1. Why I Wrote This Book
I was a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist. Ellen White was as much a part of my childhood training as was the Bible. During my sixteen years of education in SDA schools […]
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I was a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist. Ellen White was as much a part of my childhood training as was the Bible. During my sixteen years of education in SDA schools […]
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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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“Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast.”—The Marvel of Nations, by U. Smith (page 183). “The seal of God is his holy Sabbath.”—Thoughts on Revelation (page 452). […]
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MARTIN L. CAREYAndromeda galaxy M31 photographed by Wolfgang Promper of Austria. Used by permission. …when I accepted the gospel of the New Testament, I realized it was also time […]
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“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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By constantly crying in the ears of the people: “Sunday is a heathen day; and all who observe it keep ‘the venerable day of the sun’” “The bishop of […]
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As I tried to get my thoughts in order for what I wanted to write, I was scrolling through my social media page, a process that took quite awhile, since […]
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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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Since the rigorous, severe Sabbatical character of the Jewish Sabbath does not belong to the memorial day of the gospel, some have gone to the opposite extreme, […]
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Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must […]
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The great memorial day of the gospel seems to have been clearly prefigured in the law of shadows. The Feast of Harvest. “Speak unto the children of Israel, and […]
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The hostile clashing of worldviews and seemingly constant shapeshifting of reality is not unfamiliar to those of us who’ve left Adventism for Jesus. As we walk through these mystifying days […]
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The strange events of the last three months have raised concerns I’ve never had before, living as I have in the freedom of the United States. I’ve written before about […]
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With the exception of a few small sects, Christians universally regard Sunday as a sacred day. This has been true down through the centuries from the days of the […]
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Part of the work we face as we retrain our Adventist-shaped minds and become biblical Christians is learning how to read Scripture. We were steeped in proof-texting and “bargaining”, on […]
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