The
Meaning of Christ's Coming Forth From the Bosom of the Father
Jhn 1:18 No
man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
Click to go to our Home PageDear Reader, The issue of the Godhead is so crucial as
regards righteousness by faith, the three angel’s messages and the
message to Ellen White says that coming forth from the bosom of
the Father meant the Incarnation. The Holy Spirit was eternal. He
is the ETERNAL Spirit of Christ from ETERNITY. He is the Divine Nature
of Christ which He bequeathed to us at His Incarnation. At that time He (the
Divine Nature of Christ) became the representative of Christ in the earth
because Christ, combined with humanity, could not be everywhere at once.
Also, the Son of Man (Christ) became the Son of God in a NEW SENSE, said
Ellen White, because He became united with humanity FOREVER. The Holy Spirit
was thus an eternal dignitary. He was and is the Divine Nature of Christ from
eternity. Christ forfeited His existence as His Divine Nature ONLY,
when He took on humanity as part of His nature FOREVER. There are many statements by Ellen White that
mention the eternal existence of Christ, so we may deduce from the following
statement that coming from the bosom of the Father meant the Incarnation of
Christ: “The Lord Jesus Christ, the divine Son of
God, existed FROM ETERNITY, a distinct person, yet One with the
Father.” 5RH, 227. “I and my Father are one.” John 10: 30. “In
speaking of His pre-existence, Christ carries the mind back through dateless
ages. He assures us that there NEVER was a time when He was not in
close fellowship with the eternal God.” Evangelism, 615. “Before
men or angels were created, the Word was with God, and was God...Christ
was God essentially, and in the highest sense. He was with God FROM ALL
ETERNITY...a distinct person, yet one with the Father.” 1SM,
247. “He is the eternal,
SELF-EXISTENT Son.” Evangelism, 615. Thus, we can conclude
that Ellen White’s statements concerning the bosom of the Father mean
something other than Christ having a beginning. They refer directly to his
Incarnation. ““The Eternal Father, the
unchangeable One, gave His only begotten Son, tore from His bosom Him who was made in the express image of His
person, and sent Him down to earth to reveal how greatly He loved
mankind.” R&H, July 9, 1895. ““Then joy, inexpressible joy, filled
heaven. And the heavenly host sang a song of praise and adoration. They
touched their harps and sang a note higher than they had done before, for the
great mercy and condescension of God in yielding up his dearly Beloved to die
for a race of rebels. Praise and adoration were poured forth for the
self-denial and sacrifice of Jesus; that he would consent to leave the
bosom of his Father, and choose a life of suffering and anguish, and die
an ignominious death to give life to others.” 1SG, 26. “Jesus was the Majesty of heaven, the
beloved Commander of the angels, whose delight was to do his pleasure. He
was one with God, in the bosom of the Father; yet He thought it not a
thing to be desired to be equal with God while man was lost in sin and
misery. He stepped down from his throne. He left his crown and royal
scepter, and clothed his divinity with humanity. He humbled Himself even to
the death of the cross, that man might be exalted to a seat with Him upon his
throne.” Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, 03-15-93. “The sole object of this work
should not be merely to increase our reward in heaven. Some are selfish in
this respect. In view of what Christ has done for us, and what He has
suffered for sinners, we should, out of pure, disinterested love for souls,
imitate His example by sacrificing our own pleasure and convenience for their
good. The joy set before Christ, which sustained Him in all His sufferings,
was the salvation of poor sinners. This should be our joy and the spur of our
ambition in the cause of our Master. In so doing we please God and manifest
our love and devotion to Him as His servants. He first loved us, and withheld
not from us His beloved Son, but gave Him from His bosom to die that we
116 might have life. Love, true love for our fellow men, evinces love to
God. We may make a high profession, yet without this love it is nothing. Our
faith may lead us to even give our bodies to be burned, yet without
self-sacrificing love, such as lived in the bosom of Jesus and was
exemplified in His life, we are as sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal.” {2T 115.2} “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. 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. “What gift could
Christ bestow rich enough to signalize and grace His ascension to the mediatorial throne? It must be worthy of His greatness
and His royalty. He determined to give His representative, the Third Person
of the Godhead. This
gift could not be excelled. 6 BC, 1053. The teaching inherent within the Trinity Doctrine
that the Holy Spirit was always a third person other than the life and soul of
Christ, thus, inherently implies the following heresies:
“Now, while our
great High Priest is making the atonement for us, we should seek to
become perfect in Christ…It is in this life that we are
to separate sin from us through faith in the atoning blood of Christ.
Our precious Saviour invites us to join ourselves to Him, to unite our
weakness to His strength, our ignorance to His wisdom, our unworthiness to
His merits…It rests with us to cooperate with the agencies which Heaven
employs in the work of conforming our characters to the divine model.
None can neglect or defer this work but at the most fearful peril to their
souls” GC, 623. The pure evil and sacrilege of the Trinity doctrine
is that it does not teach the "Highest good, crowning gift" that
heaven bestowed at the Incarnation--the Divine Nature Holy Spirit of the Son of
God, given to man for overcoming and regeneration into the image of God. The
Trinity doctrine does not teach that there was any SACRIFICE greater than the
cross at the Incarnation. Ellen White does teach that the "HIGHEST GOOD,
CROWING GIFT" sacrifice was the bequeathed gift of the Divine Nature
Holy Spirit of the Son of God, without which, His sacrifice on the cross
would have been no avail BECAUSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CURE FOR SIN
without the sacrificial gift of the son's Divine Nature Holy Spirit which
indwells those who die to self and are born again. This is the "HIGHEST
GOOD, CROWNING GIFT," involving the sacrifice of the Son of God
relinquishing His Divine ONLY existence forever. That was the greatest
sacrifice made for man. He then became combined with humanity FOREVER. That
was part of the HIGHEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE made on behalf of man. By
that sacrifice, man is enabled to overcome all known sin and every propensity
to evil. Bible Text
and Ellen White Statement Showing Which Person of the Godhead Empowers us in
Turning From Iniquity Act 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. God says that Christ turns us away from our
iniquities! "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). Ellen White says that only the Holy Spirit can hold
the prince of the power of evil in check. Both are correct because the Holy
Spirit is the former life and soul of Christ’s Divine Nature before the
Incarnation. Ellen White says the same thing as the Bible (above)
in the following statement. Mainline Christianity does not FOCUS on or teach
the essence of this HIGHEST GOOD, CROWING GIFT sacrifice of the Son of
God that was sacrificed and given to us in order to turn us away from our
iniquities. That is the sacrilege travesty of the Trinity Doctrine. To teach
that the Holy Spirit was a totally separate person FROM THE SON for all
eternity, denies the HIGHEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE, that the Son made for
man's redemption, AND THAT WAS NOT THE CROSS, as important as the cross was
and is. Mainline Christianity teaches the popular myth that
Christ saves us IN SIN, rather than FROM SIN, and that heinous doctrine is
supported by the Trinity Doctrine, which does not teach what was really
involved in the GREATEST GOOD, CROWNING sacrifice that was designed to be the
cure for sin—the gift of the DIVINE NATURE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE SON OF
GOD. The Trinity doctrine says that the Holy Spirit involved another person
other than Christ. That is a diabolical lie, when we are told by Ellen White
that the Holy Spirit is the life and soul of Christ—the life and soul
that He bequeathed to us at His heavenly Sanctuary sacrifice before the
earthly sacrifice on the cross. "But through the power of the incarnation of
Christ, God manifest in the flesh, the strength of God is revealed in
gentleness and beauty. To 'as many as received him, to them gave he POWER to
become the sons of God.' By this POWER we may OVERCOME OUR EVIL TENDENCIES
and so modify our imperfect dispositions that the will of God may be
fulfilled in us."--Letter 79, May 7, 1903, to J.A. Burden and wife. The Upward Look, 141. "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. Ellen White's teaching on the Holy Spirit thus
accords with Scripture and is very different from the Trinity doctrine
and it’s teaching that the Holy Spirit was always a separate person
from the Son of God, and was thus not critically involved as the life
and soul of Christ’s former DIVINE ONLY NATURE, which was bequeathed to
us as the HIGHEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE, made for man, and without which
the sacrifice on the cross would have been to no avail. To summarize it simply, the Trinity Doctrine
subterfuges the GREATEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE that heaven could bestow,
by implying that the person of the Holy Spirit was never involved in any heavenly
sacrifice such as was made by the Son of God, in giving us His Divine Nature
life and soul Holy Spirit as a gift for regenerating us back into the image
of God and for overcoming sin—iniquity. If Christ’s great sacrifice on the cross is
supposed to motivate love for Him, what if man fully understood the GREATEST
GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE made by Christ? Would that motivate many more to buy
gold tried in the fire—faith that works by love—the self-sacrificing
love of Christ—or righteousness by faith—which is the three angel’s
message in verity? I believe it would and will. Ellen White said that there
is a special truth for every age, and God has shown me that this is a special
truth for Ron |