Fifty Assumptions Every Adventist Should Test
Examining What We Believe by the Four Questions That Matter Most
Is it explicitly taught in Scripture? Is it inferred? Is it historically grounded? Does the New Testament affirm it?
Many beliefs feel biblical because they have been repeated for generations. This book carefully examines fifty assumptions commonly held within Seventh-day Adventism and measures each one against Scripture, history, context, and the explicit teaching of the New Testament.
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What If Some of Our Strongest Beliefs Rest on Assumptions?
Every religious system contains both what Scripture actually says and what its followers have gradually come to assume Scripture says. Over time, an interpretation repeated in sermons, books, classrooms, and evangelistic meetings can begin to carry the same authority as the biblical text itself.
Fifty Assumptions Every Adventist Should Test invites readers to separate explicit biblical teaching from inference, tradition, historical development, and denominational interpretation. The purpose is not ridicule. It is clarity, honesty, and faithfulness to Scripture.
— 1 Thessalonians 5:21
The Four Questions Applied to Every Assumption
Among the Fifty Assumptions Examined
Seven Major Areas of Examination
1. The Sabbath
The seal of God, Sunday worship, Gentile Sabbath keeping, Constantine, the early church, and the claim that the Sabbath will be the final test.
2. 1844 and the Sanctuary
Daniel 8:14, the investigative judgment, two phases of heavenly ministry, the scapegoat, and the final removal of sin.
3. Prophecy
The three angels’ messages, the remnant, America in prophecy, the papacy, the loud cry, the latter rain, and the traditional end-time sequence.
4. Salvation
Assurance, perfection, the finished work of Christ, judgment, obedience, vindication, and whether the gospel requires the investigative judgment.
5. Ellen G. White
Her prophetic claims, visions, predictions, doctrinal authority, relationship to Scripture, and the claim that questioning her is questioning God.
6. The Church
The exclusive-remnant claim, Babylon, spiritual deception, leaving Adventism, the Reformers, and the alleged centuries-long apostasy of Christianity.
7. Bible Interpretation
Arguments from silence, types and symbols, private visions, prophetic timelines, Old and New Covenant interpretation, and doctrinal systems.
Additional Study Tools
Fifty questions for honest reflection, a doctrine-testing checklist, comparisons with explicit New Testament teaching, and Scripture and subject indexes.
Who Should Read This Book?
- Adventists who want to test their beliefs by Scripture alone.
- Former Adventists seeking a clear review of the doctrines they were taught.
- Pastors, Bible teachers, ministry leaders, and discussion groups.
- Family members trying to understand a loved one’s theological journey.
- Christians studying Adventist doctrine and history.
- Anyone who believes truth should withstand honest biblical examination.
One Standard: The Bible
Fifty chapters. Fifty assumptions. Four tests applied consistently. This book asks readers to approach every doctrine with the honesty of the Bereans, who searched the Scriptures daily to determine whether what they had been taught was true.
The goal is not doubt for doubt’s sake. It is a faith grounded in the finished work of Jesus Christ and governed by the Word of God rather than denominational tradition.
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