UPDATE: The series referenced in this post is now over. You can watch recordings of all the meetings in the playlist embedded below. **** We have a series of Zoom Meetings that’ll start in just a couple of days on an incredibly important topic: The Personality of God. This was a major doctrine in early […]
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God: A Purely Material Person
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) So, it’s the Day of Atonement, and we’ve covered a lot in seven blog posts/podcasts over the past 10 days starting with Dirt You Are (Israelite Anthropology). Fittingly, today we’ll be talking about the subject that is holiest of all, the person of God Himself. In our last post, we covered […]
Matter and Spirit: The Problem of Human Thought
MATTER AND SPIRIT OR, THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN THOUGHT. ───────── A PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT. ─── BY ELDER D. M. CANRIGHT. ─── “I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” —Psalmist. BATTLE CREEK, MICH.: Review & Herald Publishing House. 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by DUDLEY M. CANRIGHT, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Could “The Invisible Christ” Be A Female?
Question: Please explain the SDA doctrine of the personality of God and harmonize the following statement from Victor Houteff, wherein he says the Holy Spirit is the invisible Christ, with what you are teaching that the Holy Spirit is a Female. Thus “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 […]
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 Did Ellen White Teach About the Personality of the Holy Spirit?
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) What did Ellen White teach about the personality of the Holy Spirit? This question is closely connected to the question we addressed in the last post. As a reminder, the question last time was “What is the SDA doctrine of the Personality of God?” Also like the last post, the answer […]