Is There An Age of Accountability?
COLLEEN TINKER Recently I encountered a question from a former Adventist who was upset about the idea that babies are born spiritually dead. The questioner asked how we could make […]
Read more
Category: Authors
How the Bible Convinced Me We Have Spirits
NICOLE STEVENSON Examining the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Adventism for our current series on Former Adventist Podcast has been quite the experience. I confess that preparing for these episodes often […]
Read more
How Can I Know If I’m Saved?
COLLEEN TINKER The moment is emblazoned in my memory. Richard and I were sitting in a classroom in an Adventist church in San Diego County one Sabbath afternoon in 1996. […]
Read more
The Covenants—The Continental Divide of Biblical Interpretation
DALE RATZLAFF Studying the covenants is like pouring one’s theological water jug out on the Continental Divide. In fact, this mountain of the covenants divides between the ocean of old […]
Read more
Levitical Food Laws Teach Grace
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 […]
Read more
Are Humans More Than Living Bodies?
COLLEEN TINKER “I used to think Jesus’ miracles were like the healings the disciples did,” my friend Rosalie admitted to me as I held the phone with one hand and […]
Read more
Swept Clean But Dirtier
COLLEEN TINKER I recently had a conversation with a former Adventist whom I have known for many years. This person is struggling with some serious medical concerns that are hard […]
Read more
The Great Controversy Requires Sabbath
DALE RATZLAFF The Adventist great controversy paradigm shaped by Ellen White’s (EGW) vision of the same name is built—not on Jesus the cornerstone—but on its own cornerstone of the law. […]
Read more
Revelation 2 & 3: Studying the Seven Churches of Asia
BY PHIL HARRIS When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first […]
Read more
Behold! The Bridegroom Cometh!
By Martin Carey “And at midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him’” (Matthew 51:6). “The king is coming!” Those words should […]
Read more
Faith and Works: The Tension Resolved
BY COLLEEN TINKER Just today I received an email asking about one of those inevitable former Adventist dilemmas: “I would appreciate your understanding on faith and works as James 2 […]
Read more
Resolving End-Time Fear
BY COLLEEN TINKER It happened again today. The phone rang, and a former Adventist who is firmly grounded in the finished work of Jesus asked, “What do you all believe […]
Read more
Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Is He the Little Horn?
DANIEL 8:14 STUDIED IN CONTEXT DALE RATZLAFF Most of our readers know that I and many other former Seventh-day Adventists left that church because of what we considered to be […]
Read more
The Bible—God Was In Charge of the Words
NICOLE STEVENSON This week on the Former Adventist Podcast, Colleen and I discussed the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief about the Bible. Before discussing the specifics of their beliefs we briefly […]
Read more
Do You Fear Death or God?
RICHARD TINKER WITH COLLEEN TINKER It happened so fast. The doctor who did my biopsy in December was not alarmed, and four weeks flashed by before my follow-up appointment. His […]
Read more