The following video is from David Hamstra's vespers talk at the Racine SDA Church on Friday, January 26, 2018. It covers the concept of "Trajectory Hermeneutics," a branch of biblical typological studies.
David Hamstra is a native of Minneapolis with a heart for Jesus. He, his wife Heidi, and their four kids are currently at the Andrews University Theological Seminary as he pursues his doctorate in Theological and Historical Studies.
[This is an abridged version of the vespers study/discussion held by Pastor Zachary Payne on Friday, February 2, 2018]
Seventh-day Adventist Anti-Trinitarianism has become an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in the last decade or two. This is the case around the world, in the NAD, and even here in Wisconsin. In this post I want to address three traditional complaints held by those who take issue with the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Belief of the Godhead or Trinity.
[Before you read: Start by committing to leave your pre-suppositions and biases behind. Those may come in useful later in the interpretive process, to fill in the gaps, but at first take scripture alone as your guide.]
The Text: Genesis 3:22-24 (ESV)
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.