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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Category: Authors
Experiencing New Covenant Life
You Are Formed by Jesus DALE RATZLAFF Today we have hope for true transformation only by focusing on the glories of the gospel, the many declarations that God has made […]
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The Agnostic Pharisee
MARTIN CAREY When I was seven years old, I saw a Harry Anderson painting of Jesus standing over a large city, holding out His hands. It was entitled, “Christ Of […]
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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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Are You Formed by Disciplines?
BY MARTIN CAREY “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” No other man could have spoken words like these. They are […]
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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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Anchored Only in The Word
BY NICOLE STEVENSON One of the truths that most changed my life after leaving Adventism is that the Scriptures are inerrant and worthy of absolute trust. The undeniable veracity of […]
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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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Does the Investigative Judgment Answer the Question in Daniel 8:13?
BY RUSSELL KELLY It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled […]
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The Quest for Eternal Life
KASPARS OZOLINS An influential news outlet here in the UK recently reported on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ “quest for eternal life.” That’s no joke. This is how the article begins: […]
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Scandalous Grace
CHRIS LEE Just when I think I’ve exorcised all the theological baggage of the past, something hits me, confirming that the renewing of my mind isn’t a complete work. It […]
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How Paul Treats the Law
JORDAN QUINLEY Paul’s attitude towards the law of the Old Testament would have been quite simple before his conversion to Christianity; after his life-changing encounter with the risen Christ, however, […]
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Why Did God Give the Law?
MARGIE LITTELL Adventism claims that the law pre-dated creation, that it existed in heaven and established the standard of behavior that the angels themselves had to obey. They even claim […]
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Revelation 6 & 7: The First Six Seals of God
PHIL HARRIS Introduction Starting with chapter six we see the final phase of God’s plan for the redemption of fallen mankind. Before we begin looking at this chapter, however, we […]
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