“Traditional Christian View Cannot Be Defended”
This logic is not flawed but the foundational premise is. It’s wrapped up in what they’re calling the “nature of man” described at the start which culminates at 10:51–10:57. Colleen says “We have to understand that we have spirits AND bodies.” This is a traditional Christian view which cannot be defended from the Bible and is based purely on traditional thinking. The Jewish understanding of the soul is “the entirety of a person, even the blood in their veins”. There is a lecture of the Evangelical scholar Dr. Edward Fudge, who wrote The Fire That Consumes speaking on the Greek origin of the idea of the immortality of the soul.
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Response: Did you listen to the entire podcast? The idea of a human spirit is not based on tradition but on the Bible. We use many texts, and our being created in God’s image is NOT a physical phenomenon. “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth” (Jn. 4:24). Adventists have traditionally dismissed the idea of a human spirit with the brush-off, “Oh, it’s a tradition. It’s Greek dualism.” Yet these excuses have no biblical support. They are born out of a presupposition that God is physical, and we are purely physical. Here is an article that may be helpful:
https://lifeassuranceministries.org/proclamation/2008/4/humanslivingbodies.html
You Want To Damn Adventists
You simply want to damn Adventists and are building a case for how to do that, based on salvation by works.
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Response: If you were driving on a road and suddenly came to a place where the bridge was out and those on the road would fall to their deaths in the chasm below, would you stop and put up a sign and warn the motorists who were coming behind you? Or would you simply detour and leave the dangerous road unannounced, allowing countless cars to crash to their destruction? We are not inventing a case against Adventism. We are showing what Scripture really says, and we are explaining how Adventists have been deceived and taught error as truth. Believe me, I was shocked as I discovered how completely I had been deceived and led to believe that my own beliefs were TRUTH—but in fact, they were dreadful counterfeits. Adventists need to know the true gospel and their true need of Jesus’ substitutionary blood atonement.
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