text: “Neo-Medieval Adventism” sure gets my attention, yet Dr. Edward Zinke is no Medievalists.  Nor is he a Modernist, as were the founders of Seventh-day Adventism.  “The Great Controversy” is Modern through and through, in that it takes great pains to explain very literally over the ages how humanity works, and thus its destiny.
  
  This article seems almost desperate to paper over vanishing knowledge and failing prophesy by advocating a retrograde post-truth denominationalism for Seventh-day Adventists.  
  
  There is “a more excellent way,” compared with vanishing knowledge, failing prophesy, and tongues gone silent (1 Cor 13).  In the end as well as the beginning there is faith, hope and love.  It dawned clear the morning of October 23, 1844, after the ‘blasted’ failure of the previous night.  Clouds soon rolled in.
  
  Let’s restart with that morning, rather than forever living to explain as light the darkness of midnight October, 22, 1844.
  
  It sure seems nothing lost, nothing gained.