I’ve received some heavy-duty questions recently, on diverse but interesting issues. Don’t some Christians today seem to share Jesus’ view of the coming end? Was the Gospel of Mark composed in Aramaic rather than Greek? And did a scribe insert what is now John 16:15 into the Gospel, so that it originally didn’t have it?
Here we go!
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QUESTION:
Recently I’ve been talking to my grandma, who is a Seventh Day Adventist, and it seems like their views of the afterlife are quite similar to the one of the historical Jesus. Are you at all familiar with their beliefs? Am I correct in my interpretation?
RESPONSE:
Seventh Day Adventists emerged out of the “Great Disappointment” of 1844, when
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