Resolving the Apparent Contradictions Between Ellen White and the Bible on the Godhead

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Dear Reader, 

My presentation on the Godhead solves the following "apparent" contradictions between God and Ellen White.

 

Problem #1:

 

And Jesus said He would give us the Comforter. What is the Comforter? It is the Holy Spirit of God. What is the Holy Spirit? It is the representative of Jesus Christ, it is our Advocate that stands by our side and places our petitions before the Father all fragrant with His merits. There He accepts the petition of the humblest saint. He doesn't ask you how much money you have, or how heavy you are loaded with property, but the very humblest saint that brings his petition to God, and [his] thank offering is made fragrant with the riches of His grace, and the Father accepts it as your offering, and the blessing comes to you, grace for grace. {RC 285.4}

1.   The entire plan of Redemption is taught in the Sanctuary Service and that plan involves Christ alone. Everything in the Sanctuary points to Christ. We do not find Christ doing His work only up to a point and then being replaced or supplemented by someone else—a Third Distinct Person of the Godhead that is not intrinsically related to Christ’s pre-Incarnation Being. It is Christ who is seen represented as our sacrifice, our priest (mediator--Advocate) and ultimately our High Priest Judge.

2.   Ellen White says that the Holy Spirit is our Advocate (Mediator)

3.   In the Sanctuary Service. Christ was everything--High Priest (advocate--Mediator),  Offering--Sacrificial Lamb 

4.   The Bible says that there is ONE MEDIATOR. That Mediator is our Advocate.

5.   1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6.   1Jo 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate (one) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

7.   Major Problem if one does not accept my presentation of the Godhead: that the Holy Spirit is the pre-Incarnated life of the Son of God, then Ellen White contradicts the Bible when she says that the Advocate is the Holy Spirit and the Bible says it is Christ. 

 

Problem #2: 

 

"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).

 

1.   Ellen White says that evil (iniquity) can be held in check ONLY by the third person—Holy Spirit.

2.   God says that He raised His Son Jesus to bless us in turning away our iniquities:

3.   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.

4.   The only way to resolve this “apparent” contradiction is to conclude that the Holy Spirit is the life that WAS Christ’s life before His Incarnation. Then Ellen White and Scripture agree.

5.   The Trinity Doctrine totally denies the greatest good, crowning sacrifice of Christ before the cross: His Divine Nature Holy Spirit as a regeneration agency for us.

 

"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 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.

 

Problem #3

 

Jesus said in John 14 that He would send ANOTHER COMFORTER, the Holy Spirit.

 

Jhn 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

 

Ellen White said that the Saviour (Christ) is our Comforter.

July 16, 1892: The Saviour is our Comforter. This I have proved Him to be. {8MR 49.3}

 

Using this Bible tool: http://www.bju.edu/bible/bible.php?b=gen&c=1&v=0&d=1&w=0

Look up the word comforter in John 14:16. You will get the following definition: 

Number 3875

Transliteration:

parakletos {par-ak'-lay-tos}

Word Origin:

a root word

TDNT:

5:800,782

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Usage in the KJV:

comforter 4, advocate 1

Total: 5

Definition:

1.                         summoned, called to one's side, esp. called to one's aid

1.                                             one who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate

2.                                             one who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor

1.                                                                 of Christ in his exaltation at God's right hand, pleading with God the Father for the pardon of our sins

3.                                             in the widest sense, a helper, succourer, aider, assistant

1.                                                                 of the Holy Spirit destined to take the place of Christ with the apostles (after his ascension to the Father), to lead them to a deeper knowledge of the gospel truth, and give them divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine kingdom

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

 

 "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 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.

“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.

“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.