Please Expose the Quarterly’s “Galatians”
We are intrigued with your exposure of the Adventist SS Quarterly and the deflective manipulation of Scripture. It is jaw-dropping stuff. A few years ago I searched for SS quarterly coverage on Galatians and found it. I put my Bible beside the online quarterly lesson to investigate its message of such an important book. It was astonishing how crafty it was in diminishing its message to silly unrelated things to ponder throughout the week. I hope you might cover this in your series as Galatians is so important to studying a way out of Adventism. God bless you and your family ministry!
—VIA FACEBOOK MESSENGER
Response: That’s a good idea about Galatians. We did cover that in our written commentaries. I can’t remember for sure who wrote them when they rotated through their schedule. I’ll check it out and see if we have something we can work from! I have fumed about these quarterly lessons for a long time. I’m glad to have a chance to share more widely. Thanks so much for the idea and for your feedback! Merry Christmas!
I Need Resources to Combat Adventist Arguments
I am just finishing your interview with Answering Adventism, and you mentioned a Bible study you guys do. I was wondering if I could join. I have grown up in the Church and have gone to Adventist schools all the way up to College. I have always had some questions, but I did not start investigating them until my last year in college in August, 2022. I have been recently reading and watching videos about the Adventist doctrines and realizing that many things I grew up learning are not Bible-based. I am very new in this journey of realizing I do not align myself with Ellen and the church, so I do not know how to defend the true gospel well against my Adventist community right now. There are many people in my life that I am sharing my findings with, yet they are bringing up arguments that I have never considered. Even though I am certain that Adventism is false, I do not know how to combat their questions and reasons. I was wondering if you’d be willing to guide me to someone or some more resources as well.
Thank you so much for your time and for your Ministry.
—VIA EMAIL
Response: Thank you for writing! We will be happy to send you a link to our Friday evening Bible studies! We will not be meeting this next nor next because of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, but we will resume the first Friday of January. You will receive an email with the link and attachments related to the lesson on that Friday afternoon.
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Christian Pastor Sending Daughters to Adventist Schools
Oh boy!!! I just had a meeting with our new Care Pastor. I mentioned in passing that I used to be Adventist. Well. He lives in a suburb of an Adventist university, and his girls went to the local Adventist preschool and now attend the local Adventist elementary school and academy… We didn’t have time to really talk about this much, but in a nutshell I told him I see Adventists as being in the same camp as Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons.
I shared my video testimony from FAF and said I’d bring him a book. People here see Adventism as another Christian church—that is until they talk to me. Then they look at me as questionable. I guess God dropped a project in my hands. He was very familiar with [a local progressive Adventist] church. It feels like an evangelical church, he said. But I said, “It’s on Sabbath. That’s a salvation issue.” He nodded.
His girls tell him that they are viewed as wild because all other parents are very rigid about what they can and can’t do. They find associations difficult because of Sabbath and Sunday issues… I’m loving your Revelation podcasts. I plan to re-listen and journal more on the book in 2024.
—VIA EMAIL
Response: Well, the Lord sent you to this care pastor. He needs to know!
It’s interesting that his girls are perceived as “wild”. Isn’t it interesting that Adventists flirt with their own boundaries and are often permissive behind the scenes and dabble in meat and caffeine and even wine—but when non-Adventists join their crowd, they are “wild” because of their lack of reverence for the specialness of Sabbath?
My hunch is that those girls are not wild compared to the behind-the-scenes behaviors of the Adventists. I think they are experiencing that powerful “caste system” that marginalizes non-Adventists because they’re not initiated into the “club”. Kids whose parents aren’t Adventists never really become part of the group—not fully. They can’t rise as high nor achieve the levels of involvement that the Adventists can.
Then Lord SO has you where He wants you to minister! I’m sorry—but at the same time, I know that there’s no one better to help this man confront the giant compromise he is making with his girls. You were an Adventist teacher.
I pray the Lord will give you strength and wisdom. †
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