For the Sake of the Gospel: Throw out the bathwater, but keep the BabyNearly thirty years ago the Seventh day Adventist church defrocked Dr. Desmond Ford for publicly challenging the denomination's prophetic views. At the same time and on the same basis, many other ministers also lost their positions. Ford had been a top Adventist scholar, who had taught ministerial students and future teachers in Adventism's tertiary institutions in Australia and the U. S. What led him to speak out, and is the debate still current