Serious Errors of Vance Ferrell and Robert Sessler and Followers on the Godhead

“Men could learn of the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed through the earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men. So it was in Christ's teaching: the unknown was illustrated by the known; divine truths by earthly things with which the people were most familiar." {COL 17.1}

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An acquaintance of mine who follows the teaching of Robert Sessler and followers on the Godhead opined:

The Word of God, like the character of its divine Author, presents mysteries that can never be fully comprehended by finite beings. The entrance of sin into the world, the incarnation of Christ, regeneration, the resurrection, and many other subjects presented in the Bible, are mysteries too deep for the human mind to explain {CSA 46.3}

Now, of the human: He "was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death." He voluntarily assumed human nature. It was His own act, and by His own consent. He clothed His divinity with humanity. He was all the while as God, but He did not appear as God. He veiled the demonstrations of Deity, which had commanded the homage, and called forth the admiration, of the universe of God. He was God while upon earth, but He divested Himself of the form of God, and in its stead took the form and fashion of a man. He walked the earth as a man. For our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich. He laid aside His glory and His majesty. He was God, but the glories of the form of God He for a while relinquished. Though He walked among men in poverty, scattering His blessings wherever He went, at His word legions of angels would surround their Redeemer, and do Him homage. But He walked the earth unrecognized, unconfessed, with but few exceptions, by His creatures. The atmosphere was polluted with sin and curses, in place of the anthem of praise. His lot was poverty and humiliation. As He passed to and fro upon His mission of mercy to relieve the sick, to lift up the depressed, scarce a solitary voice called Him blessed, and the very greatest of the nation passed Him by with disdain. {5BC 1126.8}

If the “glories were relinquished for a while” then it doesn’t seem that there was an eternal sacrifice here for sin? 4T 384, The Judgment, describes the sacrifice on the cross as:

“My love for you has been more self-denying than a mother's love. It was that I might blot out your dark record of iniquity, and put the cup of salvation to your lips, that I suffered the death of the cross, bearing the weight and curse of your guilt. The pangs of death, and the horrors of the darkness of the tomb, I endured, that I might conquer him who had the power of death, unbar the prison house, and open for you the gates of life. I submitted to shame and agony because I loved you with an infinite love, and would bring back my wayward, wandering sheep to the paradise of God, to the tree of life.” {4T 387.1}

So from the above my understanding is that the cross was the complete sacrifice because it put the cup of salvation to our lips and led us back to the tree of life. Why hasn’t Jesus here mentioned another sacrifice at the Incarnation?

How can I be condemned Ron for a lack of understanding about a mystery that our finite minds can NEVER fully comprehend? I fully agree with you that the Godhead is a pillar foundational doctrine as far as the Trinity version goes with regard to the New Movement. However I understand a simpler version of events in regard to the Omega Apostasy which I discussed with Brian once. Perhaps you could comment on it. I’ll paste it below.

Signed_____________.

ATONEMENT GONE??? Yes it is GONE because the Pope under the Trinity Doctrine stands in place of Jesus, hence NO Jesus ,NO sacrifice on the cross therfore NO ATONEMENT!!!!

WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS?? The Bible says God ALONE! However if you are a Seventh Day Adventist in the Harlot Conference your 2nd FUNDAMENTAL belief is the Trinity. Hence the Pope now forgives your sins:

"The Priest does really and truly forgive the sins in virtue of the power given him by Christ" Joseph Deharbe, S.J: A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion p 279.

AND...

SANCTUARY GONE???: Under the Trinity Doctrine it is now the priest or the Pope who forgives the sins and not Jesus who is our mediator in the Heavenly Sanctuary. Those who believe the Trinity Doctrine don't need Jesus in the heavenly SANCTUARY, "the priest (Pope) can forgive their sins"!!!!!!!

So NOW in the OMEGA of apostasy by the SDA HARLOT of 1903, where PANTHEISM was the ALPHA apostasy, we now have the SDA united under the TRINITY DOCTRINE which means ATONEMENT GONE: Jesus replaced by the Vicar of Christ whether this be the Pope of Rome or the Kingly Power of the Pope of the SDA, President Ted Wilson! and SANCTUARY GONE: the priest or Pope can forgive the sins, no need for Jesus on the Mercy Seat in the Most Holy Place!!

Ron’s response:

“Truly, Ellen White says that there are mysteries to the Godhead that we will be learning throughout eternity, but that does not preclude an understanding of what we are clearly told [THE KNOWN] by Ellen White, and I have done no more or less than demonstrate the "apparent unknown" from the known that Ellen White very clearly states. We were given the license to reason together. That would include deductive reasoning.

Two Sacrifices—The Incarnation and the Cross

"The darkness rolled away from the Saviour and from the Cross. Christ bowed His head and died. In His Incarnation He had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice, but not as a redeemer." E.G. White Manuscript Releases Volume Twelve, p. 409.

I once told you the Sanctuary Service in Scripture and Ellen White’s statement that the Incarnation reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice would be your Waterloo (undoing) on the Godhead issue. The pope could not die for man’s sins. He was not the Testator. The Sanctuary Service teaches that a sacrificial Lamb was to come and that Lamb was Jesus. No blood of animals could atone for man’s sin. Any breach of the Law (the transcript of Christ’s character) would have to be atoned for by the Testator of the Law and Ellen White said that the Son delivered the law on Mt. Sinai with the Father. The Testator had to die to something eternally, because the wages of sin is eternal death for us.

So your scenario does not literally parallel the Sanctuary Service in that the Pope was not the Testator nor the sacrificial lamb to come and He was not the Testator of the law at Sinai.

Ellen White said that in His Incarnation, the Son had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice. That prescribed limit was death to His former DIVINE ONLY LIFE to become forever combined with humanity. That was like a forever death sacrifice in payment for the wages of sin. But the redeeming act of taking those sins upon Himself, just as the penitent person’s sins were placed on the sacrificial lamb in the courtyard just before it was slain, took place just before and on the Cross in the case of Christ our redeemer. The pope never qualified as the Testator nor did he ever die to anything eternally. So he does not fit the pattern of the Sanctuary Service involving the Incarnation of Christ sacrifice and the redemption atoning act on the cross.

What was the prescribed limit as a sacrifice according to Scripture?

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 Incarnation of Christ was an act of self-sacrifice; His life was one of continual self-denial. The highest glory of the love of God to man was manifested in the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son, who was the express image of His person. This is the great mystery of godliness. It is the privilege and the duty of every professed follower of Christ to have the mind of Christ. Without self-denial and cross bearing we cannot be His disciples." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 2, p. 185.

We have the mind of Christ by way of the Incarnation whereby He sacrificed His Divine ONLY nature as “the highest good, crowing gift that heaven can bestow.” That is the cure for sin, whereas the cross was the pardon for sin—the redemption from sin.

2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Your view as given to Brian is a good partial and secondary, but very incomplete scenario. I say secondary and incomplete because it is not directly related to the Incarnation sacrifice of the Testator and what transpired THEN. The pope was not the Testator. The Testator had to die to something eternally and He did. The Pope never met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice—eternal death to the past DIVINE ONLY BEING of the Testator, for while He liveth the sacrifice is of no strength. That is the only thing the Testator, the Son of God, died to eternally.

Death by way of three days and nights in a tomb do not constitute the prescribed limits of a sacrifice of the Testator for while He is alive the testament is of no strength. If Christ had not died to something eternally, the prescribed limit of a sacrifice would not have been met and there would be no Sanctuary service—no Atonement in the Sanctuary above which is where the Incarnation took place.

He then bequeathed what He died to us--HIS DIVINE NATURE HOLY SPIRIT. The Trinity Doctrine precludes this sacrifice by teaching that the Holy Spirit existed forever AS A THIRD PERSON. Thus, NO SANCTUARY, NO ATONEMENT MADE BY THE TESTATOR. This touches the very necessary Sanctuary Service in Heaven of which the earthly was a schoolteacher.”

"In Christ's parable teaching the same principle is seen as in His own mission to the world. That we might become acquainted with His divine character and life, Christ took our nature and dwelt among us. Divinity was revealed in humanity; the invisible glory in the visible human form. Men could learn of the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed through the earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men. So it was in Christ's teaching: the unknown was illustrated by the known; divine truths by earthly things with which the people were most familiar." {COL 17.1}

“The Word of God, like the character of its divine Author, presents mysteries that can never be fully comprehended by finite beings. The entrance of sin into the world, the incarnation of Christ, regeneration, the resurrection, and many other subjects presented in the Bible, are mysteries too deep for the human mind to explain” {CSA 46.3}

Indeed, we cannot explain all the mysteries of the Godhead for Ellen White said we will be learning those mysteries for eternity. But we can explain what we have been told in Scripture and by Ellen White. And that is all I have proposed to do.

Now for this part:

If the “glories were relinquished for a while” then it doesn’t seem that there was an eternal sacrifice here for sin? 4T 384, The Judgment, describes the sacrifice on the cross as:

Ron responds:

Scripture does not use the word incarnation. However, Scripture does teach the Sanctuary Service, and the Testator Everlasting Covenant; that the Testator must die and the Testator was Divinity and Divinity did not die on the cross. So if Divinity did not die in some facet, then there has been no Sanctuary Atonement in the heavenly Sanctuary. Ellen White clearly states that Divinity did not die on the cross. It was humanity that died and humanity cannot atone for humanity. The Biblical prescribed limit is that the Testator who was DIVINE ONLY when He made the Testament of the Everlasting Covenant, to die to something FOREVER. He died to His Holy Spirit Divine Nature ONLY (Being—existence) to become combined (allied) to humanity forever. That was a forever death to His former state of being. That met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice (of the Testator’s Testament) BEFORE THE CROSS.

The Bible teaches that the Son of Man must come in the likeness of sinful man. It teaches that the Holy Ghost impregnated Mary with the Son of God—Jesus Christ. These events could not have transpired without the Incarnation sacrifice.

What is the GLORY which for awhile He relinquished? Did He enjoy this GLORY while on earth? I have explained this before, but I will do it again. There are many verses in the Bible that mention the glory of God, but I will take one from the Old Testament and one from the New. The first is from Exodus 16:7. If you will use this Bible tool http://bible.worthwhile.com/bible.php?b=gen&c=1&v=0&d=1&w=0 and click on the word glory in both verses, you will get the meanings I post below:

7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

Number 3519

Transliteration:

kabowd {kaw-bode'} rarely kabod {kaw-bode'}

Word Origin:

from 3513

TWOT:

943d,943e

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Usage in the KJV:

glory 156, honour 32, glorious 10, gloriously 1, honourable 1

Total: 200

Definition:

1. glory, honour, glorious, abundance

A. abundance, riches

B. honour, splendour, glory

C. honour, dignity

D. honour, reputation

E. honour, reverence, glory

F. glory

TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

Then for the New Testament I will use the following verse: Revelation 19:1:

1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Using the same Bible tool, we get this definition of glory, the singular of glories:

Number 1391

Transliteration:

doxa {dox'-ah}

Word Origin:

from the base of 1380

TDNT:

2:233,178

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Usage in the KJV:

glory 145, glorious 10, honour 6, praise 4, dignity 2, worship 1

Total: 168

Definition:

1. opinion, judgment, view

2. opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone

A. in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory

3. splendour, brightness

A. of the moon, sun, stars

B. magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace

C. majesty

a. a thing belonging to God

b. the kingly majesty which belongs to Him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

c. a thing belonging to Christ

1. the kingly majesty of the Messiah

2. the absolutely perfect inward or personal

These definitions say nothing about Christ getting back His Holy Spirit ONLY DIVINE NATURE EXISTENCE! That sacrifice is intact FOREVER because His humanity is linked to His Divinity FOREVER and will never again STAND ALONE BY AND OF ITSELF AS THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE SON OF GOD. That past, pre-Incarnation state of Being is now the Holy Ghost, the soul of the life of Christ, but a separate and distinct person from His humanity.

We find that the glories Christ for awhile relinquished were magnificence, excellence, pre-eminence, dignity, grace, majesty. He will appear in all the brightness of these glories which will slay unrepentant man when He comes. This same glory (brightness of light—majesty) shone above the Ark of the Covenant in the Sanctuary. These glories have nothing to do with the Son’s emptying Himself of His Divine ONLY nature forever as a gift to us. Somehow, Jesus will come in the majesty of Glory He had before His Incarnation into humanity, but He is still combined with humanity forever and that is the sacrifice. Apparently that humanity will still cumber the life of His Divine Nature Holy Spirit ONLY Being which He consisted of before His Incarnation, and that is what Ellen White defines as heaven’s greatest good, crowing gift that heaven can bestow upon man. That is the cure for sin, while the cross provided the pardon from sin but not the cure. But of course, these two sacrifices were very closely linked together.

"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.

Eternal Sacrifice Divine Soul ONLY (State of Being)

"The apostle would call our attention from ourselves to the Author of our salvation. He presents before us His two natures, divine and human. . . . He voluntarily assumed human nature. It was His own act, and by His own consent. He clothed His divinity with humanity. He was all the while as God, but He did not appear as God. He veiled the demonstrations of Deity which had commanded the homage, and called forth the admiration of the universe of God. He was God while upon earth, but He divested Himself of the form of God, and in its stead took the form and fashion of a man. He walked the earth as a man. For our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich. He laid aside His glory and His majesty. He was God, but the glories of the form of God He for awhile relinquished. . . . He bore the sins of the world, and endured the penalty which rolled like a mountain upon His divine soul. He yielded up His life a sacrifice, that man should not eternally die. He died, not through being compelled to die, but by His own free will." E.G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7a, p. 446.

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?

Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

“They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit—the Spirit of Christ” (9T p. 289)

“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is; there is Liberty.” (2 Cor. 3:17)

“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” John 5:26.

"He (Christ) suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which WAS His." Desire of Ages, p. 25 1 Cor. 11:24-265, cf. John 6:53, 54, Titus 3:5, 6.

"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, 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.

As of this date, January 30, 2011, I have searched all of Vance Ferrell’s statements on the Godhead and he does not include the above statement while he brags that he gives a greater number of Spirit of Prophecy statements than any other ministry. Then he leaves out one that is the crux of the truth on the pillar doctrine of the Sanctuary and the Atonement. Truly, the ministering brethren still look on while not understanding how they render the Sanctuary and Atonement as GONE—VOID, and this is as antichrist as any teaching gets. Those who are supporting Vance are corporately responsible for his error on the Godhead as are those who support Robert Sessler and his partners in error.

Son of Man 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' (Luke 1:35). 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 [combined] by birth to the human race." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, p. 226.

Christ as Eternal

“Not one of the angels could have become surety for the human race: their life is God's; they could not surrender it. The angels all wear the yoke of obedience. They are the appointed messengers of Him who is the commander of all Heaven. But Christ is equal with God, infinite and omnipotent. He could pay the ransom for man's freedom. He is the eternal, self-existing Son, on whom no yoke had come; and when God asked, "whom shall I send?" He could reply, "Here am I; send me." He could pledge Himself to become man's surety; for He could say that which the highest angel could not say,--I have power over My own life, "power to lay it down, and . . . power to take it again.”--The Youth's Instructor, June 21, 1900. {7ABC 461.1}

"Jehovah, the eternal, self-existent, uncreated One, Himself the source and sustainer of all, is alone entitled to supreme reverence and worship." E.G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7A, p. 439.

Scripture also defines Jehovah as Christ:

Jehovah-- Exd 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

"Jehovah is the name given to Christ. 'Behold, God is my salvation,' writes the prophet Isaiah 'I will trust, and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song He also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day ye shall say, Praise the Lord, call upon His name, declare His doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted.' 'In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, May 3, 1899, p. 2. SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7a, p. 439.

These teachings are clear and irrefutable. Those who are too proud to adjust their errors on the Godhead, will not receive the seal of God for they are teaching antichrist doctrine.

The Godhead as pillar doctrine that was changed by New Movement Adventism

Godhead as a pillar doctrine -- Personality of God and of Christ Landmarks: "Those who seek to remove the old landmarks are not holding fast they are not remembering how they have received and heard. Those who try to bring in theories that would remove the pillars of our faith concerning the sanctuary or concerning the personality of God or of Christ, are working as blind men. They are seeking to bring in uncertainties and to set the people of God adrift without an anchor." {MR760 9.5}

"You are not definitely clear on the personality of God, which is everything to us as a people. You have virtually destroyed the Lord God Himself." EGW letter 300 1903.

“In the future, deception of every kind is to arise, and we want solid ground for our feet. We want solid pillars for the building. Not one pin is to be removed from that which the Lord has established. The enemy will bring in false theories, such as the doctrine that there is no sanctuary. This is one of the points on which there will be a departing from the faith.” {Mar 192.3}

“As we near the end of time, falsehood will be so mingled with truth, that only those who have the guidance of the Holy Spirit will be able to distinguish truth from error. We need to make every effort to keep the way of the Lord. We must in no case turn from His guidance to put our trust in man. The Lord's angels are appointed to keep strict watch over those who put their faith in the Lord, and these angels are to be our special help in every time of need. Every day we are to come to the Lord with full assurance of faith, and to look to Him for wisdom. . . . Those who are guided by the Word of the Lord will discern with certainty between falsehood and truth, between sin and righteousness.” {Mar 192.5}

"I entreat every one to be clear and firm regarding the certain truths that we have heard and received and advocated. The statements of God's Word are plain. Plant your feet firmly on the platform of eternal truth. Reject every phase of error, even though it be covered with a semblance of reality, which denies the personality of God and of Christ." {RH, August 31, 1905 par. 11}

Pillars -- Landmarks of Adventism -- "The passing of the time in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished eyes the cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having decided relation to God's people upon the earth [also] the first and second angels' messages and the third, unfurling the banner on which was inscribed, 'The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus' [KJV]. One of the landmarks under this message was the temple of God, seen by His truth-loving people in heaven, and the ark containing the law of God. The light of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment flashed its strong rays in the pathway of the transgressors of God's law. The non-immortality of the wicked is an old landmark. I can call to mind nothing more that can come under the head of the old landmarks. All this cry about changing the old landmarks [1888-1900, etc.] is all imaginary. Ellen G. White, Manuscript, 1889 The Landmarks Defined, Counsels to Writers and Editors, pages 30, 31.

Sanctuary Doctrine

"After the truth has been proclaimed as a witness to all nations, every conceivable power of evil will be set in operation, and minds will be confused by many voices crying, 'Lo, Here is Christ, Lo, he is there. This is the truth, I have the message from God, he has sent me with great light.' Then there will be a removing of the landmarks, and an attempt to tear down the pillars of our faith...(Ellen G. White, 'Let the Trumpet Give a Certain Sound' (Concluded), Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, December 13, 1892 (Original source) See Also, Maranatha, page 189 Maranatha, p. 192 Selected Messages, Vol. 3, p. 406 SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 985).

The atonement is related to the Godhead issue. The Trinity Doctrine obfuscates the Atonement by discounting the sacrifice of Christ in emptying Himself of His Divine Nature in order to give it to us for regeneration. Ellen White said without that sacrifice, the cross would have been to no avail, and the Trinity Doctrine obviates that sacrifice by saying that it NEVER TOOK PLACE because the Holy Spirit always existed as a third person. That is blasphemy against the "greatest good and crowning sacrifice" gift that heaven could bestow. The personality of God and Christ is thus involved in the omega apostasy involving the Godhead vis a vis the Trinity Doctrine.

"The spiritualistic theories regarding the personality of God [the Godhead], followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the whole Christian economy. They estimate as nothing the light that Christ came from heaven to give John to give to His people. They teach that the scenes just before us are not of sufficient importance to be given special attention. They make of no effect the truth of heavenly origin, and rob the people of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false science." E.G. White, 1SM, p. 204.

"Those who seek to remove the old landmarks are not holding fast they are not remembering how they have received and heard. Those who try to bring in theories that would remove the pillars of our faith concerning the sanctuary or concerning the personality of God or of Christ, are working as blind men. They are seeking to bring in uncertainties and to set the people of God adrift without an anchor." {MR760 9.5}

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.

For anyone to conclude that God will wink at or forgive an errant view of something as fundamental to the highest good, crowning act heaven can bestow—involving the Sanctuary and the Atonement, is beyond me. That is tantamount to concluding that God will wink at Babylon’s perversion of the Godhead via the Trinity Doctrine! If God is just, and He is, He will not pardon either. There is no excuse for any misunderstanding of the Godhead by anyone with spiritual discernment and if any cannot understand it, they advertise their lack of being invested with Holy Spirit discernment. That is what the Holy Spirit has shown to me on this all important fundamental truth around which every other truth clusters. And this is all the more true involving those who once claim to understand it and to see the absolute beauty of this Sanctuary Atonement truth, but then fall into unbelief.

—rwb