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Dear Reader, One of the most serious issues that has or
ever will befall professing Seventh-day Adventism, is the Godhead issue or
what you believe about God and the Atonement. This issue will continue to
swell as THE MAJOR ISSUE in Seventh-day Adventism. Why? Because it is intrinsically
contingent with the Lord's supper and the Transubstantiation belief by the
Catholics that the wafer partaken of in the Mass service is the actual body
of Jesus Christ. What does this have to do with the Trinity and the Godhead
issue? Everything! All who do not believe in the trinity doctrine as taught
by Catholicism and current New Movement Seventh-day Adventism (Selected
Messages, vol. 1, 204-5), are anathema to Catholics. Just as little children
died by being drowned right in front of their parents for denying that the
wafer partaken of in the Mass is the actual body of Christ, but rather a
symbol of His broken body, professing Seventh-day Adventists will someday
have to die for their belief that the trinity doctrine is false. The Tie-in Between the Trinity Doctrine
and Transubstantiation
As most Adventist's know,
Transubstantiation is the Catholic doctrine that the wafer partaken of in the
Mass is the actual body of Christ, rather than a symbol of that body. What is
the tie-in with that belief and the erroneous trinity doctrine? Just this
friend: The Sanctuary Service teaches that the Lamb
offered in sacrifice was to be perfect and without broken bone. In
fulfillment of that prophecy, not a bone of Christ's body was broken on the
cross. His body was not broken in any wise. It was pierced, but not broken
asunder in any way. The breaking of Christ's body so that it
could be shared with us, occurred in the heavenly sanctuary at the
Incarnation, where Christ died and laid aside His First Estate Being as a
gift to be given (broken and shed abroad) in the sense of being shared with
all of us in the form of His Holy Spirit as a regenerating agency. The life
is in the blood. Ellen White says that the Holy Spirit is the life (blood),
breath, and soul of Christ. The Testator of the Everlasting Covenant, which
covenant appropriated what was to be exacted by that covenant, prescribed the
death of the Testator. The Testator, the Son, was PURELY DIVINE when He
negotiated the Everlasting Covenant that pertained to how sin would be dealt
with. That means that a PURELY DIVINE BEING, namely the Son, (at His
Incarnation) would have to die to something eternally. Since Ellen White says
that Divinity cannot die, we must interpret the Son's death in some other way
that is tantamount to death.
How the Son Died an Eternal Death for Our
Sins
At His Incarnation, the Son laid aside His
PURELY DIVINE life as it was before the Incarnation, and bequeathed it to us
as His "crowning gift" to mankind. This gift enabled mankind to
partake of His purely divine nature, as the Bible solicits. This laying aside
of His Royal Robes and Scepter, constituted a certain FOREVER, ETERNAL death
to that state of the Son's Being or existence for eternity. After His
Incarnation, He became admixed with humanity forever. He was not then just
purely divine only. He was then fully divine and fully human. Christ could
have returned to that fully divine state of being at any time before His
death on the Cross. However, when He said: "Luke 23:46 And when Jesus
had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my
spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost," He could not
thereafter return to the original pure state of Divinity ONLY. He then
"died" to that original state of Being. He thus died an eternal
death for our sins. What is/was the wages of sin? Eternal death, and the Son
paid that price. Did He die an eternal death on the cross--even from His
human nature? Absolutely not! He arose three days after His human death on
the cross. But what most professing Christians do not know is that when
Christ died on the Cross, He died eternally to His former (pre-Incarnation)
life, giving that life to us in the form of His Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, as
a regenerating agency. Thus, Ellen White could say:
When Christ gave up the "Ghost"
as stated above, He gave up His Holy Spirit FOREVER, as a gift to us. He gave
it up in heaven at His Incarnation. It returned at His baptism in the form of
a dove. It was again commended to the Father for the last time just before
Christ died on the Cross. Thereafter, there was no turning back to His former
life Being as a purely Divine personage. Henceforth, He would be purely
divine and purely human forever. What death was ours? Was it three days in a
Tomb and then eternal life? Absolutely not! The death of the sinner was
eternal death. The wages of sin is death, not three days in the Tomb and then
eternal life. Only Christ had eternal life.
Christ did not die the everlasting death of
the sinner, from which there is no hope of a resurrection, and then take back
His eternal life in the same way that He had it before. He gave His life to
His people. When and where did the Son of God die the eternal death of the
sinner? At the Incarnation and on the Cross. He gave His eternal
life to His people at His Incarnation, when He then commended His Spirit to
His Father and bequeathed it as a regenerating gift to us in order that we
might be regenerated into the image of God. Christ commended His Holy Spirit to His
Father again on the Cross, just before He died. At that point, He died
an eternal death to His former (pre-Incarnation) existence. That was the death
that satisfied the Testator Covenant between the Father and the Son, which
covenant demanded the ETERNAL death of the Testator, not three days in a
Tomb, and then all returned to normal as it had been before the Incarnation.
Christ's body was FIRST broken apart (laid aside) from His original PURE
DIVINE BEING, when He was Incarnated in heaven. He then willingly volunteered
to lay down His life for two purposes: 1. As a regenerating gift to us. 2. To
satisfy the eternal death requirement of the Everlasting Covenant that was
designed to deal with sin, the wages of which is death, eternal death. The
"breaking" of His body, was His separation from His original Being
prior to His Incarnation--which was eternal, as well as His
"sharing" that Divine Nature BODY AND MIND with all who would
accept it. Another In-Depth Similitude on the
Breaking of the Son's Body
Christ became the head of
the body. The rest of the body is His people. Christ does not get back His
fully body until He receives His bride, the 144,000. Thus, Christ is part
(the Head) of the body that was broken until He gets His full body back in
the form us those who make up the rest of His body. That is another concept
to the broken body of Christ, and even when He receives those who comprise
the rest of His body (besides Himself the Head), His body will still not be
the same PURELY DIVINE ONLY body that He had before the Incarnation, because
we will never be purely divine. The Great Trinity Error That Does Total
Despite to the Atonement
The Trinity doctrine denies everything I
have just enumerated. That abominable, from the pits of hell, Satanic
doctrine, teaches that Divinity could not die, and if some form of eternal
death of the Testator's pure Divinity did not die eternally, then there was
no Atonement for sin. That is why Ellen White could further say that the gift
of Christ's Holy Spirit (His former, pre-Incarnation Life) was just essential
as His death on the Cross, because without that sacrifice, His death on the
Cross would have been of no avail:
If the Son had not died an eternal death to
His former life in satisfaction of the Testator Covenant agreement, His
sacrifice on the cross would have been of no avail, because that sacrifice
did not involve any semblance of eternal death to anything as far as the
death of the Testator was and is concerned: Death of the Testator
The Son Died an Eternal Death in the
Heavenly Sanctuary and on the Cross
Remember, yes, Christ died on the Cross!
But did He die the eternal death of the sinner on the Cross? Not if He was
resurrected in three days! But the wry twist is that He did die the eternal
death of the sinner at His Incarnation and on the cross when He (both times)
commended His Holy Spirit to His Father as a gift for us. When Christ did
that, it meant eternal death to His experiencing His former existence as
pure divinity only, and meant that He would henceforth always be fully human
as well as fully divine. That was an eternal death as far as His former
first estate Being was concerned. That eternal death satisfied the terms of
the Testator's agreement as regards The Everlasting Covenant. This issues will continue to swell as the
greatest shaking issue possible. It will have to be addressed by the
so-called "Independent Ministries," such as Our Firm Foundation,
and Hartland Institute. Hal Mayer, a worker at Hartland Institute, was arguing
for the trinity doctrine on an Internet SDA chat group. Beware of so called
"independent ministries" which have adopted this second of the 27
fundamentals of belief error as adopted into the SDA church 27 fundamentals
in 1931 and again in 1980 and on. In so doing, the New Movement SDA Church,
adopted the central doctrinal error of the Roman Catholic church. Why it is
that current day leaders in the SDA church cannot discern these eternal
verities? Here is why:
Yes George Knight, you are correct in your
Review article assessment that if Ellen White and the pioneers were alive
today, they would not join New Movement Adventism, as you have. They were
most astute in the study of the Word. They had the gift of prophecy in their
midst. They knew and taught that the trinity error did total despite to the
Atonement, and how it did so. That is more than you discern George Knight!
That is more than all of your colleagues discern. Ron Beaulieu |