February 24–March 1
Lesson 9: “Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week the author refers to many psalms that prefigure […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
Proof That We Must Keep the Law?
DALE RATZLAFF Isn’t Matthew 5:17-19 proof that we have to continue keeping the law? Matthew 5:17-19 has been a proof text for many groups. It has also been a text […]
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Now Is the Right Time to Claim Salvation
MIKE MEHARRY Ellen White wrote several times that one cannot say “I am saved”: No man can say I am saved until he has endured test and trial, until he has […]
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Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?
COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]
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Adventism: Not Restoring, Not Reforming
RODNEY NELSON Heirs of the Reformation Seventh-day Adventism has historically believed itself to be the heir of the Protestant Reformation in that it combines the foundational teachings of the historic […]
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The Adventist Hope Isn’t Hope
ELMER WIEBE Just another denomination? We are told that Seventh-day Adventism is just another denomination with just a few obscure teachings. In the historical Christianity, the believer’s hope is to […]
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What the Bible Teaches About Spirits, Death, and Hell
JEREMY GRAHAM Following is a comprehensive list of Bible passages that show what the Bible says concerning each of these six points: 1. Man was created in the image of […]
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Comparing Adventism with Christianity
COLLEEN TINKER WRITINGS Adventism The Bible, including Adventist paraphrase The Clear Word. Over 600 published titles with divine revelations and counsel by prophetess Ellen G. White (1827–1915), including The Desire of Ages and The […]
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Did the Waldenses Keep the 7th Day Sabbath?
E-mails from Pastor Thomas Soggin of the Waldesian Church in Bergamo to Andras Szalai, director of Apologia Research Center (CFAR Hungary) concerning the Seventh-day Adventist claim that Waldesians were Seventh-day […]
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A New Covenant Needs New Words
MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]
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What’s Your Hermeneutic? Why Does it Matter?
COLLEEN TINKER If there is any single Adventist icon that functions as an idol, it is the seventh-day Sabbath. In fact, the Adventist arguments for Sabbath-keeping are so ingrained that […]
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New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”
COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]
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Jesus Claims the Keys
MARTIN CAREY On one fateful afternoon of darkness, three men hung on their crosses, waiting for the end. That afternoon marked not only the end of their lives; but also […]
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9. The Clear Word on Death and the Afterlife
STEPHEN PITCHER Within Adventism death and the afterlife are explained in one way: the dead, both the saved and the unsaved, remain in an unconscious state from the moment of […]
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8. The Clear Word On the Sanctuary, 1844, and the Investigative Judgment
The Investigative Judgment (IJ) is unique. No other church (except a few Adventist offshoots) teaches an IJ that began on Oct. 22, 1844, in the second compartment of the heavenly […]
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