To the World, From Matthew
DALE RATZLAFF Every Christmas season we are directed back to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth in Matthew and Luke. When we review these records, both new and old insights […]
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December 17–23
Lesson 13: “The Judging Process” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson assumes that the Adventist investigative judgment is a biblical fact. The explanations for the Adventist idea […]
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Words Matter
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE Words mean things. Language is only meaningful to the degree that humans are able to communicate using words in a conventional way, and conflicting […]
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December 10–16
Lesson 12: ”The Biblical Worldview” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson creates straw-man arguments against a biblical view of human nature. This lesson misrepresents what Christians believe […]
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The Adventist Health Message: Is It a Doctrine of Demons?
[RICHARD FOSTER] Anyone who has spent any length of time within Adventism, or around Adventism, knows that food is a big deal to Adventists! Specifically, the big deal is to […]
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Are Holy Sabbaths Prophecies about Jesus?
[MARGIE LITTELL with COLLEEN TINKER] God gave Israel a yearly schedule of sabbath feasts that they were to celebrate to remember God’s saving faithfulness among them. These feasts also functioned […]
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December 3–9
Lesson 11: “End-Time Deceptions” [COLLEEN TINKER] Problems With This Lesson: The unbiblical heresies addressed in this lesson are not things Bible-believing Christians believe. These heresies do not support the […]
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I Thank God for You
[NICOLE STEVENSON] Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see all the emails and comments from formers or from critics of Life Assurance Ministries (LAM). The work of preparing podcasts and writing blogs […]
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Not for Profit
[THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE] I do believe that the New Covenant raises the bar in everything else; why not in giving, also? I work for a nonprofit hospital […]
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November 26–December 2
Lesson 10: “The Fires of Hell” [COLLEEN TINKER] Problems With This Lesson: The Adventist argument against an eternal hell is based on straw-man arguments and assumptions. This argument against […]
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No Reason to Exist Without the Central Pillar
[DALE RATZLAFF] What spirit would want to undermine the complete atonement at the cross? You must ask yourself, “Who is my sin bearer: Christ or Satan?” The Seventh-day Adventist doctrine […]
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“Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet”
How to Understand Prophecy [COLLEEN TINKER] I’ve just completed my notes for our next Former Adventist Podcast which will cover Daniel 8:15–27. In fact, I’ve been dreading Daniel 8 since […]
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November 19–25
Lesson 9: Contrary Passages? [COLLEEN TINKER] Problems with this lesson: The author fails to read the “contrary passages” contextually but rather redefines them from the perspective of the Adventist […]
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How the Little Book of Jude Refutes Adventism
[KASPARS OZOLINS] Many Christians are much less familiar with the so-called “catholic” epistles than they are with the rest of the New Testament. The term catholic is not a reference […]
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November 12–18
Lesson 8: “New Testament Hope” [COLLEEN TINKER] Problems with this lesson: The premise of this lesson is a straw-man argument: why would we need a resurrection if people are […]
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