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Modern Adventist Anti-Trinitarianism: Hermeneutical Reflections
Modern Adventist anti-Trinitarian writings are usually crafted with a very assertive tone, giving the impression that their understanding of the Godhead is homogenous, solidly grounded on the Scriptures and on the writings of Ellen G. White, and faithful to the views of the pioneers. Indeed, seve...
René Gehring, Die Dreieinigkeit in Bibel und Adventgeschichte (The Trinity in the Bible and in Adventist History) (Austria: Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen, 2021. 161 pp; US $ 19.00)
Dr. René Gehring, the author of this volume in German, is the president of Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen in Austria. Following an introduction, the book is divided into five chapters, the first four of which investigate the Trinity in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, in the writings of Ellen...
The Trinity in Seventh-day Adventist History
The last decade has seen increased anti-Trinitarian activity within the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Though significant, anti-Trinitarianism has remained at the margins of the movement. Four reasons for this activity should be mentioned. (1) There is the availability of information through the i...
Christ As Monogenēs: Proper Translation and Theological Significance
The controversy over the doctrine of the Trinity in the church is now present in several parts of the world field. One of the arguments used to support the idea that Christ was not eternal but that He had a beginning is that the title monogenēs means “only begotten.” As we will indicate, this i...
Whidden, Woodrow; Jerry Moon; and John W. Reeve. Trinity: Understanding God’s Love, His Plan of Salvation, and Christian Relationships
The authors of this book, three professors from Andrews University, have provided for us a timely volume. There is a resurgence of anti-Trinitarianism in some sectors of the Adventist Church that is having a small impact in several places in the world. This book attempts to provide the biblical a...
Reflections on the Doctrine of the Trinity
Reprinted from: Andrews University Seminary Studies. Volume 8, 1970, No. 1. Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, U.S.A. Faith in the living God has been rejected time and again by the ignorant and the indifferent, as well as by many of the learned and the thoughtful. It has been...
The Trinity in Scripture
Introduction The doctrine of the Trinity (Lat. trinitas “tri-unity” or “three-in-oneness”) is one of the most important doctrines of the Christian faith. However, in recent times some Adventists have begun to question its validity. At the 1995 General Conference in Utrecht, Fred Allaback distri...
The Doctrine of the Trinity Among Adventists
Introduction While the Seventh-day Adventist Church today espouses the doctrine of the Trinity, this has not always been so. The evidence from a study of Adventist history indicates that from the earliest years of our church to the 1890s a whole stream of writers took an Arian or semi-Arian posit...
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The Genesis creation account not only explains the origins of the world and humanity; it also offers profound insight into the character of the Creator. At the outset, we should note that the placement of Genesis 1 at the opening of Scripture is profoundly significant. As J. Richard Middleton obs...
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Because Adam and Eve did not die on the exact day that they ate of the forbidden fruit, it is sometimes claimed that since one day is with the Lord as a thousand years (2 Pet 3:8) and Adam lived less than a thousand years (Gen 5:5), Adam, therefore, did die within that one-thousand-year “day.” An...