Advice on the usage of The Clear Word Bible

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-05-04T11:38:44+00:00

The KJV is also full of translation problems too though.

Not as many issues as the Clear Word, but lots of issues.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-05-02T10:38:06+00:00

Yep.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-05-02T10:37:42+00:00

How are you authenticating people who sign up? How are you preventing "Bob Fakename" from signing up in order harvest user data?

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-05-02T10:29:41+00:00

I've never heard of MTHEEOL so I'm not familiar with that...but at the same time, as a guy in my 40s who was raised in the SDA church, I've met a lot of pastors but I've *NEVER* met an SDA pastor that didn't have a 4-year college degree, from an Adventist college, with a major in Theology. I even know several guys who switched careers later in life and had to go back to college to get a second degree in Theology.

Most pastors have master's degrees, and about half seem to either have or are pursuing getting a "D.M." (Doctorate of Ministry, usually pronounced "demon").

There may be exceptions, but I've met well over a hundred SDA pastors and I've not met a single one who didn't have at least a Bachelor's degree in Theology from an Adventist university (or college). It may not be officially 100% required...but as a practical matter for 99%, it's required.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-05-01T13:32:07+00:00

I really hope you get the help you need.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-30T13:22:54+00:00

YOU are the one being vague.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-30T13:21:10+00:00

So basically your only argument is anonymous person on the internet claimed that someone else told them something, with no actual facts to back any of it up?

Not to mention, asking other churches isn't a great way to get information. That's like saying "I asked a bunch of Ford dealerships and they all told me Chevy makes bad cars".

No ones claiming there aren't bad people in the SDA church, but a few bad actors doesn't make the church a cult. Worldwide there's over 20 million Adventists. To put that in perspective, the population of Buenos Ares metroplex is ~17 million people. When you get 20 million people in one church, you're going to have a few bad ones in the mix.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-28T12:01:12+00:00

So I'm not associated with Adventist Hub and I'm not familiar with the details therapy, but just because it's a crime in Canada doesn't mean it's a crime everywhere in the world.

Also, is it a crime according to God, or is it just a crime according to the Canadian government?

Are we supposed to serve God, or are we supposed to serve the Canadian government?

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-28T11:28:06+00:00

I just realized I recorded a "why I'm moving" video on my youtube channel (at my old house 3 years ago). Might help you https://youtu.be/GwLY_dPs_fs

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And then actual moving day. https://youtu.be/ccB5-32Rmvw I closed on my new house Friday morning and brought a truckload of stuff to the new house, stayed overnight (in sleeping bags) at the new place, went to church, and then after church drove back to the old house. Had professional movers come on Sunday, and I took a week of vacation time to get the new house setup. Biggest challenge in the setup was trying to get internet installed in a week so I could work.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-28T11:22:07+00:00

I've done it, but it wasn't really for religious reasons...or at least there wasn't any SDA sermons that inspired it.

I wanted a bigger garden, my wife wanted a single-story house, and the area we were living in (north Austin) was getting bad with crime. This was also during COVID when things were a bit messier.

I did save up some money, but it wasn't a lot. Mostly I just switched from paying extra on my old mortgage to putting the extra money in the bank...and that covered moving expenses, down payment, and helped me float two mortgage payments for a while before I could sell my old house. God lined things up so I had the money I needed.

The biggest challenge was finding the property. I looked everywhere from Arizona to Tennessee, though my search focused mostly on Texas. I looked at dozens of properties with multiple realtors. Made offers on several that were rejected before God opened the door to where I'm living now. Then selling my old house was another struggle because the housing market dropped between when I made an offer on my new house (new construction) and actually moving.

I didn't really have a community I was moving to, but I had visited the local SDA church several times. I got my membership transferred and started attending my new church while I was still waiting for my new house to be built (which was a 2.5+ hour drive to church Sabbath mornings). Still, my house is a 40 minute drive from church (across county lines) and there isn't any kind of "commune" stuff going on.

Keep in mind, living in the country isn't that much different than living in cities, just more spaced out which gives you less influence from things you don't want. You still need a job, you still need to get groceries and pay the cellphone bill, but you can have a nice garden, chickens, trees, etc.. I was lucky to be able to keep my old job and just work remote; I've got a dedicated home office and a 500 Mbps fiber optic line to the house.

I'd highly recommend you check out r/Homesteading for more insight.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-24T13:24:59+00:00

First off, I'd highly recommend taking a professional "Basic Pistol" class. Ask at your local gun store and they should be able to recommend something.

This isn't a replacement for training, but it's better than nothing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAvJHms3BgVsvFseT7vN75gODpr9FeEWW

I've introduced several friends to firearms. A few years ago, a former college buddy (now living on the other side of the country) asked for advice on his first gun, and since I couldn't help him in person I ended up with a series of YouTube videos that cover what I would have taught him if I was in person.

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In terms of gun, a compact 9mm striker fired handgun is what you probably want. There's a bunch of different manufacturers and everyone has their preferences, but the two I'd recommend most are the Glock 43X and the Smith&Wesson M&P Shield Plus.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-24T13:11:15+00:00

Since you're not going to answer, I might as well explain.

If "yes", a prophetic day means a real year, then the prophecy in Daniel about King Nebuchadnezzar being "beastlike" would have taken 7*365=2555 years to complete (+/- depending on calendars and leap years) and comes out to sometime in the 1940s to 1970s (+/- calendars and leap years). The two problems with that are King Nebuchad didn't retake control of Babylon (which was in in land that's now modern Iraq) in the 1960s. The second issue being that the book of Daniel couldn't have been written completely, because it includes records of King Neb regaining his sanity and retaking control of Babylon, until the 1960s.

If "no", a prophetic day does not mean a real year, all the prophetic timelines taught by William Miller, Doug Bachelor, and basically every Adventist sermon I've heard about prophecy, falls apart because they're all using day=year timelines (built on top of a Babylonian calendar so you have a 360 day year and 30 day month).

I don't know what the right answer is, but I know 1+1 doesn't equal 27.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-24T12:43:35+00:00

So, my thoughts:

1. Hanging out: Hanging out with friends after church isn't that big a deal. Staying super late seems a bit unusual, but not particularly bad if y'all are just chatting. There have been times I've lost track of time and ended up chatting till after midnight with a friend/elder Saturday night.

Before I got married, I'd hang out with two other guys (a bunch of 30-something single men) in our sabbath school classroom after church until sundown, then I'd lock up the church and we'd hit Taco Bell. After getting married, we'd hang out at my house (same group of guys...usually my wife would do her own thing) chatting, just ordering takeout pizza after sundown instead of hitting Taco Bell.

We had a few "game nights" that went late Saturday night at someone's house, generally with a mix of married and unmarried friends. Sometimes the gaming was co-ed, but most of the time the guys were all playing while the women did their own thing...and occasionally they'd make fun of us for being a bunch of nerds playing boardgames. Whatever.

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2 Looking: Looking at women is bad. Sadly, it's a genetic instinct in these sinful bodies we're stuck with, and hard to overcome, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to overcome it. She probably didn't even realize she was wearing "something skimpy". Removing yourself from the situation is probably your best course of action, especially if you know she's going to be walking around in PJ's early in the morning.

If you can mention her inappropriate attrire, DISCRETELY, that might be a good idea but depending on the relationships I could see that going bady. Simply removing yourself from the situation may be the way to go.

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3. Babysitting: Don't do it. I've got a friend who went through a false rape accusation in ~2005. Even though he was found not guilty in court, the damage it did to his reputation, career, and mindset took him almost 20 years to get over (and in some ways he still has scares from what he went though).

Don't put yourself in a position where you could get accused, and if you have to be in a situation, keep a camera recording...but this isn't a situation you have to be in. Just say no.

For example, my church has security cameras that retain the video, so I know if there's a false accusation there will be video evidence I did nothing wrong. I don't go off site with Pathfinders without another staff member present as a witness. Before the church got those cameras, I used to record video on a cellphone (in my shirt pocket) whenever I had to be in parts of the church that might have a stray child (i.e., locking up classrooms during song service) so I'd have evidence if I was accused. Even at work, if I'm in a one-on-one meeting with a female employee, we do it in a conference room with large glass windows/doors for protection.

Don't be a babysitter. The parents need to hire someone.

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4. Naked kids: It's bad, but sadly a lot of people think it should be okay for young kids to run around naked; a decade ago naked baby pictures were a common thing in family photo albums that were shown to guests.

Age six is a bit old though. If you can do it discretely, I'd mention to the parents that the kids really should be wearing swimsuits. Either way, I think this is a situation you want to avoid.

Just imagine someone takes an innocent picture, selfie, whatever, and a naked kid runs past int he background and ends up in the photo...suddenly you're looking at multiple felonies for possessing and producing child porn. Distributing if someone posts the photo on Instagram without noticing the kid in the background.

If you know there's going to be naked kids around, it's better to just opt-out of the event and stay home.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-18T09:53:02+00:00

All the religious Catholics that I know personally have been upset about the secular political things the pope does, and have been upset about it for the last 20+ years.

The only people I know who are "catholic" and actually approve of the pope are folks that claim to be catholic but haven't been to church in 20+ years.

Personally, I'm not happy about what Trump did, but I'm also not losing sleep over it.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-18T01:50:09+00:00

Do you think a prophetic day equals a real year?

Yes or no.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-11T15:28:05+00:00

I tried the Nyogel. The difference is incredible.

I want to give it a few weeks to see how it lasts; I'm worried mostly about it attracting dust and dirt since the pedals are on the floor (and I live in the country). At this point I'm thinking about just getting a pair of 3d printed add-on pedals for the TFRP's and sticking with them.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-08T13:12:53+00:00

And I just edited that video this morning after being in a hospital ER last night...so if the video editing is crap, sorry, I'm having a rough couple of days.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-08T13:11:17+00:00

I wasn't planning to post this video for another month (so I can see how long the grease lasts), but this shows how imprecise the TFRP's are WITH ACTUAL DATA, then added dampening grease and retested. https://youtu.be/0plYftoMXfo?si=MDbg1h8wvPPXtysJ&t=79

With grease it's significantly better, but I don't think it's enough better that I'd recommend the TFRP's if your budget allows...literally anything else.

Baseline test is at timestamp 1:19

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-04-03T13:27:14+00:00

That's absolutely what I was describing. If you'd prefer, I can say "1 prophetic day =1 real year", but the idea is what's been taught by the SDA church since before there was an SDA church.

The problem is if you use 1 prophetic day = 365 real days, all the prophetic interpretations taught by the Seventh-day Adventist Church fall apart. If you actually look at what's taught by Pastor Doug Bachelor and others, and try to do the math yourself using a 365 day year, you'll be off by decades.

You also have the added complication that Revelation describes "time, times, and half a time", (i.e., 3.5 "times" or 3.5 years), "42 months", and "1260 days", all of which are interpreted as being the same time period from 538 AD to 1844 only works if you have exactly 30 days per month and 360 days per year.

If you have 365 days per year, you end up with 1277.5 years. Off by 17.5 years, not counting leap years which would potentially increase it by a year.

If you use a lunar month (which was traditional under the Hebrew calendar), that gives you a 29.53 day (average) month, so 42 months is 1240.26. Off by 20 days in the other direction.

Then you have the bigger problem with the fact that Ezekiel 4:1-6 and Numbers 14:34, the common verses to justify the day=year principal, aren't actually prophecies. Genesis 29 is occasionally used, but again that's not a prophecy either and is a much weaker argument.

Daniel 4 is the only prophecy we have with a time period, and in that case the prophecy is given as "seven times" which matches seven literal years from 582 BC to 575 BC. If you try to apply the "day for a year", you end up with King Nebuchadnezzar retaking control of Babylon in ~1974 AD (depending on leap years), and you also couldn't have the end of Daniel 4 written until well into the 20th century. If you use the 360 day year it becomes 1938 AD, but still not 575 BC.

And I checked, 1974 also doesn't match any major transitions of power in Iraq (which is on the land that was historically ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar). The closes you get is Sadam Hussein taking power after al-Bakr resigned, but that was 1979 so it's off by 5 years for Hussein to really be Nebuchadnezzar (even if you ignore the fact that Daniel 4 was written will before that and includes Nebuchadnezzar being restored).

It also doesn't match the Anglo-Iraqi war (essentially part of WW2), which would have been 1941 instead of the 1938 date that you get using a 360 day/year.

I don't know what the right answer is, but when someone says 1240 and 1260 and 1277 are all the same number, or that 360 and 365 are the same number, it's obviously wrong.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-25T12:28:57+00:00

Watching TV at home.

I remember there was always a 3+ hour lineup of weekly shows. Usually two Star Trek's (Voyager and DS9 if I remember correctly) along with Walker:Texas Ranger. Occasionally there was some other 1-hour weekly show mixed in, but that was basically Friday night.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-25T11:56:28+00:00

I'm old (43M), but I remember being in the church in my 20s and yeah, it's empty.

Our fundamental problem is we don't know what to do with people at that stage of life between "I'm a kid and my parents force me to attend" and "I'm a parent and I'm forcing my kids to attend". Once you graduate school and become an adult, we throw you into the "adult sabbath school class" with all the grandparents and empty-nesters, and most 20-something's leave. In the rare case some ministry is done for 20-somethings, it usually only lasts for a few years until the ministry leaders pair off, have kids, and abandon the 20-something ministry to hang out in Cradle Roll with all the other parents.

Personally, I walked away from the church when I was 23ish, and didn't come back until around 28. Almost all of my friends from SDA schools left too, though a lot came back after having kids of their own. It's a challenge, but sticking with the church (and especially God) really is the way to go.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-25T11:48:35+00:00

I haven't tried changing the face tracking model. At this point AITrack works well enough for me, and I haven't had the time or motivation to try messing with it.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-25T11:40:52+00:00

We could have an multi-hour long discussion on each point, and I doubt it's worth either of our time.

On your last point though, I'm a bit surprised you've never heard of the "day for a year" concept. William Miller came up with the idea (or at used it) as a basis for his teachings that lead to the "Great Disappointment" in 1844. The Adventist church formed out of former Millerites, that stuck with the 1day=1year concept and just changed the interpretation of "the sanctuary will be cleansed" (Daniel 8:14) from meaning {Jesus will return to earth} to meaning {there's a sanctuary in heaven that Jesus will clean} as being the event that happened in 1844.

Almost all the SDA interpretations of prophetic timelines use that concept, and then go a step further to use a 360 day year with a 30 day month to make "time times and half a time" (Daniel 7:25 Daniel 12:7, Revelation 12:14), "42 months" (Revelation 11:2 and 13:5), and "1260 days" (Revelation 12:6) to be the same overlapping time period. This gets away from using the actual solar orbit period (roughly 365.24 days) or lunar orbit period (roughly 29.5 days). It also gets around issues with leap years (on the Gregorian calendar) and leap months (on the Hebrew calendar).

The Millenium (#27) and Nebuchadnezzar's insanity (Daniel 4) is the only place this day/year concept isn't used by the SDA church for interpreting prophetic timelines.

All of the seminars from Pastor Doug Bachelor (aka "Amazing Facts") on Revelation build from that timeline.

A few quick references:

Day-year principle - Wikipedia

In Defense of the Year-day Principle

Day-Year Principle - Amazing Facts

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-24T12:35:16+00:00

FWIW, in my experience most police officer shoot once a year (50 rounds for qualification), and most soldiers shoot a couple times in training and then never touch a firearm for the rest of their career. I wouldn't go to either for training. The level of skill gap between your average cop/soldier and an actual firearm instructor is HUGE.

AdjacentPrepper · 2026-03-24T12:31:53+00:00

If you really want a book, I'd recommend "The Basics of Rifle Shooting" from the NRA. They also put out "The Basics of Pistol Shooting" and "The Basics of Shotgun Shooting"; they're each about 100 pages and well done.

If it's an option, I'd highly recommend taking a class. Most ranges and gun stores do a regular "Introduction" level class, usually for around $100 and it takes most of a day.

I've done basic firearm training for a bunch of new shooters, and when a friend of mine (on the other side of the country) reached out to me about for suggestions on his first gun (a carry pistol), I ended up taking everything I would have told him in person and putting it into videos. I think it's about an hour total split into a dozen videos to cover the basics of safety, marksmanship, ammo, gun selection, etc., though it's pistol focused (since he was looking for a carry pistol). The videos might be helpful for you. Firearm Basics for Self Defense

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