Did Ellen White teach ‘A Different God’?
“The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty.” -Ellen G. White (1903, ms 150, SDA Commentary V, p. 1129)
Dr. Verle Streifling
Yes!
Recounting her vision of December, 1844, Ellen speaks of her and Jesus as “In a moment we were winging our way upward…” Seeing this, in the light of her calling Him “Michael the Archangel” (Desire of Ages pp. 99, 379; Spiritual Gifts Vol. 1, p. 158; Prophets & Kings p. 572) one is led to question if she did not, in fact, really view Him as just that—an angel! And if so, what of His deity and bodily resurrection?
SDA Pioneers as Arians for over 50 years
Arian: The Son is not of the same substance as the Father but was created as an agent for creating the world. -Webster’s Dictionary
It is well known that the early Adventist leaders and founders were Arians, who denied the deity of Christ, and the Trinity. Their article “The Doctrine of the Trinity Among Adventists” by Gerhard Pfandi, of their Biblical Research Institute (referred to as “Trinity”
“Two of the principal founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Joseph Bates and James White, were originally members of the Christian Connection Church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity…Other prominent Adventists who spoke out against the Trinity were J.N. Loughborough, R.F. Cottrell, J.N. Andrews, and Uriah Smith…”
These SDA leaders denied Jesus’ deity and the Trinity. Joseph Bates, raised in the Congregational Church, repudiated the Trinity doctrine upon joining the Christian Connection Church. Bates learned the Sabbath doctrine from Rachel Oakes, a Seventh-day Baptist; however, Bates did not accept the Seventh-day Baptist
doctrine of the Trinity…Other prominent Adventists who spoke out against the Trinity were J.N. Loughborough, R.F. Cottrell, J.N. Andrews, and Uriah Smith…”
These SDA leaders denied Jesus’ deity and the Trinity. Joseph Bates, raised in the Congregational Church, repudiated the Trinity doctrine upon joining the Christian Connection Church. Bates learned the Sabbath doctrine from Rachel Oakes, a Seventh-day Baptist; however, Bates did not accept the Seventh-day Baptist doctrine of the Trinity. So, early Adventists had more in common with the Shakers, who not only kept the Sabbath and had prophets, but also believed in Arianism. Only by the turn of the century did Adventism begin to move out of Arianism to espousing Jesus’ deity, and subsequently, the Trinity. This was hard to do in light of Ellen White’s statements, spanning over 50 years, upholding Arianism.
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https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Seventh-Day%20Adventist/ew-deity.htm
Why do groups who hate God’s law, the SDA church, and especially Ellen G. White, purposely lie about what EGW said or did? Here’s an example of their lies:
“The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty.” -Ellen G. White (1903, ms 150, SDA Commentary V, p. 1129)
When in fact her full statement was this:
Equal with the Father, honored and adored by the angels, in our behalf Christ humbled Himself, and came to this earth to live a life of lowliness and poverty—to be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Yet the stamp of divinity was upon His humanity. . . .
There is no one who can explain the mystery of the incarnation of Christ. Yet we know that He came to this earth and lived as a man among men. The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty, yet Christ and the Father are one.—Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1129, bold added.
Why do these groups continually lie and bear false witness against EGW? Do they not understand that willful, unrepentant liars will not enter heaven?