Happy New Earth

Have we dug in so deep defending our theology regarding October 22, 1844, that we now worry about where we will worship God in heaven? Sabbath school...
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Putting Words in God’s Mouth

The apologetics in a recent Adventist Review article positions Adventist understandings as not being produced by fallible humans but rather as if God...
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The King Who Kills

Tucked into the middle of Adventist judgment theology lies a little democratic millenarian hope. The people check the king—Sabbath school commentary...
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Good Soulless Christianity

In this time of Christmas hope and cheer, the Adult Bible Study Guide comes out aggressively against other Christians—Sabbath school commentary for...
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Everything the Lord Has Said, We (Can’t...

Jesus aimed to correct misconceptions and mischaracterizations of God found in the Old Testament. We seem to miss his attempts because we like to...
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Faith, Salvation, and Adventist...

William C. DeMary shares the third part of his three-part series, “Faith, Salvation, and Adventist Identity.”
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Misfiring at Mysticism

This week’s lesson reads like a grab bag of perceived spiritualist heresies—Sabbath school commentary for discussion on December 10, 2022.
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Post-Historic Eschatology

It is not so much Catholicism that has most warped communal and religious life but Protestant (and also Adventist) religiosity of movement and change...
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A Moral Inferno

This week’s lesson feels obsessed with refuting ideas about hell that in reality have been increasingly downplayed by Christian thinkers—Sabbath...
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Is Nonreductive Physicalism Compatible...

And how compatible is the state of the dead belief with science?—Sabbath school commentary for discussion on November 26, 2022.  
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