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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Category: Adventist Doctrines
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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You Will Never Die
MARTIN CAREY | What do you believe happens to us when we die? As Adventists we had strong opinions and were very sure of the answer. Our doctrines of death […]
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Jesus Broke the Sabbath and Declared Himself God
MARGIE LITTELL with COLLEEN TINKER | Honestly, I find it difficult to read some online posts by Seventh-day Adventists with their spirit of superiority and their ridicule of the doctrines […]
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February 24–March 1
Lesson 9: “Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week the author refers to many psalms that prefigure […]
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Proof That We Must Keep the Law?
DALE RATZLAFF Isn’t Matthew 5:17-19 proof that we have to continue keeping the law? Matthew 5:17-19 has been a proof text for many groups. It has also been a text […]
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Now Is the Right Time to Claim Salvation
MIKE MEHARRY Ellen White wrote several times that one cannot say “I am saved”: No man can say I am saved until he has endured test and trial, until he has […]
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Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?
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 […]
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Adventism: Not Restoring, Not Reforming
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 […]
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The Adventist Hope Isn’t Hope
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 […]
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What the Bible Teaches About Spirits, Death, and Hell
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 […]
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Comparing Adventism with Christianity
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 […]
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