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 […]
Read more
Category: Doctrine
Are Holy Sabbaths Prophecies about Jesus?
[MARGIE LITTELL with COLLEEN TINKER] God gave Israel a yearly schedule of sabbath feasts that they were to celebrate to remember God’s saving faithfulness among them. These feasts also functioned […]
Read more
No Reason to Exist Without the Central Pillar
[DALE RATZLAFF] What spirit would want to undermine the complete atonement at the cross? You must ask yourself, “Who is my sin bearer: Christ or Satan?” The Seventh-day Adventist doctrine […]
Read more
“Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet”
How to Understand Prophecy [COLLEEN TINKER] I’ve just completed my notes for our next Former Adventist Podcast which will cover Daniel 8:15–27. In fact, I’ve been dreading Daniel 8 since […]
Read more
How the Little Book of Jude Refutes Adventism
[KASPARS OZOLINS] Many Christians are much less familiar with the so-called “catholic” epistles than they are with the rest of the New Testament. The term catholic is not a reference […]
Read more
Breaking Free From My Entanglements With Adventism!
[DENNIS PALMER] Using a plain-white-polypropylene strapping roll, I started strapping up huge boxes containing commercial display goods. As I pulled the straps, they became tangled. In hopes of untangling the […]
Read more
Who is the first and preeminent being?
[JORDAN QUINLEY] Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 5 In this post, I will elaborate on question 5 of the Redeemer Catechism. This question along with questions 6 and 8 give us […]
Read more
Revelation 18–19:5: Eternal Fall of Babylon
[PHIL HARRIS] Review and Introduction In chapter 13 we were introduced to the Dragon who brought up two beasts, one from the sea and one from the earth. These two […]
Read more
What Is Speaking In Tongues?
[COLLEEN TINKER] We received a simple, one-sentence email this week. The writer has an Adventist background but is seeking biblical truth. I realized, as I read it, that many former […]
Read more
Ted Wilson Affirms Adventist Distinctives (Part 2)
[KELSIE PETERSEN] Last week, we looked at 10 of the 25 “vital truths” shared by Elder Ted Wilson, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in a sermon at […]
Read more
Stand Against the Devil!
[MARTIN CAREY] “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11). Those of us brought up in […]
Read more
Ted Wilson Affirms Adventist Distinctives (Part 1)
KELSIE PETERSEN While visiting family this past weekend, I happened upon a publication for the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. In it was an article taken from Ted Wilson’s […]
Read more
Michael Is Not Jesus, And the Resurrection Is Not a Re-Creation
COLLEEN TINKER This week as I wrote our commentary on next week’s Sabbath School lesson, I realized that it addresses two of the Adventist organization’s persistent but less-well-known teachings. I […]
Read more
Truth is Immutable!
[NICOLE STEVENSON] “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). When I was […]
Read more
Hell is Forever
Coming to Grips With the Biblical Hell [RICHARD FOSTER] From the outset it might be asked why I have chosen to write about such an unpleasant subject as hell. But […]
Read more