Divisions Edward E. Heppenstall (8 May 1901 in England – 1994) was a leading Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

He earned a BA degree at Emmanuel Missionary College, majoring in English literature and also doing work in science and theology.

While teaching at La Sierra College he earned a PhD degree in the field of Religious Education from the University of Southern California in 1951.

While upholding the "pillar" doctrines of the Adventist pioneers, he moved forward on the understanding on such issues as the human nature of Christ and the atonement.

Beyond these issues, he stressed such teachings as the helplessness of human beings to do good of their own selves, justification by faith in relation to the entire plan of salvation, the impossibility of humanly achieving what some people think of as sinless perfection, the fact that Jesus was not just like other children of fallen Adam and the new covenant experience.

Andreasen ideas on this issue, agreed with that of Jones, Waggoner, and Prescott, but not with Ellen White's understanding of the exact content and disposition of the "sinful" nature of Christ.

Themes highlighted by Heppenstall would echo in other classrooms through such teachers as Hans LaRondelle and Raoul Dederen, and in the pulpit through Morris Venden, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Heppenstall was disappointed when he failed to dissuade Ford from his position at Glacier View, subsequently writing to him that he "was shocked at how far" he "had swung to the left Biblically and doctrinally".

Earlier Adventism tended to view the judgment in stern tones, with God keeping out those who hadn't been faithful.

The saint of the last days can also find confidence and security in facing the judgment when their names are confessed before the Father and the angelic host.