November 20–26
Lesson 9: “Turn Their Hearts” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: Limiting God’s ability to act within the paradigm of the great controversy Exaltation of man’s supposed free will and […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
November 13–19
Lesson 8: “Choose Life” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The great controversy worldview which makes salvation about choosing to keep the law and to be “good” in order to […]
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Adventism’s Trojan Horse
COLLEEN TINKER I had a poignant and perceptive email this week. The writer was a top student in an Adventist seminary (not in North America) when he began to look […]
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November 6–12
Lesson 7: “Law And Grace” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Moral beings need a moral law to define morality; thus the moral law existed in heaven from eternity. The […]
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October 30–November 5
Lesson 6: “For What Nation Is There So Great?” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: It states that the Decalogue is eternal and universal. It equates not adding or taking […]
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October 23–29
Lesson 5: “The Stranger In Your Gates” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: It equates the restatement of the Mosaic Covenant in Deuteronomy with the idea of the “new covenant”. […]
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October 16–22
Lesson 4: “To Love The Lord Your God” COLLEEN TINKER The main problems with this lesson are: Ignoring the context and the first audience of Deuteronomy and applying it to […]
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The Bible Conference of 1919
Reveals Adventist Leaders Have Never Agreed On Ellen White’s Prophetic Authority—Includes Full Transcript BY COLLEEN TINKER Four years after Ellen White died, the Seventh-day Adventist organization held a Bible Conference in […]
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What Is True?
BY COLLEEN TINKER A Facebook conversation drew me in this week. The original post (written by a former Adventist) asked, in essence, how much personal discomfort and loss we would […]
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He Shall Never Die
STANLEY ROUHE TALKS ABOUT HIS DEATH AND LIFE STANLEY ROUHE INTERVIEWED BY COLLEEN TINKER WITH RICHARD TINKER Tuesday, June 14, 2011, was a day my husband Richard and I will […]
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Leaving the Service of Humiliation
COLLEEN TINKER I was twelve years old, and my best friend whom I’ll call Lynn was a few months older. It was Thirteenth Sabbath, and she and I paired up […]
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Is There An Age of Accountability?
COLLEEN TINKER Recently I encountered a question from a former Adventist who was upset about the idea that babies are born spiritually dead. The questioner asked how we could make […]
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How Can I Know If I’m Saved?
COLLEEN TINKER The moment is emblazoned in my memory. Richard and I were sitting in a classroom in an Adventist church in San Diego County one Sabbath afternoon in 1996. […]
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Are Humans More Than Living Bodies?
COLLEEN TINKER “I used to think Jesus’ miracles were like the healings the disciples did,” my friend Rosalie admitted to me as I held the phone with one hand and […]
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Swept Clean But Dirtier
COLLEEN TINKER I recently had a conversation with a former Adventist whom I have known for many years. This person is struggling with some serious medical concerns that are hard […]
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