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Inspiration of Scripture: Meaning What?

Byempower February 25, 2016February 25, 2023

by Edward W. H. Vick l. Theory and Fact The incentive for constructing theories of inspiration is to provide a basis for asserting the authority of the Bible. The Bible, so the argument goes, has authority because it is inspired, and it is inspired in the way the theory of inspiration accounts for it. Since…

Adventists | Biblical literalism | Eschatology | Hermeneutics | Theology

Is Jesus coming "soon"?

Byempower November 23, 2015

by Edward W. H. Vick Here is the question for you: What do you make of the following sentences taken with the qualification, ‘But we cannot tell you when’? The end of the world is nigh. Jesus is coming again soon? God is about to judge the world and bring in his kingdom. ************************* I…

Adventists | Church | Ecclesiology | Ecumenical Issues | Theology

Getting Along with the Exes

Byempower November 18, 2015

by Henry Neufeld, Publisher No, no, no! Not the ex-spouses. The ex-faiths! You see, while Jody and I were both members of a United Methodist congregation when we got married, we had both come to that place by leaving other churches. Jody was ex-Catholic, and I was ex-Seventh-day Adventist. These are both groups that have…