Sabbath Observance—Guidelines
The text of a report by a special study group assigned to recommend guidelines on how to keep the Sabbath.
Read MoreSeventh-day Adventists and Life Insurance
Should loyal Christians buy life insurance? What about Ellen G. White's counsel?
Read MoreSteeples and the Church
"Church Steeple Study" opposes the use of steeples in connection with Christian churches on the grounds that incorporating a steeple into a church building plan compromises the proper Christian rejection of paganism and permits the encroachment of apostate attitudes and practices.
Read MoreIs the Bible Our Final Authority?
How do we deal with the question of Bible discrepancies and the balance between divine message and human writer? The eighteenth century English philosopher John Locke's contention that in every person resides a self-directed autonomy not to be abridged except by permission of the possessor appears to have won the day.
Read MoreThe Branch Davidians/Shepherd’s Rod—Who Are They?
Information about the Shepherd's Rod offshoot group called Branch Davidians. Reprinted with minor adaptation from the Adventist Review. The Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, fame were themselves a division of a small offshoot group known as the Shepherd's Rod, who left the Adventists Church in 1930. To meet a continuing need for information about this…
Read MoreAnother Look at Adventist Hermeneutics
A short review of the standard Adventist approach to biblical interpretation.
Read MoreThe Authority of the Bible
What about the manuscript sources of the various Bible translations?
Read MoreWhy Did Jesus Die? How God Saves Us
With the end of the first century of the Christian Era and the death of John-the last intimate eyewitness of Christ's ministry-questions previously taken for granted began to surface: Who was Jesus? Why did He come? Why did He die?
Read MoreToward an Adventist Theology of Worship
The impact of cultural influences has raised to high pitch the question of how Christians should worship. This article provides a foundational review of how worship appears in the Bible, with implications on how we should see it today.
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