April 13–19, 2024
Lesson 3: “Light Shines in the Darkness” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is based on chapter three of The Great Controversy by Ellen White. The […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
An Appeal to Mark Finley
COLLEEN TINKER | This second quarter of 2024, the Seventh-day Adventist organization has published a new set of Sabbath School lessons entitled The Great Controversy. We have been doing weekly […]
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4. Saved Souls Get Bodies at the Resurrection
JEREMY GRAHAM | 4. The Bible teaches that the spirits/souls of saved people will return to their bodies and they will be resurrected and be with the Lord Jesus forever. 1 […]
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April 6–12. 2024
Lesson 2: “The Central Issue: Love or Selfishness?” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson, built on chapters one and two of The Great Controversy by EGW, […]
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March 30–April 5, 2024
Quarter 2, Lesson 1: “The War Behind All Wars” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week launches a new Sabbath School quarterly for the second quarter of 2024 […]
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3. Unsaved Souls Are Conscious After Death
JEREMY GRAHAM | 3. The Bible also teaches that the spirits/souls of unsaved people continue in conscious existence after physical death. 1 Samuel 28:3, 7-20: “Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel […]
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March 23–29, 2024
Lesson 13: “Wait On the Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson ends the quarter with a focus on waiting on the Lord. Significantly, the central […]
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2. The Human Soul Survives Death
JEREMY GRAHAM | 2. The Bible does teach that the spirits/souls of saved people continue in conscious existence after physical death. Genesis 25:8-10: “Abraham breathed his last and died in a […]
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Coming To Grips With the Deceptive Nature of Adventism
KASPARS OZOLINS | My memories are still warm from our annual Former Seventh-day Adventist Fellowship conference which took place only a few weeks ago. I thank God for these life-changing […]
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1. Created In the Image of God Includes a Spirit
JEREMY GRAHAM | 1. Man was created in the image of God with an immaterial spirit/soul (within the material body). Genesis 1:27: “God created [Heb. “bara”] man in His own image, in […]
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March 16–22, 2024
Lesson 12: “Worship That Never Ends” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This penultimate lesson in the quarter dedicated to the Psalms is quintessential Adventist moralizing. While many of […]
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What Commandments Do Christians Follow?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: If the Ten Commandments came in with Moses and lasted only until Christ, as you say the new covenant teaches, then what […]
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March 9–15, 2024
Lesson 11: “Longing for God in Zion” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson focuses on psalms that feature Zion and the sanctuary. The psalms themselves are […]
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Why do you object to the teaching that Satan is the scapegoat?
• ASK THE PASTOR COLUMN • DALE RATZLAFF | Answer: First, its very origin is framed in gross error. James and Ellen White and Joseph Bates accepted Hiram Edson’s cornfield vision […]
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March 2–8, 2024
Lesson 10: “Lessons of the Past” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson looks briefly at several psalms which recount God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt and […]
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