Adventism’s Death Doctrine: Gospel or Deception
BY RICHARD FOSTER I remember when my wife and I were making our exit from Adventist theology, we were hearing talk of humans having souls or spirits that existed consciously […]
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Category: Doctrine
“The Bible Is a Dirty Book”: Unbelief and Hatred for the God of the Bible
KASPARS OZOLINS This month, Loren Seibold, editor of Adventist Today, wrote a provocatively titled piece: “The Bible Is a Dirty Book: …which also contains the words of eternal life.” This […]
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Can I Trust God When Someone Sins Against Me?
COLLEEN TINKER Once again the correspondence we received during the past couple of weeks has yielded a subject that is so important we felt it deserved to be shared with […]
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What Are God’s Decrees and How Does He Carry Them Out?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Questions 9 and 10 JORDAN QUINLEY As we continue our study through the Redeemer Catechism, we address the next two questions that arise logically after examining how […]
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Revelation 22: New Heaven and New Earth, Part 2
PHIL HARRIS Preview Chapters 21 and 22 of Revelation share the common theme of the eternal New Jerusalem. It is appropriate to step back and review these verses before looking […]
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Spiritual Formation: We Must Be Bereans
ANSWERING THE CRITICS MARTIN L. CAREY “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different […]
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Adventism and the Mountain of Fear
MYLES CHRISTIAN Each month I talk with hundreds of Adventists, and one of the constants that I hear from many of them is how much fear and anxiety they have. […]
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What Is Repentance?
COLLEEN TINKER Sometimes I am surprised by the way the Lord gets me to pay attention to things. One such situation occurred this week. It started on Sunday as Richard […]
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Never Compromise the Gospel!
RICHARD FOSTER The gospel! The word literally means “good news”. Specifically, the gospel is the good news of salvation for sinners. Paul in Romans tells us that the gospel is […]
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Spiritual Israel or Bride of Christ?
MARGIE LITTELL With COLLEEN TINKER I had an unexpected thought fill my consciousness today! I was confronted by a Seventh-day Adventist who told me I had to join the nation […]
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God Doesn’t Make Us Good—He Justifies Us
MICHAEL PURSLEY There are many so-called Christians who firmly believe—even if they are ashamed to admit it—that they serve a God of wrath. That is to say, they serve a […]
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Is Our Love Too Tough?
COLLEEN TINKER Our advanced placement senior English class was small; we might even have called ourselves “special”. We met, seminar-style, around a large table with Mrs. Winter—our seasoned, eccentric teacher—at […]
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Who is the Source?
COLLEEN TINKER Editor’s note: The following article was written in 2009. In 2015 the General Conference in session changed the wording of Fundamental Belief #18 concerning Ellen White as the […]
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Are There More Gods than One?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 8 JORDAN QUINLEY In this series, we are working our way through the Redeemer Catechism. Having learned what God is and how we can know there […]
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I Do Well to be Angry
MARTIN CAREY Have you ever been angry with God? Most of us have, for many different reasons. According to researcher Julie Exline, 62% of all adults have reported feeling angry […]
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