November 13–19
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 […]
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Author: Colleen Tinker
Colleen Tinker, the editor of Proclamation! magazine, and her husband Richard left Adventism in 1998 with their two sons, Roy and Nathanael, who were in grades six and ten. They have co-led the Former Adventist Fellowship since 1999. Colleen, a graduate of Walla Walla University, is a former high school English teacher and also the former managing editor of Adventist Today magazine. Colleen became the stepmother of Roy and Nathanael in 1989, and in 2008 she adopted them. Romans 8:15-17 has assumed new depth and significance for her and Richard since she and her sons chose to claim each other legally and permanently. She and Richard share an office and a commitment to sharing the gospel of the true Jesus with all of those seeking a way out of the bondage of the false gospel of Adventism.
We got mail…
Snared by Adventism I received your email from your website and have subscribed to your magazine. I am writing to you from South Africa. I am a married Christian man […]
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Adventism’s Trojan Horse
COLLEEN TINKER I had a poignant and perceptive email this week. The writer was a top student in an Adventist seminary (not in North America) when he began to look […]
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November 6–12
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 […]
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We got mail…
Adventism Upended I would like to humbly thank you for decisively upending Seventh-day Adventism on all 28 fundamental beliefs. I only wish I had known all of this back in […]
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October 30–November 5
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 […]
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We got mail…
Jesus Married To The Holy City I just finished listening to the podcast on the 28th Fundamental Belief and I just want to say thank you for all of them. […]
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October 23–29
Lesson 5: “The Stranger In Your Gates” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: It equates the restatement of the Mosaic Covenant in Deuteronomy with the idea of the “new covenant”. […]
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Is “Die” A Metaphor? Admittedly, the Christian concept of death was the hardest for me, as a former since 1995, to get settled in my mind. The idea of man […]
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October 16–22
Lesson 4: “To Love The Lord Your God” COLLEEN TINKER The main problems with this lesson are: Ignoring the context and the first audience of Deuteronomy and applying it to […]
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The Bible Conference of 1919
Reveals Adventist Leaders Have Never Agreed On Ellen White’s Prophetic Authority—Includes Full Transcript BY COLLEEN TINKER Four years after Ellen White died, the Seventh-day Adventist organization held a Bible Conference in […]
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What Is True?
BY COLLEEN TINKER A Facebook conversation drew me in this week. The original post (written by a former Adventist) asked, in essence, how much personal discomfort and loss we would […]
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September 18–24
Lesson 13: “The Ultimate Rest” This week’s lesson opens with the reminder that “the great controversy also is being played out on a much more personal level.” The point of […]
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September 11–17
Lesson 12: “The Restless Prophet” This week’s lesson seems almost like an anomaly, a lesson that doesn’t fit a quarter’s studies about Sabbath rest. Yet the placement of this […]
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September 4–10
Lesson 11: “Longing For More” This lesson is an egregious misuse Hebrews 4, but it is true Adventism. In fact, this lesson reminds me why I used to hate reading […]
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