A thought gem that has been repeated and adapted in many publications from 1866 until the present has interest for Seventh-day Adventists in that the Adventist prophet, Ellen G. White, made her own adaptation of it.
Read MoreThe Trinity: A Historical Analysis of the Trinity in Seventh-day Adventism
We will be doing a historical analysis of the question of trinitarianism and anti-trinitarianism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in response to a growing movement within the church that is challenging No. 2 of our 28 Fundamental Beliefs, which states:
“There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three coeternal Persons. God is...
Read MoreThe Guns of August
This month marks the centenary, the hundredth anniversary, of the beginning of the First World War, which erupted in Europe in August, 1914. It was the most destructive war in history up to that point, with military deaths of about 9 to10 million and combined military and civilian deaths of about 16 to 17 million. The war also facilitated the rapid spread of an influenza epidemic in 1918 that killed an estimated 50 million people.
“Fearful tests and trials await the people of God. The spirit of war is stirring the nations from one end of the earth to the other.”-- Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 17. (1909)
Read MoreCarbon-14 and Egyptian history
In an article in Science, Christopher Bronk Ramsey et al. documented a massive number of radiocarbon dates on material from various Egyptian dynasties. Some of the difficulties the data raise for the dating of the Santorini eruption, and for various theories of the Exodus, are considered.
References:
1. Bronk Ramsey C et al., 2010. Radiocarbon-based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt. Science 328:1554-7
2. Bruins HJ, 2010. Dating Pharaonic Egypt. Science 328:1489-90
3. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2010/06/15/328.5985.1554.DC1.html
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