Commentary
on Raoul Dederan's Reflections on the Trinity Doctrine
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Dear Reader, Notice in the footnotes at the end of Raoul Dederan's article, that he
quotes numerous non-Biblical sources without even once quoting Ellen White,
who revealed to us in precise terms just who the Holy Spirit is. At first, I
thought Dederan was trying to cover the subject
from a Biblical only point of view, but that is not the case! [PDF]
To his credit, Dederan
beats all around the truth of the matter that the Holy Spirit is the former
life of Christ before the Incarnation, given as a regenerating gift to us, and
to satisfy the demands of the Testator Covenant that the Testator must
eternally die the eternal death that was ours, that we might live the eternal
life that was His. This is the beautiful and all necessary truth of the
matter according to the Everlasting Covenant testated
between the Testator Christ, and the Father, concerning the means of coping
with the sin problem. Dederan's "Beating's Around the Truth" Without
Seeing the Answer Here are Dederan's observations
which actually closely equate with Ellen White's statements that the Holy
Spirit is the Impartation of the Life of Christ, and is the very Soul of
Christ: "The Holy Spirit is thus described as the Lord
indwelling the mind and heart of each individual believer." Dederan, p. 4 (if you print out the Article). "The meaning of Christ's apparent equation of
the Spirit with the Son was taking on a deeper significance for them (early
Christians in context)." ibid.
p. 4. "....as well as to dwell in Christians as His
temple (1 Cor 31:16: 6:9." ibid., p. 5. Christ is the head and we are to be the body of
Christ. This is how Christ dwells in us, and this occurs by our partaking of
His Divine Nature, His Holy Ghost life that He laid aside for us at His Incarnation. "He (Christ) gives Himself." ibid. p. 5. Christ gives Himself via the Bread and Blood, His
Body (Word) and the Wine (Spirit--Blood). The life is in the blood and Christ
gave His life for us. At the Incarnation, it was the Life of the Son, not a
separate and distinct person in the form of the Holy Spirit,
that Christ gave to and for us. However, at that time, the former life
of Christ became the Holy Ghost, and operated as His successor: Ellen White's
Statements Which Define the Holy Spirit as the Former Life of Christ Prior to
the Incarnation: “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 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. "The Holy Spirit is Christ's representative,
but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof.
Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally.
Therefore it was for their interest that He should go to the Father, and send
the Spirit to be His successor on earth. No one could then have any advantage
because of his location or his personal contact with Christ. By the Spirit
the Saviour would be accessible to all. In this sense He would be nearer to
them than if he had not ascended on high. "The Holy Spirit is the breath of spiritual
life in the soul. The impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the
life of Christ. It imbues the receiver with the attributes of Christ.
Only those who are thus taught of God, those who possess the inward working
of the Spirit, and in whose life the Christ-life is manifested, are to stand
as representative men, to minister in behalf of the church." Desire of Ages, 805. "Christ gives them the breath of HIS OWN
SPIRIT, the life of HIS OWN LIFE. The HOLY SPIRIT puts forth its highest
energies to work in the heart and mind." Desire of Ages, 827. "The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency,
and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail."
E.G. White, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904, The Promise of the Spirit, pr. 3, "Christ declared that after His ascension, he
would send to his church, as His crowning GIFT, the comforter,
who 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." E.G. White, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904. Book
5, p. 42. Conclusions Raoul Dederan's article beats
all around the truth of the Godhead, but falls short of identifying the
following facts of the Godhead:
1Cr 12:13 For by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether
[we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Eph 2:18 For through him we
both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Eph 4:4 [There is] one body,
and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit:
and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
The Trinity doctrine is pure and erroneous
speculation as to who and what the Holy Spirit is. Ellen White defined
precisely who, what, when, where and why the Holy Spirit is. As is common
nowadays, the leaders such as Dederan, consulted and
credited all manner of sources other than the Holy Spirit gift to the church via Ellen G. White. This is returning to the
iniquities (errors) of our forefathers, Jeremiah 11:9-15. Please read this
all important practice, and pray for the Holy Spirit, that you will be able
to interpret verses 14 and 15 properly. There could be no greater apostasy
other than cursing the Holy Spirit, which is the pre-Incarnation life of
Christ, and the two are equal in their evil and misapprehension of God. Serious Implications The SDA Church is now (since 1931) embracing the
most heretical doctrine of Babylon, the Trinity Doctrine, Rome’s Central
Doctrine, as part of its stated Fundamentals
of Belief. Both the Church Manual and the 27 Fundamentals of Belief, teach this greatest of all heresies.
This is a return to the iniquities of our forefathers. This is a
"removal of God, 1SM 205." This is a fulfillment of every
specification of the Omega of Apostasy, stated in Selected Messages, Bk. 1, 204-5. This great apostasy has everything to do with the
Atonement and the Sanctuary Message. If Christ did not give us His former,
pre-Incarnation Holy Spirit Divine Nature life in the Sanctuary at the
Incarnation; if He is not the Holy Spirit, then no Atonement was made,
because the Atonement demanded by the Everlasting Covenant, was the eternal
death of the Testator and the Atonement on the Cross was of no avail without
the fulfillment of the Testator Covenant—eternal death of the Testator to His
former Holy Spirit Divine Nature ONLY, to then be combined with the
nature of humanity forever. The wages of sin is death, eternal death. Any
Atonement for sin would of necessity include eternal death to something and
in this case it was eternal death of the Son of God to His Holy Spirit Divine
Nature ONLY existence which was His essence and substance before His
Incarnation. After the Incarnation, He became the Son of God “in a new sense.” "(See EGW on John :1-3, 14). The Son of God in a NEW
SENSE.--Christ brought men and women power to overcome. He came to this world
in human form, to live a man amongst men. He assumed the liabilities of human
nature, to be proved and tried. In His humanity He was a partaker of the
divine nature. In His incarnation He gained in a NEW SENSE the title of the
Son of God. Said the angel to Mary, 'The power of the Highest shall
overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.' While the Son of a human being, He became
the Son of God IN A NEW SENSE. Thus He stood in our world--the Son of God,
yet allied by birth to the human race." E.G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 1114.
One of the greatest evidences that Christ laid aside His Son of
God life at His Incarnation, and that it remained in heaven while Christ was
on earth, is John 3:13. Jesus is speaking face to face with Nicodemus, yet He
says the Son of Man is in heaven: "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 3:13. Jesus was on earth when speaking the above words to John. But His
pre-Incarnation Son of Man was in heaven at the time. He and the Father
shared the one eternal spirit as their essence and substance. That is what
makes them one God. "The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency,
and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail."
E.G. White, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904, The Promise of the Spirit, pr. 3. Hbr 9:16 For where a testament [is], there must also
of necessity be the death of the testator. Hbr 9:17 For a testament [is] of force after men are
dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. The Atonement Gone!
The Sanctuary Gone! What you have just read is an account of precisely
how the Atonement and the Sanctuary were seen by Ellen White as GONE: Sanctuary Gone Atonement Gone -- "In a
representation which passed before me, I saw a certain work being done by
medical missionary workers. Our ministering brethren were looking on,
watching what was being done, but they did not seem to understand.
The foundation of our faith, which was established by so much prayer, such
earnest searching of the Scriptures, was being taken down, pillar by pillar.
Our faith was to have nothing to rest upon--the sanctuary was gone, the
atonement was gone." E.G. White, The
Upward Look, 152. "A new order of things has COME INTO the
ministry. There is a desire to pattern after other churches and simplicity
and humility are almost unknown. The young
ministers seek to be original, and to introduce new
ideas and new plans for labor. Some open revival meetings, and by this means
call large numbers into the church. But when the excitement is over, where
are the converted ones? Repentance and confession of sin are not seen. The sinner is entreated
to believe in Christ and accept Him, without regard to his past life of sin
and rebellion. The heart is not broken. There is no contrition of soul. The
supposed converted ones have not fallen upon the Rock, Christ Jesus."
E.G. White, Selected
Messages, Bk. 2, pp. 18, 19. God bless, Ron Beaulieu |