by Preston Foster I am sure there's a simple, credible preferably biblical explanation to this question. The subject has been batted around — at least within Adventism — for decades. By now, a clear, compelling answer should have emerged. Hebrews 9:11-12 says very plainly: “But when Christ came as high […]
by Mark Gutman Recently I listened as a Sabbath School class discussed an issue in the “minor prophet” book of Hosea. The big question was why God told Hosea to marry a prostitute. One view was that the prostitute had reformed at the time God asked Hosea to marry her, although she relapsed […]
by Andy Hanson Andy Nash, writing in the Adventist Review of March 21, 2013, opines, “While relationships will always factor into any church member’s experience, a new study suggests a shifting landscape in which more and more people are leaving the Adventist Church primarily because they’ve changed their beliefs.” https://www.adventistreview.org/?issue=2013-1508 BEYOND BELIEF chronicles […]
by Lawrence Downing For the past couple of weeks I’ve given thought to questions about church: What is church? What is its purpose? In more specific terms, what is the Adventist Church and what is its purpose? A contributing event that prompted the transference from thought to paper was the news that Ryan Bell […]
by Jack Hoehn PLEASE NOTE: JACK HAS ASKED THAT THIS, HIS LAST BLOG ON THIS SUBJECT, BE ALLOWED TO STAND ALONE, WITHOUT COMMENT OR DISCUSSION. EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE COMMENTS WERE BRIEFLY ENABLED, BUT THAT WAS A TECHNICAL ERROR AND HAS BEEN CORRECTED. Since 2011 I have been blogging on this Adventist Today web-site […]
by Andy Hanson Andy Hanson supplies the answers. Since no one took the Official Sinai Quiz I posted on March 13, I have not been able to share my title of Sinai Scholar with anyone else. For those of you aspiring biblical researchers who are at least curious enough to read the answers, I […]
by Monte Sahlin “Organization” was a big issue in 1863 when the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was started and 150 years later it is still a major issue in different ways, but fundamentally the same. Because of the way they had been treated by their various denominations and local congregations when they became part […]
by Jack Hoehn As I finish these 13 comments on the ORIGINS Sabbath School Lessons, there is a Young Earth Chronology “elephant in the room” that author Dr. James Gibson and his editor Clifford Goldstein have left relatively unexplored during these past 13 Sabbaths, and that is the key YEC concept of a single, […]
by Mark Gutman One of my Seminary classes dealt with the theology of a large Christian denomination. We were regularly assigned to read chapters in a book by a writer of that denomination. Our professor would then spend a day or two explaining one of that denomination’s teachings (which we’d just read about) […]
by Jack Hoehn Sabbath School ORIGINS # 12 suggests that Death before Adam’s fall is the deal breaker for accepting any other form of Creation than one done briefly (in 6 literal days) and recently (a few thousand years ago). Even though everything we know about our universe suggests earth, sun, moon, and stars […]
by Andy Hanson A quiz prepared by Andy Hanson There are some facts about what happened on and around Mt. Sinai that you may not be aware of. See if you don’t agree after taking the Official Sinai Quiz. (Hint: there may be more than one “right” answer!) People who email me answers to […]