Adventists in the Dominican Republic have made a graven image to teach people about the Bible.
Jun 07 2016
Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant
In the Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant contained the glory of God. In the New Testament, the Ark of the New Covenant contained God himself in the flesh. Important parallels regarding the content of the Ark: Manna – Eucharist (Jesus’ body and blood) Rod of Aaron – Rod of Jesse (Jesus) 10 Commandments …
May 15 2016
10 Commandments, Pentecost, and the Holy Spirit
By various means, people have calculated that it was 50 days (inclusive) after Passover that the 10 Commandments were give by God to Moses.
May 07 2016
A Catholic understanding of St John’s Revelation
Previously I was asked about my understanding of the end times and the correct interpretation of Revelation.
May 06 2016
Refuting an Adventist theory without providing a replacement theory
I was told that I was being unreasonable in not providing an alternative theory for Daniel’s prophecies. If I wanted to refute Adventism’s interpretation of Daniel, I needed to provide an alternative theory in addition to showing why Adventism was wrong.
May 01 2016
Debate about Old Testament food laws
I posted a photo of Dutch frikandellen in an Adventist Facebook forum to draw out some discussion on Adventist dietary laws, with the hope that I could present, in back and forth discussion fashion, the material on my two blog posts “Clean and unclean meat”, Part 1 and Part 2.
Apr 29 2016
Ecclesiastes and the dead
Ecclesiastes can’t be used to say that there is no consciousness after death, because the author, Solomon, explicitly states that he does not know.
Apr 28 2016
Is tithing biblical?
Apr 25 2016
Religious Hardtalk – Adventism in Jamaica
Elce ‘Thunder’ Lauriston, an Adventist evangelist in Jamaica, left Adventism and gives his story at Religious Hardtalk.
Apr 02 2016
Col 2:16 – a weekly sabbath reference or not? Part 2
Several times in the Old Testament, and twice in the New Testament, we see Israel’s holy days listed in various time-based sequences, usually from frequent to infrequent (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, multi-annual). Not every list covers all 5 frequencies, but you see that they are listed in a logical order.
Mar 31 2016
Col 2:16 – a weekly sabbath reference or not? Part 1
Col 2:16 is therefore best interpreted as: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an [annual] holyday, or of the new moon, or of the [weekly] sabbath days” … thus following a time-line of annual, monthly, weekly.
Mar 24 2016
The Sabbath ended on a Thursday
Mar 11 2016
Adventist conversion story – Easter 2016
Dec 25 2015
Christmas is Christian
At this time of the year, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, and the Incarnation of God the Son in human form, scoffers appear. Adventists are amongst these. Some Adventists celebrate Christmas, some don’t. Those who don’t rely on two key arguments – 1) it’s not commanded in the Bible, and no permission is given to do so, and 2) misinformation.
Nov 14 2015
Call no man Father? Tell Ellen White!
Adventists and others accuse Catholics of disobeying Jesus by calling our priests “Father”. But the interesting thing is that Ellen White referred to William Miller, the founder of the Millerite movement that started Adventism, as “Father Miller”.
Oct 31 2015
Halos – pagan or biblical?
Some Christians dislike halos. That is often just another excuse to dislike the Catholic Church.
Sep 28 2015
Pope Francis – Jesus’ failure on the cross?
The wolves (or donkeys, depicted on the right) cannot read, or don’t want to read. They see the words “failure of the cross” and abandon context and honesty in order to promote their nasty agenda. I don’t see how any honest person can read the entire paragraph, notice the words “humanly speaking”, and misunderstand. The wolves bear false witness. It’s what they do.
Aug 21 2015
Where is Sunday condemned in the Bible?
Aug 14 2015
Kindle edition – It’s Okay Not To Be A Seventh-Day Adventist
The Kindle edition of Teresa and Arthur Beem’s book, “It’s Okay Not To Be A Seventh-Day Adventist”, is now available at Amazon.
Aug 01 2015
Clean and unclean meat, part 2
In the previous post, we saw that the distinction between clean and unclean animals was put in place by God for the purpose of separating Israel, God’s chosen people then, from the Gentiles, and this played out in the types of animals used for sacrifices.
