(Corresponding Podcast – Follow Podcast) Before Spirit Was Spiritualistic: Philosophical Materialism from Genesis to Jesus ← This is the title of a series of talks we hosted and published over seven Saturdays, from April 8 to May 20, 2023. What’s the series about? It’s about Jesus and his philosophical predecessors and successors and how they […]
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Cognitive Kidneys (Israelite Anthropology)
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Have you ever had a hard time wrapping your brain around a new idea? You just keep racking your brain, but get nowhere! Then someone comes along with a completely different background and a different education, and to them, it’s a no-brainer. You can see that they understand it so much […]
Israel’s Despiritualizing Philosophy
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the previous post, we went through a number of ancient Israelite texts that present a materialistic view of human nature. Unlike the popular idea that humans have a dual nature (physical and non-physical), these texts portray humans as made of only one substance – dirt. Humans, like the other animals, […]
The SDA Forgotten Foundation – Materialism
The SDA Forgotten Foundation – Materialism A study related to the SDA Sabbath School Lesson for 2021, 4th Quarter Present Truth In Deuteronomy Week 10 by Mary Zebrowski Edited by Trent Wilde This week’s lesson is entitled, “Remember, Do Not Forget.” So, we thought we would talk about a foundation – if not THE foundation […]
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 […]
What Happened on Oct. 22, 1844 is Not Immaterial
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) (PDF) Today (Oct. 17, 2021) is the Day of Atonement. 177 years ago, many thousands were expecting Jesus to return on this day, but their hopes were disappointed. October 22, 1844, went down in the history books as The Great Disappointment. A small portion of those disappointed ones went on to […]
Did God Create Time?
Did God Create Time? A study related to the SDA Sabbath School Lesson for 2021, 3rd Quarter Rest In Christ Week 10 by Mary Zebrowski Edited by Trent Wilde This week’s lesson is entitled, “Sabbath Rest.” Sunday’s lesson reads, “Of all the Ten Commandments, only the fourth begins with the verb ‘remember.’ It’s not ‘Remember, […]
Materialism: Our Forgotten Foundation
The purpose of this booklet is to bring to the attention of the Advent people, both ministers and laypersons alike, one of the oft-forgotten foundations of our faith; that being, materialism. In short, our faith as Seventh-day Adventists has been built within the framework of metaphysical materialism, the belief that all things in the universe […]