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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 […]

I Chose My Mountain

June 8, 2023 Richard Tinker Faith Story, Feature, Richard Tinker, The Sabbath

RICHARD TINKER I was born on a mountain—Howell Mountain adjacent to the Napa Valley in Northern California. This mountain, however, is very similar to another mountain—Mt. Sinai. In order to […]

Ellen White Is Used to Suppress Jesus

May 11, 2023 Nicole Stevenson Ellen G. White, Feature, Nicole Stevenson

NICOLE STEVENSON I probably would have forgotten about the practice altogether if it hadn’t suddenly come to mind while I was singing at church recently. There I was, worshiping in […]

The Law is Not For Us!

March 30, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, The Law of God, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER If we cannot define, accurately, what the Gospel of Jesus is, we believe an anti-Gospel message. Let’s identify the gospel before we go any farther. […]

13. Growing in Christ: Growing or Belief?

March 30, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Adventist Doctrines, Books, Feature

Fundamental Belief #11: By His death on the cross Jesus triumphed over the forces of evil. He who subjugated the demonic spirits during His earthly ministry has broken their power and […]

What Does Jesus Command?

March 23, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster, The Sabbath

RICHARD FOSTER “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). As Adventists we were taught that any time we saw the word “commandments” in Scripture it always […]