The Trinity Is A Paradox by John W. Reeve* The conception of God as Trinity has always been both central and problematic to Christianity, yet “Three persons in one God” summarizes biblical revelation about the nature of the Godhead. Externally,…
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God, The Trinity, and Adventistm
An old controversy over the nature of God surfaces again. By Denis Fortin* In the past decade or two, there has been a resurgence of Arianism1 and anti-Trinitarianism in the Christian and even in the evangelical world. But Seventh-day Adventist…
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…
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…
Our Mediator and the Holy Spirit
Recently introduced to a post called “Our Mediator and the Holy Spirit,” I felt compelled to briefly address it. The writer tries to convince the reader via a maze of partial quotes that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one…