ARGUMENTS
AGINST
SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISM
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October
30, 2023
TABLE
OF CONTENTS:
1. “BEAR THE
INIQUITY” MEANS “TOB BEAR THE PUNISHMENT, OR PENALTY, OF UNATDONED SIN.
2. FOR
PRIESTS, “BEAR THE INIQUITY” MEANS TO BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY AND MINISTRY OF
REMOVING SIN THROUGH BLOOD SACRIFICES.
3. SACRIFICIAL BLOOD WASHES AWAY SINS, PLUS MUCH
MORE. IT DOES NOT DEFILE.
4. THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS MOST HOLY.
5. IDENTICAL RITUALS CANNOT PERFORM OPPOSITE
FUNCTIONS.
6. WILLFUL
SINS AND JUDGES ARE IGNORED IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY.
7. GOD IS
OMNISCIENT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE CENTURIES TO READ BOOKS.
8. THE SDA
INTERPRETATION OF DANIEL 8:9-14 MAKES JESUS THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO DEFILES GOD’S
MOST HOLY PLACE.
9. ATONED SIN NEVER PASSED THE DOORWAY OF THE
SANCTUARY.
10. THE
EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND LAND WERE DEFILED BY UNATONED AND UNFORGIVEN SIN.
11. THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED ON THE
DAY OF ATONEMENT.
12. GOD DOES NOT REQUIRE EVERY SIN TO HAVE BEEN
CONFESED IN ORDER TO SAVE.
13. GOD WOULD
NEVER ALLOW SATAN INTO HIS MOST HOLY PLACE.
14. WILLIAM MILLER WAS A FALSE PROPHET.
15. ELLEN G WHITE
ARGUMEN
TS
AGINST
SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISM
russkellyphd@yahoo.com
October
30, 2023
Since any of
the following biblical arguments would destroy the necessity for Seventh-day
Adventists to exist, a detailed answer to each one of the points below is
hereby requested.
1. “BEAR THE INIQUITY” MEANS “TO BEAR THE
PUNISHMENT, OR PENALTY, OF UNATONED SIN.
The very most
important doctrine of Seventh-day Adventism is that priests and Jesus Christ
carried sins into the sanctuary and defiled it. If “bare the iniquity” does not
mean “carry sins into the sanctuary,” there is no reason for the SDA church to
exist.
There are two extremely
different meanings for “bear the iniquity” in God’s Word. By far the most
common meaning of “bearing the iniquity,” refers to unatoned and unforgiven sins.
The guilty “bear” the punishment, or penalty, of their own sins and iniquities
and they pay the price for their own sins. In their effort to prove that
priests bear sins into the sanctuary to defile it, Seventh-day Adventists
ignore this definition.
In Exodus
28:43 and Numbers 18:32, “bare iniquity” cannot possibly mean “carry sins into
the sanctuary.” The penalty for sin was death for ministering priests.
Num 18:32
[eating the most holy heave offering] And ye shall bear no sin by reason of
it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute
the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers 18:32
specifically teaches that priests who correctly eat the heave offering as God
directed “bear no sin by reason of it.” Priests who deviated from God’s
specific instructions were to “die” for “polluting the holy things.” Yet SDAs
teach that priests defile the sanctuary every time they minister the
forgiveness of sins and carry sins into the sanctuary.
The following
is a partial listing of biblical texts illustrating “bear the iniquity” in its
primary usage. This list includes both presumptuous willful sins handled by the
judges and sins of omission, ignorance or accident which were ministered by the
priests in the sanctuary. (Lev 5:1, 17; 7:18; 17:16; 19:8; 19:20; 20:17; 22:8,
9; 24:15; Num 5:31; 9:13; 14:33-35; 15:30-31; 30:14-15; Eze 18:20; 23:49; Mic
7:9).
Jesus fell
into this category. Jesus died vicariously (for others) as a sinner and not as
a priest. Jesus died once for all time for all sins (Heb 9:24). Jesus was THE literal
sin-bearer (2 Cor 5:21). And those who want redemption must come to Him.
Isa 53:6 All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
…
2 Cor 5:21 For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
…
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. Also 1
Cor 5:3; 11:27-30; Gal 1:4; Heb 12:8; 1 Jn 2:2; 3:5; 4:10; Rev 1:5.
Jesus died as
a sinner and non-priestly sin-bearer. He washed away our sins at the foot of the cross. He did not
carry sins into the Most Holy Place of the universe to defile it.
In all of
Seventh-day Adventist theology, its single most-damning doctrine is that
priests and Jesus Himself, literally “bear iniquity” inside of the sanctuary
and defile it. Seventh-day Adventism stands or falls upon its ability to prove
this doctrine from the Word of God.
This second, far
less common, biblical definition of “bearing the iniquity” only refers to
priests. For priests “bearing iniquity” means bearing the responsibility of
ensuring that sin is properly atoned through their sacrificial ministry.
Ex 28:38 And
it [HOLINESS TO THE LORD] shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may
bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow
in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that
they may be accepted before the LORD.
Contrast
Exodus 28:38 with 28:43: “And they [britches] shall be upon Aaron, and upon his
sons … that they bear not iniquity, and die …”
It is obvious
that Exodus 28:38 and 28:43 reflect the two very different definitions for
“bearing iniquity.” This fact must be taken into consideration by Seventh-day
Adventists.
Lev 10:17
Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it
is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
…
Num 18:1 Thou
and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of
the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood.
Num 18:2 … but
thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of
witness.
Commenting on
Numbers 18, the Matthew Henry Commentary says, “That both the priests
and Levites should bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; that is, if
the sanctuary were profaned by the intrusion of strangers, or persons in their
uncleanness, the blame should lie upon the Levites and priests, who ought
to have kept them off. Though the sinner that thrust in presumptuously should
die in his iniquity, yet his blood should be required at the hands of the
watchmen.”
Matthew Henry
continues, Or, it may be taken more generally: "If any of the duties or
offices of the sanctuary be neglected, if any service be not done in its season
or not according to the law, if anything be lost or misplaced in the removal of
the sanctuary, you shall be accountable for it, and answer it at your
peril." … “That the priests should themselves bear the iniquity of
the priesthood; that is, if they either neglected any part of their work or permitted
any other persons to invade their office, and take their work out of
their hands, they should bear the blame of it.” “That both priests and
Levites must carefully watch against the profanation of sacred things.” Nothing
is said about literally carrying sin into the sanctuary to defile it.
Seventh-day
Adventists justify their very existence by their one-of-a-kind interpretation
that priests literally “bear sins” into the sanctuary and defile it with atoned
sins of believers (placed there by Jesus Himself).
Again, whenever
the phrase, “bear the iniquity” refers to priests, the correct lesser
interpretation of “sin bearer” is “one who has the responsibility, or
ministry, of taking away sin via blood sacrifices.” The sacrifice itself is
the real “sin bearer” of the first definition, not the priests (Heb 9:24; 2 Cor
5:21). It is the priests’ responsibility to ensure that the sacrifice was
ministered correctly!
3. SACRIFICIAL
BLOOD WASHES AWAY SINS, PLUS MUCH MORE. IT DOESS NOT DEFILE.
In
the Old Testament
In Exodus
12:13, God taught Israel that the blood of an innocent sacrifice would cause
Him to “pass over sin.” In Leviticus the priests’ daily ministry insured
that the sacrificial ritual procedure was followed exactly as God had
instructed. At the moment a sacrifice for a minor sin of ignorance, omission or
accidental sin died at the entrance of the sanctuary --- “the priest shall make
an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven.”
Total
forgiveness was granted the moment the sacrifice died. This same formula is
found in Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 19:22 and Num
15:25, 28. In Lev 8:15 sacrificial blood had three functions: it purified and
sanctified the altar and made reconciliation upon it.
In
the New Testament
The following New
Testament texts include many other functions performed by the sacrificial blood
of Jesus Christ. There is no hint that the same blood also transferred atoned sins
of the forgiven beyond the foot of the cross into God’s Most Holy Place (as
Seventh-day Adventism teaches).
A.
Acts 20:28 Christ has “purchased” believers with “His own blood.”
B.
Rom 3:25 “through faith in the blood to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past”
C.
Rom 5:9 “being now justified by his blood.”
D.
1 Cor 6:11 “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.”
E. 1
Cor 11:25 “the new testament in my blood”
F. Eph 1:7 “In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of
his grace.”
G. Col 1:14 “In whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
H. Heb
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?”
I. Heb 9:22 “without shedding of blood
is no remission.”
J. 1 Peter 1:18 “Forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.”
K. 1 Peter 1:19 “But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
L. Rev 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is
the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood.”
Beyond all of
the good things sacrificial blood accomplishes, there is no biblical text which
teaches that Christ’s blood also defiles the heavenly sanctuary. In view of the
preceding texts (and many others), the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine that
Jesus’ blood defiled (and is still defiling) the heavenly sanctuary with the
atoned sins of believers is horrendous.
4. THE
ENTIRE SANCTUARY TEACHES THE GLORIOUS MOST HOLINESS OF GOD.
By teaching
that the earthly and, especially, the heavenly sanctuaries were defiled,
Seventh-day Adventists make a mockery of the very holiness of God.
In Exodus 28:38,
with HOLINESS TO THE LORD on his forehead, Aaron was to “bear the iniquity
of the holy things which the children of Israel shall hallow in all
their holy gifts. In 28:41, the priests were anointed, consecrated and
sanctified to minister to God. Again, In Exodus 29:1 God said the priests
were “hallowed to minister unto me” “at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.” The priests primarily ministered in all of their holiness “to
God, to me” and not to the people. They were reconciling the sinful people to
God --- not defiling God’s Most Holy Place. And they were not dong so with
blood which defiled the sanctuary.
In Exodus 29:37,
after 7 days of ritual to purify and sanctify the altar, God said the altar “shall
be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.” Lev
6:18 and 6:26 repeat this. This is the very opposite of SDA theology which
teaches that the atoned sins of believers defile the sanctuary.
In Exodus 29:42-44
God said “at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: I
will meet you, to speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the
children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. And
I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will
sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's
office.”
Since God’s
Most Holy Place, is WHERE HE IS, the doorway of the tabernacle where the
sacrifice died, is equally Most Holy --- it is not a place where defilement
begins.
All offerings
unto God became most holy and could only be offered by most holy priests. See
Lev 6:25; 10:17 and Num 18:8-9.
In Leviticus
16:13 the High Priest on the Day of Atonement would die if the incense did not
obscure the mercy seat. In Isaiah 6:3-5, while in the temple, the prophet,
Isaiah, was greatly shaken while seeing the smoke of God’s Presence. And, in
Second Thessalonians 2:8 the wicked will be destroyed “with the brightness of [Christ’s]
coming.”
Such is the
awesome holiness of God! Yet, in their attempt to prove that the sanctuary can
be defiled by atoned sin, Seventh-day Adventists totally ignore the extreme
holiness of the sanctuary. When the sacrifice died as a sin offering at the
entrance of the sanctuary, the payment for the confessed sin was complete and
the sin itself was exterminated. The ministering “most holy” priest collected
the “most holy” blood of the now “most holy” sin offering and either placed it
on the “most holy” altar or ate portions of the “most holy” sacrifice.
No Christian
should teach that the blood of Christ defiles! It is pure blasphemy to blame
Christ’s blood for defiling God’s throne.
5.
IDENTICAL RITUALS CANNOT PERFORM OPPOSITE FUNCTIONS.
Seventh-day
Adventists teach that the same blood of Jesus which daily washes away sin also daily
defiles the Most Holy Place of the universe (G421).
Throughout the
year ordinary believers, Levites and priests confessed their revealed sins of omission,
ignorance and accidental sins before the ministering priests at the door of the
sanctuary. On the Day of Atonement, at the end of the religious year, residual (remaining)
unconfessed sins of omission of the entire congregation were all confessed at
one time as a nation.
Both rituals were
identical!!! Yet SDAs teach that the daily sacrifices defiled the sanctuary
while the yearly sacrifices cleansed it. This is contrary to common sense.
6. WILLFUL
SINS AND JUDGES ARE IGNORED IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY.
Ps 89:14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go
before thy face.
SDAs say very
little about Israel’s judges and judicial system which ministered the vast
majority of Israel’s sins --- presumptuous willful sins. Since priests only
ministered minor sins of omission, ignorance or accidental sins, only those
sins would be atoned and recorded in God’s books. See Leviticus 4:2, 13, 22,
27; 5:15, 18 and Num 15:27-29 for sins of ignorance, omission and accident.
Deliberate sins
were expiated, eliminated or paid for by punishment and required no priestly
atonement. They were very much the majority of sins. Yet there is no great
discussion of these in SDA theology. See Exodus 21:24; 22:18, 20; 30:21; 31:14;
Leviticus 7:21, 25-27; 10 all; 18 all; 20 all; 24:16, 20 and Deut 19:21. The
guilty persons “bore their own iniquity. Also, see Numbers 5:31; 30:15; Ezekiel
18:20.
There never has
been sacrifices which man can provide for willful sin. The judicial system
punished willful sin.
Heb 10:26 “For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.”
The
presumptuous sinner was, and still is, at the mercy of God, the judge to punish
that sin.
Heb 10:28 “But
a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries.”
Hebrews who
confessed their presumptuous sins to the judges were not prescribed sacrifices;
instead, they were punished as the judges determined. Punished sins do not
require the double payment of a sacrifice.
Heb 12:6 For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye
endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8 But
if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards,
and not sons.
7.
GOD IS OMNISCIENT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE CENTURIES TO READ BOOKS.
Isa 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure.
God does not
require hundreds of years to read books in heaven. God is perfect in knowledge (Job 37:16). His understanding is
infinite (Ps 139:6; 147:5; Isa 55:8-9; Rom 11:39). God “knows all things” (John 21:17; 1
John 3:20).
When discussing Christ’s need to read books in heaven,
Seventh-day Adventists simply ignore the above texts. These texts destroy the
SDA teaching that Jesus cannot return until He completes reading books in
heaven to determine whom to save. Otherwise, SDAs teach that God is Omniscient.
While elaborating on prophecy in great detail, this one fact makes the SDA
doctrine of Christ reading books in heaven totally unnecessary.
Although Ellen
G. White and SDAs avoid interpreting Daniel 8:9-14 as a unit, they do make the
following clear:
A. Daniel 8:9-10 WHO: pagan Rome is the little
horn Antichrist. HOW: pagan Rome defiled the earthly sanctuary in A.D. 70 by
destroying it.
B. Daniel 8:11-12 WHO: papal Rome is the little
horn Antichrist. HOW: papal Rome defiled the sanctuary by replacing it with the
confessional. For further information on pagan and papal Rome, see The
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary, “little horn” and “abomination,”
1960.
C. Daniel 8:13-14 WHO: Seventh-day Adventists
depict Jesus Christ as the great hero. HOW: Jesus began cleansing the heavenly
sanctuary in 1844.
D. Daniel 8:13-14 WHO: Jesus Himself is the worst
little horn Antichrist. HOW: Jesus has been (and is still continually) defiling
the sanctuary in heaven by placing the atoned sins of the saints there. Therefore,
Jesus is the worst of the three little horn powers seen in Daniel 8:9-14.
GC421
“As anciently the sins of the people were by faith placed upon the sin offering
and through its blood transferred in figure, to the earthly sanctuary, so in
the new covenant the sins of the repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and transferred
in fact to the heavenly sanctuary.”
Shocking,
but absolutely true, when SDAs teach that Jesus carried (and is still carrying)
atoned sins into the heavenly sanctuary, they inadvertently make Jesus the Anti-Christ
of Daniel 8.
9. ATONED SIN NEVER PASSED THE DOORWAY OF THE
SANCTUARY.
Seventh-day
Adventist doctrine ignores the extreme holiness of the earthly sanctuary and,
especially, the heavenly sanctuary. While the following examples were forbidden
and carried severe punishments, they faintly compare to teaching that priests
literally carried sin into the sanctuary to defile it.
A. Eating leaven during Passover resulted in
death (Ex 12:19; 34:25; Lev 10:12). If eating leaven was punished by death, how
much worse would be the punishment of carrying sin into the sanctuary to defile
it?
B. Leaven, a symbol of sin, was not to enter
the sanctuary (Lev 2:11). How can actual
sin enter the sanctuary while a symbol of sin cannot?
C. Non-Levites who entered the holy areas of
the sanctuary were put to death (Lev 22:3).
D. Unclean priests were put to death (Lev
23:17; Ex 28:43; Num 18:32). This makes no sense if priests routinely carried
sin into the sanctuary through sacrificial blood.
D. All of the sacrifices and offerings were
“most holy” (Lev 6:17, 25; 7:1; Num 18:7-10). Offerings could not be “most
holy” if they were carrying sins.
These facts
all contradict the SDA interpretation of atoned sin defiling the sanctuary.
10.
THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND LAND WERE DEFILED BY UNATONED AND UNFORGIVEN SIN.
QUESTION:
How was the sanctuary defiled?
ANSWER:
God does not allow His heavenly sanctuary to be defiled. The earthly sanctuary
was defiled by unatoned sins and by merely being located “in the midst” of a
sinful people.
Lev
15:31, those who remain unclean die “when they defile my tabernacle that is
among them.”
…
Lev
16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in
all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that
remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
…
Lev
16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month,
on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at
all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among
you:
Lev
16:30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
…
Num
5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper,
and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Num
5:3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them;
that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
…
Num
19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth
not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD …
Num
35:34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell:
for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
The Day of
Atonement was a yearly residual cleansing of “that which remains,” in other
words, unatoned sins (Lev 16:16). These were the left-over accidental, unintentional
sins of omission which had not been confessed and atoned through the daily
sacrifices of the year. They did not include the great majority of presumptive
sins nor previously confessed and atoned sins.
Commenting on
Numbers 18:1-5, The Wycliffe Bible Commentary says, “Since there was
always the possibility of the sanctuary's being defiled by someone unwittingly,
the holy place itself and the altar had to be cleansed (Ex 29:36-37; Lev
16:20).”
Seventh-day
Adventists stand alone on the reason they give for the yearly cleansing of the
sanctuary --- to remove the previously atoned sins of the saints which had
defiled it.
From my book, Exposing
Seventh-day Adventism, page 64: Unger’s Bible Dictionary, Day of
Atonement, says, “Even with the most scrupulous observance of the
prescribed ordinances, many sins and defilements would still remain
unacknowledged and, therefore, without expiation. This want was met by a
yearly, general and perfect expiation of all the sins and uncleanness that had
remained un-atoned for and uncleaned in the course of the year (Lev 16:33).” The
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia adds “The atonement takes place
for the sanctuary which has been defiled by the contamination of the
Israelites.”
A. Israel was to “afflict your souls” for residual
unintentional and accidental sin which had not been confessed already (Lev 16:29,
31; 23:27, 32; 29:7).
B. Lev 20:3, those who give their children to
Molech defile God’s sanctuary and holy name.
C. In Num 19:20 the man that shall be unclean
and not purify himself shall be cut off from among the congregation, because
he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD.
D. In Numbers 35:34, shedding innocent blood
defiles God’s land.
E. Referring to the Christian’s body, 1 Cor
3:17 says the believer’s body is the temple of God and God will destroy any man
who defiles it.
As long as
Seventh-day Adventists do not accept this truth, they cannot understand how and
why the sanctuary was defiled.
11.
THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED ON
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
GC421
“For eighteen centuries the work of ministration continued in the first
apartment of the sanctuary.”
The
biblical truth is that, if one part of the sanctuary became defiled, all of it would
be defiled. For example, desecration of the great altar by Antiochus Epiphanes
IV in 168 B. C. required the entire sanctuary to be cleansed in 165 B. C.
Lev 16:18 And
he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement
for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the
goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
…
Lev 16:20 And when
he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
…
Lev 16:33 “And
he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an
atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he
shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
congregation.”
Except for a brief reference in The Great
Controversy, pages 418-419, SDAs totally ignore the biblical fact that defiling
the Most Holy Place with the atoned sins of believers would also defile the
entire sanctuary --- including the Holy Place where Jesus supposedly ministered
for 1800+ years. Seventh-day Adventists place Jesus’ ministry inside a defiled
Holy Place before entering the even-more defiled Most Holy Place. It is wrong
to stress the necessary cleansing of the Most Holy Place and ignore the
remainder of the sanctuary.
12. GOD DOES
NOT REQUIRE EVERY SIN TO BE CONFESSED IN ORDER TO SAVE.
1 John 1:9 “If
we confess our [known] sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our [known] sins,
and to cleanse us from all [other] unrighteousness.”
Almost nobody dies immediately after confessing sins. Instead, most die with
unconfessed sins. Roman Catholics explain minor sins after using the
confessional with Purgatory.
However, God
knows the future and our hearts. In First John 1:9, God has promised believers
that He will go beyond forgiving known sins and “cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.”
Most
Seventh-day Adventists do not realize that Ellen G. White taught that only
believers who have died with every sin confessed will be saved. In The Great
Controversy, Facing Life’s Record, details this requirement. The
horrific quotations below are softened among many great-sounding statements of
hope. However, the obvious conclusion is that she believes very few will be
saved --- not even Seventh-day Adventists.
GC483: “Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated.
Names are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books
of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the
book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book
of God's remembrance.”
GC484: “Jesus does
not excuse their sins, but shows their penitence and faith.”
GC486: “Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not
be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness
against the sinner in the day of God.”
GC487: … “Words once spoken, deeds once done, can never be
recalled. … Our acts, our words, even our most secret motives, all have their
weight in deciding our destiny for weal or woe. Though they may be forgotten by
us, they will bear their testimony to justify or condemn.”
One cannot
imagine the impact the above words will have upon the average Seventh-day
Adventist who reads them for the first time.
13.
GOD WOULD NEVER ALLOW SATAN INTO HIS MOST HOLY PLACE.
Yet Ellen G.
White taught that Satan is alongside Jesus in the Most Holy Place accusing
believers while Jesus is examining the books of heaven. Satan is not
omni-present like God.
Gc484 “While
Jesus is pleading for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God
as transgressors.”
14. WILLIAM MILLER WAS A FALSE PROPHET.
Miller taught
that Daniel 8:14 predicted:
A. Jesus would return between 1843-1844.
B. The 2300 days were 2300 years ending in
1844.
C. The sanctuary was earth.
D. Earth would be destroyed by fire in 1843 or
1844.
E. Churches which disagreed with him (Babylon)
fell in the summer of 1844.
Seventh-day
Adventists teach that William Miller (1) was a true prophet, (2) his “judgment”
message from Revelation 14:7 referred to their explanation of the investigative
judgment and (3) that God guided William Miller supernaturally in his doctrine.
Ellen G. White devoted five chapters to Miller in The Great Controversy
in defense of him and his prophecies (chapters 18-22).
Because of
their refusal to reject Miller and return to their former churches (as Miller
did), their resulting SDA theology is among the very worst among Christianity.
A total rejection of both William Miller and Ellen G. White would be required
for Seventh-day Adventism to be accepted as a legitimate Christian
denomination.
15. ELLEN G WHITE WAS A FALSE PROPHET WHO
FOLLOWED A FALSE PROPHET.
This author
(Russell E Kelly) has catalogued and commented on hundreds of EGW quotes from her
most important book, The Great Controversy. Although the first 316 of
694 pages contain many admitted quotations from historians, she claims “Through
the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the scenes of the long-continued conflict
between good and evil have been opened to the writer of these pages” (x). “I
have been bidden to make known to others that which has been revealed” (xi).
Copies of the hundreds of EGW errors from GC will be sent free via email upon
request.
At least until
the final disappointment of October 22, 1844, Ellen G. White was a devote
disciple of the famous false prophet, William Miller. Living through Miller’s
height of popularity, she taught the same false signs of the soon second coming
of Christ to earth in 1844.
Ellen G. White
was wrong on almost every doctrine she endorsed. By accepting her writings as
inspired, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is locked into a false theology and
cannot extricate itself without denying its acceptance of Ellen G. White as a
prophetess.
Russell Earl
Kelly, PHD
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