The Clear Word Bible is a paraphrase, not a translation. A paraphrase is a loose adaptation of the biblical text designed to help clarify what the original says. The proper intention of any biblical paraphrase should be to remain faithful to the text and to expand...
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Seventh Day Adventism
The Clear Word Bible and Miscellaneous Verses
The Clear Word Bible is a Seventh-day Adventist paraphrase of the Bible that alters numerous verses to bring them in line with SDA doctrine. Here is a list of different verses that are not under any particular theme. New American Standard Bible Clear Word Bible...
The Clear Word Bible, Jesus, and Michael the Archangel
The Seventh-day Adventists teach that Michael the Archangel and Jesus are one and the same. However, some people mistakenly think that the SDA Church is teaching that Jesus is a created angel and therefore not truly divine. But that is not the Seventh-day Adventist...
The Clear Word Bible and the Soul
The Seventh-day Adventist Church denies that the soul continues to exist after death. They say the soul is not separate from the body, so when the body dies the soul ceases to exist and will be revived later in a future judgment where the righteous have eternal life,...
The Clear Word Bible and Salvation
The Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches salvation by grace through faith, apart from works. This is very good. However, it also promotes a man-centered, decisional-salvation. It maintains a heavy emphasis upon the sinner's free will, and this human-centered theology...
The Clear Word Bible and the Sabbath
The Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches that the Saturday Sabbath is to be kept today and that it is the proper day in which Church services are to be held, not on Sunday. This significantly impacted how they worded the Clear Word Bible, an SDA paraphrase. New...
Introduction to the Seventh-day Adventist Clear Word Bible
The Clear Word Bible, published by Review and Herald® Publishing Association and authored by Jack J. Blanco, is a paraphrase, not a translation. For the purposes of its examination, I have used the 2003 edition that I purchased in the Pacific Press Publishing...
The Clear Word Bible and Annihilationism
The Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches that when a person dies that he ceases to exist but that he is resurrected with his body. The righteous live forever and the wicked are judged and destroyed. In other words, the wicked cease to exist. Their position is based...
What does Seventh-day Adventism teach?
Some of the key doctrines and teachings of Seventh-day Adventism. Is it Christian? Does it teach aberrant doctrines? Affirmations The Bible is inspired and the word of God. Trinitarian: The Father, Son, Holy Spirit are all one God in three persons. Jesus is God and...
Does the Bible allow Christians to worship on Sunday?
In the Old Testament, God stated, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter your male or your...