SDA for Me: Doctrinal Essays and Interactions
Overview
In this volume, Martin Weber addresses major challenges to Seventh-day Adventist fundamental beliefs and dialogues with other Christians. Inspired by a public forum at which Adventism was critiqued without the opportunity for discussion, Weber presents SDA beliefs in a grace-based context. He also explains how Adventist doctrine can and should be grounded in Scripture alone.
Weber candidly acknowledges that many of his fellow SDAs suffer from legalism in promoting the Sabbath with a cultish view of Ellen G. White and the pre-Advent judgment. He testifies to his own experience of emerging from suffocating legalism to embrace truth from a biblical, Christ-centered perspective. This book is based on his website www.SDAforme.com.
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Key Features
- Defends fundamental Adventist beliefs from a grace-based, biblical perspective
- Provides personal anecdotes of spiritual struggle
- Responds to frequently asked questions and criticisms of SDA teachings
Contents
- One Sad Night in Nebraska
- I Almost Left with Dale Ratzlaff
- Please Forgive Us
- Five Questions for Dale Ratzlaff
- Dalte Ratzlaff Responds
- Amy’s Challenge: New Covenant Law
- Colleen’s Challenge: The Sabbath
- True Prophet—No Errors?
- FAQs about Adventism
- Stories You May Not Believe
- Sabbath in Christ—Rest or Wrest?
- A Non Prophet Organization?
- The 1844 Judgment—Gospel Truth or Legalistic Fraud?
- Grace and Disgrace
- Is the Law Illegal for New Covenant Christians?
- Should We Still Expect a Sunday Law?
- Reconnecting with Alienated Children
- Please Don’t Forsake Us
Top Highlights
“In Hebrew, the primary meaning of the word ‘judgment’ is not scrutiny but ‘vindication’ or ‘deliverance.’” (source)
“it’s the non-weekly ceremonial sabbaths that are done away with in Colossians 2” (source)
“Western presuppositions imposed upon Scripture had caused an unnecessary doctrinal dilemma. I was delighted to discover that Ellen White herself began picking up this theme of vindication in heaven’s pre-Advent judgment in her later writings. (Consider the chapter ‘Joshua and the Angel’ in Prophets and Kings, the last-completed book in her ‘Conflict of the Ages’ series.” (source)
“My ongoing learning adventure is chronicled in many other books published by the church, such as the 2009 release: God Was There: True Stories of a Police Chaplain.” (source)
“Since the Sabbath day itself was deeply entrenched during Christ’s ministry, there was no need for Him to re-command it. The issue in the Gospels was not whether to keep the Sabbath but how to keep it—and Jesus gave plenty of attention to that. If Christ intended to do away with the Sabbath, He surely wasted a lot of energy defending it. And then to top it off, He proclaimed Himself ‘Lord of the Sabbath’ (Matthew 12:8).” (source)
Product Details
- Title: SDA for Me: Doctrinal Essays and Interaction
- Author: Martin Weber
- Publisher: Martin Weber
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 109
