A recent article asks the church to make room in its fellowship for persons who don’t belief the Genesis Flood narrative to be either literal and/or worldwide. Does the collective witness of Scripture support such an option?
Read MoreJoshua and the Angel: A Closer Look
Will the end-time saints still fall into sin, without the risk of eternal loss?
Read MoreThe Red Herring of Creedalism
Few words have become more misleading in the vocabulary of certain contemporary Adventists than “creed,” “creedal,” and “creedalism.” Equally misleading is the way the usage of these words is often traced through Adventist history, particularly as these terms were used by the Seventh-day Adventist pioneers as distinct from how some use them today.
Read MoreSurprising Authorship of "The Great Want of This Age"
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 MoreTelltale Signs of Doctrinal Error
The ultimate measure of truth and error for classic Seventh-day Adventism is found in such Bible verses as the following:To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20).
Read MoreMy Testimony: The importance of prophecy in my conversion
My name is Rory Hall, and I am a Seventh-day Adventist. This sentence summarizes a dramatic change in lifestyle, relationships and habits; in other words it is a summary of the power of God to save and transform lives.
Read MoreAlleged Ellen White Contradictions: Exploding the Urban Legends, Part 4
In this article, the fourth in our series on alleged contradictions in the writings of Ellen White, we will consider three additional issues in Ellen White’s ministry where critics and revisionists have accused her of contradicting herself—the “daily” in the book of Daniel, the scope of the law as described in Paul’s epistle to the Galatians, as well as some of her statements where a surface reading might lead some to think she wrote inconsistently regarding God’s love for sinners.
Read MoreThe Longest Trial in History
Not long ago, a friend of mine was relating to me a sermon that he had just listened to where the preacher related a question that someone had asked him. The individual wanted to know why God would allow Satan to be loose after the millennium. In response, the pastor said half-heartedly, “if you can tell me why God let him loose the first time, I’ll tell you why He let him loose the second time.”
Read MoreAlleged Ellen White Contradictions: Exploding the Urban Legends
In this third installment of our series on alleged contradictions in the writings of Ellen White, we will examine the popular claim of recent decades that Ellen White’s salvation theology evolved from a predominantly law-focused, even legalistic emphasis in her early years, to a more Christ-centered, grace-oriented message in her later ministry, particularly in the aftermath of the Minneapolis General Conference in 1888 and its emphasis on righteousness by faith.
Read MoreEllen White and the Shut Door Question
In the present article we will consider perhaps the most significant allegation of doctrinal contradiction relative to Ellen White’s prophetic ministry—the so-called “shut door” doctrine as taught and debated in the early history of the Advent movement.
Read MoreAlleged Ellen White contradictions: exploding the urban legends
This is the first in a series of articles on alleged contradictions in the writings of Ellen White. "Part 1: Basic Principles" seeks to establish basic principles in the discussion.
Read MoreA Sabbath for the gentiles
I read an article in a well-known Adventist magazine that explained it is was a good thing to go out to eat at restaurants on the Sabbath because it saved Adventist women the work of food preparation and clean up in the kitchen and made the Sabbath a more enjoyable day for them.
Read MoreThe timing of the Sabbath day
Do the Sabbath hours begin on Saturday morning? Recently a concerned individual wrote me regarding a website that promotes the idea that the Sabbath should be observed from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
Read MoreLooking backwards through prophecy
Critics in and outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church attack the accuracy of the Bible through a subversion of its literal meaning.
Read MoreDid Jesus really exist?
Radical skepticism about the claims of the gospels is in vogue, including the “Jesus as myth” position, which argues that Jesus never even existed.
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