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Daniel 3: The Fiery Furnace

December 21, 2023 Phillip Harris Daniel and Revelation, Doctrine, Feature, Phil Harris

PHIL HARRIS Introduction In the previous chapter Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a huge statue that portrayed the sequence of the major succeeding world nations that would affect Israel from […]

His Disciples Trust

December 14, 2023 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey

MARTIN CAREY Jesus has always been able to draw a crowd. When He fed more than 5000 by the Sea of Galilee, the excited crowds followed him everywhere. This was […]

Former Adventists Give to the Church

November 30, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER The day I first understood the new covenant changed me forever. As an Adventist I couldn’t have explained how the new covenant “worked”, although I had heard the phrase. […]

The Cross of Christmas

November 30, 2023 Proclamation! 2010-1 Proclamation!, Doctrine, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, Scott Blakey

SCOTT BLAKEY Think of it. That blessed night in Bethlehem has become such a well-known, oft-told story, we sometimes forget the full meaning of that night—why this seemingly humble birth […]

The Chain of Grace Not Found in Adventism

November 23, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster

RICHARD FOSTER I recently saw some old Adventist art work circulating online. The picture showed a sieve, such as someone would use for shaking smaller particles out of a soil […]

A New Covenant Needs New Words

November 23, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, New Covenant, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]

Evidence Against Seventh-day Adventism

November 16, 2023 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Russell Earl Kelly

RUSSELL KELLY Since any of the following biblical arguments would destroy the necessity for Seventh-day Adventists to exist, a detailed answer to each one of the points below is hereby […]

What’s Your Hermeneutic? Why Does it Matter?

November 9, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER If there is any single Adventist icon that functions as an idol, it is the seventh-day Sabbath. In fact, the Adventist arguments for Sabbath-keeping are so ingrained that […]

New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”

November 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]

Response to Adventism’s Non-Combatancy

November 2, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS In the early hours of October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists streamed across the Gazan border and began to commit acts of savagery against Jews not seen in the […]

Adventism’s Fallacy: Jesus is the Little Horn Antichrist

November 2, 2023 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jesus, Russell Earl Kelly

RUSSELL EARL KELLY, PHD While most Christian denominations interpret Daniel 8:9-14 as a reference to Antiochus Epiphanes IV from the Greek Seleucids, Seventh-day Adventists teach three different methods of defiling […]

Daniel 2: A Dream Certain and Sure

October 19, 2023 Phillip Harris Daniel and Revelation, Doctrine, Feature, Phil Harris

PHIL HARRIS Introduction The Bible as well as secular history indicate that there were two, father and son, who went by the name Nebuchadnezzar. While the father sat on the […]

Jesus Claims the Keys

October 12, 2023 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey, State of the Dead

MARTIN CAREY On one fateful afternoon of darkness, three men hung on their crosses, waiting for the end. That afternoon marked not only the end of their lives; but also […]

Jesus Worked in the Tomb

October 5, 2023 Myles Christian Doctrine, Feature, Myles Christian

MYLES CHRISTIAN One doesn’t need to interact with a Seventh-day Adventist for very long before running into the claim that Jesus was “resting in the tomb on the seventh day […]

Are New Covenant Commandments Different?

September 28, 2023 Margie Littell Doctrine, Feature, New Covenant

Adventists have been taught that, wherever the Bible uses the word “commandments”, the word applies to the Decalogue. The Ten Commandments, they argue, are eternal, and what God gave to […]