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Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?

February 1, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]

Adventism: Not Restoring, Not Reforming

February 1, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Doctrine, Feature, Rodney Nelson

RODNEY NELSON Heirs of the Reformation Seventh-day Adventism has historically believed itself to be the heir of the Protestant Reformation in that it combines the foundational teachings of the historic […]

The Adventist Hope Isn’t Hope

January 25, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Doctrine, Elmer Wiebe, Feature, Gospel

ELMER WIEBE Just another denomination? We are told that Seventh-day Adventism is just another denomination with just a few obscure teachings. In the historical Christianity, the believer’s hope is to […]

What the Bible Teaches About Spirits, Death, and Hell

January 20, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Hell, Jeremy Graham, Man's Nature, State of the Dead

JEREMY GRAHAM Following is a comprehensive list of Bible passages that show what the Bible says concerning each of these six points: 1. Man was created in the image of […]

Comparing Adventism with Christianity

January 19, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER WRITINGS Adventism The Bible, including Adventist paraphrase The Clear Word. Over 600 published titles with divine revelations and counsel by prophetess Ellen G. White (1827–1915), including The Desire of Ages and The […]

Did the Waldenses Keep the 7th Day Sabbath?

January 19, 2024 Guest The Sabbath

E-mails from Pastor Thomas Soggin of the Waldesian Church in Bergamo to Andras Szalai, director of Apologia Research Center (CFAR Hungary) concerning the Seventh-day Adventist claim that Waldesians were Seventh-day […]

A New Covenant Needs New Words

November 23, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, New Covenant, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]

What’s Your Hermeneutic? Why Does it Matter?

November 9, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER If there is any single Adventist icon that functions as an idol, it is the seventh-day Sabbath. In fact, the Adventist arguments for Sabbath-keeping are so ingrained that […]

New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”

November 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]

Jesus Claims the Keys

October 12, 2023 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey, State of the Dead

MARTIN CAREY On one fateful afternoon of darkness, three men hung on their crosses, waiting for the end. That afternoon marked not only the end of their lives; but also […]

9. The Clear Word on Death and the Afterlife

October 5, 2023 Stephen Pitcher Adventism's The Clear Word Analyzed, Books, Feature, State of the Dead, Stephen Pitcher

STEPHEN PITCHER Within Adventism death and the afterlife are explained in one way: the dead, both the saved and the unsaved, remain in an unconscious state from the moment of […]

8. The Clear Word On the Sanctuary, 1844, and the Investigative Judgment

September 28, 2023 Stephen Pitcher Adventism's The Clear Word Analyzed, Books, Daniel and Revelation, Investigative Judgment, Stephen Pitcher

The Investigative Judgment (IJ) is unique. No other church (except a few Adventist offshoots) teaches an IJ that began on Oct. 22, 1844, in the second compartment of the heavenly […]

4. The Clear Word On Foods

August 31, 2023 Stephen Pitcher Adventism's The Clear Word Analyzed, Books, Feature, Health Message, Stephen Pitcher

STEPHEN PITCHER In this chapter, we will show how The Clear Word reflects the Adventist teaching about clean and unclean foods and vegetarianism and compare The Clear Word’s rendering of […]

Adventism’s Death Doctrine: Gospel or Deception

July 20, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster, State of the Dead

BY RICHARD FOSTER I remember when my wife and I were making our exit from Adventist theology, we were hearing talk of humans having souls or spirits that existed consciously […]

28. Death and Resurrection Assumes Man is Physical

July 13, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature, Man's Nature, State of the Dead

ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #26—The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state […]