The Possibility of Moral Change

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Is it possible to change our behavior to be more moral? This is the question addressed in Lesson Three of Are You Minding What Matters? We’ve covered Lessons One and Lesson Two in earlier posts (here, here, and here) and so far, the podcast episodes corresponding to those posts are our […]

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Are You Minding What Matters?

Are You Minding What Matters? by Trent Wilde Contents Introduction Lesson One: A Firm Foundation Lesson Two: The Reality of Morality .       1. Theories of God-Based Morality .       2. Theories of Society-Based Morality .       3. Theories of Morality Based on Human Nature .       Material Reality as the […]

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Why Early SDAs Rejected Trinitarianism

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the last two posts (What is Trinitarianism Anyway? and Non-Trinitarians Who Say The Holy Spirit Is A Person), we covered some important historical facts about what trinitarianism actually is and about how the personhood of the Holy Spirit isn’t inherently connected to trinitarianism. Modalism, Christian Tritheism, Arianism, and Holy-Spirit-Is-An-Angelism are […]

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Non-Trinitarians Who Say the Holy Spirit Is A Person

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) We’re continuing our series that explores the differences between the early-SDA and modern-SDA discussions regarding whether or not the Holy Spirit is a person (see part 1 and part 2). As a reminder, the first difference is that modern SDAs tend to think the personhood of the Holy Spirit is intrinsically […]

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What is Trinitarianism Anyway? – SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then 2

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) This is the second post of our series explaining the differences between the early-SDA and modern-SDA discussions over whether the Holy Spirit is a person (read the first post here). As a reminder, the first difference is that, in the modern-SDA discussion, both trinitarians and non-trinitarians commonly conflate the question of […]

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The Parable of The Two Schools

  There were two schools. The teacher of one school said to her students, “You are wise and don’t need a teacher.” Then, day after day the students would say, “I am wise and don’t need a teacher.” And day after day the teacher would say, “Yes. You are wise and don’t need a teacher.” […]

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2022 Unleavened Bread Projects

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) We recently finished celebrating the Feast of Unleavened Bread and, as part of keeping the feast, we published some new studies. In this post, I’ll be telling you a bit about each study and then I recommend following the links to read or watch them in full. Project 1: The Two […]

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The Holy Spirit A Person by R. A. Underwood

The Holy Spirit A Person by R. A. Underwood 1898 Introduction (by Trent Wilde) This series of articles by Rufus Underwood represents one of the earliest SDA expositions in favor of the doctrine that the Holy Spirit is a person. As such, it serves as an important window into the meaning of this doctrine to […]

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SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then 1

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the last two posts, I explained 1st) the early SDA doctrine of the personality of God and 2nd) Ellen White’s teaching regarding whether or not the Holy Spirit is a person. In this post (and probably for a few more), we’ll be continuing with the same basic topic. More specifically, […]

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