Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 6: “The Mystery of the Gospel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson again eviscerates the power of the gospel and the depth of what Paul was […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lesson 3: “The Power of the Exalted Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems With This Lesson:  This entire lesson is premised on not understanding the nature of spiritual life in believers. […]

Lesson 2: “God’s Grand, Christ-Centered Plan” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems With This Lesson: The lesson states early on that “we lose salvation only by our own sinful choices.” There is […]

Lesson 1: “Paul and the Ephesians” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson states that the epistle’s purpose is “to awaken the believers in Ephesus to their full […]

Lesson 13: “Ablaze With God’s Glory” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This speculation about the ending of the “great controversy” is an imaginary scenario based upon an unbiblical […]

Lesson 12: “The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The conclusion of this lesson, that Sabbath is the Seal of […]

Lesson 11: “The Seal of God and Mark of the Beast: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The Adventist end-time scenario is based on the straw-man argument […]

Lesson 10: Satan’s Final Deception COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The central points of the lesson, “Immortality of the Soul” and “Sun worship”, are built ENTIRELY upon straw-man […]

Lesson 9: “A City Called Confusion” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson:  This lesson is built upon an unbiblical assumption, that the woman of Revelation 12 is the church […]

Lesson 8: “The Sabbath And the End” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: Built on the assumption of the pre-history of Satan’s jealousy and the launch of the great […]

Lesson 7: “Worshiping the Creator” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson The three angels’ messages are removed from their context to teach Adventism’s cultic doctrine. The assumption that worshiping […]

Lesson 6: “The Hour of His Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson ignores the fact that Adventist scholars have long known that the framework for explaining […]

Lesson 5: “The Good News of Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson assumes that “God’s Judgment” is the investigative judgment. The author relies on EGWs characterization […]