Professor Taylor,

You insist on using the title and thesis, "Neo-Medieval Adventism."   This is indefensible.  The Seventh-day Adventist church is organized like a modern business corporation, not like the Roman Catholic church.  We have constitutions, by-laws, constituencies, business meetings, executive committees.  You are behaving like, and being treated like, a dissident shareholder.  Seventh-day Adventists don't have heretics, and you are no Luther.  Everybody knew what Luther was talking about, agree or disagree.   You might as well be calling Dr. Zinke and Elder Wilson Neanderthals.  You've written an incoherent essay, arguing vague similes are profound insights.

You write: "[Faith should be used as evidence? Whose faith and evidence about what?]"

This is the heart of Christianity: Medieval and otherwise.  Faith in Jesus, in His divinity, in His resurrection, in His Kingship, in His atonement and His soon return.  "Faith is the evidence of things not seen"