Trent Wilde Blog

Are thoughts produced by an immaterial soul or spirit? Ancient Israelites didn't think so; they believed our thoughts are the behavior of certain bodily organs; namely, the kidneys, liver, and heart.

Blog Article: Cognitive Kidneys (Israelite Anthropology) - (bdsda.com)

All verses are from Not A Bible Translation - my own translation.

The truly radical philosophy in ancient Israel wasn't monotheism; it was materialism - a wholesale despiritualization of the world.

Blog Article: Israel's Despiritualizing Philosophy - (bdsda.com)

References for Egyptian Texts:

Coffin Text Spell 78, CT II 19a-b (translation by James P. Allen in Context of Scripture, Volume 1, p. 11)

Coffin Text Spell 80, CT II 32b-35h (translation by James P. Allen in Context of Scripture, Volume 1, p. 12)

Pyramid Text 606, from Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry, p. 33

Ancient Israelites had a materialistic understanding of human nature. While most religious people today think humans are made of physical and non-physical aspects, ancient Israelites understood humans to be, quite literally, organized, breathing dirt, just like all the other animals.

Blog Article: Dirt You Are (Israelite Anthropology) - (bdsda.com)

You can watch the recordings of the (now finished) Zoom Series at this link: Zoom Series from Oct. 11-17 (2022) - The Personality of God: An SDA Pillar Doctrine - (bdsda.com)

Most physicists today believe that reality on the most fundamental level is timeless and that our experience of time and of change is ultimately an illusion. If this is true, the future already exists as a fixed reality and we have no possibility of changing to become any more moral than the laws of nature have destined us to be. But, as we'll see in this episode, time denial rests on a shaky foundation and we actually have every reason to believe that time and change are real.

Blog Article: The Denial of Time - (bdsda.com)

Are You Minding What Matters? - (bdsda.com)

This podcast contains the first part of Are You Minding What Matters? Lesson Three: Our Moral Possibility.

Blog Article: The Possibility of Moral Change - (bdsda.com)

Are You Minding What Matters? - (bdsda.com)

After reviewing clear evidence that the reason early SDAs rejected trinitarianism was not that they rejected the personhood of the Holy Spirit, we consider their actual reasons for rejecting trinitarianism.

Blog Article: http://www.bdsda.com/2022/05/28/why-early-sdas-rejected-trinitarianism/

The Holy Spirit A Person by R. A. Underwood - (bdsda.com)

personality of god Archives - (bdsda.com)

This is SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then part 3! The main point this time is that throughout Christian history, there are been non-trinitarian theologies that affirm the personhood of the Holy Spirit. This makes it clear that the question of whether or not the Holy Spirit is a person is distinct from the question of whether trinitarianism is true. Modern SDAs tend to not be familiar with this historical reality and thus assume that anyone who accepts the personhood of the Holy Spirit is probably a trinitarian while anti-trinitarians are assumed to deny the personhood of the Holy Spirit. Early SDAs understood the distinction between these questions and we need to understand it as well in order to rightly comprehend early-SDA ideas regarding the personhood of the Holy Spirit.

Blog Article: Non-Trinitarians Who Say the Holy Spirit Is A Person - (bdsda.com)

Modalism: Modalistic Monarchianism - Wikipedia

Sabellianism: Sabellianism - Wikipedia

Patripassianism: Patripassianism - Wikipedia

Tritheism: Tritheism - Wikipedia

Arianism: Arianism - Wikipedia

Holy-Spirit-is-an-angel-ism: Pneumatomachi - Wikipedia

Holy Spirit as Angel in Islam: Rūḥ - Wikipedia

R. A. Underwood's The Holy Spirit A Person (with my introduction): The Holy Spirit A Person by R. A. Underwood - (bdsda.com)

Is trinitarianism just "belief in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"? Short answer: No. Trinitarianism is a collection of specific claims regarding the nature of, and relationship between, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Early SDAs understood these truly distinctive features of trinitarianism and it is to these distinctives that they objected.

Blog Article: What is Trinitarianism Anyway? - SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then 2 - (bdsda.com)

Is Jesus As Old As His Father? (from Sabbath School with Branch Davidians) Video: https://youtu.be/kq3hGmaAk54 Podcast: Sabbath School with Branch Davidians: Is Jesus as Old as His Father? (libsyn.com)

Was God Both On His Throne And Visiting Babel Simultaneously? (from Sabbath School With Branch Davidians) Video: https://youtu.be/JHhYuLAtXqc Podcast: Sabbath School with Branch Davidians: Was God Both On His Throne and Visiting Babel Simultaneously? (libsyn.com)

Should We Believe All That The Prophets Have Spoken? - (bdsda.com)

The Parable of The Two Schools - (bdsda.com)

This episode introduces five projects published by Branch Davidians during the Feast of Unleavened Bread 2022.

Blog Article: 2022 Unleavened Bread Projects - (bdsda.com)

The Two Flood Stories in Genesis Video: https://youtu.be/rAlsqIKPbbc Podcast: Sabbath School with Branch Davidians: The Two Flood Stories In Genesis (libsyn.com)

Why Vaccine Mandates Are Not An Evil Infringement On Religious Liberty - (bdsda.com)

How Could "The Invisible Christ" Be A Female? - (bdsda.com)

When You Said, "The COVID Vaccines Aren't FDA-Approved!" video: https://youtu.be/RV-54i1Akb4

The Holy Spirit A Person by R. A. Underwood - (bdsda.com)

Unlike in the modern SDA debate about the personhood of the Holy Spirit, early SDAs regarded the question of whether the Holy Spirit is a person to be distinct from the question of whether trinitarianism is true. All early SDAs were anti-trinitarian, but their primary objections to the trinity had nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. Instead, they objected to the trinitarian idea of what it means to be a person. When using the early SDA notion of personhood, accepting that the Holy Spirit is a person does not imply an acceptance of trinitarianism.

Blog Article: SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then 1 - (bdsda.com)

J. H. Waggoner's Letter to James White: EllenWhite.Org Website - 000960-o.pdf

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