This is about an article in the pseudo-Adventist independent magazine Spectrum by Hanz Gutierrezon the Doctrine about Death. He chairs the Systematic Theology Department at the Italian Adventist Theological Faculty of Villa Aurora amd is a "theologian"
*His words will be in gold and analysis/response will be in pink.
First, his piece at Spectrum is about death. His view is warped in the psycho-babbel of the Faculty Lounge of his own mind. For example, in the following paragraph he laments ""Doctrinal correctness about death".
"Doctrinal" correctness about death thus has a limited legitimacy: only
in the confessional sphere. What still happens in theology is 
what used
to happen in medicine, where the "objective" dimension of disease
(Disease) was the only element on which they based the diagnosis and
prognosis of a case. Byron Good, professor of medical anthropology at
Harvard, along with others, reminded us in the 1990s that disease, and
therefore health, cannot be described only from an "objective" point of
view. Illness must also be told subjectively (Illness), with all the
atypical nuances that this fact implies. And there is also a third
important factor—social and relational conditioning (Sickness)—that
sometimes gives pain and suffering incomprehensible configurations.
Likewise, we could say—theologically—that death cannot have only one
"objective" (doctrinal) configuration. There are necessarily other
components that a critical eschatology must take into consideration.
Q: Who says that "Doctrinal correctness" on the subject of death "has a limited legitimacy"? Him?
He begins b drawing from the Quechua Language of South America focusing on the mystery of the word "tupananchiskama". Then follows with Swiss philosophers. He later draws on Catholic Medieval writer Dante: "Finally, let us consider the metaphor of 
Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia, a book about death and fate."
--He goes on and on drewling over Divina Commedia.
--He then says this about the book: "The Divine Comedy certainly contains error, but this does not make it trivial or even a book to shun."
--He then takes a dig at the Bible: "No book, not even the Bible, is a condensation of only virtues and good propositions."
--He then praises the book: "The Divine Comedy has linguistic and cultural value—it is at
the origin of the Italian language and modern Italy. But it also has
universal value with respect to the essential questions of anthropology
that it pertinently poses (per Jorge Luis Borges) and also those that
shape Western culture in its foundations of freedom and efficiency (per
Harold Bloom)."
--He (an Adventist currently on the Church's payroll of our faculty) prefers Dante, even with all his error, over The Great Controversy: "The Divine Comedy appears markedly more noble and grand than The Great Controversy—despite
the limitations and errors 
Dante’s book embodies and the historical
context that is no longer our own, even from the eschatological point of
view."
--And of course, he ends with his slam on The Great Controversy: "White’s The Great Controversy appears, notably in the official
Adventist reading, as a more one-sided, superficial, and ideologized
book. It lacks a sense of the complexity of faith, life, and death. But
above all, one struggles to grasp a more positive vision that is not
swallowed up by catastrophe, exclusion, and punishment."
--That "catastrophe, exclusion, and punishment" that so offends his Faculty Lounge Senses of His Own Mind is what the Book of Revelation is about. God gave it for a reason--for a Warning.
***And that brings us full circle back to death. Death serves a purpose--For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Rom. 3:23) and sin has WAGES For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23). We are then set into the grave, to "sleep" until our Judgment and resurrection, whether we be in the first or second.
Death serves a purpose as a SOLEMN REMINDER, as SOLEMN as the words of God to Joshua Moses My servant is dead. (Joshua 1:2), to pause and realize what we are doing here for our allotted time--and how it all ends. In other words, to understand what it's all for.
--He has gotten warped in the Academic Faculty Lounge of his own mind, choosing to imbibe on Dante, Bloom, Borges and the mysterious meanings of Latin American tribal languages.
& SIMPLICITY OF SCRIPTURE.
Q: Why dear brethren, is this man, who so willingly and public;y, shows disdain for Scripture, and for one of our Church pioneers, -- and who is also so easily offended by what is in Revelation--WHY is this man on the Church Payroll with access to influence over the minds attending our education centers?
WHY?
