How the Trinity Doctrine Destroys the Entire Christian Economy via The Atonement and the Sanctuary Service in Heaven

"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. They 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, Selected Messages, Bk.1, p. 204.

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Dear Reader,

The object of this document is to demonstrate exactly how and why the Trinity Doctrine, regardless of its versions as held by Rome, her apostate daughters, and now apostate Seventh-day Adventism, followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the entire Christian economy.

The common denominator of all popularly held teaching of the Trinity Doctrine all deny a sacrifice of the Son of God that met the prescribed limits of a sacrifice and the Testator Everlasting Covenant BEFORE the sacrifice on the cross.

Did Ellen White say that there was a sacrifice that met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice BEFORE the cross? Yes, indeed she did, to wit:

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}

The Godhead issue certainly involves the sanctuary and the personality of God and/or of Christ. Anything that tampers with either in an errant way sets the people of God adrift without an anchor, because the anchor, the Sanctuary Service and the Atonement of Christ, is thus GONE. Did Ellen White see that eventuality, that possibility in the Omega of Apostasy? Yes she certainly did. And she said that the Omega would be of a similar nature but far worse in scope and comprehensiveness. In other words, if there was no established and accepted prophet to the SDA church to “meet” the New Movement of 1SM 204-205 when it was in

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.

Ellen White said in the above statement that the Godhead, the personality of God and Christ, as well as the Sanctuary and Atonement are landmark, pillar doctrines. Immediately above, she said that the ministering brethren were looking on at what was being done, but did not seem to understand that the foundation of our faith was being taken down, pillar by pillar. The Sanctuary was gone, the atonement was gone. I am going to show you exactly how the Trinity Doctrine of the Godhead, carried to its logical conclusion, achieves that blasphemous end.

Two Sacrifices – One in the Sanctuary in Heaven BEFORE the cross and one on the Cross

"The darkness rolled away from the Saviour and from the Cross. Christ bowed His head and died. In His Incarnation He had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice, but not as a redeemer." E.G. White Manuscript Releases Volume Twelve, p. 409.

· Obviously, the Incarnation was a sacrifice in and of itself.

· How did the Incarnation in and of itself reach the prescribed limit as a sacrifice?

· What was the prescribed limit as a sacrifice?

· When and how were we redeemed?

"The Incarnation of Christ was an act of self-sacrifice; His life was one of continual self-denial. The highest glory of the love of God to man was manifested in the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son, who was the express image of His person. This is the great mystery of godliness. It is the privilege and the duty of every professed follower of Christ to have the mind of Christ. Without self-denial and cross bearing we cannot be His disciples." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 2, p. 185.

· How was the Incarnation of Christ an act of self-sacrifice? That is the crux of the issue that is involved with the entire Christian economy.

· The Incarnation of the Christ was an act of self-sacrifice WITHOUT the cross. But how? Why?

· The Incarnation of Christ was met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice without the cross? How? Why?

The only prescribed limit of a sacrifice according to the Everlasting Covenant was death of the Testator:

Hbr 9:16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

Hbr 9:17 For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

"I am the resurrection, and the life' (John 11:25). He who had said, 'I lay down my life, that I might take it again' (John 10:17), came forth from the grave to life that was IN HIMSELF. Humanity died; DIVINITY DID NOT DIE. In His divinity, Christ possessed the power to break the bonds of death. He declares that He has life in Himself to quicken whom He will." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 1, p. 301.

So we have a problem. If Divinity ONLY was the Testator of the Everlasting Covenant, and Divinity NEVER DIED, what then? We would have no Sanctuary Service in Heaven. We would have no atonement for sin, which must meet the penalty for the wages of sin, which are eternal death. How was the “prescribed limit” of the death penalty met BEFORE THE CROSS, because it was His sacrifice on the cross whereby Christ became our redeemer?

The Testator was the Divine Person in the form of the Son of God. The Testator was not any part human when the Testator Covenant was made. Therefore, no human sacrifice could atone for sin.

Ellen White said that Divinity did not die on the cross. If Divinity volunteered the Testator Covenant of Death, then DIVINITY ONLY must be involved in some form of eternal death to something involved with HIS LIFE while DIVINE ONLY as the acting Testator of the Everlasting Covenant.

The trinity doctrine teaches no such sacrifice in the heavenly Sanctuary BEFORE the cross. The trinity doctrine focuses entirely on the cross and divinity did not die on the cross. Big problem! The Trinity doctrine bypasses and subverts the MET “prescribed limit” of a sacrifice involved with the Atonement for man’s sin BEFORE THE CROSS—DEATH OF THE TESTATOR. That is the only “prescribed limit” of the Testator Covenant found in Scripture.

How the Prescribed Limit as a Sacrifice was met BEFORE the Cross at Which Time Christ Became Our Redeemer

To refresh your memory:

Here is the sacrifice that met the prescribed limit as a sacrifice:

Faith Works -- "While we are to be in harmony with God's law, we are not saved by the works of the law, yet we cannot be saved without obedience. The law is the standard by which character is measured. But we cannot possibly keep the commandments of God without the regenerating grace of Christ. Jesus alone can cleanse us from all sin. He does not save us by law, neither will He save us in disobedience to law." E.G. White, Faith and Works, p. 95.

What?! Jesus alone?! I thought Ellen White said that only by the Holy Spirit ALONE, c

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 the Father says that He raised up His Son Jesus to turn us away from our iniquities—sin.

Ellen White says ONLY their third person, the Holy Spirit, can hold EVIL, SIN in check! Does Ellen White contradict God? Do we have a false prophet on our hands, or is there a beautiful resolution to this “apparent contradiction” that restores the Sanctuary and the Atonement—the anchor to the entire Christian economy.

"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).

"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.

· What attributes of Christ?

· If the Holy Spirit and Christ are two distinctly different persons, how is the impartation of the Spirit the impartation of the life of Christ?

· How are the attributes of Christ the same as the attributes of the Spirit because the impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the life of Christ?

There is a resolution to this apparent dilemma and that resolution establishes the Sanctuary Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary and the Atonement which the Trinity Doctrine totally annihilates, thereby destroying the entire Christian economy. It is not becoming that fallen Rome and fallen Christianity would ever possess the spiritual discernment required to understand the truth concerning the Godhead.

"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.

· How is the soul of Christ’s life, the Holy Spirit and the Comforter if Christ is an entirely distinct person from the Holy Spirit FROM ETERNITY?

· Answer: IT ISN’T!

· The Son of God divested His Holy Spirit of His Humanity at His Incarnation in the Heavenly Sanctuary Sacrifice of His Divine attributes to become combined with humanity FOREVER.

"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 attribute enables the Godhead to be everywhere personally? Answer: The Holy Spirit.

· Did God the Father have a Holy Spirit?

· Did God the Son have a Holy Spirit?

· How many Holy Spirit’s are there to the Godhead?

Answers to the above questions:

There is ONE Eternal Spirit and that is what constitutes God as ONE God:

Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

Hbr 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

The words “A SPIRIT,” and “THE ETERNAL SPIRIT,” connote ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. So God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are ONE AND THE SAME ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. That is what constitutes them as ONE GOD.

But, wait a minute! Ellen White says that they are all three distinct, eternal personalities. And she is correct!

The Father’s ONE HOLY SPIRIT is eternal.

The Son’s ONE HOLY SPIRIT is eternal.

Thus, the ONE Holy Spirit is eternal.

So when Ellen White mentioned the eternal dignitaries, they certainly were always eternal. Now watch closely and prayerfully:

Christ emptied Himself of His Holy Spirit attributes at His Incarnation. I have proven in the past that He laid aside:

· His omnipresence attribute.

· His omnipotent attribute.

· His omniscient attribute.

"7. Made himself of no reputation. Literally, 'emptied Himself.' This emptying was voluntary (see on John 10:17, 18). It was not possible for Christ to retain all the tokens of divinity and still accomplish the Incarnation. The outworking of this emptying is detailed in the remainder of Phil. 2:7 and in v. 8. See Vol. 5, p. 918." SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 155, col. 1.

Ellen White clearly says that Christ divested His Holy Spirit from His humanity because in His humanity He could not be everywhere at once.

Then Christ said that only the Father knew the day and hour of His (Christ’s) coming. That settles the attribute of omniscience being laid aside.

Then Christ said that without His Father He could do nothing. That settles the part about the attribute of omnipotence being laid aside.

The above Ellen White statement clearly says that Christ could not be everywhere at once in His humanity. So ye laid aside and emptied Himself of His Holy Spirit attribute of omnipresence. Where did it go? It went to the Father? How do we know that? Because He told His disciples that He would pray the Father that the gift of His Holy Spirit, the Comforter, be sent to us. Further, where did all the attributes go? They went back to the Father because Divinity cannot die.

But in divesting Himself from His pre-Incarnation state of being DIVINE ONLY (not combined with humanity), He died to something FOREVER. That “death” met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice BEFORE the cross. That “eternal death” to that life, that it might be ours,” paid the penalty of our eternal death sentence for the wages of sin. The cross redeemed us from those sins by Christ taking them all upon Himself and thereby proving that even with all of the sin’s laid upon man, He need not have sinned. Thus, there was absolutely no excuse for sin.

But you say He was fully human and fully divine, and His Divinity gave Him power to refuse to sin. That is not true. If Jesus had called upon His divinity for power, Satan would justly cry foul! Why? Because that would have proved that man would have needed the same divine powers to avoid sin in the first place!

When Jesus proffers us His Divine ONLY Nature, 2 Peter 1:4, whereby we may overcome all sin, that levels the playing field. While Jesus was here on earth, Ellen White said that He availed Himself of the same power we have access to—His Divine Nature Holy Spirit that He emptied Himself of at His Incarnation. That is the greatest good, crowing gift that heaven could bestow, which He bequeathed to us at the time of His Incarnation.

He divested His Holy Spirit from His humanity, and it became a separated, separate person from His humanity. Had that separated Holy Spirit been an eternal dignity? Absolutely! That one eternal Holy Spirit of which the entire Godhead is constituted, has been an eternal dignity before Christ separated Himself from it, and after He separated or divested that eternal Holy Spirit omnipresence from Himself because He could not be everywhere at once in His humanity.

So let’s settle it once and for all: The Holy Spirit was and is an eternal dignity, PERSON, DISTINCT PERSON of the Godhead. The Father was always a distinct person of the Godhead. Part of Jesus’ form of being the Son of God in a new sense (combined with humanity FOREVER), was an eternal dignity, so now, we have three eternal dignitaries. That is all Ellen White referred to any time she mentioned three eternal dignitaries. All were present when the Son volunteered to sacrifice His eternal Holy Spirit as a bequeathed gift to us for the purpose of regeneration by overcoming sin. And since Scripture says that Christ was slain from the foundation of the earth, it appears that the Heavenly Sacrifice in the Heavenly Sanctuary took place at that time even before Christ was born of Mary, and that enters a realm of unknown territory that we cannot understand at this time. That is the mystery of the Incarnation that we will spend eternity discovering if we are faithful.

Since Christ was slain from the foundation of the earth, that is how the Holy Spirit was given to the ancient prophets to write their prophesies.

How the Trinity Doctrine Does Away with the Entire Christian Economy—the Sanctuary and the Atonement

As a mere spiritualistic error of fallen Babylon, the Trinity Doctrine totally bypasses and is subversive to the Incarnation Sacrifice that met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice, the eternal death penalty of the Everlasting Covenant, by teaching in substance that the third person did not accrue via such a SECOND SACRIFICE in addition to the cross—that met the prescribed limits of the Everlasting Covenant, some form of eternal death to something involving the Testator of the Covenant. For while He should not be dead to something FOREVER, the Atonement of the Heavenly Sanctuary would not exist.

This is how clever Satan has been in His effort to void the Atonement and the Sanctuary messages. He cleverly got man to focus on the cross ONLY, to the complete dismissal of another sacrifice that met the wages of sin—eternal death of the Testator to something was His Prior existence—His DIVINE NATURE ONLY existence. He is not combined with humanity FOREVER, said Ellen White.

But what does mainstream Christianity teach? That the only sacrifice was on the cross, and that that sacrifice paid the penalty of the wages of sin—eternal death. There is no way that that penalty could be paid by the humanity of Christ. That alone negates the Sanctuary and the Atonement. Some form of God had to die to something. No man could atone for sin, even the second manhood of Adam. No man in the nature of the second Adam could atone for the wages of sin, eternal death, by spending only three days and nights in a tomb and not man could atone for our sin by taking the world’s sin on himself.

So what did it prove when Jesus took all our sins upon His manhood and did not sin? It proved, as I stated earlier, the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome sin even when a man had all the sin of the world laid upon Him. Ellen White says that He availed Himself ONLY of the same power we may have to overcome, His laid aside Holy Spirit life and soul, sacrificed for our empowerment and regeneration at His Incarnation. Sure He was fully divine as well while here on earth. But if He had for one instant subscribed to that divinity in overcoming sin, He could not have proven that Adam need not have sinned, and could not thus be our example and Satan would justly cry foul.

It is a tremendous truth not recognized by nearly all Christianity, that Christ demonstrated the RAW POWER of His Holy Spirit gift to us, when, as a man, He subscribed to that very same POWER, and overcame sin with all the sins of the world laid upon Him. That proved that we need not have ever sinned! That redeemed us and it redeemed the justice and fairness of God in giving us instructions to obey in the first place!

Conclusions:

The Trinity Doctrine is the sophistry of Satan to negate the tremendous sacrifice that occurred at the Incarnation in the Heavenly Sanctuary—THE ATONEMENT that did pay the penalty of eternal death for the wages of our sin, and at the same time, provided “the greatest good, crowing gift,” that heaven could bestow, extra to the cross! That greatest good, crowning gift is the empowerment of the life and soul of Christ’s Holy Spirit that He emptied Himself of and laid aside for us. What a gift! And that gift is not focused on by mainstream Christianity.

That gift is totally negated by the Trinity Doctrine that teaches that the Son of God made no such sacrifice involving His Holy Spirit Divine Nature; that the Holy Spirit was merely a third person who existed forever apart from any such sacrifice in the Heavenly Sanctuary at the Incarnation—that met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice, BEFORE the cross.

That gift and the sacrifice made to furnish it, is not recognized or focused on by mainstream Christianity. Instead, they teach that we cannot overcome sin this side of glorification. That is a lie of Satan, to prevent us from receiving eternal life. That is the lie of the Trinity Doctrine. That lie has served Satan well! That lie has served Rome Well. That lie has served apostate Protestantism well. Now, that very same lie is serving apostate Seventh-day Adventism well! But what will ye do in the ends thereof?

Adventist’s had truth far superior to fallen Babylon, but what did it do? It adopted the iniquities of our forefather’s, fallen Babylon, Jeremiah 11:9-15, by adopting its erroneous and blasphemous concept of the Godhead, which taken to its logical conclusion, sweeps away the entire Christian economy by doing away with the ETERNAL SACRIFICE of the Son of Man that paid the ETERNAL WAGES OF SIN, eternal death to something involving the Testator and that Testator was DIVINE ONLY when He made that Testament. So the sacrifice had to involve something DIVINE ONLY, not admixed with humanity. That admixture served another purpose of redeeming man from sin not only by taking all sin upon Himself, but thereby proving that THE GIFT OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE NATURE is so powerful that it can empower man to overcome sin even if all the sins of the world were laid upon him. Thus, there was never any excuse for sin. God is thereby exonerated for giving us fair commandment to obey because they protect the vital interests of every individual.

God bless,

Ron