser escolha profissional legalmente.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Eles temem que a legislação contra o
aborto, de alguma forma comece o processo de ferir seus direitos religiosos.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;No entanto, não foi sempre assim.&lt;/div&gt;
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O
Sr. Samojluk meticulosamente registra como sua igreja tão drasticamente evoluiu
de paixão protetora da vida não nascida nos dias dos pioneiros da Igreja
Adventista do Sétimo dia até às políticas liberais de hoje.&lt;/div&gt;
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Esta
não é uma exposição anti-corrosiva da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, porém de
um membro ardente e fiel da igreja que é chamado por Deus para clamar pelo
nascituro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;E para aqueles de nós
que não são adventistas, nós pedimos que você como uma denominação para
reconhecer como ela aparece ao cristianismo quando você diz...&lt;/div&gt;
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que
você é igreja remanescente de Deus dos finais dos tempos, que guarda os Dez
Mandamentos, quando na realidade você está transgredindo um mandamento, o que
não nos ordena ao assassinato.&lt;/div&gt;
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Este
livro é o grito solitário no silêncio do adventismo do sétimo dia quando se
trata de um dos males mais profundos do nosso tempo.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Tudo que podemos dizer é: &lt;i&gt;"Deus te abençoe, Sr. Samoljuk!"&lt;/i&gt;
Você fez a vontade de Deus para sua igreja, no entanto, não só é uma bênção,
mas uma grave advertência, porque agora os adventistas do sétimo dia não será
mais capazes de se excusarem: &lt;i&gt;"Senhor,
nós não sabíamos"&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Prov.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;24:11-12: &lt;i&gt;Se tu deixares de livrar os que estão sendo levados para a morte, e aos
que estão sendo levados para a matança; Se disseres: Eis que não o sabemos; porventura
não o considerará aquele que pondera os corações? Não o saberá aquele que
atenta para a tua alma? Não dará ele ao homem conforme a sua obra?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu
não sei quanto tempo mais os adventistas pró-vida podem permanecer dentro da Igreja
Adventista do Sétimo Dia antes de terem suas consciências defraudadas, mas
enquanto estiverem lá, graças a Deus por Nic Samojluk.&lt;/div&gt;
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Exorto-vos
a adquirir cópias para todos seus amigos adventistas e familiares.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;18
de janeiro, 2012, By Sr. John Stevens&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu
me correspondi durante anos com o autor e, infelizmente, ele compartilhou
desinformação.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Não há declaração
feita por Ellen G. White sobre o aborto ou a oposição a ele.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Essas são meras afirmações imprecisas.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Em um tribunal legal seria jogado
fora.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Seu marido, Tiago, que não
era um profeta como Ellen, opôs-se a ele e John Harvey Kellogg, um panteísta em
seus últimos dias acreditava que era uma pessoa viva, um assassinato para
abortar.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Claro que a Bíblia não
proíbe assassinato, mas não proíbe o assassinato, que tem ódio, ao contrário do
amor, como o motivo. Claro que toda a natureza é vista por panteístas bíblicos,
que vêem a Deus em tudo e aceitam tudo para ser deuses.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Pan é muitas, o teísmo é ...&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=pt-BR&amp;amp;langpair=en%7Cpt&amp;amp;rurl=translate.google.com.br&amp;amp;u=http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/from-pro-life-to-pro-choice-the-dramatic-shift-in-seventh-day-adventists-attitudes-towards-abortion/18682677%3FproductTrackingContext%3Dsearch_results/search_shelf/center/1&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhhjo23I_f9dgB0DDOQYekqO87Kzfw##"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mais&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;deuses.&lt;/div&gt;
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A
posição oficial da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia sempre foi pró-escolha mas
se tornou mais conservador sob Robert Folkenburg, todavia não é proibida.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A Bíblia não tem quaisquer sanções
contra o aborto, embora haja 105 crimes de pena capital.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O feto tem emprestado a vida da mãe e
torna-se uma pessoa que vive após o nascimento e respiração independente. Adão
não era uma pessoa viva até que ele respirasse.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A oposição popular ao aborto entrou no
cristianismo através do paganismo baseada na vida em primeiro lugar na Bíblia,
quando Satanás disse a Eva: &lt;i&gt;"Você
não morrerá"&lt;/i&gt;, as bases para o ensino bíblico da imortalidade natural
da alma.&lt;/div&gt;
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Pagãos
executaram aqueles que abortaram no Egito e Canaã, mas no Monte Sinai, Deus não
colocou uma restrição contra o aborto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;De
fato, em Números 5 o julgamento de ciúmes mandou a forma grávida para uma
mulher suspeita de ser a infiel, mas não pegou.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Se ela fosse culpada Deus realizaria
um aborto sobrenatural sobre ela como uma penalidade.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Egípcios ordenaram que as mães de
meninos judias para afogá-los.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Tanto
para a santidade da vida muito aclamado por alguns dos que são devotos de anti-aborto.&lt;/div&gt;
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Eles
são os mesmos que não vai apoiar o financiamento de imposto para ajudar as mulheres
com bebês e nenhuma renda para obter ajuda financeira.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A prática pagã de adoração ao feto e,
em seguida, matar o bebê, uma vez que nasce é indesejável se infiltrou
cristianismo professo.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Eu
publiquei um livro sobre o assunto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A
Bíblia e Deus são tanto a vida profissional e escolha profissional, mas a vida
independente vem após o nascimento.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A
mãe é sempre o sistema de apoio à vida mais miraculoso, mesmo além da nossa
imaginação.&lt;/div&gt;
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John
Stevens V, Sr.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;18
de janeiro, 2012, By nic samojluk atroadrunnerdotcom&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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O
Sr. John Stevens está certo em sua afirmação de que Ellen White nunca usou a
palavra aborto em seus escritos prolíficos.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;No
entanto, ela fez uma clara referência ao assassinato de quase crianças ainda
não nascidas.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Se negligenciar a
saúde de uma mulher grávida estava quase matando o feto de Ellen White, podemos
logicamente concluir que Ellen era neutro em relação a morte real de um feto?&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Aqui está o que ela disse:&lt;/div&gt;
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"Se
o pai se familiarizar com a lei física, ele poderia entender melhor as suas
obrigações e responsabilidades.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ele
veria que ele era culpado de quase matado seus filhos, pelo sofrimento de
tantos encargos que virá sobre a mãe, obrigando-a a trabalho além de suas força
antes de seu nascimento, a fim de obter meios para deixar para eles." &lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;[Mensagens Escolhidas, vol.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;2 (Washington, DC: Review and Herald
Publishing Association, 1958), 429-430].&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Stevens
tem razão em afirmar que a vida de Adão começou quando ele tomou a primeira
respiração, mas isso não é o caminho da vida que Jesus Cristo ou qualquer outro
ser humano começou.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A vida de
todo mundo começa com a união de um espermatozóide com um óvulo.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Eu li a passagem encontrada em Números
cinco e eu não encontrei qualquer referência ao aborto lá.&lt;/div&gt;
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A
utilização por Steven do infanticídio ordenado pelo Faraó no Egito como um
argumento favorecendo o assassinato de bebês em gestação é um pouco ridícula, e
sua afirmação de que a Bíblia é tanto pró-vida e pró-escolha não tem apoio nas
Escrituras.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A Bíblia está cheia
de declarações condenando derramar o sangue de seres humanos inocentes.&lt;/div&gt;
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Se
Stevens está certo, então nossas "Orientações sobre o aborto" são
erradas, porque disse orientações indicam claramente que a Igreja Adventista do
Sétimo Dia não tolera o aborto sob demanda.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O
que a igreja pretendia realizar com essas orientações foi para justificar o
tipo de chamada terapêutica de abortos, mas não está muito longe entre os ditos
abortos e do tipo eletiva nossos hospitais adventistas foram autorizados a
realizar com a impunidade.&lt;/div&gt;
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Na
verdade, os abortos terapêuticos abriram as portas para o aborto sob demanda.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O que nossos líderes fizeram foi
fingir ser contra abortos eletivos, mas eles deram nossos hospitais a liberdade
de oferecer o aborto sob demanda, e 12 dos nossos hospitais se aproveitaram
desta política liberal.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Nisto nós
tomamos o exemplo semelhante dado por Pilatos, a despeito de idade, que
declarou que Jesus era inocente, mas concedeu a seus inimigos o poder de o matar.&lt;/div&gt;
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Precisamos
nos arrepender deste grande pecado contra nosso Criador.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Na Alemanha, a Igreja Adventista do
Sétimo Dia falhou no teste moral quando ficou comprometida em relação ao sábado
e à pena de morte; falhamos no genocídio de Ruanda, e nós falhamos em 1970,
quando nosso presidente da Divisão Norte-Americana declarou que a nossa igreja
foi se inclinando para o aborto porque havia gente demais e muita fome no
mundo.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O que nos motivou a agir
desta forma?&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Medo de perder os
ganhos do negócio lucrativo aborto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Isto
é moralmente inaceitável!&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;22
de novembro, 2011, By tammy_roesch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Obrigado
Nic, por documentar toda esta informação!&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Se
alguém quiser os fatos a respeito da posição da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo
Dia, como denominação, sobre o assunto do aborto, deveria ler este livro.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Não haverá "Reavivamento e Reforma"
&amp;nbsp;de verdade na Igreja, enquanto Igreja
Adventista do Sétimo Dia permanecer no lado Pró-Escolha do corredor.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Há apenas dois lados.... não há
"cerca" para sentar, não há "meio da estrada" para andar,
quando se trata da questão do aborto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Eu
espero e rezo para que muita gente venha ler este livro e exigir que a Igreja
tome o lado da vida, não da morte.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Deus
te abençoe, Nic!&lt;/div&gt;
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de novembro, 2011, By Martin Weber&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Nic
escreveu um livro importante para adventistas do sétimo dia sobre o que pode
ser a maior questão moral do nosso tempo.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O
que eu li dele é muito impressionante. Desejo &amp;nbsp;aos adventistas do sétimo dia em todo lugar tenham
a integridade de Orlando, que tem o Sistema Único de Saúde Adventista tem
quando se trata de vida humana por nascer.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A
preocupação em proteger a vida humana por nascer deve estar no topo de nossa
lista na busca atual por um reavivamento e reforma.&lt;/div&gt;
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de novembro, 2011, By Juanita Y. Mayyes&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Este
livro é uma leitura muito interessante para cada membro da Igreja Adventista do
Sétimo Dia que se preocupa com a causa da vida e da santidade da vida humana.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;O leitor pode estar chocado e triste
com as informações compartilhadas em suas páginas.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Nossos pioneiros adventistas,
incluindo Tiago e Ellen White se sentiriam da mesma maneira, pois eles também eram
apaixonadamente pró-vida e apoiaram os esforços no seu dia para fazer o aborto
ilegal.&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu
também fiquei chocado e entristecido sobre nossos líderes e pastores
adventistas cuja opinião prevaleceu, resultando em nossa igreja está virando
para o lado pró-escolha do tema do aborto.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Leia
como em um hospital, os dirigentes decidiram permitir o aborto eletivo, em vez
de confiar em Deus para abençoar e fazê-los prosperar para permanecer fiel aos
Dez Mandamentos.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e6ecf9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;Saiba as razões pelas quais nossos líderes e
pastores tomaram as posições que eles fizeram e veio para o lado com a posição
pró-escolha ao invés de pró-vida um.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Um
artigo que tenho em mente que está incluído no livro nem sequer parecem ser da
autoria de uma pessoa cristã.&lt;/div&gt;
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Talvez
a hora é agora para a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia voltar às nossas origens
e voltar no caminho dos pioneiros e seguir nela.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Talvez este livro seja escrito para um
momento como este. Este livro é uma leitura obrigatória para cada membro da Igreja
Adventista do Sétimo Dia, pastor e líder.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Descubra
por que devemos defender o direito à vida de nossos irmãos e irmãs, os membros
menores e mais jovens na família de Deus.&lt;/div&gt;
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Se
este assunto é de interesse para você, sugiro que você conseguir uma cópia do
livro recentemente publicado, intitulado: &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;De &lt;strong&gt;Pró-vida a Pró-Escolha: A Mudança Dramática de Atitudes na Igreja
Adventista do Sétimo Dia Frente ao Aborto&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;a partir da editora.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Aqui está o link:&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lulu.com/"&gt;http://lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Você
terá que digitar o meu nome, Nic Samojluk, no espaço "Search" em
branco para acessar a página do meu livro na web.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;o:p&gt;Traduzido de http://&lt;a href="http://www.adventlife.wordpress.com/"&gt;www.adventlife.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://adventismoexposto.blogspot.com/2012/04/um-livro-que-todo-adventista-deveria.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PQhW7FK0zYk/T4j_JXJ0hBI/AAAAAAAAAwI/fPxrGcxseyU/s72-c/product_thumbnail.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198980574897305057.post-8164890361230815885</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-09-14T12:06:04.692-03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Abortion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Aborto</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pseudo-Ética</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ética</category><title>Abortion: History of Adventist Guidelines</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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My questions about abortion and the Seventh-day Adventist Church began on a cold day in January 1985. A "chance" encounter with a pastor while searching for parking at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., had led to an invitation to worship with his church some time.&lt;/div&gt;
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The following Sunday I dropped in to hear him preach. Arriving late, I sat, unnoticed, in the back. When the pastor stood to preach, he announced to the congregation that it was Sanctity of Life Sunday. After spending some time on the biblical basis for the sanctity of life position, he told the following story: "During my wife's pregnancy with our son Seth, we decided to look for a Christian doctor who shared our sanctity of life convictions. So we drove to Takoma Park, Maryland, to the office of Dr. _____ , a Seventh-day Adventist. Following the test and examination that confirmed that she was pregnant, the very first question she was asked was 'Do you want this baby, or do you want an abortion?' We looked at each other in shock and disbelief. We then turned and said, 'We are sorry. We must be in the wrong place.' We got up and left."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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At the close of his sermon this pastor invited questions and comments from the congregation. One lady asked, "Are you sure that what you said about the Seventh-day Adventists is true? I always thought that they were Bible-believing Christians."&lt;/div&gt;
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He answered, "I am sorry to tell you that the Seventh-day Adventists are aborting hundreds of babies in their hospitals."&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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While they sang a hymn I went out . . . unseen but not unshaken. What was the truth regarding Adventism and abortion? I remembered seeing an editorial in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Adventist Review&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;that stated, "The Adventist Church has no official position on abortion."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;But what did that mean? Did it mean that the church saw no moral implications surrounding the practice of abortion? Did it really not incline in either direction? What did the lack of an official position mean in the actual day-to-day practice of the hospitals of the Adventist Health System? A search for answers to these questions led me to survey the history of our church's position on abortion.&lt;/div&gt;
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The June 25, 1867,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Advent Review and Sabbath Herald&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;contained what apparently was the first statement on abortion to appear in Adventist literature. In an article titled "Fashionable Murder," the author, John Todd, praised the work of the Physicians' Crusade—a late nineteenth-century movement against abortion, which had been widely practiced in America during the early part of that century.&lt;/div&gt;
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Speaking of abortion, Todd declared, "The willful killing of a human being at any stage of its existence is murder."&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The abortion question was again addressed in the November 30, 1869, issue of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Advent Review and Sabbath Herald&lt;/em&gt;. Under the title "A Few Words Concerning a Great Sin" the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Review&lt;/em&gt;said, "One of the most shocking and yet one of the most prevalent sins of this generation is the murder of unborn infants. Let those who think this a small sin read&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Psalm 139.16" data-version="niv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/niv/Psalm%20139.16" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0480d8; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Psalm 139:16&lt;/a&gt;. They will see that even the unborn child is written in God's book. And they may be well assured that God will not pass unnoticed the murder of such children."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A Solemn Appeal&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;contained the Adventist press's next reference to abortion. James White edited this book in 1870, while he was president of the General Conference. White excerpted a statement from Dr. E. P. Miller's&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Exhausted Vitality&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;for inclusion in the book. The quotation he used reflects the strong sentiments of those physicians involved in the crusade against abortion. Miller castigated abortion as a "nefarious business," a "worse than devilish practice," and a "terrible sin." He went on to say, "Many a woman deter mines that she will not become a mother, and subjects herself to the vilest treatment, committing the basest crime to carry out her purpose. And many a man, who has 'as many children as he can support,' instead of restraining his passions, aids in the destruction of the babes he has begotten.&lt;/div&gt;
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"The sin lies at the door of both parents in equal measure."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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What about the "right arm" of the church, the medical work? In his book&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Man, the Masterpiece&lt;/em&gt;, published in 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg argued against the idea that abortion was permissible before quickening. "From the very moment of conception, those processes have been in operation which result in the production of a fully developed human being from a mere jelly drop, a minute cell. As soon as this development begins, a new human being has come into existence—in embryo, it is true, but possessed of its own individuality, with its own future. . . . From this moment, it acquires the right to life, a right so sacred that in every land to violate it is to incur the penalty of death. . . . None but God knows the full extent of this most heinous crime."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;7&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The statements quoted above verify the little-known fact that historic Adventism was not silent regarding the abortion question. While the church did not directly involve itself in the 40-year battle to legislate anti-abortion statutes in the United States, the evidence shows where these Adventist leaders stood on the issues that crusade raised.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ellen G. White did not directly ad dress the issue of abortion, but she did make a number of strong statements regarding the sanctity of human life. For example, she wrote: "Life is mysterious and sacred. It is the manifestation of God Himself, the source of all life. . . .&lt;/div&gt;
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"God looks into the tiny seed that He Himself has formed, and sees wrapped within it the beautiful flower, the shrub, or the lofty, wide-spreading tree. So does He see the possibilities in every human being."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;8&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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And in another place she spoke even more directly to the point of protecting innocent human life when she wrote, "Human life, which God alone could give, must be sacredly guarded."&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;9&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So our Adventist heritage includes both statements that explicitly espouse the sanctity of human life and statements that explicitly condemn abortion. Nineteenth-century Adventism stood in harmony with the previous 18 centuries of Christian thought.&lt;/div&gt;
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By the 1890s the influence of the Physicians' Crusade had led to the legislation of anti-abortion laws in the United States. This resulted in a cooling of public debate over abortion and began what has been called the "century of silence" on the abortion question. 10 In reality, the "silence" lasted for approximately 70 years. Christian thinking on abortion remained consistent during this period.&lt;/div&gt;
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Not only was this opposition to abortion to be found in the church; it was also evidenced in society at large. As recently as 1963 a Planned Parenthood pamphlet warned that "an abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;11&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But by the 1960s the call for abortion rights was sounding with increasing in tensity in American society. A movement was begun to repeal the antiabortion statutes enacted in the nineteenth century.&lt;/div&gt;
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The years 1970 and 1971 proved pivotal for the Seventh-day Adventist Church's stance on abortion. In January 1970, a bill was introduced in Hawaii's state legislature to repeal that state's abortion laws. Three weeks later the bill was law. Castle Memorial Hospital, an Adventist institution, suddenly found itself needing to establish a position regarding abortion.&lt;/div&gt;
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On the island of Oahu, Hawaii, only two hospitals were open to the public for maternity or obstetrics cases: Kapiloani Hospital, exclusively an obstetrics and gynecology (ob-gyn) facility, and Castle Memorial Hospital (CMH), the only general hospital that accepted ob-gyn patients. (A third medical institution on the island, Kaiser Hospital, cared only for those people enrolled in the Kaiser Health Plan.)&lt;/div&gt;
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Because of its unique position of being a general hospital that provided ob-gyn services, CMH, upon repeal of Hawaii's abortion laws, received numerous requests for elective abortions. Requests for abortion were not new, and CMH had permitted what were termed therapeutic abortions—those done to save the life of the mother, or in the case of rape or incest, or even for severe mental anxiety in the mother.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;12&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;But the repeal of all state abortion laws had created a situation for which the hospital was unprepared.&lt;/div&gt;
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Marvin C. Midkiff, the administrator of CMH at that time, described how the pressure to loosen the abortion policy began to increase: ''A prominent man in this community came to me and said, 'My 16-year-old daughter has got her self in trouble. She is in her second month of pregnancy, and I want an abortion for her at this hospital.'&lt;/div&gt;
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"He brought out a brochure that had been used for fund-raising in this community when this hospital was being planned. The brochure stated 'This hospital will be a FULL-SERVICE HOSPITAL and will provide every service that is needed by the residents of the community.' He brought me the $25,000 check that he had given toward the construction several years ago."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The pressure on CMH to be a "full-service hospital" by providing abortion on demand began to grow. Midkiff called W. J. Blacker, president of the Pacific Union Conference, and asked for guidance from the church on how to proceed. According to Midkiff, Blacker informed the General Conference (GC) of the situation and then called to tell him that "no one knows of any position the church has taken on it [abortion]."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So CMH set an interim policy: "In the absence of any decision by our church organization on whether or not we approve or disapprove of abortion, or whether or not we permit abortions in the hospital, our management group has made the decision to permit abortion for other than therapeutic reasons through the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy, provided there has been counseling by a clergyman, and by two qualified physicians, and written consultations have been entered in the patient's records. I want to make it clear that this is a temporary ruling until such time as a decision is handed down from our church headquarters in Washington, D.C."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On March 11, 1970, the GC officers appointed a committee to consider counsel to be given to Adventist hospitals. The thinking at this time was that the church would consider the abortion question in June 1970, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the GC session.&lt;/div&gt;
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On March 17, 1970, Neal C. Wilson, president of the North American Division, made a statement on abortion that was carried by the Religious News Service. He predicted that when the denomination met at Atlantic City in June it would steer a middle-of-the-road course. He said that while the church would steer away from anything that would encourage promiscuousness, the church "would not feel it our responsibility to promote laws to legalize abortion . . . nor oppose them. . . .&lt;/div&gt;
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"Though we walk the fence, Adventists lean toward abortion rather than against it. Because we realize we are confronted by big problems of hunger and overpopulation, we do not oppose family planning and appropriate endeavors to control population."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;16&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wilson stated that because the denomination was active in 220 different countries, it would have a difficult time taking a hard and fast position on the abortion question. He also said that Adventists might favor abortion in some instances—rape, mental or physical illnesses in the mother, or in cases of probable severe illness in the fetus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;17&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On May 13, 1970, after considerable discussion and rewriting, the GC officers voted to accept "suggestive guide lines for therapeutic abortions." (See box, page 15.) The guidelines were of necessity "suggestive" since they were voted by the GC officers and not by the GC Committee.&lt;/div&gt;
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But the plan to take the guidelines to the floor of the GC session for discussion and a vote was dropped. Some of the medical community felt that the abortion guidelines were inadequate be cause therapeutic abortions had been performed all along—even before the repeal of Hawaii's abortion statutes. Marvin Midkiff returned to CMH from the GC session unable to fulfill his promise of bringing with him the official position of the church.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;18&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The issue, however, remained alive. The medical community's rejection of the May 13, 1970, abortion guidelines signaled the beginning of serious discussions regarding the feasibility of an open-door policy in Adventist hospitals to abortion on demand.&lt;/div&gt;
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During the first week of July 1970, R. R. Bietz, a GC vice president, met in Honolulu with Midkiff and A. G. Streifling, chairman of the board of trustees of CMH. In a letter dated July 8, 1970, Bietz relayed the substance of their conversation to W. J. Blacker. The following statements from that letter shed light on the thinking of leadership after the first abortion guidelines were rejected:&lt;/div&gt;
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''Five or six non-Adventist MDs who patronize Castle Memorial wish to go beyond the present policy of performing therapeutic abortions only. If they are not allowed to do this in Castle Memo rial, they will take their patients to other hospitals in the city of Honolulu. If this is done, chances are fairly good that they will take their patients over there for other treatments as well. This could mean a loss of goodwill and also patron age for Castle Memorial. . . .&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Our own Seventh-day Adventist doctors strongly oppose, except for therapeutic reasons, abortions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;19&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;This further complicates the problem. If we change our policy, we may have the ill-will of our own men; and if we don't change, we'll be misunderstood by the non-Adventist MDs. Some heavy contributors to the Castle Memorial Hospital feel we should be willing to work in harmony with the laws of the state. In their opinion the community, federal, and state monies have for all practical purposes made this a community hospital. They reason, therefore, that community wishes should be taken into consideration. . . .&lt;/div&gt;
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"It is important that either the Pacific Union Conference, the North American Division, or the General Conference take a position in regard to this matter. The hospital administration and board need support no matter which direction they might go.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Should the decision be to have abortions beyond what they are doing now, the Adventist doctors could no doubt be satisfied or at least silenced if the administration would have the support of the higher church organization.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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"As I see it, the crux of the matter is mostly theological."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;20&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Meanwhile, at their meeting of July 6, 1970, the GC officers had voted to enlarge the former committee "so as to study what counsel should be given regarding elective abortions."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;21&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;This decision was made in response to a request for further counsel regarding elective abortion. The local members of what was now called the Abortion Problems Committee met on July 20, 1970, to discuss the implications of the issue for the church and its health-care institutions. This small committee also looked specifically at "the viewpoint of our West Coast leaders in gynecology." Finding no solution, the committee recommended further study.&lt;/div&gt;
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The committee met again on September 25, 1970, and recommended that "the enlarged committee appointed July 20, 1970, be further expanded to make it representative of additional areas of concern and that it be authorized to meet for approximately two days to study the problem in depth, hopefully to develop guidelines that will be useful in bringing uniformity into the direction given our health-care institutions in North America."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;22&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;The committee concluded its meeting with "the expressed hope that due to the urgency described in correspondence from our health-care institutions the expanded committee might meet ... as early as possible to give study to this challenging question."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;23&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On December 13, 1970, Dr. Raymond deHay, chief of staff at CMH, wrote A. G. Streifling asking that the decision process be expedited. Noting that the deliberations had been going on for some 10 months, he said that was "much too long a time . . . without some answer being communicated to the members of the medical staff of this hospital."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;24&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On December 16, 1970, DeHay wrote a second letter to protest the delay in making a decision, this time to R. H. Pierson, GC president. In this letter DeHay said, "We recognize that Castle Memorial Hospital is a church-operated hospital, but we also feel that you must concede to being at least a quasi-public hospital in the eyes of many local residents."&lt;/div&gt;
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The chief of staff wrote that in view of the local non-Adventists' contributions to the hospital of time and re sources and the state appropriations of more than $2 million, "we on the Medical Executive Committee feel that perhaps the local public is justified in requesting total care at Castle Memorial Hospital."&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;25&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Noting that the church had no official stand on abortion, he continued, "We have rather reliable information that a number of your West Coast hospitals are permitting abortion which is termed therapeutic but appears to be greatly liberalized as to the actual definition of therapeutic abortion as we in the medical profession have come to understand it over the years. We feel that there is already a precedent for permitting this surgical procedure at this hospital."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;26&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pierson's response to DeHay (Jan. 5, 1971) defended the May 13, 1970, abortion guidelines, saying, "They are based upon our appreciation for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;the sanctity of life&lt;/em&gt;, respect for the&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;person image&lt;/em&gt;, and our sense of responsibility for the care of fellowmen."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;27&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pierson then stated: ''We stand ready to assist in making total health care available to all. However, Doctor, we have not con ceded to the assumption that total health care includes abortion on demand."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;28&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pierson then informed DeHay that "a competent committee will be meeting in Loma Linda, California, January 25 [1971], to discuss the matter further."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;29&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And so, one year after the abortion issue had been brought to the attention of the twentieth-century Adventist church, an ad hoc committee convened "to make sure that the cause of truth and humanity are recognized theologically, medically, and philosophically in this large area of concern today."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;30&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Of the 18 individuals named to the ' 'restructured'' committee at a GC officers' meeting held on January 6, 1971, 11 were present. Four others were added to these 11, making it an ad hoc committee of 15.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;31&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In his opening remarks, W. R. Beach, committee chairman, reviewed the work of the Abortion Committee, stating that the abortion guidelines of May 13, 1970, had been helpful, but that the rapidly changing situation, especially in Hawaii and New York, made a new and updated statement necessary.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;32&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Harold Ziprick, the head of Loma Linda University's Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, presented a paper entitled "The Abortion Problem Today," which showed the complexity of the abortion question. The rest of the morning was spent discussing the numbers of therapeutic abortions in Adventist hospitals [e.g., Glendale Hospital: 1966, 1 abortion; 1967, 3 abortions; 1968, 4 abortions; 1969, 10 abortions; 1970, 34 abortions. White Memorial Hospital: 1968, 3 abortions; 1969, 12 abortions; 1970, 79 abortions]. 33 Also discussed were the problems CMH was facing as a result of the repeal of Hawaii's abortion laws.&lt;/div&gt;
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In the afternoon session Jack Provonsha presented a paper titled "An Adventist Position Regarding the Abortion Problem." He advocated that with each request for abortion every attempt should be made to save both the pregnant woman and the developing fetus, "but if this cannot be achieved and one must be sacrificed, the lower must be sacrificed in favor of the higher human value."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;34&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Following Provonsha's presentation, the committee voted to amend and re vise the May 13, 1970, abortion guide lines. The committee concluded its work that day by recommending that the GC officers appoint a committee to give continued study to the issue.&lt;/div&gt;
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Back in Washington this committee began its work by turning first to the task of amending and revising the old guidelines, but their efforts eventuated in the development of an entirely new document entitled "Interruption of Pregnancy Guidelines." This document contained both a statement of principles and guidelines to acceptable "interruptions of pregnancy." A comparison of this document with the papers Drs. Ziprick and Provonsha presented at the Loma Linda meeting shows that their ideas and wording served as primary sources for both parts of the document.&lt;/div&gt;
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The new document underwent a number of revisions. The statement of principles was composed and then expanded during February 1971. Between February and June the guidelines themselves had at least three different forms. A fourth guideline was added, stating that abortion was permitted "in case of an unwed child under 15 years of age." Later, a fifth guideline was also added, one that permitted abortion "when, in harmony with the statement of principles above, the requirements of functional human life demand the sacrifice of the lesser potential human value."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;35&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;Eventually this guideline was revised to read that abortion is permitted "when for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;some reason&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;the requirements of functional human life demand the sacrifice of the lesser potential human value" (italics supplied).&lt;/div&gt;
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The revisions also included dropping the word "grave" from guideline 2, which pertained to physical deformities and mental retardation, and the word "seriously" in guideline 1.&lt;/div&gt;
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The committee then gave to the GC officers, as a "tentative report," a statement that included most of the revisions noted above. But no action was taken, and the Pacific Union continued to apply pressure for a decision.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;36&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Beach gave an insight into why he delayed pushing the statement: "My opinion is that we must avoid opening the door to abortion on demand, but rather keep it within the context of a total philosophy. If I read the literature aright, there is a growing feeling in favor of a more conservative line than that promoted by the liberation movement and adopted, more or less, in some of the states. We need to watch this and make sure that our philosophy is basically sound."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On June 14, 1971, the GC officers voted to request N. C. Wilson, C. E. Bradford, and R. F. Waddell to serve as a committee to refine certain aspects of the report "Interruption of Pregnancy," submitted by the Committee on Abortions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;38&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Finally, on July 13, 1971, Wilson was able to write to Blacker that the GC had produced some guidelines: "Please contain yourself and do not become too ecstatic, but at long last we have a report for you regarding the interruption of pregnancy. This is a more sophisticated term than 'abortions,' and since there are therapeutic and elective, we feel that the new term covers the whole spectrum. To be sure, we have not answered every question that can come up, nor have we made provision for opening up the door in harmony with certain pressures that are being brought to bear on the medical profession today. We feel it is a fair position and one that we can defend. I hope it will be helpful to you and to our brethren who have been facing the music for over a year now in Hawaii."&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;39&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Still, it wasn't until August 10, 1971, that C. E. Bradford, secretary of the committee now called the Committee on Interruption of Pregnancy, released the statement "as the opinion of a representative committee of theologians, physicians, teachers, nurses, psychiatrists, laymen, etc., who met at Loma Linda, California, January 25, 1971,40 with the understanding that the report is to be used as counsel to denominational medical institutions."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;41&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;The statement was subtitled "Recommendations to SDA Medical Institutions." In his covering letter, Bradford made the following observation: "I suppose you would say this is&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;quasi official&lt;/em&gt;, without the full imprimatur of the brethren."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;42&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So, after more than a year and a half of intermittent committee work and discussion, the Adventist Church still had no&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;official&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;position on the abortion question.&lt;/div&gt;
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Did this mean that CMH was left in the same quandary regarding abortion on demand as they had found them selves in when Hawaii's abortion laws were repealed in January 1970? The answer is no. The wording of the new guidelines was "broad enough to interpret any way you chose to."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;43&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;This allowed CMH to open its doors to abortion on demand through the twentieth week (and even later for "compelling social or medical reasons")&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;44&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;and still be in harmony with GC guidelines.&lt;/div&gt;
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Now the church had a policy, semi official though it might be. But a flow of confusing and misleading information regarding the church's position began even before the Abortion Committee had finished its work. In March 1971,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Ministry&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;published two articles on the abortion question. In the first, W. R. Beach concluded "that except in the extreme circumstances listed under our guidelines on therapeutic abortion, it would be better to enhance our reverence for life and the Christian way that leads to it."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;45&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;He was, of course, referring to the three guidelines that had been accepted on May 13, 1970.&lt;/div&gt;
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Dr. Ralph F. Waddell, secretary of the GC Department of Health, wrote the second article, "Abortion Is Not the Answer." Calling abortion a "war on the womb," he said, "As Christians we abhor the thought of wholesale carnage on this level. Although we accept therapeutic abortion based on proved medical indications, we do not find abortion on demand compatible with our person-image concepts."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;46&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;He went on to say that therapeutic abortions should be peformed "during the first three months, before the embryo can be considered to possess life in itself.''&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;47&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In this same issue,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Ministry&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;published the abortion guidelines of May 13, 1970. It is important to remember that this was the March 1971 issue. In Loma Linda on January 25, 1971, the restructured Abortion Committee had voted to "amend and revise" these original guidelines and by the time of publication the new Interruption of Pregnancy Guidelines had been written and were in the final revision stage.&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;48&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A GC officer and member of the Abortion Committee vigorously pro tested publishing this material. In a March 2, 1971, letter to W. R. Beach, Robert E. Osborn wrote, "It seems to me that the articles are completely premature, or else the appointment of a committee [the Loma Linda committee] to look into the matter in depth is a farce."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;49&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Osborn's protest was based on his knowledge that the original guidelines were deemed too restrictive and were being superseded.&lt;/div&gt;
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Beach defended the decision to publish the articles and guidelines: "In view of the fact that the upcoming report of the committee which met in Loma Linda will liberalize somewhat the current guidelines, I believe that from a practical viewpoint, it was well to give the rationale for the current situation and the future viewpoints. I think it will be evident that our viewpoint has been liberalized. I feel, however, that this liberalization will be understood and accepted."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;50&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But the publishing of the new guide lines, which would have allowed the "liberalization" to be "understood and accepted," never happened. That the older, more restrictive set of guidelines was published and the newer, more liberalized set was not resulted in a great deal of confusion among Adventist clergy and laity regarding the church's position on abortion and its practice in our medical institutions.&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;51&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;There is no evidence that leadership attempted to educate the clergy and the church about the new set of guidelines and its implications.&lt;/div&gt;
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In effect, the church has simultaneously held two positions regarding abortion. The published May 13, 1970, abortion guidelines have presented to Adventist clergy and laity, and to the general public as well, the appearance of a restrictive stance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;52&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;And the unpublished Interruption of Pregnancy Guide lines have permitted its hospitals a free hand in this economically significant practice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;53&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So what is the truth about Adventism and abortion? Is abortion on demand the norm for Adventist health institutions? On this question M. C. Midkiff said, "I believe if you do a bit of research you will find that the majority of Adventist hospitals permit abortion on request."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;54&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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An explanation the president of Washington Adventist Hospital wrote in a letter to me bolsters Midkiff's prognostication: "The administration, there fore, in good faith, leaves the responsibility of deciding for or against abortion to the physician and the patient, who really are the only individuals who know the full medical situation and consequences of the case."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;55&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1986&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;lists 12 of the 56 Adventist hospitals in the United States as offering "abortion services," including "a program and facilities."&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;56&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Early Adventism published positions in harmony with the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion, though it was not active in that movement. The church produced its first set of abortion guidelines in 1970, when American attitudes toward abortion had changed and some of the church's hospitals were experiencing in creasing pressure from their communities to provide abortion services.&lt;/div&gt;
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Less than a year after the first set of abortion guidelines was developed, the church revised and expanded it. The resulting liberalized guidelines have allowed Adventist hospitals a great deal of freedom in their abortion practices, a freedom that has resulted in a large number of abortions being performed. Although the church has been hesitant to let it be known, at the present it is clearly not, in either policy or practice, limiting its medical institutions to therapeutic abortions.&lt;/div&gt;
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1970 Abortion Guidelines&lt;/h2&gt;
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"It is believed that therapeutic&lt;/div&gt;
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abortions may be performed for the&lt;/div&gt;
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following established indications:&lt;/div&gt;
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"1. When continuation of the&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy may threaten the life of&lt;/div&gt;
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the woman or seriously impair her&lt;/div&gt;
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health.&lt;/div&gt;
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"2. When continuation of the&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy is likely to result in the&lt;/div&gt;
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birth of a child with grave physical&lt;/div&gt;
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deformities or mental retardation.&lt;/div&gt;
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"3. When conception has occcurred&lt;/div&gt;
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as a result of rape or incest.&lt;/div&gt;
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"When indicated therapeutic&lt;/div&gt;
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abortions are done, they should be&lt;/div&gt;
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performed during the first trimester&lt;/div&gt;
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of pregnancy."&lt;/div&gt;
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1971 Interruption of&lt;/div&gt;
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Pregnancy Guidelines&lt;/div&gt;
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"1. When continuation of the&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy may threaten the life of&lt;/div&gt;
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the woman or impair her health.&lt;/div&gt;
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"2. When continuation of the&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy is likely to result in the&lt;/div&gt;
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birth of a child with physical&lt;/div&gt;
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deformities or mental retardation.&lt;/div&gt;
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"3. When conception has occurred&lt;/div&gt;
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as a result of rape or incest.&lt;/div&gt;
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"4, When the case involves an&lt;/div&gt;
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unwed child under 15 years of age.&lt;/div&gt;
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"5. When for some reason the&lt;/div&gt;
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requirements of functional human&lt;/div&gt;
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life demand the sacrifice of the&lt;/div&gt;
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lesser potential human value.&lt;/div&gt;
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"When indicated interruptions&lt;/div&gt;
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of pregnancy are done, they should&lt;/div&gt;
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be performed as early as possible,&lt;/div&gt;
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preferably during the first trimester&lt;/div&gt;
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of pregnancy."&lt;/div&gt;
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Both guidelines say that no person&lt;/div&gt;
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should be compelled to undergo&lt;/div&gt;
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nor physician forced to participate&lt;/div&gt;
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in an abortion if he or she&lt;/div&gt;
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has a religious or ethical objection&lt;/div&gt;
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to it. The 1971 guidelines broaden&lt;/div&gt;
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this to include nurses and attendant&lt;/div&gt;
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personnel.&lt;/div&gt;
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Reference Notes:&lt;/h2&gt;
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1 Sermon by Barry E. Wood, pastor, Solid&lt;/div&gt;
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Rock Church, Eleanor Roosevelt High School,&lt;/div&gt;
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Greenbelt, Maryland, January 20, 1985.&lt;/div&gt;
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2 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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3&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Adventist Review&lt;/em&gt;, Sept. 1, 1983, p. 14.&lt;/div&gt;
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4 John Todd,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Advent Review and Sabbath Herald&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;June 25, 1867, p. 30.&lt;/div&gt;
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5&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Advent Review and Sabbath Herald&lt;/em&gt;, Nov. 30,&lt;/div&gt;
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1869, p. 184.&lt;/div&gt;
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6 E. P. Miller, quoted in James White,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Solemn Appeal&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Battle Creek, Mich.: Steam Press,&lt;/div&gt;
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1870), p. 100.&lt;/div&gt;
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7 J. H. Kellogg, M.D.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Man, the Masterpiece&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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(Battle Creek, Mich.: Modern Medicine Publishing&lt;/div&gt;
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Company, 1894), pp. 424, 425.&lt;/div&gt;
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8 Ellen G. White,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The Ministry of Healing&lt;/em&gt;, p.&lt;/div&gt;
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397.&lt;/div&gt;
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9______ ,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Patriarchs and Prophets&lt;/em&gt;, p. 516.&lt;/div&gt;
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10 Kristin Luker,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Abortion and the Politics of&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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University of California Press, 1984), p. 40.&lt;/div&gt;
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11 John Powell,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Abortion: The Silent Holocaust&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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12 Conversation with Marvin C. Midkiff, Oct.&lt;/div&gt;
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22, 1986.&lt;/div&gt;
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13 Marvin C. Midkiff, speech to Kailua, Hawaii,&lt;/div&gt;
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I4 Midkiff conversation.&lt;/div&gt;
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15Midkiff speech.&lt;/div&gt;
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16 Religious News Service, Mar. 17, 1970, pp.&lt;/div&gt;
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16, 17.&lt;/div&gt;
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17 Ibid., p. 17.&lt;/div&gt;
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18 Midkiff conversation.&lt;/div&gt;
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19 Midkiff remembers one non-Adventist doctor&lt;/div&gt;
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and one Adventist doctor as pushing for a policy&lt;/div&gt;
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change allowing elective abortions.&lt;/div&gt;
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20 R. R. Bietz to W. J. Blacker, July 8, 1970&lt;/div&gt;
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(italics supplied).&lt;/div&gt;
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21 General Conference Officers' Meeting,&lt;/div&gt;
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minutes, July 6, 1970, pp. 70-330.&lt;/div&gt;
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22 Abortion Problems Committee, minutes,&lt;/div&gt;
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Sept. 25, 1970.&lt;/div&gt;
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23 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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24 Raymond DeHay to A. G. Streifling, Dec.&lt;/div&gt;
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13, 1970.&lt;/div&gt;
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25 Raymond DeHay to R. H. Pierson, Dec. 16,&lt;/div&gt;
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1970.&lt;/div&gt;
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26 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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27 R. H. Pierson to Raymond DeHay, Jan. 5,&lt;/div&gt;
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1971 (italics supplied).&lt;/div&gt;
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28 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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29 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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30 W. R. Beach to Abortion Committee, Jan. 11,&lt;/div&gt;
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1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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31 Those present were: W. R. Beach; C. E.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bradford; P. C. Heubach; David Hinshaw, M.D.;&lt;/div&gt;
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C. B. Hirsch; Gordon Hyde; Joann Krause; Elizabeth&lt;/div&gt;
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Larsen, M.D.; R. E. Osborn; Jack W.&lt;/div&gt;
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Provonsha, M.D.; A. G. Streifling; W. D. Walton;&lt;/div&gt;
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N. C. Wilson; Mrs. C. Woodward; and&lt;/div&gt;
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Harold Ziprick, M.D.&lt;/div&gt;
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The most notable committee member absent&lt;/div&gt;
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was R. H. Pierson, who had declared just 20 days&lt;/div&gt;
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earlier his support for the existing guidelines.&lt;/div&gt;
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32 GC Committee on Abortions, minutes, Jan.&lt;/div&gt;
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25, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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33 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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34 Jack Provonsha, M.D., "An Adventist Position&lt;/div&gt;
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Regarding the Abortion Problem," pp. 10,&lt;/div&gt;
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11.&lt;/div&gt;
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35 Beach said that this guideline would "cover&lt;/div&gt;
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less definitive reasons for any interruptions of&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy." W. R. Beach to N. C. Wilson, Mar.&lt;/div&gt;
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8, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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36 W. J. Blacker to N. C. Wilson, Mar. 30,&lt;/div&gt;
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37 W. R. Beach to N. C. Wilson, May 11, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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38 GC Officers' Meeting, minutes, June 14,&lt;/div&gt;
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39 N. C. Wilson to W. J. Blacker, July 13,1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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of Pregnancy Statement of Principles" on June&lt;/div&gt;
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21, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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40 At Loma Linda University's "Conference on&lt;/div&gt;
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Abortion," November 15, 1988, Dr. Provonsha&lt;/div&gt;
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stated that although his paper's wording was used&lt;/div&gt;
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in the 1971 Interruption of Pregnancy Statement,&lt;/div&gt;
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it was used out of context, and that he did not see&lt;/div&gt;
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or vote on the statement until it was released to&lt;/div&gt;
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Adventist medical institutions as a completed&lt;/div&gt;
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document.&lt;/div&gt;
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41 C. E. Bradford, Aug. 10, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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42 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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43 Midkiff conversation.&lt;/div&gt;
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44 Bietz, op. cit., p. 2.&lt;/div&gt;
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45 W. R. Beach,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The Ministry&lt;/em&gt;, March 1971,&lt;/div&gt;
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p. 6.&lt;/div&gt;
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46 R. F. Waddell,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The Ministry&lt;/em&gt;, March 1971,&lt;/div&gt;
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p. 9.&lt;/div&gt;
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47 Ibid.&lt;/div&gt;
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48 W. R. Beach to N. C. Wilson, Mar. 8, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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49 R. E. Osborn to W. R. Beach, Mar. 2, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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50 W. R. Beach to R. E. Osborn, Mar. 8, 1971.&lt;/div&gt;
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51 A case in point: On April 23, 1987, during a&lt;/div&gt;
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discussion relating to a request from the Ohio&lt;/div&gt;
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Conference constituency for guidance on the&lt;/div&gt;
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abortion question, copies of the discarded May 13,&lt;/div&gt;
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1970, guidelines were presented to members of&lt;/div&gt;
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the Columbia Union executive committee as the&lt;/div&gt;
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church's position.&lt;/div&gt;
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52 In their 1984 publication, A Community Planning&lt;/div&gt;
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Guide for Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, the&lt;/div&gt;
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Christian Action Council included a "Summary of&lt;/div&gt;
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Attitudes Toward Abortion by Religious Organizations."&lt;/div&gt;
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church was&lt;/div&gt;
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listed in Group 2, as "generally opposed to&lt;/div&gt;
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abortion but would make exceptions in hard cases&lt;/div&gt;
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(e.g., pregnancy resulting from rape or incest,&lt;/div&gt;
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pregnancy leading to the birth of a baby with&lt;/div&gt;
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deformities or birth defects, pregnancy resulting in&lt;/div&gt;
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a severe threat to the mother's health)," (p. 15).&lt;/div&gt;
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53 Since 1971, statements in the Adventist press&lt;/div&gt;
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have continued this confusion. See, e.g., the&lt;/div&gt;
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editorial by Eugene Durand in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Adventist Review&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;"About Abortion," (Sept. 1, 1983, p. 14),&lt;/div&gt;
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which called the 1970 abortion guidelines "the&lt;/div&gt;
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nearest this church came to a stand on the problem."&lt;/div&gt;
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The editorial later listed guidelines 4 and 5&lt;/div&gt;
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but made no effort to point out why they were&lt;/div&gt;
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added or what they meant.&lt;/div&gt;
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See also the "Dear Miriam" column in the&lt;/div&gt;
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author said that upon reading a correspondent's&lt;/div&gt;
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letter regarding the church's abortion policy, she&lt;/div&gt;
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"communicated immediately with the Health and&lt;/div&gt;
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Temperance Department of the General Conference&lt;/div&gt;
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and discovered that a statement of 'Abortion&lt;/div&gt;
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Guidelines' was drawn up back in 1970 and given&lt;/div&gt;
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to all Adventist hospitals." She went on to imply&lt;/div&gt;
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that "abortions of convenience" in Adventist&lt;/div&gt;
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hospitals were the result of "infractions of guidelines&lt;/div&gt;
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and rules." Apparently the Health and Temperence&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Department did not tell the author about&lt;/div&gt;
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the second, more liberal, set of guidelines.&lt;/div&gt;
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But what was perhaps the most confusing state&lt;/div&gt;
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ment of all came from the president of AHS/U.S.,&lt;/div&gt;
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Donald Welch. On February 13, 1986, in an&lt;/div&gt;
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interview the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Adventist Review&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;called an "in-depth&lt;/div&gt;
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look at the Adventist health system," Welch&lt;/div&gt;
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said, "The church developed guidelines for hospitals&lt;/div&gt;
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and health-care institutions in regard to&lt;/div&gt;
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abortions back in 1969 [sic.]. Those guidelines&lt;/div&gt;
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strongly discourage abortions. They do allow for&lt;/div&gt;
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abortions in certain cases in which there is medical&lt;/div&gt;
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consultation—several doctors agree that it needs&lt;/div&gt;
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to be done for the health of the mother, and in&lt;/div&gt;
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certain other cases such as rape."&lt;/div&gt;
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Welch continued: "I will be frank and tell you&lt;/div&gt;
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there was a time when a number of our institutions&lt;/div&gt;
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did quite a few abortions, and that situation led to&lt;/div&gt;
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these guidelines." Whether or not he intended&lt;/div&gt;
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them to be, Welch's statements were misleading,&lt;/div&gt;
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to say the least.&lt;/div&gt;
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54 M. C. Midkiff to Bert Haloviak, Oct. 20,&lt;/div&gt;
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1986.&lt;/div&gt;
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55 R. D. Marx to Mr. and Mrs. George Gainer,&lt;/div&gt;
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April 19, 1985.&lt;/div&gt;
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56 American Hospital Association, Guide to the&lt;/div&gt;
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Health Care Field, 1986. (The Guide is based on&lt;/div&gt;
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hospital-supplied reports.)&lt;/div&gt;
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The hospitals listed are as follows: Castle Medical&lt;/div&gt;
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Center, Hadley Memorial Hospital, Hanford&lt;/div&gt;
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Community Hospital, Loma Linda University&lt;/div&gt;
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Medical Center, Porter Memorial Hospital, Port&lt;/div&gt;
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land Adventist Medical Center, Shady Grove&lt;/div&gt;
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Adventist Hospital, Shawnee Mission Medical Center,&lt;/div&gt;
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Sierra Vista Hospital, Walla Walla General&lt;/div&gt;
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Hospital, Washington Adventist Hospital, and&lt;/div&gt;
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White Memorial Medical Center.&lt;/div&gt;
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As to numbers, participants in the "Pastors'&lt;/div&gt;
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Protest Against Abortion" supplied the figure of&lt;/div&gt;
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1,494 abortions performed at Washington Advent&lt;/div&gt;
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ist Hospital from 1975 through July 1982. They&lt;/div&gt;
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said that the medical records office of the hospital&lt;/div&gt;
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supplied these statistics.&lt;/div&gt;
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Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/August/abortion-history-of-adventist-guidelines" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/August/abortion-history-of-adventist-guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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