This week the world remembered one of the most grotesque tragedies in human history. Its lessons dare not be forgotten, especially by Christians.

Within the past week, both the outgoing and incoming Presidents of the United States have issued blanket pardons to particular individuals.  We aren’t going to discuss on this site the wisdom, justice, or lack thereof in any of these decisions.  But as Bible-believing Seventh-day Adventist Christians we are constrained to ask, Does God issue pardons of this nature within the setting of Biblical salvation?

Does the Bible support the baptizing of people “into Christ,” rather than into a church with a set of doctrines?

“Fires will break out unexpectedly, and no human effort will be able to quench them. The palaces of earth will be swept away in the fury of the flames. . . . The end is near, probation is closing! Oh, let us seek God while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near!”

Ellen G. White, Messages to Young People, pp. 89-90.

The crux of the issue in a continuing controversy among the striving faithful in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.