Ol’ Phil here is a 4-generation SDA, if my memory serves correctly.
He is steeped in cultism.
We keep hoping one day that he will read texts like you just posted. (Very, very good, btw.)
No luck so far, though, ‘cause he’s still in Phil’s world of the cult known as SDA.
But on we trod, right?
I’ve known some of the same types, and after listening to their boasting of themselves and attempts to bring others under bondage, I am reminded of the Words of Jesus...
Matthew 23:23-25
King James Version
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.