“Heretic” Set Free
SKIP BAKER Editor’s Note: This story is republished from FormerAdventist.com where it first appeared in 2007. As the photographer at the Review & Herald Publishing Association (R&H) I could look out the window […]
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29. The Adventist Millennium
Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #27: The Millennium and the End of Sin—“The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first and second resurrections. During […]
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July 22–28
Lesson 5: “Horizontal Atonement: The Cross and the Church” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Although the author says the cross is the means of Christ’s uniting Jews and […]
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We Got Mail
What Should I Say To a Person Studying Adventism? I’m wondering if you can tell me what to say/share with a person who has been looking into, reading, and sharing […]
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Post-Cult Doubt in a Post-Christian Culture
NICOLE STEVENSON Now what? I remember thinking. I’ve spent all my life believing lies. Everything I’ve built and planned for centered on what I believed in Adventism! How could I […]
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Cracking Up and Breaking Free
Life Out of the Adventist Eggshell GENEVA CHINNOCK Some years ago I read an article where the author described growing up in an eggshell. She had been told that this […]
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28. Death and Resurrection Assumes Man is Physical
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #26—The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state […]
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July 15–21
Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]
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My Hairdresser Transformed!
COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]
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Breaking Open the Adventist Mind
DAVID DEPINHO INTRODUCTION My name is David W. DePinho. I’m happily married to my wife of 16 years, Martha, and have two grade school age children, Amanda and Matthew. I […]
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We Got Mail
Should I Honor My Parents’ Insistence I Not Remove My Membership? I just wanted to get your advice on some thoughts I’ve been praying through and processing regarding baptism and […]
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27. The Second Coming of Christ
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #25—The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and […]
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“The Bible Is a Dirty Book”: Unbelief and Hatred for the God of the Bible
KASPARS OZOLINS This month, Loren Seibold, editor of Adventist Today, wrote a provocatively titled piece: “The Bible Is a Dirty Book: …which also contains the words of eternal life.” This […]
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I Put Myself in God’s Hands
TROI ANDREOLA I was always interested in spiritual matters. My mother had introduced me to God as a young child, and I had a curious mind. I was drawn to […]
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