Clifford Goldstein: ‘A Safe Place’

Educate Truth shares the following article from The Adventist Review as a service to readers. As I have said numerous times: Adventism and evolution are mutually exclusive. If one is true, the other is false. Ergo, you can be an Adventist or an evolutionist, but not both. Our name, Seventh-day Adventist, implies a rejection of…

The hinge of our faith

If lots of people and pastors make enough (sanctified) noise about this, something may actually happen. And even if something doesn’t change, since we are not the actual leaders/ policy-makers, our moral responsibility is not in changing things, but in speaking up. And the more voices the better. I don’t know how any committed SDA…

God’s Man, Darwin

By Clifford Goldstein Source: Adventist Review Let’s get hypothetical and pretend that the Genesis Creation account was never meant to be taken literally. Although God was communicating with us about the work of creation, suppose the texts themselves were to be understood metaphorically, symbolically, nothing more. Given that premise, what, then, was the Creator seeking…

SAU Faculty Statement on Creation (2004)

Source: Southern Adventist University School of Religion Faculty Statement on Creation A REAFFIRMATION OF CREATION September 8, 2004 Introduction The Faith and Science Conferences that have taken place in the church during the past three years (2002-2004) have shown the wide range of views that exist concerning the origins of life and the early chapters…