9. The Clear Word on Death and the Afterlife
STEPHEN PITCHER Within Adventism death and the afterlife are explained in one way: the dead, both the saved and the unsaved, remain in an unconscious state from the moment of […]
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Category: Books
8. The Clear Word On the Sanctuary, 1844, and the Investigative Judgment
The Investigative Judgment (IJ) is unique. No other church (except a few Adventist offshoots) teaches an IJ that began on Oct. 22, 1844, in the second compartment of the heavenly […]
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7. The Clear Word On the Sabbath
The seventh-day Sabbath is one of the distinguishing marks of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In fact, Sabbath-keeping has been at the heart of the “Adventist message” since the 1840’s after […]
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6. The Clear Word On the Godhead
In this chapter we look at the Adventist teaching on the Godhead and how The Clear Word distorts some very important passages of Scripture on the nature of the Godhead […]
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5. The Clear Word On Grape Juice
In this chapter we look at the Adventist teaching on abstinence from alcohol. We will particularly compare what the Bible says about “wine” with what The Clear Word says. Fundamental […]
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4. The Clear Word On Foods
STEPHEN PITCHER In this chapter, we will show how The Clear Word reflects the Adventist teaching about clean and unclean foods and vegetarianism and compare The Clear Word’s rendering of […]
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3. The Clear Word On the Law
STEPHEN PITCHER One cannot fully understand Adventism and the content of The Clear Word on passages regarding law without understanding the centrality of the Ten Commandments in the religion’s great […]
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2. Are You Led By the Lesser Light or Sola Scriptura?
The way a church understands and uses the Bible reveals whether or not that group uses Scripture as its sole foundation for doctrine, for practice, and for its worldview. A […]
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1. Is the Clear Word Official?
STEPHEN PITCHER The answers to these questions reveal the truth that Adventists are conflicted about this unique, denominationally-specific work. On the one hand they love it because it endorses and […]
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Introduction
“Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of The Clear Word, Jack. J. Blanco’s expanded paraphrase of the Bible.” So begins Jim Miller’s article “In […]
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30. Adventism’s New Earth
Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #28: The New Earth—On the new earth, in which righteousness dwells, God will provide an eternal home for the redeemed and a perfect environment for everlasting life, […]
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29. The Adventist Millennium
Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #27: The Millennium and the End of Sin—“The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first and second resurrections. During […]
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28. Death and Resurrection Assumes Man is Physical
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #26—The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state […]
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27. The Second Coming of Christ
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #25—The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and […]
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26. Christ’s Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #24—There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle that the Lord set up and not humans. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to […]
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