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Saturday, September 21, 2019

AToday's false premise

I know there seems to be no end to the absurdities on the Adventist Today website, but it is hard to believe what kind of fictions they try to pass. They must be taking their cue from the leftist media who so often distort the news. This time it is so obvious that it destroys the whole point of the AToday article. Here is the first paragraph from  Loren Seibold  |  20 September 2019  |  

Elder Wilson’s first sermon to the world church in 2010 was predictive of the kind of leadership he would practice. Beyond a few manufactured trivialities (reading non-Adventist authors, meditation) he showed that his leadership style would involve enforcing upon the church his personal understanding of Adventist orthodoxy. This sense of himself as “the first minister” (his father’s description of himself when GC president) came through when he began to call himself “President of the World Church of Seventh-day Adventists” instead of “President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,” which may seem a small difference, but is actually quite revelatory of who he is. 
He links to an AToday article by Ervin Taylor which does not tell us that Wilson ever calls himself the "President of the World Church of Seventh-day Adventists" but it could be from some copy editor, the article says: 
To be honest, I’m not sure, as yet, what to make of this. In the case of the article, perhaps this is just some copy editor forgetting to put “world” in front of “Church” so that what should have appeared was “Ted N. C. Wilson is president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church.” But is that true? To be specific, should not the byline have read: “Ted N. C. Wilson is the current president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists”? But what difference does it make?    
He does not give an answer to what difference does it make and Loren Seibold offers no real reason for why it is revelatory of who Wilson is, assuming Wilson actually ever said it. I did an internet search and found no evidence that Wilson ever called himself “President of the World Church of Seventh-day Adventists”. So the article Siebold linked to does not say Wilson called himself that and it does not appear on the internet somewhere at least readily apparent that he said it but on AToday it is just stated that Wilson began to call himself President of the World Church of Seventh-day Adventists. Funny how that works.

But will anyone else notice this? Nope. Watch the facebook comments and see if I am right!

 

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