The article below gives a distorted picture, that Seventh-day Adventists in
their response to HIV are a caring and compassionate Christian Community of
faith. Indeed from my experience of both the disease and the organisation
over the past 18 years--I've never met a more cruel, judgmental and
dispassionate group of people when it comes to addressing the concerns of
peoples living with HIV.
News releases from the Adventist News Agency are at times self
congratulatory and belie the prophetic word of Scripture: "'Look, traitors,
and see, and be shocked--amazed--for the Lord is doing something in your
time that you would not believe it if told.' [Habakkuk 1:5; Acts 13:38-42]
This passage refers to the traitors with the Man of the Lie {Philo of
Alexandria's (20 BCE-50 AD) metaphysical view of the Decalogue as rather
resembling the 'Heads of Laws' made use of the Pythagorean Chaldean Occulted
use of Number and the Tetragrammation of YHWH as [72J] + 3(3²+1) /2 =
[72J2W1D] being 457BCE}, because they have not obeyed the words of the
Teacher of Righteousness {ie. The Hebrew/Christian Apostle Paul [Acts
28:17-31]} from the mouth of God. It also refers to the traitors to the New
Covenant, because they did not believe in God's covenant and desecrated His
holy name; and finally, it also refers to the traitors in the Last Days.
They are the cruel Israelites who will not believe when they hear everything
that is to come upon the latter generation that will be spoken by the Priest
in whose heart God has put the ability to explain all the words of His
servants the prophets, through whom God has foretold everything that is to
come upon His people and His land." [1QpHab Col. 1.16-Col. 2.10]
And may be simply another attempt by the organisation to gain access to
monetary resources to further its social agenda--I suppose one could suggest
that the church can't help everyone.
But those who don't conform to the church's worldview are simply left to
die!
- dolf
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/telos/kabbalah/patent.html#AXIOM4
June 17, 2003 Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia .... [Bruce Manners/ANN]
Dr. Ron Mataya, director of health for the Adventist Development and Relief
Agency.
In an effort to help combat the growing threat of HIV-AIDS in the South
Pacific, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region voted to
approve a strategic framework for action as well as a commitment statement
during recent mid-year meetings.
"The South Pacific region is at risk, especially the islands of Papua New
Guinea and the Solomon Islands," says Dr. Ron Mataya, the director of health
for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International.
"Australia and New Zealand seem to have contained the rate of spread. Papua
New Guinea reports a prevalence rate of about 1 to 2 percent, but also
reports that the rate of increase is between 15 to 30 percent. Papua New
Guinea has the highest prevalence rate of sexually transmitted infections,
which, together with other factors, contribute to the easy spread of HIV,"
Dr. Mataya says.
HIV/AIDS-related illnesses are currently the leading cause of death in the
hospital at Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, or PNG. Some
15,000 in that country are infected with HIV/AIDS; of those, one in four is
a housewife.
HIV/AIDS in PNG is distributed equally between men and women. Ninety percent
of infections come from heterosexual transmission and 8 percent from parent
to child. The 15 to 34 age group is the most affected.
The commitment statement voted at the meetings recognizes that the church
has failed in the past to embrace this "growing reality" and effectively
prevent or diminish the impact of the disease on society and church members.
The call is for church members to address concerns "compassionately and
intelligently" in their homes, places of work and worship, church schools
and training institutions, and clinics and hospitals.
The commitment made is to:
. Find ways to talk about sexual behavior and the prevention of HIV/AIDS
despite "cultural roadblocks."
. Work lovingly with those whose lives and relationships put them at risk
from HIV/AIDS.
. Train church members to provide home-based care to all needing support in
the community.
. Help parents realize their responsibility to counsel their children on
sexual behavior and HIV issues.
. Work with governments and other organizations "to stamp out the stigma and
discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS in all its forms."
The strategic framework suggests an epidemic of HIV/AIDS is likely in some
areas of the South Pacific within the next five to 10 years. Dr.
Mataya--originally from Malawi--presented a picture of what can happen from
what he has seen within Africa.
He reports: "ADRA International staff carried out an assessment of the
HIV/AIDS situation in the Adventist Church in Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and
Zimbabwe, and the findings were very disturbing.
"The church has lost some pastors, teachers, medical personnel, other
workers and members, and yet there continues to be a disturbing denial of
the problem. In some countries church income has gone down because the
high-income earners have died from AIDS. Health care [two words] benefits to
church employees as well as time lost due to illness continue to increase."
For Dr. Mataya, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is more than statistics--it
is personal. His sister died of HIV/AIDS three years ago.
It is expected that many Adventists in the South Pacific, including
Australia and New Zealand, will be affected in some way by HIV/AIDS.
All local areas and missions of the church in the South Pacific have been
asked to prepare a strategic plan of action to be coordinated by a
commission within each area.
The idea is to integrate and coordinate those area plans with ADRA and other
church organizations and departments, and cooperation is expected with
agencies outside the church.
Workshops and training programs within the church are anticipated. A process
of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the strategic plan will
also be set up.
These decisions are important, says Dr. Mataya. "It has been demonstrated
that commitment at the highest level of authority in a country or
organization acts as a catalyst for behavior change as it spurs people to
more action.
"The strategies will guide each union to plan according to its resources and
capacity. I'm delighted by the full acknowledgment and ownership of the
problem, particularly in Papua New Guinea, by church leadership, he says.
Copyright 2003 Adventist News Network .
http://www.adventist.org/news/data/2003/05/1055857550/index.html.en
I've recently been asked the question "Should Christians Hate Homosexuals?"
This person then suggested that the answer was an easy one. A Christian
should hate no one. The Bible tells us to love others. We can despise the
act performed by homosexuals but we should not hate the person.
DOLF NOTE:
This dichotomy is represented by the devotional text as a claim to Spiritual
Realism presently made on the Seventh-day Adventist Church Official Website:
"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
[Romans 7:23]
Why give rise to the sin of pretension and hypocrisy which is your continual
insubstantial claim to Christianity?
There is no need to even despise the act of homosexuality--because the bible
is very clear and so is Jesus [Luke 17:22-30; Matthew 22:29-32; Mark
12:24-27; Luke 20:34 -38] whom you claim not only to believe, but live his
Commandments: "Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is
he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. But he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is
not from faith is sin." [Romans 14:22-23]
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war {
To serve in a military campaign; figuratively to execute the apostolate
(with its arduous duties and functions), TO CONTEND WITH CARNAL
INCLINATIONS:-soldier, (go to) war (-fare)
} after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds {
ie. SUCH AS YOUR IGNORANT AND FALSE INSTITUTIONAL CLAIM TO BEING A
PARTICIPANT IN GOD'S EVERLASTING COVENANT
} Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to
the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to
himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as
he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. For though I should boast somewhat
more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not
for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: That I may not seem as if I
would terrify you by letters. For his letters, say they, are weighty and
powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. Let
such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are
absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present." [2 Corinthians
10:3 -11]
"And the soldiers {To serve in a military campaign; figuratively to execute
the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), TO CONTEND WITH
CARNAL INCLINATIONS:-soldier, (go to) war (-fare)} likewise demanded of him,
saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man,
neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. And as the
people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John {Grace
or Mercy of the Lord}, whether he were the Christ, or not." [Luke 3:14-15]
As Christianised paganism you are incapable of proving to us that your claim
to Jesus is something more than a fraudulent mirage and the basis for
Institutionalised vilification as unconstitutional religious and human
rights violation.
Without acknowledging their dependency on Judaism as Christianity, Sunday
sacred Christianity has with the reprise of Y2K, no basis in truth. And as
hymeneal occultism is simply: marriage and given in marriage {ie. Mary
worship} which is expressly condemned within Scripture as a violation of the
Everlasting Covenant God made with Israel--The Egyptian basis to much of
what today passes itself off as Christianity, is by
contrast a cruel, judgmental and dispassionate deification of death!
The article below gives a distorted picture, that Seventh-day Adventists in
their response to HIV are a caring and compassionate Christian Community of
faith. Indeed from my experience of both the disease and the organisation
over the past 18 years--I've never met a more cruel, judgmental and
dispassionate group of people when it comes to addressing the concerns of
peoples living with HIV.
News releases from the Adventist News Agency are at times self
congratulatory and belie the prophetic word of Scripture: "'Look, traitors,
and see, and be shocked--amazed--for the Lord is doing something in your
time that you would not believe it if told.' [Habakkuk 1:5; Acts 13:38-42]
This passage refers to the traitors with the Man of the Lie {Philo of
Alexandria's (20 BCE-50 AD) metaphysical view of the Decalogue as rather
resembling the 'Heads of Laws' made use of the Pythagorean Chaldean Occulted
use of Number and the Tetragrammation of YHWH as [72J] + 3(3²+1) /2 =
[72J2W1D] being 457BCE}, because they have not obeyed the words of the
Teacher of Righteousness {ie. The Hebrew/Christian Apostle Paul [Acts
28:17-31]} from the mouth of God. It also refers to the traitors to the New
Covenant, because they did not believe in God's covenant and desecrated His
holy name; and finally, it also refers to the traitors in the Last Days.
They are the cruel Israelites who will not believe when they hear everything
that is to come upon the latter generation that will be spoken by the Priest
in whose heart God has put the ability to explain all the words of His
servants the prophets, through whom God has foretold everything that is to
come upon His people and His land." [1QpHab Col. 1.16-Col. 2.10]
And may be simply another attempt by the organisation to gain access to
monetary resources to further its social agenda--I suppose one could suggest
that the church can't help everyone.
But those who don't conform to the church's worldview are simply left to
die!
- dolf
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/telos/kabbalah/patent.html#AXIOM4
June 17, 2003 Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia .... [Bruce Manners/ANN]
Dr. Ron Mataya, director of health for the Adventist Development and Relief
Agency.
In an effort to help combat the growing threat of HIV-AIDS in the South
Pacific, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region voted to
approve a strategic framework for action as well as a commitment statement
during recent mid-year meetings.
"The South Pacific region is at risk, especially the islands of Papua New
Guinea and the Solomon Islands," says Dr. Ron Mataya, the director of health
for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International.
"Australia and New Zealand seem to have contained the rate of spread. Papua
New Guinea reports a prevalence rate of about 1 to 2 percent, but also
reports that the rate of increase is between 15 to 30 percent. Papua New
Guinea has the highest prevalence rate of sexually transmitted infections,
which, together with other factors, contribute to the easy spread of HIV,"
Dr. Mataya says.
HIV/AIDS-related illnesses are currently the leading cause of death in the
hospital at Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, or PNG. Some
15,000 in that country are infected with HIV/AIDS; of those, one in four is
a housewife.
HIV/AIDS in PNG is distributed equally between men and women. Ninety percent
of infections come from heterosexual transmission and 8 percent from parent
to child. The 15 to 34 age group is the most affected.
The commitment statement voted at the meetings recognizes that the church
has failed in the past to embrace this "growing reality" and effectively
prevent or diminish the impact of the disease on society and church members.
The call is for church members to address concerns "compassionately and
intelligently" in their homes, places of work and worship, church schools
and training institutions, and clinics and hospitals.
The commitment made is to:
. Find ways to talk about sexual behavior and the prevention of HIV/AIDS
despite "cultural roadblocks."
. Work lovingly with those whose lives and relationships put them at risk
from HIV/AIDS.
. Train church members to provide home-based care to all needing support in
the community.
. Help parents realize their responsibility to counsel their children on
sexual behavior and HIV issues.
. Work with governments and other organizations "to stamp out the stigma and
discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS in all its forms."
The strategic framework suggests an epidemic of HIV/AIDS is likely in some
areas of the South Pacific within the next five to 10 years. Dr.
Mataya--originally from Malawi--presented a picture of what can happen from
what he has seen within Africa.
He reports: "ADRA International staff carried out an assessment of the
HIV/AIDS situation in the Adventist Church in Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and
Zimbabwe, and the findings were very disturbing.
"The church has lost some pastors, teachers, medical personnel, other
workers and members, and yet there continues to be a disturbing denial of
the problem. In some countries church income has gone down because the
high-income earners have died from AIDS. Health care [two words] benefits to
church employees as well as time lost due to illness continue to increase."
For Dr. Mataya, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is more than statistics--it
is personal. His sister died of HIV/AIDS three years ago.
It is expected that many Adventists in the South Pacific, including
Australia and New Zealand, will be affected in some way by HIV/AIDS.
All local areas and missions of the church in the South Pacific have been
asked to prepare a strategic plan of action to be coordinated by a
commission within each area.
The idea is to integrate and coordinate those area plans with ADRA and other
church organizations and departments, and cooperation is expected with
agencies outside the church.
Workshops and training programs within the church are anticipated. A process
of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the strategic plan will
also be set up.
These decisions are important, says Dr. Mataya. "It has been demonstrated
that commitment at the highest level of authority in a country or
organization acts as a catalyst for behavior change as it spurs people to
more action.
"The strategies will guide each union to plan according to its resources and
capacity. I'm delighted by the full acknowledgment and ownership of the
problem, particularly in Papua New Guinea, by church leadership, he says.
Copyright 2003 Adventist News Network .
http://www.adventist.org/news/data/2003/05/1055857550/index.html.en
"Dolf Boek" <dolf_boek@no-spam> wrote in message
news:OGWJa.1068$g_1.9222@no-spam
> The article below gives a distorted picture, that Seventh-day Adventists
in
> their response to HIV are a caring and compassionate Christian Community
of
> faith. Indeed from my experience of both the disease and the organisation
> over the past 18 years--I've never met a more cruel, judgmental and
> dispassionate group of people when it comes to addressing the concerns of
> peoples living with HIV.
>
Dolf,
Good to hear from you (I guess). I can at least understand your first
paragraph, which is one better than most of your posts.
On the HIV front, you never know - medicine is improving all the time.
Your manifested lack of a spirtual life as the basis of your constrained
comprehension, is of no further concern to me--I consider you a reprobate
{ie. abandoned by YAHWEH}
There remains no further necessity for you indulge you pathological
psychopathic and sychophantic tendencies as your insubstantial claim to
HOLINESS any further by commenting on my discussion threads.
- dolf
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/telos/kabbalah/patent.html
"Alan M" <nospam@no-spam> wrote in message
news:UfiKa.1184$p8.44410@no-spam
Dolf,
Good to hear from you (I guess). I can at least understand your first
paragraph, which is one better than most of your posts.
On the HIV front, you never know - medicine is improving all the time.