Pondering the Rapture
COLLEEN TINKER As Nikki Stevenson and I have been walking through the book of Revelation in the Former Adventist Podcast, we have been bumping into questions about the rapture of […]
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Our Journey Out of Adventism
A special note to any of my SDA friends reading this letter: Many of you have had a significant impact on my life, encouraging me to love the study of […]
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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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July 29–August 4, 2023
Lesson 6: “The Mystery of the Gospel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson again eviscerates the power of the gospel and the depth of what Paul was […]
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We Got Mail
No Going Back! Thank you so much for your ministry! I was raised Adventist and havent been an active Adventist for years, but as I try to sort out what […]
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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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“Heretic” Set Free
SKIP BAKER Editor’s Note: This story is republished from FormerAdventist.com where it first appeared in 2007. As the photographer at the Review & Herald Publishing Association (R&H) I could look out the window […]
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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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July 22–28
Lesson 5: “Horizontal Atonement: The Cross and the Church” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Although the author says the cross is the means of Christ’s uniting Jews and […]
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We Got Mail
What Should I Say To a Person Studying Adventism? I’m wondering if you can tell me what to say/share with a person who has been looking into, reading, and sharing […]
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Post-Cult Doubt in a Post-Christian Culture
NICOLE STEVENSON Now what? I remember thinking. I’ve spent all my life believing lies. Everything I’ve built and planned for centered on what I believed in Adventism! How could I […]
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Cracking Up and Breaking Free
Life Out of the Adventist Eggshell GENEVA CHINNOCK Some years ago I read an article where the author described growing up in an eggshell. She had been told that this […]
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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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July 15–21
Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]
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My Hairdresser Transformed!
COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]
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