Larry,
In 1973, at the age of 29 and marred with 2 small children,
I became an SDA, quit my job and moved to Collegedale, Tn to study for the SDA
ministry. This 4-year degree was achieved in 3 years because of a summer schedule
and cost me much in lost sleep working a full-time job and repaying student
loans. I accepted a call to North Dakota and later South Carolina. My third
church in South Carolina soon grew to overflowing capacity because of my success
in soul-winning. I was an SDA fanatic
and found it easy to lead Christians to abandon their previous faith and follow
the “truth.” Believe me, I have been in your shoes.
Why did I become an SDA? First, the Southern Baptist’s erroneously
teach that “the Ten Commandments are the unchangeable infallible will of God.”
Second, the SDA evangelist lied to my face by saying “EGW is not considered as
inspired as is the Bible.”
My erroneous logic was “If I have been so wrong about the
Sabbath, then perhaps I have been wrong about the other SDA doctrines also.”
Upon that false premise I totally immersed myself into SDA theology.
The Southern Baptists’ statement about the Ten Commandments
was unbiblical. Except for the Sabbath, all of the other 9 are repeated to the
Church after Calvary in terms of the New Covenant. According to Exodus
31:13-18, the 7th day Sabbath of the Law was only a unique sign of
the Old Covenant God mad only with national Israel. In fact, He commanded
Israel NOT to share its covenant with others.
The SDA evangelist was wrong. One cannot become an honest
SDA without accepting EGW’s writings as equally inspired as the Bible. My
website documents hundreds of EGW errors and the very worst of them is the
Investigative Judgment.
You ask me to be objective. I take Daniel 8:9-14 and explain it word by
word exactly as SDAs explain it in their commentary and Bible dictionary. I
objectively conclude that YOU teach that Jesus personally DEFILED the heavenly sanctuary
every time He BEARS sin into it via His own blood! And that is exactly HOW EGW explains
the cause of the defilement of the heavenly sanctuary!!!! I then ask you to
reply to my deductions in a word-for-word explanation of Daniel 8:9-14. And YOU un-objectively refuse to do so and
call me “un-objective.” SDA theologians are all cowards.
In the final chapters of The
Great Controversy, EGW says that Jesus Will KILL all who have the Mark of the
Beast (?worship on Sunday?) when He returns.
That will include me if you are correct. Yet you expect me to treat your
church with respect when your church has no respect for honest God-fearing God-loving
faith-full persons as myself.
I accepted Jesus Christ as my
personal Lord and Savior decades before becoming a Seventh-day Adventist. The
Holy Spirit convicted me as a sinner; I confessed my sins and sinfulness; I accepted
Jesus as my sin-bearer and Savior and I asked Christ to save me. According to His Word, I was saved; my
confession and repentance was accepted and I was truly “born again”. Since it
is impossible to become “unborn,” I cannot fall from grace because the Holy
Spirit is incorruptible.
If you want honest dialog, I ask you
again to explain Daniel 8:9-14. EGW
never attempts to explain those texts.
In Christ’s love
Russ Kelly