Glorifying and Delighting in God
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 2 The opening question of the Redeemer Catechism asks, essentially, what our reason for living is. It answers by saying we are here to […]
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Category: Doctrine
Revelation 14: Worship Of The Lamb
PHIL HARRIS The 144,000 Firstfruits This study, just like the others in this series, examines the passage using the grammatical-historical hermeneutic that assumes the words of the text mean what […]
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The Sabbath Obscured in the Clear Word
This article is adapted from a soon-to-be-released book by Stephen Pitcher exploring the Adventist paraphrase of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Steve demonstrates how TCW changes the meaning of […]
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How We Worship in Spirit and Truth
Part Two: Sacrificing “Potential Persons” MARTIN CAREY In the first segment of this series on the nature of man, we looked at how physicalism is at the root of Adventist […]
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Do Not Nullify the Grace of God
A Study of Galatians 2:11-22 DALE RATZLAFF I was working on a study guide for the Phoenix Former Adventist Fellowship when the deeper meaning of Galatians 2:21 impressed itself […]
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Adventist’s Sabbath Trumps Resurrection
COLLEEN TINKER Last week we received a hand-addressed envelope in the mail from someone we didn’t know. Richard opened it, and inside we found a hand-written letter and a pamphlet […]
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How We Worship In Spirit and Truth
Part One: Adventism—It’s Physical MARTIN CAREY “If only I lived closer to that well.” She sighed and lifted her clay water jar over her shoulder and stepped into the hot […]
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Revelation 13: The Tribulation Part 2
PHILLIP HARRIS The First Beast Arises Out of the Sea The book of Daniel, especially chapter seven, relates to our study—but not according to Adventism’s historic system of interpretation. It […]
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We Are Not Spiritual Israel!
COLLEEN TINKER We received an email this week, and we realized that we should share it with all our Proclamation! readers. It is not an isolated question, and all of […]
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Do Tell—Don’t Tell
MARGIE ULRICH LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s consider something important. When we dig a bit into the Adventist theology, we see a pattern of DO TELL—DON’T TELL. Here are a […]
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All About Progressive Sanctification
2. WHAT’S ITS PURPOSE IF WE’RE ALREADY SAVED? DALE RATZLAFF Last week we dealt with various meanings of sanctification. If you did not read part one of this study, you […]
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All About Progressive Sanctification
1. HOW MUCH DO WE NEED JESUS? DALE RATZLAFF I started to write this article with some confidence. Then, the more I prayed and studied, the more humbled I have […]
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Why I Wrote a New Covenant Catechism
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 1 I recently had the privilege of joining Colleen Tinker and Nicki Stevenson on the Former Adventist Podcast for a great discussion about law, […]
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Revelation 12: The Tribulation Part 1
PHILLIP HARRIS Introduction A major purpose in this article is to challenge the Seventh-day Adventist interpretation of Revelation chapter 12. It is Scripture itself we should use to give us […]
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Humbled By Hell
COLLEEN TINKER The moment caught me by surprise. It was Sunday, January 16—just two weeks ago—and Gary Inrig had just preached from John 3:31–36 ending with that last verse: “He […]
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