An Open Letter to Loren Seibold
Dear Mr. Seibold, Although I have never met you, I feel as though it might be appropriate for me to write to you by means of an open letter, since […]
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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.
Seibold’s “Abusive Eschatology” Reviewed
Loren Seibold is angry about Seventh-day Adventist “abusive eschatology” (see his article here). In recent years, this executive editor of Adventist Today (and occasional contributor to Spectrum Magazine––both progressive outfits) […]
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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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More Deadly than COVID-19
I won’t waste time setting the context we all currently find ourselves in. Each of us feels it more acutely than could ever be described in words. If even a […]
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Experiencing the New Covenant at the FAF Conference
I have not been a former Adventist for very long, only a few years. Nevertheless, much has changed in my life during this relatively brief period of time. I have […]
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Debunking the Cosmic Conflict Paradigm
As the story goes, Samuel Chadwick, a 19th century English pastor, was walking in his village one day, trying to find inspiration for a sermon illustration he needed the following […]
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Loving the Body of Christ
But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you […]
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Athanasius Still Teaches
He must have asked himself a thousand times why––and how––he, a young Egyptian pastor of an Egyptian congregation, had ended up exiled 1,700 miles away in Germany, of all places. […]
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Joshua Harris Kissed Christianity Goodbye
The evangelical world was rocked on July 18 (2019) by news of Joshua Harris’ divorce, followed swiftly by his announcement on Instagram that he no longer considered himself to be […]
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IT’S NOT (ULTIMATELY) ABOUT LEGALISM
I can already imagine the wheels spinning in your mind at hearing my provocative title. Of course Adventism has a serious problem with legalism. But before you walk away from […]
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THEOLOGICAL SCOFFING—TAKING ON PROGRESSIVE ADVENTISM AND THEIR TRINITY
By Kaspars Ozolins Theology (from the Greek word theós ‘God’) is, of course, the study of God and everything related to him. Since God created the universe, therefore, the study […]
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I WAS DEAD BUT NOW I LIVE
By Kaspars Ozolins There is a passage from Scripture that has become something of a life verse for me in the time that I have been a born-again Christian: Galatians […]
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