Freedom to Celebrate!
BY KELSIE PETERSEN Celebration. The word conjures images of smiling groups of people, whether gathered around festively decorated tables or in a backyard with brightly colored tablecloths spread with summer […]
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Category: Feature
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 […]
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2. Twenty-Eight Years in Adventism
I long hesitated about bringing personal matters into this book, but could see no way to tell my story without it. My experience illustrates the power which error and superstition […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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1. Doctrines and Methods of Adventists
ADDITIONAL ITEMS FROM THE PRINTED EDITION: PREFACE TO FOURTEENTH EDITION MY PRESENT STANDING INTRODUCTION Seventh-day Adventism originated about seventy-five years ago in the work of Mr. Miller, who set the […]
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It Is For You, Too!
ROLAANT MCKENZIE One of my favorite stories at Christmas time is A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, written in 1843, which has been re-interpreted in many movies since then. It […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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What’s So Important About the Holy Spirit?
BEVERLY QUINN BESSADA I pondered my friend’s question as I chatted with a group of old schoolmates who were still Adventists: does anyone here believe in the Holy Spirit? Her […]
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Paid In Full—Completely!
CHRISTOPHER A. LEE The dim light of a distant street lamp filtered through my second story window. Shadows scurried across the canvas of my wall and darted in and out […]
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Disentangling the Adventist Health Message
KASPARS OZOLINS Last month, an eye-catching Christianity Today headline was shared on social media by a number of Adventists and formers familiar to me: “Many Adventists in Asia and Africa […]
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11. The Mark of The Beast—What Is It?
Seventy-day Adventists teach that the ten-horned beast of Rev. 13:1–10 is the Papacy and that the two-horned beast of verses 11-18 is the United States. No commentator or Christian scholar […]
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A Trip Through Holy Week
COLLEEN TINKER This information is gleaned from the book A Harmony of the Four Gospels by Orville E. Daniel. I will use Daniel’s harmony as my resource to describe the […]
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God Has No Components
JORDAN QUINLEY Though not expressly stated in their 28 Fundamental Beliefs, Seventh-day Adventism has historically taught that God possesses a material body. This position was strongly advocated by Ellen White’s […]
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