Vance Ferrell
Persists in Error on the Holy Spirit
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Dear
reader, Vance Ferrell updated his WebSite
on February 8, 2003. Included in this update he added material on the Holy
Spirit entitled Proof That the Holy Spirit
Exists. In this study he denies that
the Holy Spirit is the former (pre-Incarnation) life of Christ, and states
that the Holy Spirit is not Christ, but an entirely different person. This is
totally contrary and contradictory to the following statement by Ellen White,
which Vance Ferrell still fails to deal with in his latest personal opinion
spiel on the Holy Spirit. Vance's material on the Holy Spirit is still
conspicuously omitting of the following statements from Scripture and Ellen
White, defining precisely who the Holy Spirit is? 2Cr 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and
where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. "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. Vance says straight out that the Holy Spirit
is not Christ. In this he proves God and Ellen White correct in maintaining,
that the ministering watchmen do not understand the Godhead and how it
relates to the personality of God (Christ) and His presence. "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. "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!" E.G. White, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904. The only way anyone can interpret the two
following statements so that nothing contradicts is to conclude that the Holy
Spirit is the preincarnate
life, breath and soul of Christ: "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.--E.G.
White, Evangelism, p. 617. "Christ is THE SOURCE of every right
impulse. He is the ONLY ONE who can arouse in the natural heart, enmity
against sin. He is THE SOURCE of our power if we would be saved." E.G.
White, Review and Herald, April 1, 1890. The Godhead is comprised of the Father and two
forms of the Son--His pre-Incarnated form of Being and His post-Incarnated
form of Being. The trinity godhead is composed of the Father, the Son, and
another person called the Holy Spirit which is supposed to be another
Comforter separate and distinct from the Son to comprise the third person.
Since the third person is also another form of the Son, it is absolute
blasphemy to designate that third person as another person separate from that
of the Son. That third person of the trinity is an imposter. That introduces
error and confusion into the Godhead and we all know who the author of error
and confusion is. That is precisely how Satan has introduced himself into a
false godhead--the godhead of the trinity doctrine. Ministering Brethren Cannot Understand the Omega Heresy
Ellen White said that the Alpha and Omega
Heresy would involve speculation concerning "I have been instructed by the heavenly
messenger that some of the reasoning in the book Living Temple is unsound,
and that this reasoning would lead astray the minds of those who are not
thoroughly established on the on the foundation principles of present truth.
It introduces that which is naught but speculation in regard to the
personality of God and where Is presence is [the
Godhead]. No one on this earth has a right to speculate on this question.
The more fanciful theories are discussed, the less men
will know of God and of the truth that sanctifies the soul." E.G. White,
Selected Messages, vol. 1, 201-202. "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. The 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, ibid., p. 204. God and Ellen White said that the watchmen,
the ministering brethren, cannot understand. Ellen White said that the
Atonement and the Sanctuary were GONE, but the ministering brethren were
looking on and could not seem to understand:
Isaiah 56:10-12, says that the watchmen
(ministering brethren of which Vance is one) cannot understand: "His WATCHMEN are blind: they are all
ignorant, the are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down
loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and
THEY ARE SHEPHERDS that cannot understand: they all look to their own way,
every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch
wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to
morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." Isaiah
56:10-12. Ellen White included professing Seventh-day
Adventist shepherds in the class of dumb dogs that will never bark again:
There are watchmen that "appear" to
bark, but they never take a correct stance to the apostasy, and they never
understand the full seriousness of ecumenical involvement and baptismal vows
which pledge on to the Omega Heresy--the Trinity doctrine. Thus, they all,
like Vance Ferrell, admonish their unwary sheep followers to remain in a
church that has "removed God" (Selected Messages, vol. 1, 205).
They admonish unwary sheep to remain in a church that has returned to the
iniquities of its forefathers, Jeremiah 11:9-15, and the trinity doctrine is
a specific example of returning to the iniquities of SDA forefathers, the
mainline churches, and their embracement of the trinity error, that crept
into the church in 325 A.D., and the SDA church in
1931. Jeremiah 11:15 is proper advice when such
apostasies accrue, but the watchmen do not give that advice. Thus, they
advise their wanton sheep followers to stay for the end-time debacle of
Ezekiel 9 and its literal fulfillment: "Study the 9th chapter of Ezekiel. These
words will be literally fulfilled; yet the time is passing, and the
people are asleep. They refuse to humble their souls and to be converted. Not
a great while longer will the Lord bear with the people who have such great
and important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to bring these truths
into their individual experience. The time is short. God is calling; will YOU
hear? Will YOU receive His message? Will YOU be converted before it is too
late? Soon, very soon, every case will be decided for eternity. Letter 106,
1909, pp. 2, 3, 5, 7. (To "The churches in Oakland and Berkeley,
September 26, 1909.)" E. G. White Manuscript Releases Volume One, p.
260. Read chapter 1 of the Great Controversy, to
see what will happen in the next fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, BEGINNING at His
Sanctuary [Jerusalem], the professing SDA church, and ending with the world
as Jerusalem, after the world has heard the gospel. You have been warned. Ron Beaulieu For additional study see this link: |