2013 Annual Council Votes to Change Wording of Adventist Fundamental Belief #6

On October 15, 2013, the delegates for the “Annual Council” of the Seventh-day Adventist Church “approved the next step in a five-year process to better articulate the church’s core beliefs, using clearer—and frequently more inclusive—language.” Adventist theologians led delegates through a reading of an edited draft of all 28 Fundamental Beliefs prepared by the church’s…

Lawrence Geraty, Fritz Guy, and the Framing of Fundamental Belief #6

By Sean Pitman . In 2010 Sergio Silva published an interesting article in the Journal of the Adventist Theological Society entitled, “Development of the Fundamental Beliefs Statement with Particular Reference to the Fundamental Belief #6: Creation.” In this article Silva explains the process of how the current wording of Fundamental Belief #6 of the Seventh-day…