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6301 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 478.14 (General Conference of SDA)
No, but they are changed into the true body and the true blood of Jesus Christ. If they were annihilated, there would be no change. Now, the church expressly teaches that there is a change.
6302 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 479.15 (General Conference of SDA)
… whole church. After the death of this Pope the new festival was discontinued; but afterward in the year 1311, it was established forever in the church by Clement …
6303 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 481.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are [represent] the seven churches.” Revelation 1:20. “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” John 15:5. Our Lord did not say …
6304 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 485.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… Western Church. But centuries passed before it found any recognition. Even the Martyrology of Usuard, used in the Roman Church in the ninth century, confined …
6305 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 9.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the body, and have a living organism left. And you cannot unthread it out of the faith of the church without driving the knife to the heart of thousands of its …
6306 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 12.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… , to dwell together with their Saviour in the heavenly Jerusalem.... At the coming of Christ, the bodies of all the saints are raised, and the whole church of …
6307 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 23.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… entire church in that place, consisting of about forty persons, became observers of the Sabbath of the Lord. The oldest body of Sabbath keepers among Seventh …
6308 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 25.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… “remnant church,” who had held fast to the truth. This faith gave great purity of life and incessant zeal. No body of Christians excels them in moral character …
6309 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 106.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… .” The body of cardinals is called the Sacred College.... We must add that the chief affairs of the Roman Catholic Church are in the hands of the cardinals. But the …
6310 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.6 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Meaning of.—The church of Christ, therefore, is a body of which the Spirit of Jesus is the soul. It is a company of Christlike men and women, whom the Holy …
6311 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.9 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Defined by Bellarmine.—A body of men united together by the profession of the same Christian faith, and by participation in the same sacraments, under …
6312 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.10 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Defined in the Bull “Unam Sanctam.”—That there is one holy catholic and apostolic church we are impelled by our faith to believe and to hold-this we do …
6313 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.2 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Roman Catholic Idea of.—The Roman idea of a church was that it was a visible body in communion with the Roman see, and in which the ministers derived their …
6314 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.4 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Historical Notes on the.—The word “church” (from Greek kyriakon, “the Lord’s,” i. e., “house” or “body”) meant in original Christian usage either the universal body …
6315 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church sketched above [the Roman Catholic view], was the Waldenses. They considered themselves members of the church of Christ and partakers of his salvation …
6316 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church radically opposed to that which had been developing was Wycliffe; and Huss followed him in it. According to him the church is the “totality of the …
6317 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 122.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church, by teaching the Catholics to reject a council which was neither legitimate in constitution, free in action, nor unanimous in doctrine, but to observe …
6318 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 125.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the body, and of the whole essence of the wine into the blood; which change the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation.
6319 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 168.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… heavenly bodies as literally engaged in acts of devotion. If these authorities are to be credited, the Gihon, one of the rivers of Paradise, was no other than …
6320 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 170.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… the Churches of Christ in America.”—The Federal Council was organized as the chief consummation of the National Federation of Churches at its first meeting …