Why a Christian Writes About Adventism
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 […]
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Are Other Worlds Watching Us?
MARTIN L. CAREYAndromeda galaxy M31 photographed by Wolfgang Promper of Austria. Used by permission. …when I accepted the gospel of the New Testament, I realized it was also time […]
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The Melchizedek Conundrum: How is He Like Jesus?
“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 […]
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A God Who Knows
As I tried to get my thoughts in order for what I wanted to write, I was scrolling through my social media page, a process that took quite awhile, since […]
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Who Is Your Scapegoat?
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 […]
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How Ephesians Contradicts Adventism #13
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must […]
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A Familiar Place of Distorted Reality
The hostile clashing of worldviews and seemingly constant shapeshifting of reality is not unfamiliar to those of us who’ve left Adventism for Jesus. As we walk through these mystifying days […]
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Suffering Without an Advocate
The strange events of the last three months have raised concerns I’ve never had before, living as I have in the freedom of the United States. I’ve written before about […]
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Learning Scripture as a Former Adventist
Part of the work we face as we retrain our Adventist-shaped minds and become biblical Christians is learning how to read Scripture. We were steeped in proof-texting and “bargaining”, on […]
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Understanding Adventist Terms
COLLEEN TINKERJEREMY GRAHAM In this article we share a (non-comprehensive) list of terms which, within Adventism, have different definitions than they have in evangelical Christianity. This difference in definitions results […]
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Evaluating a Deceptive Dialogue with Adventists
Of all the 19th century Restorationist movements (including Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses––just to name the two most familiar to evangelicals), Seventh-day Adventism has undeniably made the most headway toward evangelical […]
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Are You Masked?
About three weeks ago I was shopping in Trader Joe’s and had taken my place in a check-out line the required six feet behind the shopper in front of me. […]
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Blindsided by the Health Message
If a survey were taken on public perception and awareness of Seventh-day Adventism, one of the first things to stand out in responses would likely be “diet.” Whether from within […]
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When Walls Are Closing In
“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s […]
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To Whom Did Jesus Pray?
The Trinity is a mystery God does not fully explain to us; at the same time, we know that God is One and that all three persons of the Trinity […]
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