General Frequently Asked Questions

Who are you guys?
Who is Dale Ratzlaff
Why did you start this website?
Is this an official SDA Church website?
Are you guys in hot water for doing this website?
What do you have against Dale Ratzlaff and Life Assurance Ministries?
Why not just ignore Dale and LAM?
What’s at stake here for the Adventist Church?
Doesn’t the SDA Church fit the classic definition of a cult?
Do you deny that many Seventh-day Adventists engage in cultish behavior?
Don’t Adventists have two sources of doctrine?
How many SDA fundamental beliefs are based upon Ellen G. White?
Don’t many Adventists depend upon Ellen White to interpret the Bible for them?
How can Adventists consider themselves "Evangelicals?
Are the three of you really mainline Seventh-day Adventists, or are you hanging on for dear life on the edge of some gospel fringe of the church?
What’s your history in ministry?
Don’t Adventists have a history of keeping to themselves and not fellowshipping with other churches or Christian groups?
Don’t Adventists withhold themselves from fellowship with other Christians—only interacting with them for the sake of proselytizing them?
Be specific. What do you guys do to interact with fellow Christians without trying to proselytize them?
Don’t Adventists have their own Bible called the Clear Word?
Why even bother with doctrine? Why not just preach the Gospel?
Dale Ratzlaff says nobody can be a successful Adventist leader without giving the writings of Ellen White authority over Scripture?
Why do SDAs often conceal their identity in holding public meetings?
Bottom line: Why are you Seventh-day Adventists?

Sabbath

Didn’t Jesus do away with the Sabbath?
Didn’t the Sabbath begin at Sinai?
If the Sabbath began at Creation, why wasn’t the word “Sabbath” mentioned in Genesis 1 or 2?
Doesn’t Colossians 2 say the seventh-day Sabbath was done away with at the cross?
Doesn’t Romans 14 say that keeping the seventh-day Sabbath doesn’t matter?
Why doesn’t the NT explicitly teach the seventh-day Sabbath?
Is the Sabbath a Jewish ritual?
Will a person be lost for not keeping the Sabbath?

Ellen White

How do you know EGW was a true prophet?
Aren’t EGW’s teachings on health an embarrassment?
Do you think EGW has same authority as Paul?
Didn’t Ellen White use the writings of other authors?
What are some areas of growth where Ellen White was following the leading of God’s Spirit into a deeper understanding of truth?
What do you say to fellow Adventists who continue to be in denial about the imperfections in Ellen White?
What was Ellen White’s attitude toward non-SDA Christians?
Why do you believe in EGW?
Why haven’t Adventists been more forthcoming about the imperfections of Ellen White?

Pre-Advent Judgment

How can we have assurance in the judgment?
What's the bottom line relevance of the judgment in my life for Christ today?
How do you bridge between Daniel 8:14 and the year 1844?
Why even have a judgment if God already knows who believers are?
Doesn’t the NT say the judgment of this world happened at the cross?
Do Adventists teach that the devil is our sin bearer?
Was Jesus separated from His Father by a veil between AD 31 and AD 1844?
Wasn’t atonement complete at the cross?

The Gospel

Dale Ratzlaff says that SDA’s belief in “soul sleep” after death denies the believer’s born-again reality of new life in Christ.
Are there further concerns you have about Dale’s teaching regarding the Gospel?

The Law

Doesn’t the NT do away with the law?
Isn’t the whole law system bundled together in that which has been done away with?
Isn’t keeping the law legalism?
What does it mean that we are "not under the law, but under grace"?

Final Events

Do Adventists believe they alone are God’s people for the last days?
Are Seventh-day Adventists God’s final remnant church?

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