by Reinder Bruinsma | 21 May 2025 | Sometimes I am confronted with Bible passages that make me very uneasy. Here are three examples: Bald Elisha Recently I was working on a sermon about an incident in the ministry of the prophet Elisha. My topic was the story of the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings […]
by Rich Hannon | 19 July 2024 | In the first part of this essay, I explained the problem with keeping all kinds of life alive for a year in a relatively small wooden ship: Noah’s ark. Now let’s study the effects of the flood itself. Can a flood—a relatively short one—explain what we see […]
by Rich Hannon | 18 July 2024 | Adventist Fundamental Belief #6 states categorically that the earth is young, ~6-10K years old. In 2015, the words “recent,” literal,” and “historical” were added to this statement. Although the Bible doesn’t mandate such descriptors, this position has historically been accepted by Christians. For Adventists, it is explicitly […]
by Rich Hannon | 20 July 2023 | It is official Seventh-day Adventist doctrine that God made the heavens and earth recently, in “six literal days that together with the Sabbath constituted the same unit of time that we call a week today.” (Fundamental Belief #6) Not all church members accept this, but I think […]
by Bryan Ness | 31 August 2021 | This article will be discussed at the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar this coming Sabbath. The story of Noah’s flood has long been a favorite children’s story because of its apparent simplicity of message. Since Adam and Eve mankind has become progressively more sinful and God finally reaches […]
by John McLarty, March 10, 2016: In May, 2014, I was hiking the Zion Canyon Overlook Trail with geologist Gerry Bryant. Zion National Park’s iconic cliffs of cross-bedded sandstone inspire wonder, of course. They also pose commanding questions. Where did all that sand come from? How did it end up here in southern Utah? What […]