Primacy: Putting First Things First
DALE RATZLAFF Could it be that we, too, are like Nicodemus wanting to discuss theology when we need to be born again? It is not our comprehensive understanding of the […]
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The Covenants—The Continental Divide of Biblical Interpretation
DALE RATZLAFF Studying the covenants is like pouring one’s theological water jug out on the Continental Divide. In fact, this mountain of the covenants divides between the ocean of old […]
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The Great Controversy Requires Sabbath
DALE RATZLAFF The Adventist great controversy paradigm shaped by Ellen White’s (EGW) vision of the same name is built—not on Jesus the cornerstone—but on its own cornerstone of the law. […]
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Is He the Little Horn?
DANIEL 8:14 STUDIED IN CONTEXT DALE RATZLAFF Most of our readers know that I and many other former Seventh-day Adventists left that church because of what we considered to be […]
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The Truth About Truth
DALE RATZLAFF In April we at Life Assurance Ministries attended a conference in Denver, Colorado, sponsored by Evangelical Ministries to New Religions (EMNR). As we attended breakout sessions and the […]
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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
DALE RATZLAFF I well remember the day that our little Bruce—now a big, strong contractor—started asking questions. We lived in Napa, California, and were driving back from Conn Lake. Bruce […]
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Investigating Ellen White’s Angel
There is no better book of the Bible for Transitioning Adventists than Galatians. It is powerful, it is clear, and it answers the many questions we have. I am amazed […]
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6. Galatians 1:8-9 (Part Two)
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we […]
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4. Galatians 1:6-7
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are […]
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2. Galatians 1:1
In this series on Galatians, our desire is to do a thorough, contextual study. Going verse by verse and chapter by chapter, our goal is to mine out of the […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #96
With Dale Ratzlaff John 21:20-25 20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #95
With Dale Ratzlaff John 21:15-19 Over the years, I have read scholars and heard sermons that build much of their interpretation on the differences of the meaning of the […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #94
With Dale Ratzlaff John 21:1-14 Some believe this chapter was added to chapter 20 sometime later. The last two verses of Chapter 20 studied in the last lesson appear […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #93
With Dale Ratzlaff John 20:24-31 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. John does not tell us why Thomas was […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #92
With Dale Ratzlaff John 20:19-23 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, […]
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