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Item A Demographic Analysis of the Tithing Behaviour of 2562 Seventh-day Adventists in Northern New South Wales, Australia(2002-01-01) Currow, Stephen; McIver, Robert K.An analysis of tithe receipted in Seventh-day Adventist Churches in Northern New South Wales compared to census data reveals that there is a decided difference between the tithing behaviour of the under-fifty-year olds and those over fifty. It is suggested that this explains why there has been an approximately 40% drop in NNSW tithe compared to incomes over the last 25 years.
Item A Provocative Study of Tithing Trends in Australia(2001-08-01) Currow, Stephen; McIver, Robert K.This paper discusses tithing trends and their implications
Item A Significant Shift in the Use of Resources in the 1960s and 1980s in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and the United States(2018-01-01) McIver, Robert K.I examine possible reasons for a dramatic stall in the growth rate of the number of ordained Seventh-day Adventist Church pastors in the 1960s and 1980s, despite growth in church membership and tithing.
Main outcomes: the number of pastors, teachers, churches, members, and other quantitative data from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
I find that (1) growing disparity between potential and actual tithing (resulting in lower overall budget resources), and (2) internal church upheaval provide a ready explanation for the phenomena in the 1980s.
It also appears likely that some financial resources were moved from supporting ordained pastors to school teachers in Adventist schools. If this is the case, then the current age- and education-demographics of churches with attached denominational schools demonstrate that this has proved to be a very wise investment in the future of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Item Baptism into Christ and/or into the Church?(2002-05-18) McIver, Robert K.This article considers and asks the reader to think about who they are when they are in Christ? Part of a community - or an individual believer only? It examines the meaning that was attached to baptism when Christianity first adopted the practice, and then at some key biblical passages which show that in the New Testament baptism is baptism into Christ, it is the doorway into the Christian community, and that the new member receives gifts of the Spirit at baptism which are to be exercised within the community.
Item Beginning New Testament Greek Made Easier: Fifth Edition(2019-07-12) McIver, Robert K.This book provides a step by step learning process for those wishing to learn to translate the Greek New Testament. Beginners are not overloaded with information at the start, but the book does not quit before providing the grammar and syntax needed to translate from the Gospel of John.
Item Beginning New Testament Greek Made Easier: Sixth Edition(2020-08-20) McIver, Robert K.This book provides a step by step learning process for those wishing to learn to translate the Greek New Testament. Beginners are not overloaded with information at the start, but the book does not quit before providing the grammar and syntax needed to translate from the Gospel of John.
Item Belief in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among Teachers in Adventist Schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands(2020-12-27) McIver, Robert K.This chapter reports the responses of teachers employed in Seventh-day Adventist schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands to questions relating to their commitment to the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The chapter concludes by saying, “That individuals who live in different parts of Australia and the Solomon Islands, who have different life circumstances, different levels of education, and different levels of responsibility, can agree so widely on a set of beliefs is truly remarkable. Humans will always have differences of opinion, and Australians in particular are well known for their independence. Yet of the 22 Fundamental Beliefs tested in the survey, no fewer than 18 are believed by more than 85% of the respondents (more than 90% assented to eleven of them). It is worth noting that in a couple of these instances, the “bar” for measuring agreement with that belief was set high—prayer was to be daily (Fundamental 11), and the proportion of income given as tithe was set at greater than or equal to 10% of income. On the whole, then, it is plain that teachers in Adventist schools in the SPD believe in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.”
Item Beliefs About the Creation of the World Among Teachers in Adventist Schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands(2020-12-27) McIver, Robert K.; de Berg, Kevin C.This chapter reports on what teachers in Seventh-day Adventist Schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands believe about creation.
It begins by considering the information that the teachers will have received from church sources. Creation and creationism have been of keen interest to Seventh-day Adventists. The most prominent exponent of creationism among Seventh-day Adventists, George McCready Price (1870—1963), was influential both within and without the Adventist Church. He attacked the concept of the geological column, and attributed the phenomena found in the various strata to the Flood.
In 1958 the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church established the Geoscience Research Institute. The chapter reports on its activities, and notes the dates, academic degree and specialization of the directors of the institute.
The chapter goes on to outline the contributions made by Leonard Brand, and then outlines the reasons why the current statement on creation is found in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The last part of the chapter reports on the responses of the teachers to five survey questions relating to the doctrine of creation. It was noted that there was near unanimity from both teachers in the Australian Union Conference (AUC) and the Solomon Islands Mission (SIM) that God created the world. It also noted that there were statistically significant differences between the AUC and SIM teachers in their understanding of the age of the earth. The chapter considers possible reasons for the similarities and differences between the responses of the AUC and SIM teachers.
Item Beyond the Da Vinci Code : Exposing Myths and Lies About Jesus and Christianity(2006-01-01) McIver, Robert K.Written in response to the blockbuster movie/best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, this book answers questions like: Did Emperor Constantine create the New Testament? Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? And was Constantine a lifelong pagan?
Item Book chapter: Christian Responses to Extra-biblical Data on the Flood from 1500 to 1860 + publication of second edition of book: The Biblical Flood(2020-01-01) McIver, Robert K.; Rogers, LyndenItem Book: Verbatim Parallels Synopticon of the Gospels with Statistics(2018-01-01) McIver, Robert K.Item Bryan W. Ball: Academic, Administrator, Apologist(2015-01-01) McIver, Robert K.Bryan William Ball was born in the Devonshire village of Bere Ferrers in July 1935. At various times in his working life, Bryan filled the role of a pastor-evangelist; a historian of English Puritanism whose works have been published by prestigious publishing houses; an administrator of two tertiary educational institutions, and a church administrator at a very senior level. Each of these roles are challenging for various reasons, and this chapter outlines some of the significant contributions that Bryan has made in all of them.
Item Capernaum—Matthew 4:13.(2022-01-01) McIver, Robert K.Robert K. McIver provides a summary of the importance of Capernaum in the Gospel narratives about Jesus, and reviews what is know about it from archaeological remains.
Item Christology as a Clue to the Concerns of the Johannine Community(1984-06-01) McIver, Robert K.Problem: The historical background of the Fourth Gospel.
Method: Christology was both a major issue leading to a schism in the Johannine community at the time of the Epistles and a major concern of the Gospel. If the Christology of the Gospel reflects this controversy, then this controversy would form part of its historical context.
Procedure: The Johannine Epistles and Gospel are investigated independently to prevent bias.
Results: The secessionists confronted by the Epistles espouse a form of docetic Christology, while the Christology of the Gospel is formulated apparently unaware of any problem with doceticism.
Conclusions: While the emphasis in the Gospel on unity and love could easily be interpreted against a background of community schism, the different protagonists portrayed in the Gospel, and that its Christology seems to be unaware of a docetic problem, make it unlikely that the historical backgrounds are identical.
Item Collective Memory and the Reliability of the Gospel Traditions(2019-10-01) McIver, Robert K.This chapter addresses the question of how the collective memories of Jesus and his teachings were formed, and then preserved for the 30 to 60 years between the events and their writing down in the Gospels. It considers the reliability of eyewitness memories, and how these would have been formed into the collective memories of the first followers of Jesus. Life tables are used as evidence that a significant number of eyewitness to the earthly life of Jesus would still be alive when the Gospel were written. It further provides evidence that eyewitnesses can reliably remember details of events over periods of 30 to 60 years.
Item Comparisons Between Adventist Teachers in Australia, the Solomon Islands, North America, and Europe(2020-12-27) McIver, Robert K.This chapter reports on comparisons between responses from teachers in Adventist schools in Australia, the Solomon Islands, North America, and the Trans European Division of Seventh-day Adventists that have emerged during data collected as part of a world-wide research project examining the Perceptions held by employees of Seventh-day Adventist institutions of their relationship to the mission of the Church. The data considered includes the age and educational profile of teachers in the three regions, and a report on selected responses to questions relating to their practices of personal spirituality and beliefs. The chapter considers possible explanations for some of the interesting differences in practices and beliefs that emerged among the groups of teachers, despite their clear common positive commitment to the key beliefs and practices of the Adventist Church.
Item "Cosmology" as a Key to the Thought-World of Philo of Alexandria(1988-01-01) McIver, Robert K.Item Educating for Service and Mission: Teachers in Seventh-day Adventist Schools in North America and Their Perceptions of Mission(2019-12-01) Hattingh, Sherene J.; McIver, Robert K.This book is a report and analysis of the findings from a survey conducted among attendees at the 2018 Teachers’ Convention of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It reports on their demographics, what teachers in Adventist Schools think the mission of their school should be, their spirituality, their beliefs about salvation, Scripture, Eschatology, and their commitment to the Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Item Education as Preparation for Eternity: Teachers in Seventh-day Adventist Schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands, and Their Perceptions of Mission(2020-12-01) Kilgour, Peter W.; Hattingh, Sherry J.; McIver, Robert K.Questions addressed in this book include:
What do teachers in Seventh-day Adventist schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands believe is their mission?
What was the original motivation that led to the setting up of Adventist schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands?
What aspirations do the current administrators have for Adventist schools?
What congruence exists between the original motivation, the current aspirations of administrators, and the beliefs of teachers about their mission?
Item Goats, Calves, Bulls, and Heifer’s Ashes: Heb 9:12–13 and the Day of Atonement in the Epistle to the Hebrews(2016-03-01) McIver, Robert K.This chapter explores in detail one of the major interpretive decisions facing an interpreter of Hebrews 9 and 10—the place of the Day of Atonement in the author's argument. In particular it examines the linking of τράγων (male goats) and μόσχων (calves, young bulls, oxen) in Heb 9:12, and τράγων καὶ ταύρων (bulls) together with the σποδὸς δαμάλεως (ashes of a heifer, young cow) in Heb 9:13.
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