The recent and very public departure from Adventism of a prominent figure in Adventist media ministry has again raised the issue of the assurance of salvation and how it relates to the classic Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the investigative judgment. What does the Bible say?

In a word, no. Genuine revival and reformation through a return to the inspired blueprint will rescue Seventh-day Adventist education with an impassioned recovery of the church’s doctrinal and practical mission, as set forth in Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

The scope of grace and perfection is again in the spotlight. What does the written counsel of God say?

The church is not obligated to legally or publicly defend any sort of conviction or practice on the part of its members, merely because it is claimed that such convictions or practices are based on the conscience.  Only those conscientious choices, convictions, or practices sustained by the written counsel of God (Isa. 8:20; Acts 17:11) merit the public endorsement of the church and the commitment of church resources so far as the legal defense and protection of members’ conduct is concerned.