DOES THE APOSTLE PAUL TEACH THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT IN HEBREWS?
6a.GENERAL ORIENTATION. Nowhere in any of Paul’s writings does he explain a concept of truncated atonement, with Jesus doing one kind of intercession for eighteen centuries and then beginning a special qualitatively different work of judgment for a century and a half before the Second Coming. While Colin Standish and others have done grammatical and linguistic gymnastics to make Paul’s penning of Hebrews 9 fit the traditional Adventist understanding of that chapter, it must be admitted that Paul was not trying to overtly teach the doctrine. Even Standish would have to admit that Hebrews 9 is only referring to the traditional Adventist understanding in passing. If Paul was trying to teach the traditional Adventist understanding in Hebrews 9, he is one of the world’s worst, not greatest, teachers. If Paul understood the Adventist doctrine, then he would have had to understand its paramount importance, for that is part of the Adventist understanding. If he understood its paramount importa
