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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June 27–July 4
Quarter Three: Making Friends For God Introduction and Lesson 1: “Why Witness?” Dedicating 13 weeks to the goal of sharing the gospel is an ambitious undertaking. The introduction and […]
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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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Distortion of the Afterlife
This article is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Stephen Pitcher on the Adventist “devotional paraphrase” of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Written by Jack Blanco when he was […]
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June 20–27
Lesson 13: “Living by the Word of God” In summing up this quarter’s lessons, we now come to the goal of rightly understanding, or interpreting, the Bible—living by the […]
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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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June 13–19
Lesson 12: “Dealing With Difficult Passages” This week’s lesson is a pleasant surprise. It is very straight forward and contains some very good advice on the quarter’s main idea […]
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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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