COMING OUT OF ADVENTISM HALFWAY
By Colleen Tinker “It seems you guys at the magazine did come out of Adventism,” wrote a former Adventist, “but you only came out halfway. You say you understand the […]
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DEATH IS REQUIRED
By Colleen Tinker “I never wanted this job,” I said to Richard one day as I was filing statements and keeping track of my mother’s dwindling assets as she approached […]
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MY GUILT IS CRUSHING ME!
By Colleen Tinker “Hope and joy elude me,” Angela said; “I constantly feel a sense of doom and guilt, and I don’t see a future without it. There are times […]
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DISTORTING SCRIPTURE TO STAY UNDER THE LAW
By Colleen Tinker Adventist “law arguments” die hard. No matter how clearly the Bible explains the limited scope of the Mosaic covenant and the surpassing glory of the new covenant […]
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JESUS DIDN’T COME TO ABOLISH THE LAW
• By Colleen Tinker • What are we supposed to do with Matthew 5:17,18 when we begin to learn that Jesus fulfilled the law and inaugurated a new covenant? What […]
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EASTER IS DIFFERENT
By Colleen Tinker What does Easter have to do with the new birth? I wish I had an easy way to explain why Easter is different now. I used to […]
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USING PROPER HERMENEUTICS FOR ROMANS 3:31 AND 7:21
By Colleen Tinker This week a letter to Life Assurance Ministries asked that familiar question almost everyone has faced as they begin to question Adventism. The writer said: “I have […]
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DESMOND FORD: A MIXED LEGACY
By Colleen Tinker Desmond Ford, one of the most controversial Adventist figures within the last 50 years, died on March 11, 2019. His wife Gillian announced his death on Facebook […]
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MOBILITY CART SHOWS GOD’S CARE
By Colleen Tinker “After your surgery, you can ride in one of those electric carts when we shop at Costco,” Richard said to me with a little more enthusiasm than […]
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PLEASE UNDERSTAND US!
By Colleen Tinker I’d put it off as long as I could. “Bone on bone”, my orthopedist told me at least four years ago when the pain in my left […]
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JESUS WAS NOT EXALTED ABOVE LUCIFER
By Colleen Tinker A few months ago I was corresponding with a fairly-recently-out former Adventist. She told me she was talking online with an Adventist friend about some of her […]
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WHAT COMMANDMENTS ARE IN REVELATION 12 AND 14?
Colleen Tinker This week we received a letter which asked a simple question: “How can I show/prove to Adventists that John was not referencing the Mosaic Law in Revelation 12:17 […]
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ISAIAH 66 DOES NOT PROVE SABBATH KEEPING IN HEAVEN
By Colleen Tinker One of Adventism’s recurring arguments for keeping the Sabbath goes something like this: “How can the Sabbath have been cancelled or ended at the cross? After all, […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL—PART 2
By Colleen Tinker After last week’s blog addressing “spiritual Israel” and the fact that Adventism cannot be considered to be “spiritual Israel” and that the law was never required […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
By Colleen Tinker Occasionally we receive letters from former Adventists who still argue that the Sabbath was a holy day set apart at creation for all humanity. They sometimes […]
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