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Author: Kaspars Ozolins

Kaspars Ozolins was born in Latvia to an Adventist family. They moved to Los Angeles where Kaspars attended Adventist elementary and high schools in Glendale, California, and his father was an Adventist pastor. He met Ieva, his wife, while studying in Latvia before pursuing a doctorate at UCLA in historical linguistics. After Kaspars completed an M. Div. at The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California, he served as a research associate at Tyndale House in Old Testament and the Ancient Near East. He is now on the faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation.

“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony

April 27, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Faith Story, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS My first post for Proclamation! blog post (back in January, 2019) was my own testimony of coming to faith in Jesus and eventually leaving Seventh-day Adventism and joining […]

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Seeing the Real Jesus in Scripture

March 16, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Jesus, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS The hit streaming series The Chosen has been described as the most successful crowdfunded TV series of all time. Tens of millions of dollars from thousands of donors […]

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Martin Luther vs. Erasmus (and Adventism)

January 5, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS Toward the end of his life, the famous German Protestant Reformer Martin Luther remarked that he would not care much if most of his theological writings were forgotten […]

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How the Little Book of Jude Refutes Adventism

November 10, 2022 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

[KASPARS OZOLINS] Many Christians are much less familiar with the so-called “catholic” epistles than they are with the rest of the New Testament. The term catholic is not a reference […]

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Passing of an Adventist Leader

August 4, 2022 Kaspars Ozolins Adventist News, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

[KASPARS OZOLINS] Former North America division (NAD) president Daniel R. Jackson passed away suddenly on July 23, 2022. The news was sudden to me, at least, because he had only […]

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Is Ted Wilson the Face of Adventism?

June 9, 2022 Kaspars Ozolins Adventist News, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

HEADER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSEF KISSINGER © 2010 JOSEF KISSINGER, SUPPLIED BY ADVENTIST NEWS NETWORK. USED BY PERMISSION. PHOTO HAS BEEN MODIFIED. KASPARS OZOLINS The 61st session of the General Conference […]

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Why We Fight Against Adventism

January 6, 2022 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS Scripture calls life a “vapor” and repeatedly stresses how short the time that we have on this earth is. That is why I have always appreciated each new […]

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Adventism’s Forebears Unmasked

November 11, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Adventist Doctrines, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS The introductory page of LeRoy Froom’s work The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers notes that the writing was “[p]repared under assignment from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, […]

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The Quest for Eternal Life

September 16, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS An influential news outlet here in the UK recently reported on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ “quest for eternal life.” That’s no joke. This is how the article begins: […]

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Left Adventism—So What?

July 22, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS Not all “former” Advent-ists and –isms are alike. One might be tempted to assume a similarity, though it doesn’t take much thought to realize that such an assumption […]

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Levitical Food Laws Teach Grace

May 27, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins, The Law of God

KASPARS OZOLINS For former Adventists, the subject of SDA dietary teachings evokes many strong reactions. Central to leaving Adventism for us has been a proper understanding of biblical covenants, and […]

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Disentangling the Adventist Health Message

April 1, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Adventist News, Feature, Health Message, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS Last month, an eye-catching Christianity Today headline was shared on social media by a number of Adventists and formers familiar to me: “Many Adventists in Asia and Africa […]

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An Open Letter to Allen Parr

February 4, 2021 Kaspars Ozolins Adventist News, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

BY KASPARS OZOLINS Dear Allen, I have only recently gotten to know you because of the controversy that has been stirred up by your videos regarding Seventh-day Adventism. I apologize […]

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How Adventism Infiltrated the ETS with Openness Theology

December 10, 2020 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature

Last month the Evangelical Theological Society held its annual meeting (for the first time online virtually) which I attended, and I also presented a paper. The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) […]

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What About the Son’s Obedience to the Father?

October 22, 2020 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature

The Lord Jesus says the following words in John 6:38: “For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent […]

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