Adventism Begins and Continues in Error
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member If you knew for certain that in one year, Jesus is coming, how would you change your life? What […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
3. The Abrahamic Covenant
The promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law. In our study of the Sabbath we will need […]
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March 29–April 4, 2025
Lesson 1: “Some Principles of Prophecy” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Central Problem with This Lesson: This lesson reveals Adventism is not Christian while reinforcing the great controversy worldview for understanding […]
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“Friday Night Feeling” Transformed
JEANIE JURA | Eternally Alive in Christ A few years ago I moved to my current town to be near my parents. They were getting on in years and even […]
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March 22–28, 2025
Lesson 13: “Love Is the Fulfillment of the Law” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Central Problem with This Lesson: This lesson ignores the new covenant, equating the law with God’s character […]
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2. The Seventh-day in Genesis
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done; and He rested on the […]
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1. Sabbath Questions
This is the first chapter of Dale Ratzlaff’s book, Sabbath In Christ. For the next 27 weeks we will be posting a chapter each Friday from this important book until […]
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March 8–14, 2025
Lesson 11: “What More Could I Have Done?” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Central problem: God is vindicated in two judgments: the “pre-Advent judgment”, and the “post-Advent judgment” when all our […]
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Leaving Adventist Pride
VIRLINDA FOSTER | Christian Mom While visiting with some other former Adventists at the recent Former Adventist Fellowship Conference weekend in Loma Linda, California, I was reminded of something within […]
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March 1–7, 2025
Lesson 10: “Rules of Engagement” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Central Problem: This lesson assumes a covenant between God and Satan with rules governing their great controversy. This week’s lesson assumes […]
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February 22–28, 2025
Lesson 9: “The Cosmic Conflict” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson attempts, in one week’s brief studies, to confirm EGW’s great controversy worldview. The entire paradigm […]
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February 15–21, 2025
Lesson 8: “Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson builds a case for God’s limited providence for the purpose of protecting […]
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Paul and the Afterlife in 2 Corinthians
Confronting a Passage I Used To Run From: 2 Corinthians 5:1–9 DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) When I was Seventh-day Adventist pastor and Bible teacher and had […]
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Maligning Adventists?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) At the conclusion of the presentation on Friday night at the Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF) weekend this past February […]
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January 25–31, 2025
Lesson 5: “The Wrath of Divine Love” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: Adventism has always taught that God’s “wrath” is His eventually granting people their own choices […]
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