Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 7: “Jesus, the Anchor of the Soul” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson emphasizes the Adventist paradigm that people can fall in and out of salvation […]

Lesson 6: “Jesus, the Faithful Priest” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The author does not explain that Melchizedek lived BEFORE the Mosaic covenant law existed; thus, Jesus’ priesthood […]

Lesson 5: “Jesus, the Giver of Rest” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson redirects the meaning of entering God’s rest “TODAY” into a “time of decision” which, […]

  Lesson 4: “Jesus, Our Faithful Brother” COLLEEN TINKER For further study: Former Adventist Podcast “Enter Sabbath Rest Today—Hebrews 4”   Problems with this lesson: The lesson presents Jesus’ destruction […]

Lesson 3: “The Promised Son” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: While claiming Jesus is eternal and is God, it diminishes Him and says His work is fighting for and […]

Lesson 2: “The Message of Hebrews” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The author uses Hebrews 1 to affirm Ellen White’s prehistory idea that God exalted Jesus to the […]

Lesson 1: “The Letter to the Hebrews and To Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with the lesson: The author ignores the occasion for this epistle: the recipients of Hebrews “were being […]

  Lesson 12: “Deuteronomy in the New Testament” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The persistent refusal to see that the old covenant was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus, not […]

  Lesson 11: “Deuteronomy In the Later Writings” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author fails to see that the nation of Israel was under a specific covenant—the same […]

  Lesson 10: “Remember, Do Not Forget” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The emphasis on “Remember” is really about the Sabbath. The Sabbath application is not made in the […]

Lesson 9: “Turn Their Hearts” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: Limiting God’s ability to act within the paradigm of the great controversy Exaltation of man’s supposed free will and […]

Lesson 8: “Choose Life” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The great controversy worldview which makes salvation about choosing to keep the law and to be “good” in order to […]

Lesson 7: “Law And Grace” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Moral beings need a moral law to define morality; thus the moral law existed in heaven from eternity. The […]

Lesson 6: “For What Nation Is There So Great?” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: It states that the Decalogue is eternal and universal. It equates not adding or taking […]