”The Bible is not given to us in grand superhuman language. Jesus, in order to reach man where he is, took humanity. The Bible must be given in the language of men. Everything that is human is imperfect. DIFFERENT MEANINGS ARE EXPRESSED BY THE SAME WORD; THERE IS NOT ONE WORD FOR EACH DISTINCT IDEA. The Bible was given for practical purposes.” — Ellen White, Ms24-1886.6
By Paul Chung
I have been thinking about the Second Commandment and how the graven image and the worshipping of an idol may be analogous to worshiping Jesus, Who is the express image of God the Father…
Many Trinitarian Adventists have quoted various statements taken out of context from what Ellen White had written in order to discredit the non-trinitarian views of the Holy Spirit and to dissuade any inquiry into the subject matter. Among the various statements that are often quoted are taken from a letter Ellen White had written to Brother Chapman from Petoskey, Michigan, on June 11, 1891 and is generally referred to as the “Chapman Letter.”
By Paul Chung
Trinitarian’s Objection: If the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are the same as how non-trinitarians claim then how is it that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost is not forgiven but speaking against Christ shall be forgiven? How can one be forgiven and not the other if they are the same person?
“We need to realize that the Holy Spirit, WHO IS AS MUCH A PERSON AS GOD IS A PERSON, IS WALKING THROUGH THESE GROUNDS, UNSEEN BY HUMAN EYES; … HE HEARS EVERY WORD WE UTTER and knows every thought of the mind.” — (E.G. White, 2SAT, pp. 136, 137, 1899)
By Paul Chung
An on-going compilations of the Spirit of Prophecy statements identifying the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Christ.
What did John mean, in 1 John 4:2, 3; when he said, ‘Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God?’ Apostle John wrote,
The expression, “In Him was life, original, unborrowed, underived“ is commonly used to argue that the life of Christ is ingenerate and therefore not begotten. But is this true?
Much is being said regarding the impartation of the Holy Spirit that is wholly divorced from the Word of God. And by some, this is being so interpreted that it causes injury to the churches and to the individual believer. Many regard the impartation of the Holy Spirit as some mystical concept of a formless Divine Being, who occupies all space and by way of consent can literally come into the believers’ hearts…
Some (primarily coming from non-trinitarian Seventh-day Adventist community) suspect that there has been a deliberate and sinister plot perpetrated by the Ellen White Estate to alter the writings of Ellen White in an attempt to make her writings appear more inline with the church’s current theology, namely, the Trinitarian belief.
