In this article, the second of our Early Adventism and the Apocrypha series, a series exploring various books contained in early Adventist Bibles (and still retained in most Bibles around the world), we will discuss and discover the book known as the Wisdom of Solomon (sometimes called the Book of Wisdom). This work will be introduced, explored, an
Since the 1987 publication of Ronald Graybill’s original and groundbreaking article which resurrected the forgotten history of Adventism’s early acceptance and embrace of the Apocrypha as Scripture,[1] an increasing awareness of the Apocrypha and its connection to Adventist identity has begun to emerge thanks to the continued work of recent scholar
In our last article we covered the basic function of Biblical prophets and the Biblical tests that we can use to expose false prophets. So now that we can tell the difference between true and false prophets, we can return to our study of inspiration. What we want to do at this point as systematic Adventists (Adventists that see their faith as a sys
The subject of inspiration is not a simple concept to grasp (and if you encounter someone who teaches that it is simple, then you can be sure they haven’t thought about the subject very deeply). What we will cover in this article and the next can be spiritually jarring and stretch your theological muscles to the limits. Nevertheless, because of the
A few years ago while attending seminary, I took a class a class on the Gospels. The professor, Dr. Teresa Reeve, introduced the course with a lecture entitled “How the Bible Came to Be, and How the Bible Came to Me.” The wittiness of that title is an accurate summary of what the next three articles in this series seek to extrapolate in detail.
