Doctrine – Page 16 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

Unpacking the Adventist Confusion about Death

October 15, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature, State of the Dead

After an Adventist discovers the gospel and realizes that Jesus completed the atonement at the cross and we are saved by trusting Him alone, no Sabbath required, the next paradigm […]

I Disavow Therapeutic Forgiveness

October 8, 2020 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature

“Forgive quickly, it’s the Christian thing to do.” This is a popular saying and is often accepted and quoted without close examination. God forgave us of our sins, the reasoning […]

Season of Change and an Unchanging God

October 1, 2020 Kelsie Petersen Doctrine, Feature

Yesterday afternoon my seven-year-old son and I walked the mile to the neighbor’s house for coffee (juice and brownies for the kids). His older brothers had ridden ahead on their […]

Sunday Legislation and the Golden Calf

October 1, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature

Coming out of Adventism is a bit like navigating a moral minefield. Because we were taught a false worldview, because everything Christians believe was redefined and falsified to keep Adventists […]

Is God Just or Fair?

September 24, 2020 Rick Barker Doctrine, Feature

It is easy to conclude that justness and fairness are the same thing. A quick search of online dictionaries will show us that fairness is a synonym of justness. However, […]

Does the Manna Support Sabbath Keeping?

September 10, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

Sabbath is always the sticking point when people leave Adventism. In fact, Adventist teaching has so bound the day into the Adventist conscience that Adventists generally worry more about disrespecting […]

I Have Guarded Them

August 20, 2020 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature

It was well after midnight, and eleven men lay sprawled about on the ground, sleeping soundly. They were suddenly startled by a voice. “So, could you not watch with me […]

From Trashed to Treasured

August 20, 2020 Rolaant McKenzie Doctrine, Feature

ROLAANT MCKENZIE A long time ago I attended Pacific Union College for a year of my college education. While there I lived on the second floor of Grainger Hall, one […]

Investigating Ellen White’s Angel

August 13, 2020 Dale Ratzlaff Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Ellen G. White, Feature

There is no better book of the Bible for Transitioning Adventists than Galatians. It is powerful, it is clear, and it answers the many questions we have. I am amazed […]

Quick Summary of Adventist Errors

August 6, 2020 Rick Barker Doctrine, Feature

Trinity—The primary group of people who founded Adventism did not believe that Jesus was divine. Thus, Adventism’s primary doctrines were established during this Arianist period. In the early twentieth century […]

Another Letter: Adventism’s Fallible Jesus

August 6, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature

I suppose it’s not surprising that pushback about Adventism’s position on the Trinity and the full deity of Jesus continues to come. This last week we received an email from […]

Why a Christian Writes About Adventism

July 9, 2020 Jordan Quinley Doctrine, Feature

Sometime in high school, perhaps younger, I developed in interest in Christian apologetics. This began, I think, with a challenge about the theory of evolution when I was in seventh […]

The Melchizedek Conundrum: How is He Like Jesus?

July 2, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature

“I was listening to the Former Adventist Podcast on Hebrews 7:11–22,” a new former Adventist wrote recently. I continued reading; the writer was looking at the text and saw saw […]

Who Is Your Scapegoat?

June 25, 2020 Proclamation! 2010-2 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Chris Badenhorst, Doctrine, Feature, Jesus

CHRIS BANDENHORST Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on […]

Distortion of the Afterlife

June 18, 2020 Stephen Pitcher 2015-4 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Doctrine, State of the Dead, Stephen Pitcher

This article is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Stephen Pitcher on the Adventist “devotional paraphrase” of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Written by Jack Blanco when he was […]