The
TWO Eternal Dignitaries and a THIRD NON ETERNAL God/Man Dignitary as Reckoned
by the Bible and Ellen G. White
“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)
"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.
1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
"And what was done in type in the
ministration of the earthly sanctuary is done in reality in the ministration of the
heavenly Sanctuary." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 420.
In 1980,
the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in the World General
Conference Session, voted to adopt Rome’s central doctrine, The Trinity
Doctrine. As in the Alpha heresy, the ministering brethren were looking on but
did not seem to understand how and why their abominable act rendered THE
SANCTUARY GONE, THE ATONEMENT GONE. How so? Why so? Because Rome’s Trinity
Doctrine teaches that there are three CO-ETERNAL, CO-EQUAL, persons to the Godhead. Since it was the
Incarnation sacrifice that produced a THIRD PERSON in the personality of the
God/Man come in sinful flesh, or the human nature of the Son of God, THERE
CANNOT BE THREE CO-ETERNAL PERSONS, and if there were/are, there would need to
be FOUR after the Incarnation sacrifice.
The
prime objective of this document is to prove beyond a particle of a doubt that
Ellen G. White and the Bible DO NOT teach that there are THREE CO-ETERNAL
PERSONS TO THE GODHEAD, and that the Trinity Doctrine obfuscates the
Incarnation sacrifice whereby a THIRD PERSON accrued who was ADOPTED into the
Godhead of heaven.
How the Trinity Doctrine Renders the Sanctuary Atonement as
GONE
First of
all I wish to establish the fact that the Godhead is a pillar, landmark
doctrine and Ellen White said that pillar doctrines (plural) would be discarded
by a New Movement which would “come into” the church. The other pillar doctrine
that has been removed is the truth about the human nature of Christ, which was
betrayed to the Evangelicals in the 1950’s when the church trashed the
definition of the human nature of Christ as portrayed in Bible Readings for the Home Circle. But that is another issue for
another time.
The
Omega Heresy was to be far worse in scope than the Alpha. The Alpha spread only
amongst Kellogg and some of his cronies, but the Omega involved the entire SDA
world church via the Trinity Doctrine.
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the
supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day
Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which
stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to
take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom
has given to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be
changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty
years would be accounted as error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established.
Books of a NEW ORDER would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy
would be introduced. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and
do a wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also
the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW
MOVEMENT. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place their dependence
on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be
built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure.
Who
has authority to begin such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles, we have our
experience, attested to by the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a
truth that admits of no compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is
not in harmony with this truth? E.G. White, Selected Messages, Bk. 1, 204, 205.
Nothing
could be more effectual in REMOVING GOD as the adoption of the Trinity Doctrine
by the church in its 1980 General Conference World Session. Some sigh and cry
over lesser abominations, but no abomination compares with the one that
obfuscates the “highest good, crowing gift heaven could bestow,” the gift of
Christ’s Holy Spirit Divine Nature, made possible by the Incarnation Sacrifice.
"And what was done in type in the ministration of the earthly
sanctuary is done in reality in the ministration of the heavenly
Sanctuary." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 420.
"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.
The Gift of Christ’s Divine Nature Holy Spirit
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.
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.
Only Ellen White was able to discern the reason why
the pantheism of Kellogg’s book Living Temple rendered the
Sanctuary/Atonement as GONE. Kellogg’s book stated that the Holy Spirit is in
everything. Were that true, man would have already possessed the highest good,
crowing gift of the Holy Spirit WITHOUT THE INCARNATION SACRIFICE that made the
gift of the Divine Nature Holy Spirit possible. Thus, Kellogg’s Alpha heresy
rendered the Sanctuary/Atonement sacrifice as good as GONE.
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.
The Trinity Doctrine works toward the same end
result by teaching that there were eternally THREE PERSONS to the Godhead, thus
totally eliminating the heavenly Sanctuary/Atonement Incarnation sacrifice
whereby a THIRD PERSON accrued in the person of the humanity of Christ or God
come in the likeness of sinful flesh. All the “dumb dog” leaders (Isaiah
56:10-12) were looking on in 1980, but did not seem to understand what they were
doing, AND THEY STILL DON’T. The SDA Fundamentals of Belief states, just as
Rome’s Trinity Doctrine does, that there are thee CO-ETERNAL PERSONS TO THE
GODHEAD. That is an abominable lie which I will prove beyond question in this
document.
"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, vol. 2, pp. 18, 19.
The TWO Eternal Dignitaries
From the Bible
The following
verses clearly teach about the TWO ETERNALLY DIVINE PERSONS to the
Godhead. Add the God/Man human nature PERSON of Christ that was ADOPTED into
the Godhead AFTER the Incarnation sacrifice, which PERSON WAS NOT ETERNAL, and
you have three persons to the Godhead. NO MORE, NO LESS.
Jhn 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Jhn 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Jhn 14:18 I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you.
Jhn 14:19 ¶ Yet a little while, and the world seeth me
no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Jhn 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I
am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Jhn 14:21 He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved
of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Jhn 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not
Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto
the world?
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.
Where is the
humanity PERSON in the above Scripture, if Christ’s humanity cumbered His
Divine Nature Holy Spirit HIMSELF which was divested from His humanity
PERSONALITY AND INDEPENDENT THEREOF?
The
worst abomination possible is anything that muddies the truth as to the
Godhead, for that is the most fundament pillar, landmark doctrine of Scripture.
The apostate SDA church has committed this worst of all abominations by adding
to the Testimonies of God, the Spirit of Prophecy, by adding false titles to
some paragraph headings in Ellen White’s writings.
Go to
White Estate for The Complete Published
Writings of Ellen G. White at this link: https://egwwritings.org/
In parentheses, type the words “three
eternal dignitaries.” You won’t find those words! Then type the word trinity and search for it. You won’t
find one instance of it. It is supplied by the White Estate when it is used in
Ellen White’s writings.
In the following statement
appearing in the compilation book
Evangelism, the paragraph heading
words: “The Eternal Dignitaries of the
Trinity” are supplied by the editors at the White Estate.
The Eternal Dignitaries of the Trinity—“The eternal heavenly dignitaries—God, and Christ, and
the Holy Spirit—arming them [the disciples] with more than mortal energy, ...
would advance with them to the work and convince the world of sin.”—Manuscript 145, 1901. {Ev 616.4}
It is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO
NOTE THAT THE ABOVE STATEMENT DOES NOT MENTION THREE PERSONS, BECAUSE John 14
and Ellen White say repeatedly that the Holy Spirit is Christ. This is the only
way to interpret the statement without making many others CONTRADICT. Ellen
White clearly states in many statements that the Holy Spirit HIMSELF is Christ.
So
does John 14. The above statement cannot
be interpreted to mean that the humanity God/Man come in the likeness of sinful
flesh is ETERNAL, because He is not ETERNAL. I’ll belabor the point by
numbering the persons to the Godhead:
1.
The Father who is
ETERNAL.
2.
The Son’s HOLY
SPIRIT (DIVINE ONLY) NATURE which is ETERNAL.
3.
The Son’s
humanity resulting from the Incarnation forward IS NOT ETERNAL SO FOR THIS REASON IT IS TOTALLY FALSE TO
CONCLUDE THAT ELLEN WHITE MEANS THREE PERSONS WHEN ONE PERSON TO THE GODHEAD IS
UNDENIABLY NOT ETERNAL.
4.
The only two ETERNAL persons in the entire Bible are the
Father and the Son’s (Divine Nature ONLY) HOLY SPIRIT. This is so elementary
that I feel redundant in pointing this out, but I’m trying to make it as plain
as possible without any contradictions as we are instructed to do.
5.
If you choose to interpret the statement as THREE ETERNAL
PERSONS, then show me how the GOD/MAN humanity of Christ is ETERNAL when He did
not exist until the Incarnation? Show me that and you will have a believer!
6.
It is a true statement that God and Christ’s Holy Spirit
are eternal. But Christ’s humanity PERSON IS NOT ETERNAL.
It is errantly only deduced by
SDA leaders that there are THREE ETERNAL DIGNITARIES, when there is not one
statement in all of Ellen White’s writings that states such, and if there were,
it would contradict many of her statements on the Godhead and the Bible, John
14, where it clearly teaches that Christ’s Holy Spirit is the Comforter and
BOTH He and the Father (TWO PERSONS) come to us, verse 23.
That Evangelism p. 616 paragraph heading IS NOT the words of Ellen G.
White. She NEVER ONCE used the word Trinity, and there ARE NOT THREE ETERNAL
PERSONS TO THE GODHEAD. There are only TWO ETERNAL PERSONS, the Father and the
Son and their shared ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT comprise TWO PERSONS. The God/Man human
nature of Christ was adopted into the Godhead after the Son of God met the
conditions of the Testator’s Everlasting Covenant as a result of the
Incarnation of God come in the likeness of sinful flesh.
"In taking our nature, the Saviour has
bound Himself to humanity by a tie that is never to be broken. Through the eternal ages He is linked with us.
"God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son." He gave
Him not only to bear our sins, and to die as our sacrifice; He gave Him to the
fallen race. To assure us of His immutable counsel of peace, God gave His
only-begotten Son to become one of the human family, forever to retain His
human nature. This is the pledge that God will fulfill His word. "Unto us
a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder." Isa. 9:6. God has adopted human nature
in the person of His Son, and has carried the same into the highest heaven. . .
. Heaven is enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of
Infinite Love." {FLB 45.4}
It is in the future that “Through the eternal
ages He is linked to us,” for He certainly WAS NOT linked to us by humanity
before His Incarnation.
Ellen White Defined the Holy Spirit as the Divine Nature
of Christ; the Soul of the Life of Christ; The Comforter; The Mediator
"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.
“The Holy Spirit is the breath of 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.” Desire of Ages, p. 805.
“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 [THE
COMFORTER--THE SOUL OF HIS PRE-INCARNATED LIFE] 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.
Bible Evidence That Proves the above statement by Ellen G. White:
Ellen White in her “cumbered” statement
clearly states that the personalities of Christ’s Holy Spirit HIMESLF, and the
personality of His humanity were independent of one another. The Bible clearly
proves this by the following evidence:
Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus ON EARTH, face
to face, when He spoke these words of John 3:13:
"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.
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. John 1:18.
I REPEAT FOR IMPORTANT EMPHASIS: "In
taking our nature, the Saviour has bound Himself to humanity by a tie that is
never to be broken. Through the eternal ages He is linked with us. "God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son." He gave Him not only
to bear our sins, and to die as our sacrifice; He gave Him to the fallen race.
To assure us of His immutable counsel of peace, God gave His only-begotten Son
to become one of the human family, forever to retain His human nature. This is
the pledge that God will fulfill His word. "Unto us a child is born, unto
us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder." Isa.
9:6. God has adopted human nature in the person of His
Son, and has carried the same into the highest heaven. . . . Heaven is
enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of Infinite Love." {FLB 45.4}
Ellen White Spoke of Three Personal Dignitaries in Heaven, BUT NEVER
SPOKE OF THEM AS THREE ETERNAL DIGNITARIES
"We are to “hold fast” and
live up to all the light we receive from heaven. Why? Because God wants us to
grasp the eternal truth, and act as His helping hand by communicating the light
to those who are not acquainted with His love for them. When you gave yourself
to Christ, you made a pledge in the presence of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—the three great personal Dignitaries of
heaven. “Hold fast” to this pledge."
{7BC 959.8}
The Father, The Son’s Holy
Spirit Divine Nature, and the adopted Son’s humanity are all in heaven. But only
two are eternal. The adopted humanity of Christ became a distinct person at His
Incarnation. Therefore the God/Man, or God come in the likeness of sinful
flesh, occurred at the Incarnation and is not eternal. The God element (His
Holy Spirit Divine Nature) is eternal, but not the human element, and remember
that He was fully human as well as fully divine.
“The eternal heavenly
dignitaries—God, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit—arming them [the disciples]
with more than mortal energy, ... would advance with them to the work and
convince the world of sin.”—Evangelism,
616. {7ABC 442.4}
We
cannot deduce from the above statement that there are three eternal dignitaries
for the following reasons:
Ellen
White defines the Holy Spirit as Christ’s Divine nature as independent of His
human personality. As stated previously, there are only TWO ETERNAL PERSONS TO
THE GODHEAD. The adopted humanity of Christ as a GOD/MAN come in the likeness
of sinful flesh is OBVIOUSLY NOT ETERNAL, for that PERSON accrued after the Incarnation.
“We are to co-operate with the
three highest powers in heaven,—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,—and
these powers will work through us, making us workers together with God.”—Evangelism, 617. {7ABC 442.5}
Since the words: “the Son” could
refer to Christ’s Divine Nature Holy Spirit, or His human nature, and since the
Holy Ghost is the same as Christ’s Divine Nature, the above statement cannot be
construed to define three ETERNAL persons. Three HIGHEST POWERS IN HEAVEN are
very different from THREE CO-EQUAL, CO-ETERNAL PERSONS IN HEAVEN.
“Those who are baptized in the
threefold name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, at the very
entrance of their Christian life declare publicly that they have forsaken the
service of Satan and have become members of the royal family, children of the
heavenly King.”—Testimonies for the
Church 6:91. {7ABC 442.6}
In the above statement, three
persons are NAMED as designated by the word THREEFOLD. Therefore, the only way
we can interpret the statement without contradicting all the other weight of
evidence factors, is to conclude that the Son refers to the adopted humanity of
Christ, because His pre-Incarnation Sonship consisted of THE HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE
NATURE ONLY.
“Hold fast.” This does not mean,
Hold fast to your sins; but, hold fast to the comfort, the faith, the hope,
that God has given you in His Word. Never be discouraged. A discouraged man can
do nothing. Satan is seeking to discourage you, telling you it is of no use to
serve God, that it does not pay, and that it is just as well to have pleasure
and enjoyment in this world. But “what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul”? You may have worldly pleasure at the
expense of the future world; but can you afford to pay such a price? We are to
“hold fast” and live up to all the light we receive from heaven. Why?—Because
God wants us to grasp the eternal truth, and act as His helping hand by
communicating the light to those who are not acquainted with His love for them.
When you gave yourself to Christ, you made a pledge in the presence of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,—the
three great personal Dignitaries of heaven.
“Hold fast” to this pledge.... {SD 351.3}
The Father is certainly a dignitary
of heaven.
The Humanity of the Son is
certainly a dignitary of heaven.
The Holy Spirit Divine Nature of
the Son is certainly a dignitary of heaven. But only two of the three are
ETERNAL.
“The Lord Jesus described the
difficulties they should meet. Having called their minds to rise to an
eminence, He bids them behold the vast confederacy of evil arrayed against God,
against Christ, against all who unite with these holy powers. Christ tells them
they were to fight in fellowship with all the children of light; that satanic
agencies would combine their forces to extinguish the light of the life of
Christ out of their ranks. But they were not left to fight the battles in their
own human strength. The angelic host coming as ministers of God would be in that
battle. Also there would be the eternal
heavenly dignitaries—God, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit—arming them with more than mortal energy, and would
advance with them to the work, and convince the world of sin.” {16MR 204.4}
If the above or any of the Ellen White statements on the heavenly dignitaries were meant to covey THREE ETERNAL PERSONS, those statement would contradict all her many statements that the Holy Spirit HIMSELF is the soul of the life of Christ’s DIVINE NATURE. They are one and the same person as John 14 also proves.
We are to “hold fast” and live
up to all the light we receive from heaven. Why? Because God wants us to grasp
the eternal truth, and act as His helping hand by communicating the light to
those who are not acquainted with His love for them. When you gave yourself to
Christ, you made a pledge in the presence of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—the three great personal dignitaries of
heaven. “Hold fast” to this pledge.
{Ms92-1901.5}
It DOES NOT say that these three
great personal dignitaries of heaven are ETERNAL, because one of them is NOT
ETERNAL, because they include the God/Man come in the likeness of sinful flesh
as a result of the Incarnation, and then adopted into the Godhead, and NOT
ETERNAL.
“The Lord Jesus described the
difficulties they [would] meet. Having called their minds to rise to an
eminence, He bids them look and behold the vast confederacy of evil arrayed
against God, against Christ, against all who unite with these holy powers.
Christ tells them they were to fight in fellowship with all the children of
light; that satanic agencies would combine their forces to extinguish the light
of the life of Christ out of their ranks. But they were not left to fight the
battles in their own human strength; that the angelic host coming as ministers
of God would be in that battle, and also there would be the eternal heavenly dignitaries—God, and Christ, and the
Holy Spirit—arming them with more than
mortal energy, and [who] would advance with them to the work, and convince the
world of sin.” {Ms130-1901.52}
Apply my last comment above in
DITTO.
The Lord Jesus described the
difficulties they [would] meet. Having called their minds to rise to an
eminence, He bids them look and behold the vast confederacy of evil arrayed
against God, against Christ, against all who unite with these holy powers.
Christ tells them they were to fight in fellowship with all the children of
light; that satanic agencies would combine their forces to extinguish the light
of the life of Christ out of their ranks. But they were not left to fight the
battles in their own human strength; that the angelic host coming as ministers
of God would be in that battle, and also there would be the eternal heavenly dignitaries—God, and Christ, and the
Holy Spirit—arming them with more than
mortal energy, and [who] would advance with them to the work, and convince the
world of sin. {Ms130-1901.52}
Once again, the above statement
does not say the words: THREE ETERNAL DIGNITARIES, because there are not three
ETERNAL dignitaries, because the member of the Godhead that was adopted into
the Godhead of heaven AFTER the Incarnation, is obviously not eternal. Christ’s
humanity IS NOT ETERNAL. But after Christ’s humanity was adopted into the
heavenly Godhead, there has been THREE HEAVENLY DIGNITARIES, but not THREE ETERNAL HEAVENLY DIGNITARIES. To
teach three eternal heavenly dignitaries is to deny the Incarnation sacrifice
by which a THIRD NON-ETERNAL MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD ACCRUED. This is the highest
blasphemy a person could engage. That is what the professing SDA church is
teaching! That is what Rome is teaching! Any any member
of any church that teaches that greatest of all abominations is corporately for
that abominable heresy.
I have proven from the Bible and
the Spirit of Prophecy, that the three dignitaries to the Godhead are not THREE
ETERNAL, BUT TWO. There are three persons but one, the God/Man come in the
likeness of sinful flesh human nature IS NOT/ WAS NOT eternal. His humanity WAS
NOT ETERNAL and Ellen White and John 14 prove that it is not His humanity that
comes to us, but the two ETERNAL PERSONS, as the ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT OF THE
FATHER AND THE SON.
~rwb