Season of Change and an Unchanging God
Yesterday afternoon my seven-year-old son and I walked the mile to the neighbor’s house for coffee (juice and brownies for the kids). His older brothers had ridden ahead on their […]
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Category: Doctrine
Sunday Legislation and the Golden Calf
Coming out of Adventism is a bit like navigating a moral minefield. Because we were taught a false worldview, because everything Christians believe was redefined and falsified to keep Adventists […]
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Is God Just or Fair?
It is easy to conclude that justness and fairness are the same thing. A quick search of online dictionaries will show us that fairness is a synonym of justness. However, […]
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Does the Manna Support Sabbath Keeping?
Sabbath is always the sticking point when people leave Adventism. In fact, Adventist teaching has so bound the day into the Adventist conscience that Adventists generally worry more about disrespecting […]
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I Have Guarded Them
It was well after midnight, and eleven men lay sprawled about on the ground, sleeping soundly. They were suddenly startled by a voice. “So, could you not watch with me […]
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From Trashed to Treasured
ROLAANT MCKENZIE A long time ago I attended Pacific Union College for a year of my college education. While there I lived on the second floor of Grainger Hall, one […]
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Investigating Ellen White’s Angel
There is no better book of the Bible for Transitioning Adventists than Galatians. It is powerful, it is clear, and it answers the many questions we have. I am amazed […]
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Quick Summary of Adventist Errors
Trinity—The primary group of people who founded Adventism did not believe that Jesus was divine. Thus, Adventism’s primary doctrines were established during this Arianist period. In the early twentieth century […]
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Another Letter: Adventism’s Fallible Jesus
I suppose it’s not surprising that pushback about Adventism’s position on the Trinity and the full deity of Jesus continues to come. This last week we received an email from […]
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Why a Christian Writes About Adventism
Sometime in high school, perhaps younger, I developed in interest in Christian apologetics. This began, I think, with a challenge about the theory of evolution when I was in seventh […]
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The Melchizedek Conundrum: How is He Like Jesus?
“I was listening to the Former Adventist Podcast on Hebrews 7:11–22,” a new former Adventist wrote recently. I continued reading; the writer was looking at the text and saw saw […]
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Who Is Your Scapegoat?
CHRIS BANDENHORST Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on […]
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Distortion of the Afterlife
This article is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Stephen Pitcher on the Adventist “devotional paraphrase” of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Written by Jack Blanco when he was […]
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Understanding Adventist Terms
COLLEEN TINKERJEREMY GRAHAM In this article we share a (non-comprehensive) list of terms which, within Adventism, have different definitions than they have in evangelical Christianity. This difference in definitions results […]
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Evaluating a Deceptive Dialogue with Adventists
Of all the 19th century Restorationist movements (including Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses––just to name the two most familiar to evangelicals), Seventh-day Adventism has undeniably made the most headway toward evangelical […]
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