SABBATH IS NOT A CREATION ORDINANCE
By Colleen Tinker We received a response to Lisa Winn’s article in last week’s email, “Doctrines of Demons: A Response to Seibold”. Lisa wrote a response to an article appearing […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
HOW EPHESIANS CONTRADICTS ADVENTISM #4
Ephesians 2: 8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. I realize that this is a much shorter section than the other passages that we have studied in Ephesians. However, the […]
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CHRIST’S MINISTRY IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #24 There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle that the Lord set up and not humans. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available […]
Read moreDO WE REALLY NEED TO THROW OUT ALL OF ELLEN’S WRITINGS?
Proclamation! | Spring | 2018 | Ask the Pastor By Dale Ratzlaff Even though Ellen White was wrong in some places, don’t you think her insights into the gospel […]
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HOW EPHESIANS CONTRADICTS ADVENTISM #3
This week I am continuing my study of Ephesians, showing how it contradicts Adventism. I am picking up then lesson with the beginning of chapter 2. And you were dead […]
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DID ELLEN WHITE CHANGE AS SHE AGED?
By Colleen Tinker Research assistance by Jeremy Graham Adventists have long explained the internal contradictions within Ellen White’s writings by saying that she grew and changed as the years passed. […]
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HOW EPHESIANS CONTRADICTS ADVENTISM #2
Because of a reader’s request, I’m returning to the study of Ephesians and comparing how the passages in this book relate to typical Adventist teaching. In this blog I’ll resume […]
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WHY WE CAN’T PROTECT ELLEN WHITE
By Colleen Tinker This week we received an email from a reader who had read Christine Rogers’ story last week. Christine, a guest blogger, had written about having been […]
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ADVENTISM’S MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #23 Marriage was divinely established in Eden and affirmed by Jesus to be a lifelong union between a man and a woman in loving companionship. For the […]
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POLAND’S SUNDAY LAW: WAS ELLEN RIGHT?
By Colleen Tinker On November 28, 2017, the Daily Wire released a news story that Poland has voted “to proclaim Sunday a day of rest and phase out shopping […]
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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HEALTH MESSAGE: FROM WHERE DID IT COME?
BY CHERYL GRANGER And He said to them, ‘Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile […]
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ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #22: CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #22 We are called to be a godly people who think, feel, and act in harmony with the principles of heaven. For the Spirit to recreate in […]
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ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #21: STEWARDSHIP
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #21 We are God’s stewards, entrusted by Him with time and opportunities, abilities and possessions, and the blessings of the earth and its resources. We are responsible […]
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IN DEATH ARE WE PRESENT WITH THE LORD?
BY CHRIS LEE There is no doctrine, apart from the Sabbath, that shapes Adventists’ identity as completely as “the state of the dead”. In fact, some of the […]
Read moreWHO CHANGED THE SABBATH?
BY RUSSELL EARL KELLY Adventism claims—indeed, Ellen White declared in her book The Great Controversy—that the pope of Rome changed the seventh-day Sabbath to Sunday. This claim, however, is a straw-man […]
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