Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Romans 16:17
"The time between 1957-2007 has been called "the most destabilizing" period in the history of the Adventist Church. Why? Because of the publication of the book "Questions on Doctrine".
Questions on Doctrine..... Many believe that denominational
confusion in the Seventh-day Adventist Church ever since has been the devastating price paid for this theological detour. Those who think otherwise have been in an historic/theologic coma.
The fundamental problem in 1955—1957 was that the participants unwittingly tried to merge two different theological systems without realizing all the ramifications of doing so.
When Adventists try to overlay their theology on the Evangelical grid, warning lights and buzzers should be going off—many areas simply won't fit.
Neither the Evangelicals nor the Adventists seemed to see some of the basic doctrines that created this Grand Canyon between Calvinism and the Adventist form of Arminianism.
From another perspective, Adventists did not realize that they had certain aspects of their tectonic plate that couldn't perfectly merge with the Calvinist tectonic plate.
In the attempt to close that difference, the plates clashed, and a theological earthquake jarred both worlds—the debris of which is still settling today."
Herb Douglas
Romans 16:17
"The time between 1957-2007 has been called "the most destabilizing" period in the history of the Adventist Church. Why? Because of the publication of the book "Questions on Doctrine".
Questions on Doctrine..... Many believe that denominational
The fundamental problem in 1955—1957 was that the participants unwittingly tried to merge two different theological systems without realizing all the ramifications of doing so.
When Adventists try to overlay their theology on the Evangelical grid, warning lights and buzzers should be going off—many areas simply won't fit.
Neither the Evangelicals nor the Adventists seemed to see some of the basic doctrines that created this Grand Canyon between Calvinism and the Adventist form of Arminianism.
From another perspective, Adventists did not realize that they had certain aspects of their tectonic plate that couldn't perfectly merge with the Calvinist tectonic plate.
In the attempt to close that difference, the plates clashed, and a theological earthquake jarred both worlds—the debris of which is still settling today."
Herb Douglas
