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COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | This week I have been watching the polarized responses to last Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn the nearly-50-year-old ruling commonly known as […]
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RICHARD K. FOSTER As someone who was a serious Adventist for many years, I know how big a hurdle worshiping on Sunday is in the minds of people from an […]
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WES RINGER The Seventh-day Baptists, who arose around 1650 and the Seventh-day Adventists who began keeping the Sabbath in 1846, both hold firm theological convictions that God is asking them […]
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COLLEEN TINKERResearch by Beverly Bessada “But what about the Sabbath?” people ask us when we leave Adventism. “The Ten Commandments are the Law of God, not the law of Moses,” […]
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COLLEEN TINKER The Sabbath is the great sticking point for almost all of us who question Adventism. We know the arguments for Sabbath better than we know the rules of […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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