Clifford Goldstein

If we are saved by faith and not by works,¹ what does it mean, then, to be judged by works?² Not just Seventh-day Adventists but other Christians, too, have wrestled with this question.³

How do we…

Today’s world has no short-age of biblical commentators determined to expound on current events, usually in regard to the latest disturbance in the Middle East and the continuous wars there. Some have asked: “Why aren’t Seventh-day Adventists,…

Born in 1955, I grew up in a secular Jewish home in Miami Beach. Our religious observance could have been boiled down to this mantra: They tried to kill us, they failed—let’s eat!

My secular Jewish upbringing paralleled my…

When I joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church more than 32 years ago, I came in riding on a whirlwind of end-time prophetic adrenaline rushes. My first study on America in prophecy, for instance, was the same week the pope (John Paul II)…

“I feel everything that ever happened to me, and I memorize it, but it’s all in vain.”

—Osip Mandelstam¹

“We’ve been the Beatles, which was marvelous . . . but I think generally there was this feeling…

If anyone should favor Judeo-Christian values, it's me—a Jewish Christian! Yet when the New Right talks about enforcing the "Judeo-Christian ethic," I worry. What about the millions of Americans who happen to be neither Jewish nor Christian?…

We believe that prior to the second coming of Christ the controversy about allegiance to God will divide the world into two camps: those who keep Saturday, the true Sabbath, and those who observe Sunday, the false Sabbath. But if this is…

The year 1888 is important in Adventism, but another group is celebrating that centennial too. The Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, the "only national organization whose sole purpose is the maintenance and cultivation of the first…

If any church in the world should be filled with Jews on Sabbath, it's the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The health message, the sanctuary, the Sabbath, and our unique eschatology give us great ties to the Jewish people. Indeed, if any message…

I believe in a literal creation accomplished in six 24-hour days, about 6,000 years ago. I believe in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, Noah's ark, the talking snake—the whole story just as Moses wrote it, literally.

I…

Sharing new concepts about God with Jewish people, or any people, has always been a challenge. Noah had so few conversions that had he been a modern preacher, he might have been sent to a backwoods church. In a sense, even Jesus failed. For…

No aspect of Seventh-day Adventism has faced more scrutiny, misrepresentation, and criticism than the pre-Advent judgment. While other Adventist doctrines such as the seventh-day Sabbath and conditional immortality…

Like good Protestants, Adventists claim that they believe in justification by faith. They say that salvation is by grace alone and that works cannot save them. They believe that they are saved by Christ's substitutionary…

During an anticapital punishment campaign in France, postmodernist avatar Michel Foucalt wrote a letter to a major French newspaper in which he urged the abolition of not just the death penalty but of prisons themselves!…

An Adventist pastor receives a letter from a Christian political organization imploring him in the name of the Lord to attend with his flock an anti-abortion rally. Another impassioned letter, occasionally underlined in red, wants him to…

After drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty, as well as establishing the University of Virginia (not to mention serving two terms as president of the United States), Thomas Jefferson did what…

On May 29, 1919, Arthur Stanley Eddington pointed a telescope toward an eclipse and proved that gravity did, as Einstein had theorized, bend light. Unfortunately, nothing has been pointed in the heavens, in the earth,…

In the end," wrote Nietzsche, "one experiences only one's self." Nietzsche is right. When we grieve with the grieving, weep with the weeping, and suffer with the suffering we experience only our own grief, our own…

In 1927, Thornton Wilder wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a book about a bridge that broke and killed five Peruvians in July 1714. The story centers around a Francis can priest, Father Juniper, who convinced…

Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Faith #23: "There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle which the Lord set up and not man. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to believers the benefits of His…