Abner born in Puerto Padre, Cuba, to Cuban parents, he is in the comprehensive exams stage of his doctoral studies in church history and systematic theology. His main interest are Rerformation and post-Reformation history as well as theology. He is also interested in the theological thinking of Jacobus Arminius and in the development of Adventist theology from the perspective of Hispanic and Latin American theologians. Abner is an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.