The Trinity Doctrine as it Relates to the Omega of Apostasy, The Everlasting Covenant and Salvation in the Kingdom of God

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This is a view of the Trinity doctrine as it relates to The Omega of Apostasy and The Everlasting Covenant (Salvation) and the Kingdom of God, which I received in vision in part during the early hours of the morning, on April 27, 2005, and the remaining portion this early a.m. of April 28, 2005. Everything concerning truth is contingent and this vision demonstrates just how truly contingent are things pertaining to the Godhead. My vision was a confirmation of the relationship and contingency of the following parts of the gospel which I was shown heretofore.

Concerning the trinity doctrine, there is nothing about the SDA position on the trinity that makes it easy for them to defend. They, like mainstream Christianity, believe that the Holy Spirit is a different person than the pre-Incarnation life of Christ. Thus, they deny the great sacrifice that the Son of Man made at the Incarnation in giving up that divine nature so that we could partake of it, and that life was given up forever. This has everything to do with the person and personality of God which is what Ellen White said would be involved in the Omega of Apostasy, Selected Messages, Book 1, 193 and on, and specifically, p. 202, as follows:

"It introduces that which is nought but speculation in regard to the personality of God and where His presence is. No one on this earth has a right to speculate on this question. The more fanciful theories are discussed, the less men will know of God and of the truth that sanctifies the soul."

Observations:

  • If the person and personality of the Son of Man (God) was laid aside for us as the highest good regenerating gift, and this is dismissed by the trinity doctrine, that is speculation in regard to the personality of God on the part of Trinitarians.
  • Thus, the less men will know of God and of the truth that sanctifies the soul, because it is the laid aside gift of the Holy Spirit, the life and soul of the Son of Man, Christ, that sanctifies the soul. Those who do not recognize that Christ laid aside his pre-Incarnation life and soul for us, in the form of the Holy Spirit, as a bequeathed gift for our regeneration, do not realize what a great sacrifice was made for our sanctification. Satan would have it thus.
  • The PRESENCE of the person and personality of God is sent to man AT THE TIME OF NEW BIRTH--THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE--JUSTIFICATION, PARDON, as a POWER regenerating gift via the Holy Spirit. A teaching that justification is ONLY a forensic, legal act, based on belief (faith) ONLY, denies that the Holy Spirit, the person and personality of Christ descends upon the born again Christian AT THE TIME OF CONVERSION, AT THE TIME OF JUSTIFICATION, and lives in the heart and mind of men where the Law is planted under the New Covenant. To say that works of obedience are not part of the justification process, is to say that the Holy Spirit does not accompany justification by indwelling the convert, and does not attend the faith and love that must accompany any belief and repentance that is genuine. This is part and parcel to the Omega of Apostasy, and this apostasy is taught by the New Movement SDA church and its leaders.
  • Why do I say that the personality and presence of the Holy Spirit involves God and Christ and that all three, the Holy Spirit, Christ, and the Father come to us at the New Birth experience? Because all three share the same SPIRIT. God is Spirit and there is ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT, according to scripture. The Bible says that all three come to us at conversion--justification. Notice:

    Jhn 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

    Ellen White said that God the Father was with Christ on Mt. Sinai giving the law to Moses. The law is a transcript of God's character, and Christ is a duplicate of that character coming from the bosom of the Father. They are Spirit and there is ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. Christ offered up His life through that ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT:

    Hbr 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

    So the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Father come to us at conversion and plant the law in the heart. This ALL occurs at justification, the born again experience. This is why obedience must accompany justification, because there is no excuse for not obeying, having died to self and receiving Christ into the heart and mind. Any denial that this does not occur and that justification is a strictly legal (forensic) act, exemptive of all this scenario, is a blasphemies of blasphemies--the Omega of Apostasy, denying the presence, personality and very character of God living within. Notice:

    Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

    Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  • The law is a transcript of God's character (personality). So if the law is nailed to the cross, and Christians reject the law in any wise, as when saying that being born again, saved, justified is a forensic (legal) act not exclusive of the empowering grace and very live of the Godhead indwelling and living out the law within us, they reject the presence and personality of God, the Holy Spirit, and His Son Jesus, and their character, for they are of ONE SPIRIT--ONE ESSENCE, ONE SUBSTANCE.
  • If one rejects the IMPARTED faith and love grace gifts, they can never be justified, and if they receive the faith and love free gifts of grace, they also receive the tried in the fire POWER for obedience, Rom. 1:5 and the Laodicean Message. The great error of eternal consequence is that of saying that we are saved by grace as pardon ALONE, as a forensic (legal) act ONLY, without first buying faith and love tried in the fire of obedience. That is Laodicea's problem. She thinks she believes and is saved, rich, increased in goods, in need of nothing, but she was buried alive without faith and love tried in the fire POWER.
  • To teach that we are saved by grace and not works of the law, is to reject the very means by which man is regenerated and safe to save--namely the attending power of the Holy Spirit and His free gifts of faith, love and power for obedience at the time of conversion or new birth. Thus, mainstream Christianity, and now professing Seventh-day Adventism, teach that we are saved (justified) by a forensic (legal) ONLY act, without the grace gifts of the Holy Spirit (gold tried in the fire--love and faith) which empowers to obedience and regeneration AT THE SAME TIME JUSTIFICATION OCCURS. Omega Apostasy churches teach that one is saved by a forensic (legal) faith ONLY. Faith does not come to us as faith ONLY. We are counseled to buy gold tried in the fire which is faith and love that works, obeys. Karl Wagner had defined gold tried in the fire as ONLY FAITH on three different occasions, even after I pointed out to him that Ellen White says it is faith and love. This is what FAITH ALONE advocates have to do to make justification as strictly forensic (legal) act. This strictly legal act omits true faith that works by love and obeys.
  • The false teaching of ONLY BELIEVE and be saved, justified, thus denies the presence of the person and personality of God and Christ's Holy Spirit at the time of conversion, which presence brings the free gift of Christ's Divine Nature and Mind living in the heart of the Christian. Recall that it is the presence and personality of God, Christ, that is involved in the Omega of Apostasy. The notion that one can be save by only believing without empowered love that works obedience to the Law of God, beginning at the time of the new birth experience, is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God especially hates, Rev. 2 and 3.
  • Christ says that one who is born again does not sin, and that one who loves Him keeps His commandments. This is proof of the born again experience or being justified in His sight. When we receive true faith in and love for Christ, we at the same time receive power for obedience and apostleship. Rom. 1:5. The first act of repentance and obedience is to receive these free gifts of faith and love that work the works of the fiery law, proving that our experience is genuine. God gives us a personal test whereby we may know that we love Him and have genuine faith in Him. That test is 1 John 5: 2, 3.
  • There is not a legal ONLY justification which accrues before the born again experience of receiving the love and faith of Christ. How can we KNOW this FOR SURE? Scripture invites us to come and reason together. So let's accept the invitation and reason from simple cause to effect thusly:
  • Faith and love must be IMPARTED to individuals before they can believe.
  • The same faith and love must be IMPARTED to individuals before they can repent. Faith or belief that does not work repentance is dead faith.
  • True repentance is such a sorrow for sin that one will cease that sin. Thus, true repentance must be preceded by faith and love that works from a motive of faith and love.
  • The free gift of grace for obedience, Rom. 1:5, accompanies the free gift of pardon--justification. It is a lie to teach that one is saved (justified) by belief (faith) ONLY, without having accepted the free gift of God's love at the same time one accepts the free gift of pardon. Being saved is a born again experience that must be attended by the free grace gifts of gold tried in the fire--faith, love and obedience to God's fiery law, which is proof of the faith and love born again experience. True repentance and accompanying obedience born of the motives of faith in and love for God, is THEN IMPUTED unto us for righteousness as it was for the father of the faithful, Abraham.
  • Justification is the born again experience. John the Baptist instructed his followers to repent and be baptized. Such an experience of dying to self, repenting and being baptized, cannot accrue without gold tried in the fire, faith and love. That is why Laodicea is counseled to buy gold tried in the fire. The fire is obedience to the fiery law of God.
  • Deu 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.
  • James of Scripture says that we are saved by faith and works. Thus, the law, the Everlasting Covenant, the transcript of God's character; the presence and personality of God, His Son, His Holy Spirit, are all intrinsically tied together.
  • Paul of Scripture says the same thing James says:
  • Professing Christianity is rejecting all of the above mainly because they misunderstand the sacrifice made for their salvation and that the provision for regeneration is just as essential as Christ's sacrifice on the cross. This is the Omega of Apostasy! This is the greatest ploy of Babylon, the Synagogue
    of Satan. The New Jerusalem and its Temple Sanctuary is God's City (Kingdom). Babylon and its Synagogue (Sanctuary), is Satan's counterfeit of the Kingdom of God.

"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin. In the gift of the Spirit [HIS LIFE--THE SOUL OF HIS LIFE], Jesus gave to man the highest good that heaven could bestow....

The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....

It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904,
vol. 5, p. 42.

"Cumbered with humanity Christ could not be in every place personally, therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father and send the Holy Spirit [His former life and soul] to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit."
E.G. White, (Manuscript Releases Volume 14 (No's 1081-1135) MR No.1084.

When Paul says that we are saved by grace alone, and that not of works, it is grace alone, we must take great care in deciphering precisely all that grace implies. When this is done, one can only conclude that Paul meant works of one's own (not motivated by faith in and love for Christ) and that are not grace empowered. As some correctly state, a proof-text without a context is a pretext. Then they use the following "proof-text" without proper context:

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

The key words in Eph 2:8 are NOT OF YOURSELVES. Paul was speaking to Jews who believed that commandment-keeping of themselves would save them. But mainstream Christianity, and now professing SDA's, overlook those qualifying words:

So what is the full context of this grace whereby we are saved? What are ALL of its provisions? Paul says that it involves the law and not ONLY the law but ALSO faith. In saying this, Paul agrees with James that we are saved by faith and works. Eureka! Scripture does not contradict itself. It has been wrongly interpreted!

Rom 4:16 Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Paul was teaching it is not ONLY which is of the law (not works of law-keeping ONLY), but the faith of Abraham ALSO. Here Paul agrees with James:

Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works (ONLY) he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.

Abraham was not justified by works ONLY. He was justified by faith ALSO, and empowered works which proved his faith. Jam 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Jam 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out another way?

Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the WORKS of the law (ONLY),but(ALSO) by the FAITH of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law (ONLY--ESPECIALLY ONE'S OWN WORKS NOT EMPOWERED BY THE GRACE OF CHRIST) shall no flesh be justified.

Paul wrote Galatians. Does he contradict the above verse by the following one?:

Hbr 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

The answer is no! He contradicts himself only to those who wrongly interpret Gal. 2:16, and that includes Desmond Ford, Karl Wagner, New Movement Adventism's leaders, much of its laity, and all of fallen, mainstream, professing Christianity.

Jam 2:24 Ye see then how that by (GRACE EMPOWERED) works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Faith by and of itself is no virtue because faith without works is dead faith. Satan has faith--he and his servants believe.

To the degree the 1888 message differs from the above texts in their context, that message is false. But it does not so differ. It is wrongly interpreted by half-truth gracers.

If Ellen White or anyone else makes statement(s) which seem to imply any contradiction of the above context of faith, works and grace, then we must abide by Scripture. However, Ellen White's statements, if interpreted so that none contradict, fully support the above texts of Scripture and their correct context, and those Scriptures fully support Ellen White in her following stand on these issues. Notice:

"We are saved through the merit of the blood of Christ, but Christ's righteousness does not cover the sin of transgressing God's law, without repentance. We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in Christ and seek to obey the divine law. This is the reason that Christ came to this world, that he might bring his righteousness to man, that man might lay hold of his strength, and make peace with God. God accepts the efforts of man to keep the law, because Christ imputes his righteousness to him. We could not keep the law in our own strength.{ST, September 23, 1889 par. 7).

Did Ellen White Change Her Mind About Law Keeping in 1888?

Karl Wagner, who often preaches in his and other churches, and is a Bible teacher, says that the message of 1888, was one which advocated a strictly forensic IMPUTED righteousness by faith. No impartation of faith and love and attending power before justification. Ellen White supported the message of 1888, so let's see what she was teaching in 1889, one year later:

Notice the date of her statement above--September 23, 1889. Does that statement sound like the 1888 message included IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE? If "We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in Christ and seek to obey the divine law," then it is understood that if we do not do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, He will not impute unto us his righteousness. Ellen White says that because we believe (have faith) in Christ and seek to obey the divine law, we are THEN justified by his imputed righteousness. That is precisely the way it worked with Abraham, the father of the faithful. He believed God and because of his faith, he sought to obey God in offering up his only son Isaac. This was imputed unto him for righteousness. Notice:

Jam 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

So Ellen White's statement is not heretical. She is following James 2:23 to the word. If Abraham had refused to believe and obey God, would righteousness have been imputed unto him? Would he have been called the friend of God and the father of the faithful? Not on your eternal life! So what did Abraham do? He exercised faith and obeyed God's command to him. Then he was justified by faith and the work of obedience. As Paul says in Hebrews, God is the author of salvation unto all who obey Him. Abraham obeyed and his obedience was a condition to his justification or having righteousness imputed unto him.

So Karl Wagner's conclusion that the 1888 message of Righteousness by Faith was one of the IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST ONLY, is false. Abraham's faith was first IMPARTED, AND HIS OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S COMMAND WAS REQUISITE TO CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS BEING IMPUTED UNTO HIM. So as Paul and James both taught, we are saved (justified) by faith and works. Paul's statement that we are justified without works of the law is misinterpreted. I repeat for important emphasis:

Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law (ONLY), but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law (ONLY): for by the works of the law (ONLY--ESPECIALLY ONE'S OWN WORKS NOT EMPOWERED BY THE GRACE OF CHRIST) shall no flesh be justified.

This is the only way Paul, in Gal. 2:16, can be interpreted without being made to contradict himself! So Paul, James and Ellen White all concur! Surprise! Surprise! But not to those who rightly interpret the Word of God.

"No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known duty....As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and co-operates with God, he works out in the life what God WORKS IN by the Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that crucified the Lord of life and glory....It is by continual surrender of the will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is retained." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 396-397.

Did Ellen White grow beyond her above statement? If she did, she "grew" above and beyond the Scripture's and their context that I provide above. But it is the strong belief of this writer that she never so "grew!"

Karl Wagner, Desmond Ford, and LeRoy Froom have done as many New Movement SDA's have done. They have taken a few E.G. White statements out of context with all she has said on faith and works, as well as the human nature of Christ, and perverted them to mean what their New Theology apostasy teaches. Karl does that within the confines of this study.

Also, Karl speaks of the New Movement as a favorable thing, when Ellen White said that it would remove God. This is how the New Movement advocates work to deceive.

Can Karl dispute these Scriptural and Spirit of Prophecy facts? Nay! He will just resort to the ad hominen style of attack by calling it all "a train wreck," his favorite expression against this truth. But his theology is the greatest lie since Satan's lie to Eve.

Cheap grace and the doctrine of the Nicolaitans teaches that you can be justified and saved in sin without any effort FIRST to obey God, and that commandment-keeping has no relation to being justified or being saved which is what justified means. At the very LEAST, true repentance is the first EFFORT on our part to obey God, and be justified. Repentance that is not predicated upon IMPARTED faith and love is worth nothing. Faith and love will result in genuine repentance that makes great effort to turn away from sin. Then, and then only, those efforts of obedience are covered by the righteousness of Christ. Christ's robe of righteousness is not a cloak for sin. This is why God says if ye love me ye will keep my commandments. Is obedience the fruit of being justified? Nay! Justification is the result of obeying God--the proof of true faith and love which must be IMPARTED first to the believer before repentance and justification can accrue.

I just received the following e-mail from Karl Wagner. He finally divulged his previously hidden agenda. He does believe Ellen White's following statements to be UNBIBLICAL. First my e-mail to Karl:

--- In SDAIssues@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Beaulieu" <rsbeauli@t...>
wrote:
> Karl,
>
> I have always at least been courteous enough to respond to any
questions you have asked me. Will you kindly return the favor
regarding my questions in the original post below regarding Ellen
White's contention that:
>
> "We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and
then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in
Christ and seek to obey the divine law."
>
> And:
> "No one can believe with the heart unto
> righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing
> the practice of those things..."
>
> I have abbreviated her statements to the specific items I would
like your response on.
>

Note by Ron: The full statements which are abbriviated in my above posting to Karl, but which I had given to him many times in full, are as follows:

"We are saved through the merit of the blood of Christ, but Christ's righteousness does not cover the sin of transgressing God's law, without repentance. We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in Christ and seek to obey the divine law. This is the reason that Christ came to this world, that he might bring his righteousness to man, that man might lay hold of his strength, and make peace with God. God accepts the efforts of man to keep the law, because Christ imputes his righteousness to him. We could not keep the law in our own strength. {ST, September 23, 1889 par. 7}

"No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known duty....As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and co-operates with God, he works out in the life what God WORKS IN by the Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that crucified the Lord of life and glory....It is by continual surrender of the will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is retained." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 396-397.

Karl's response:

Ron,
Your quote from Ellen White is a proof-text, as it stands alone
it gives the impression that we do all we can first and then God acts to save us.
This is not biblical. Also, for one to acually do the law would mean
righteousness would have been imparted. If actual righteousness is present, to impute it
would be ludicris. (ludicrous)
The only "all in our power" that we could do is to give our yes to
God and reach out with our hand of faith and lay hold of His
promise. Once we do that, He imputes to us His righteousenss whereby
we are justified and then He is able to impart to us His Holy Spirit
for power to obey.
Karl

Ron's response:

With laying hold of faith which is IMPARTED to all men, we must buy the gold tried in the fire, faith and love tried in the crucible of obedience to His fiery law. If God can impart the faith required for justification, He can also impart the love which works repentance and obedience at the same time, and He does, because the born again Christian is described by God as not sinning, and the born again experience is justification and sanctification accruing at the same time though sanctification growth is progressive.

Ellen White does say that justification is IMPUTED, but other of her statements must be considered as to their qualification as to WHEN AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IMPUTED UNTO US. The context of Ellen White's statements on imputed justification which Karl submitted to this forum the other day, must be interpreted as to WHEN she says the IMPUTATION occurs and under what conditions:

"We are saved through the merit of the blood of Christ, but Christ's righteousness does not cover the sin of transgressing God's law, without repentance. We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in Christ and seek to obey the divine law. This is the reason that Christ came to this world, that he might bring his righteousness to man, that man might lay hold of his strength, and make peace with God. God accepts the efforts of man to keep the law, because Christ imputes his righteousness to him. We could not keep the law in our own strength. {ST, September 23, 1889 par. 7}

Oh yes friend, He will IMPUTE unto us His righteousness, just as He did to the father of the faithful, Abraham, after he obeyed God. Then, his obedience was imputed unto him for righteousness, because it was based on faith in and love for God. It is God who chooses to IMPUTE such righteousness unto us, not Ron Beaulieu!

Justification "No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known duty....As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and co-operates with God, he works out in the life what God WORKS IN by the Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that crucified the Lord of life and glory....It is by continual surrender of the will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is retained." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 396-397.

Ron

 

Ron B.

P.S. to Readers of this study,

Ellen White's two statements above are fully Biblical in any context! If you have any second thoughts about the above issues, please stop, pray, and ask yourself the following questions which Desmond Ford, Karl Wagner and disciples, refuse to answer:

  • Is faith IMPARTED?
  • Is faith a necessary requisite for justification?
  • If faith is IMPARTED and is indeed a requisite for justification, how is justification a legal, forensic ONLY, IMPUTED ONLY, act by God?
  • Must one buy gold tried in the fire (faith and love) in order to be justified?
  • Does God count our obedience as righteousness and IMPUTE such to us as righteousness?
  • Does God count our obedience as proof that we love Him?
  • Can we be justified without loving God?
  • Can we be born again (justified) without possessing IMPARTED faith and love that works repentance?
  • Is repentance true sorrow for sin a turning away from sin?
  • What does James mean when he says that we are justified by faith and works.
  • Does James contradict Paul and vice versa?
  • Does Ellen White contradict scripture?
  • Is Ellen White also a heretic for making the following statement which you accuse me of being a heretic for quoting?:

"We are saved through the merit of the blood of Christ, but Christ's righteousness does not cover the sin of transgressing God's law, without repentance. We must do all in our power to keep the commandments of God, and then he will impute unto us his righteousness, because we believe in Christ and seek to obey the divine law. This is the reason that Christ came to this world, that he might bring his righteousness to man, that man might lay hold of his strength, and make peace with God. God accepts the efforts of man to keep the law, because Christ imputes his righteousness to him. We could not keep the law in our own strength. {ST, September 23, 1889 par. 7}

  • Does the above statement contradict Scripture?
  • Is Ellen White a heretic for contradicting Scripture in the above statement?
  • Are you man/woman enough, integral enough, and honest enough to give a straight answer to these sixteen questions? Is Desmond Ford? Is A. Leroy Moore?
  • Does Paul qualify Titus 3:5 with the words: "Not by works of righteousness WHICH WE HAVE DONE..."?
  • Was Paul speaking to Jews who believed in works they did versus works done from a motive of love and faith in Christ, and by His empowering grace for obedience?
  • Does Paul's view in Romans 4:6, contradict his obvious, qualified view in Titus 3:5?
  • Karl said: And notice this text. These works are not human generated works, but Spirit empowered works, " Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" [Titus 3:5].

Karl overlooks Paul's qualifying words: "NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE DONE..." Does Paul contradict both Rom. 4:6 and Titus 3:5, by saying in Rom 4:16 "Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," by saying in this verse that the promise is ALSO of the law as well as ALSO of the faith of Abraham? Does this not include faith and works by grace?

  • Are works which "WE HAVE DONE," human generated works or are they Spirit empowered works performed from a motive of faith in and love for Christ, and empowered by His Holy Spirit living in the heart where His Law is planted according to the New Covenant of grace?
  • Does David contradict Paul, or does David mean to say that God imputes righteousness without our own works? "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, [Rom 4:6];
  • Does the method of "Higher Criticism" ever conclude that Scripture contradicts itself? Does it bring together every pertinent text on an issue and interpret so that non contradict?
  • Since faith without works is dead, is dead faith, dead belief, all that is required for justification?