Fritz Guy: Rigorous Thinker and Loyal...

From La Sierra College pop-quiz giver to drafter of church fundamental beliefs, Guy’s life and work reflect a resourceful truth-seeker who embraced...
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Ellen White and Prophetic Authority

If you assume Ellen White is never wrong, you can treat her like an incarnate Urim and Thummim, searching her writings for pronouncements on whatever...
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Immorality Is Selfish Individualism

Can warnings against immorality in Ephesians 5 be extended to religion as well?—Sabbath School commentary for discussion on August 19.
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Dead to the Holy Spirit

The big problem at the church’s hierarchical top is not biblical literalism, not hostility to scholarship, not laziness of mind, but fearful contempt...
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Are Other Worlds Watching Us? Ellen...

Whoever is watching Earth's atrocities play out, angels or other beings, should have had their fill of this horrific spectacle long before now.
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The Desire for Certainty As Original Sin

“Knowing everything” sounds a lot like certainty, so could we say that the real temptation in the garden was the temptation of attaining certainty? 
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On Unity, Gender, and Power

This week’s lesson on Ephesians 4, unity, and diversity offers all members a clear way to judge community spiritual health. Just how harmonious is...
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Ephesian’s Present Pleroma, Paul’s...

Even though Paul and the anonymous author of Ephesians have different visions of what is the eternal plan of God, they agree that it is to give God’s...
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We Should Go Home Again Because We’re...

Going back home after a long absence, like mustering courage to disturb the serenity of our edified past, can be jolting. But the attempt is not...
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Ephesians and the Fullness of Life Here...

At its heart, Ephesians is about fullness, completeness, or in Greek pleroma. The letter’s author seems intent on showing readers that God’s...
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