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Ellen White’s Writings and Her Ministry
In January 2007, the White Estate Board of Trustees voted to produce a book addressing Ellen White issues. The book will have a number of authors and contain more than twenty chapters with Merlin D. Burt being the editor. It will address a wide spectrum of issues in regard to Ellen White includin...
Ellen G. White and Sola Scriptura
One of the fundamental tenets of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is that the gifts of the Spirit listed by the apostle Paul in Rom 12:4-8, Eph 4:11-13, and 1 Cor 12:27-31 extend beyond the first century A.D. and may be expected in the modern era. Among these gifts is prophecy and Adventists beli...
Ellen G. White’s Ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventists believe that God bestows upon all members of his church in every age spiritual gifts which are to be employed in ministry for the common good of the church and of humanity. These gifts are apportioned by the Holy Spirit to each believer and provide abilities and ministries ...
Graeme S. Bradford, More Than a Prophet: How We Lost and Found Again Ellen White
In More Than a Prophet Graeme Bradford articulates his views about Ellen White, Adventist history, inspiration, and the broader Adventist culture and theology that he has spent the previous twenty years analyzing. In this particular book he expands on topics raised in his two previous books, P...
Leonard Brand and Don S. McMahon. The Prophet and Her Critics.
This book by Leonard Brand, professor of biology and paleontology at Loma Linda University, and Don McMahon, throat surgeon and university lecturer in Australia, is a thoughtful and carefully researched response to many of the recent attacks on the prophetic ministry of Ellen White. While the boo...
Graeme Bradford. Prophets are Human
This book is by nature and design an apologetic work. Graeme Bradford is attempting to demonstrate that the charges raised against the prophetic ministry of E. G. White are based on a misunderstanding of the manifestation of the biblical gift of prophecy. Bradford lists the main charges raised ag...
Ellen White as a Theologian
Although Ellen White never attended a theological seminary, nor did she write a systematic theology, there is no doubt that she wrote in the framework of a theological system, and through her visions contributed significantly to Adventist theology. While all our doctrines are solidly based on Scr...
The Authority of the Ellen G. White Writings
The Bible makes it clear that the true source and seat of authority is in God. (Ps 83:18). As Creator and Lord of all nature and history, God has the right to exercise authority over mankind (Isa 45:22, 23). In Old Testament times God delegated his authority to certain people called prophets (1 S...
Ellen G. White and Earth Science
This article will investigate Ellen G. White's statements on science, particularly in relation to the issue of origins and the study of earth science. We will introduce the material with a brief description of the historical situation in regard to the science of geology in the 19th century, when she wrote the majority of her statements on the topic.
The 1,290 and 1,335 Days of Daniel 12
The interpretation of the 1,290 days and 1,335 days of Daniel 12: 11, 12 as 1,290 years and 1,335 years respectively can be found already among the Jewish expositors of the eighth century A.D. This interpretation, based on the year-day principle (see Num 14:34; Ezek 4:6, 7), continued to be advoc...
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In the discussion about the inspiration of Scripture, there exists a wide variety of different positions as well as a veritable dissonance in the use of inspiration terminology employed by its various proponents. What makes this quasi-Babylonian language confusion so perplexing is the fact that m...
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A Statement of the Biblical Research Institute Ethics Committee The digital revolution that began a few decades ago has significantly impacted how we live our lives. The recent boom in artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize our society even more, leveraging dramatic techn...
What Was the Role of the Scapegoat?*
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel [scapegoat, NASB, KJV, NIV]. And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive ...