January 14–20
Lesson 3: “The Tithing Contract” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores the hermeneutical principle of prescriptive and descriptive passages. This week’s argument is based on the […]
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Category: Authors
Martin Luther vs. Erasmus (and Adventism)
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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January 7–13
Lesson 2: “God’s Covenants With Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The foundation of the lesson is wrong: God’s covenants are misdefined and misapplied. The author arbitrarily […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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What is God?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 6 JORDAN QUINLEY As noted in my last article, questions 5, 6, and 8 of the Redeemer Catechism discuss God’s nature. That is, they attempt to […]
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December 31–January 6
Lesson 1: “Part of God’s Family” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The identification of God’s family is based on EGWs view of “conversion”, not on a biblical understanding […]
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Revelation 19: King of Kings and Lord of Lords
PHIL HARRIS Introduction The first five verses of Revelation 19 served as the conclusion of the previous chapter; the voice of a “great multitude in heaven”, the twenty-four elders, and […]
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Don’t Miss the King!
COLLEEN TINKER Podcasting through the book of Daniel with Nikki Stevenson has deepened my amazement this Christmas. Having just finished working through the intimidating 70-week prophecy, I’m left with an […]
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December 24–30
Lesson 14: “All Things New” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: The lesson is written on the framework of EGW’s Great Controversy requiring a physicalist worldview. The lesson […]
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He Will Make You Clean
MARTIN CAREY Some of you find yourselves living on the margins of the Christian community. You have your reasons for being on the outside, maybe painful reasons—and yet, you probably […]
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To the World, From Matthew
DALE RATZLAFF Every Christmas season we are directed back to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth in Matthew and Luke. When we review these records, both new and old insights […]
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December 17–23
Lesson 13: “The Judging Process” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson assumes that the Adventist investigative judgment is a biblical fact. The explanations for the Adventist idea […]
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Words Matter
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE Words mean things. Language is only meaningful to the degree that humans are able to communicate using words in a conventional way, and conflicting […]
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December 10–16
Lesson 12: ”The Biblical Worldview” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson creates straw-man arguments against a biblical view of human nature. This lesson misrepresents what Christians believe […]
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The Adventist Health Message: Is It a Doctrine of Demons?
[RICHARD FOSTER] Anyone who has spent any length of time within Adventism, or around Adventism, knows that food is a big deal to Adventists! Specifically, the big deal is to […]
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