5. The Law Fulfilled
JERRY RECTOR | Physician So, I think you’ll agree that what Jesus is stating in Matthew 5:17 is that He has come to fulfill the entire Old Testament. Then in verse 18, […]
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Category: New Covenant
4. Jesus and Rituals
JERRY RECTOR | Physician Should our desire to follow Jesus’ example translate into Sabbath-keeping? I’d like to highlight a couple of points about how Jesus related to the rituals of his day. […]
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Should We Leave the “Isms”?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Since the earliest days of the now-inactive Former Adventist Fellowship Forum which provided perhaps the first online forum with a Bible-based focus for […]
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3. Israel Learns of the Sabbath
JERRY RECTOR | Physician There is no record of Joseph getting in trouble in Potiphar’s house or in jail for keeping Sabbath. No record of Pharaoh desecrating the Sabbath by making the Jews […]
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Is Sunday Sacred?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Question: What do you say to people who advocate Sunday “sacredness” or keeping Sunday as a measure of one’s gratitude to God? This […]
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What About the Ten Commandments
CHRIS BADENHORST | What is the role of the Law in the Christian life? Are the Ten Commandments still binding on believers in Jesus Christ? Is the Decalogue still the […]
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What Are New Covenant Ethics? The Ten Commandments?
CHRIS BADENHORST | Introduction In a secular sense ethics can be defined as the science of conduct. It is a systematic attempt to consider the purposeful actions of mankind so […]
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Do I Need To Be Perfect?
Sinless Perfection Or Faith and Repentance RICHARD FOSTER | As former Adventists we have all heard the reasoning. No disobedient person will enter heaven, therefore only those who perfectly keep […]
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What Commandments Do Christians Follow?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: If the Ten Commandments came in with Moses and lasted only until Christ, as you say the new covenant teaches, then what […]
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Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?
COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]
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A New Covenant Needs New Words
MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]
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New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”
COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]
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Are New Covenant Commandments Different?
Adventists have been taught that, wherever the Bible uses the word “commandments”, the word applies to the Decalogue. The Ten Commandments, they argue, are eternal, and what God gave to […]
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Follow Jesus and Embrace the New Covenant
MARGIE LITTELL AND COLLEEN TINKER If we cannot accurately define what the gospel of Jesus is, we believe an anti-gospel message. Let’s investigate with some questions: Why would God want us to […]
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From Torah-Observant to Discovering the New Covenant
STORIES of Faith JEFF AND SONDRA BRICKELL Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and […]
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