Variations of anti-Trinitarian views seem to be erupting on an unprecedented scale, at least in the southeastern United States where I live and work. One element I often encounter is the belief that Christ had some kind of beginning through…
Month: March 2012
Give Them Gentle Rain, Not a Monsoon
In family worship this morning, a timeless truth was expressed in the most simple terms to me. Rain is a necessity in life. Without it, plants, animals, and people would die; nothing would survive. Prior to the flood, there was no…
Didn’t Do My Homework
During my college/university days, like any future scholastic ready to conquer the world, when a test came up without any preparations on my part, I’d soon regret and suffer with a poor grade. Having mulled it over for years, in my…
Will the Real Thinking Adventist Please Stand up? PartTwo
Posted December 1st, 2008 by Clifford Goldstein* (admin note: I mentioned this article here) For years now I’ve been a proud recipient of Dale Ratzlaff’s little scandal sheet, Proclamation! , whose whole raison d’être is, apparently, to bash Adventism, all under the guise…
Adventists Don’t Know Christ…
Many of you around at the time will remember the “Bo Knows” ad campaign from the late 1980’s with baseball/football player Bo Jackson. The ads “envisioned Jackson attempting to take up a litany of other sports, including tennis, golf, luge, auto…
Would Jesus Be In Zuccotti Park?
By Shawn Boonstra* A college student at the Occupy L.A. encampment, who sees the protests as a “social revolution,” recently decried the rather glaring shortage of religious people involved in his cause to the Los Angeles Times. “We all say,…
Did Christ Have a Beginning?**
Did Christ Have a Beginning? In my dialogues with anti-Trinitarian Seventh-day Adventists, I have regularly encountered the assertion that Psalm 2:7 shows that Christ was begotten by the Father prior to the incarnation, in eternity: “‘I will declare the…
ELLEN WHITE’S TRINITARIAN STATEMENTS: WHAT DID SHE ACTUALLY WRITE?
I recently ran into a presentation from the Ellen G. White Estate (mentioned in this article) which discusses three issues: Skeptics say that “…the expression (“sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the Third Person…
2012 Seminary Scholarship Symposium: “Reception of Ellen White’s Trinitarian Statements by Her Contemporaries (1897–1915)”*
2012 Seminary Scholarship Symposium: “Reception of Ellen White’s Trinitarian Statements by Her Contemporaries (1897–1915)” * Presentation Denis Kaiser, Ph.D. student in Adventist Studies and Historical Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in Berrien Springs, MI, presented his research on…
Adventist Anti-trinitarianism And Alexandrian Theology
By Darius Jankiewicz* In 2001, clutching my newly-minted theology degree from Andrews University, I returned to regular front-line ministry in Australia. After spending eight years at Andrews—buried in books, writing, and theological parleys—I had become somewhat out of touch with…