The
SDA Pioneer Position on the Godhead
Click to go to our Home PageJust as Froom
and friends selected certain statements of Ellen White which seem to imply
that Adam took the nature of Adam before the fall, while ignorring
some four hundred statements to the contrary, so Froom
and friends took about the same number of E.G. White statements on the
Godhead (about 6-8) found in the book Evangelism, (compiled by Froom and friends) which seemed to imply that she was
teaching the trinity doctrine. Remember, the book Evangelism by Ellen White,
is a compilation with subheadings she did not supply. They are supplied by Froom and friends, such as use of the word Trinity. She
never used the word in her writings and you will therefore not find it used
by her on her CD ROM disc. It was LeRoy Froom who supplied the word trinity in the subheadings of
the book Evangelism, as well as the carefully "selected" quotes by
Ellen White on the Godhead. Ellen White did teach a
heavenly trio, but her definitions of the Holy Spirit as being the Divine
life and soul of Christ, which, at His Incarnation, He laid aside as a
crowing gift to us, are totally out of sync with the trinity doctrine because
that doctrine does not teach that the third person of the Godhead results
from the Son having laid aside His Divine Nature life and soul (Per the
demands of the Everlasting Covenant) as a crowing, regenerating gift to us,
that we may overcome and be thereby regenerated into the image of God. This
is the greatest sacrifice Christ made--even greater than the cross, because
it was the "greatest good" crowing gift" according to Ellen Whtie, without which His death on the cross would have
been to no avail, because there would have been no eternal cure for sin. Ellen White was aware, of
course, of the semiArian position of her husband
and the other pioneers, but she did not differ with that position for a good
reason. It is promoted by current day leaders that the semi-Arian position of
James White and the other pioneers was inclusive of the belief that Christ
was not divine and God. Terry Hill and Russell Holt have proven that as
errant. The semi-Arian position of the pioneers consisted in the belief that
Christ was subservient to the Father on a voluntary basis. Ellen White
concurred on that position when she said that the Son laid aside His Royal
robes to assume humanity. But at the same time, she and the pioneers believed
that the Son was God. She said Jesus was Jehovah. You can verify that on her
CD Rom disc. Ellen White taught exactly
as I do, but the ministering brethren did not understand, just as they do not
understand today (The Upward Look,
152, and Isaiah 56:10-12). Both Ellen White and God said that the "dumb
dog" watchmen do not understand the issue. That is why it has grown to
be the greatest of abominations as the Omega of Apostasy, and will continue as
such until Chirst comes. Nothing will be allowed to
stand in its way, Selected Messages,
Vol. 1, 204-5. No independent ministry will ever be so powerful as to
"allow nothing to stand in its way." But the apostate New
Movement--New Organization SDA Church is that powerful! Ellen White never supported trinitarianism. That is evident from her husbands position until his
death as well as the position of J.N. Andrews until his death. As I said,
there was no need to warn the pioneers against semi-Arianism,
because the pioneers were right on that issue. Scripture says that Christ
came forth from the bosom of the Father and Ellen White applies that to mean
when He came forth at His Incarnation. He was not created and was of the same
substance as the Father. Therefore, He was regarded as God. The Godhead was not an issue
until the Kellogg crisis, and Ellen White did what she could to meet that
crisis. She did meet it! That crisis had to do directly with the personality
and presence of God. So does the omega of that crisis, Selected Messages,
Book 1, 201-2 and 204. Ellen White's Desire of
Ages statements (below) that the Holy Spirit is the life and soul of Christ, is a stark refutation of the Trinity doctrine. She
never altered those statements. Even though Marian Davis, Lacy, Daniels and
Prescott may have tried to thwart her meaning, they were not deft enough to
catch everything and God preserved the most powerful statements of Ellen
White in Desire of Ages. If the ministering
brethren did not understand that statement in her day, and the certainly still do not understand to this day, that
is only a total fulfillment of her statement that they were looking on and
did not seem to understand (The Upward Look, 152), and Isaiah 56:10-12, which
she reapplied to current times in Testimonies, vol. 5, 211. A continuum of that lack of
ability to understand on the part of the dumb-dog watchman, would only
promote a continuum of the crisis to reach a point of Omega apostasy and
heresy as now accrues. The Omega signifies the end. We are in the end-time
and the Omega is in full bloom, just as Ellen White prophesied. Faithful
servants are trying to meet it, but nothing will be allowed to stand in its
way (Selected Messages, vol. 1, 204-5). That is one of the abominations for
which Jerusalem will be destroyed--it has returned to the iniquities of its forefathers,
Jeremiah 11:9-15, and the flesh is passed from
her--verse 15. Ellen White's Definition of the Holy Spirit
Agrees With God's
What Was the Landmark SDA
Teaching Concerning the Identity of the Holy Spirit? "The Power of God
in the Third Person.--The prince of the power of evil can only be held in
check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.-- Special Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897). Acts 3:26 Unto you first
God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. The Bible says that it is
Jesus, God's Son, whom the Father sent to bless us, turning away every one of
you from his iniquities. The "power of evil" is synonymous with
iniquity, so unless Ellen White disagreed with the Bible, and she did not, we
know that the Son is the Holy Spirit--which is the ONLY agency which holds in
check the prince of the power of evil or iniquity. Did Ellen White Say that the Holy Spirit was
Christ?
"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. "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. Thus we have the landmark
pillar doctrine teaching of the pioneers concerning the Godhead. It becomes
clear that any other doctrine would work total despite to the Atonement and
the Sanctuary doctrine as well at the terms of the Everlasting Covenant,
which demanded the death of the Testator. James White and J.N. Andrews (and
other pioneers) recognized this truth. At His Incarnation, Christ sacrificed
(laid aside) His Divine Nature life and soul for us as a regenerating gift.
This was like death to that pre-Incarnation life. That satisfied the demand
of the Everlasting Covenant that the Testator of that Covenant experience
death. Thus, we are invited by Scripture to partake of the Divine Nature of
Christ, which He sacrificed (laid aside) as a "crowing--greatest good
gift" to us, rather than the Divine--human nature of Christ, which is
the nature accrued to Him after the Incarnation. The 144,000 will discern and
receive this truth because they will need it in order to reach the standard
of overcoming that they reach. One is not necessarily one of the 144,000
because he/she discerns and believes this truth concerning the Godhead, but
the 144,000 will certainly do so. Ron Beaulieu |