As we reported, Dr. Timothy Jennings’ ministry, “Come and Reason Ministry,” had a booth at GC, but was asked to leave midway through the session.
Jennings is a physician and prefers a healing/therapeutic model of the atonement over the legal/forensic model set out in the Bible (as a lawyer, I have no problem with the forensic approach). Jennings teaches a variant of the “moral influence” theory of the atonement, and does not believe in the substitutionary theory, nor in a final execution of judgment in which God kills those who have rejected the pardon freely offered in Jesus Christ.
Among Adventists, Eugene Prewitt has spent probably the most time studying Jennings’ errors and trying to correct and counteract them. We posted a piece by Eugene on this topic seven years ago. Here is a longer dissection of Jennings’ teachings.
Here is podcast in which Prewitt focuses in on his main disagreements with Jennings, starting with Jennings’ teaching that the investigative judgment is a judgement of God, not of men: