So I´ve been looking through the website of World´s Last Chance (WLC), the dissident Adventist ministry which recently created a splash by putting up billboards across the US with the provocative message "Jesus Is Not God".
I was somewhat surprised to learn that many of WLC´s "heresies" have existed before in Adventist history. Thus, the flat earth was a teaching associated with SDA preacher Alexander Gleason, who published a book about it in 1890. Note the similarity between the Gleason Map and the much later speculations of the Flat Earth Society!
The WLC further claims that Grace Amadon (regarded by the SDA Chuch as an important researcher into ancient Jewish prophecy and time-keeping) came to the conclusion that the Sabbath didn´t always fall on Saturdays but followed the Moon. The first Sabbath in each lunar month fell on the seventh day after New Moon (and thus doesn´t have to be a Saturday).
While flat earthism and the lunar Sabbath are extreme or excentric doctrines, on other points the WLC are more mainstream than the SDA Church. The third piece below defends a standard Protestant view of justification by faith and the atonement.
Good luck with this material. I might return to this topic in the near future.
Rejection of divine light by the SDA Church (part 1)
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