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From All Eternity

I would like to take a moment to respond to Brother V’s claim that my view is “not a Biblical teaching” but instead “is based on traditional philosophy.” I take umbrage to this claim because my view is derived from Scripture. To begin with let us note what God’s Word says about “eternity” and man’s grasp of it…

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A View of the Word, “Eternal”

This study will be going over the concept of “eternal”. This term is one of the key issues in the Trinitarian’s mind in blocking them from accepting Jesus as God’s only begotten Son. I believe they are genuinely sincere in their understanding of these following terms and why I have put this together…

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Life, Original, Unborrowed, Underived

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?

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Without Father, Without Mother-Examining Hebrews 7

As the matter of the begotten nature of the pre-incarnate Son of God continues to be agitated within Seventh-day Adventism some have sought to prove this an impossibility by referring to a verse in Hebrews chapter 7 about an ancient king/priest named Melchizedek…

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Christ Jesus: Eternal Yet Begotten

“The Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father, is truly God in infinity, BUT NOT IN PERSONALITY.” — (E.G. White, MS116, December 19, 1905) (emphasis in caps added throughout)

What did Ellen White mean when she said, Christ “is truly God in infinity, BUT NOT IN PERSONALITY.”?

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Infinite and from All Eternity

Many trinitarians have used such expressions like “eternity” and “infinite” found in the writings of Ellen White-Spirit of Prophecy and have asserted meaning of words without properly establishing them. This article examines such expressions and will seek to establish their meaning based on their usage both in Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy. It will also assign an appropriate meaning of these expressions as it relate to Christ’s pre-existence and provide some valid reasons as to how these expressions can be compatible with begotten theology which believes in the literal Sonship of Christ.

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A Response to “There Never Was a Time”

This article examines one of the often misunderstood statement by Ellen White found in the book, Evangelism p. 615, which says, “there never was a time when He [Christ] was not in close fellowship with the eternal God.” 

 

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Self-Existent

This article examines one of Ellen White’s statements often quoted by trinitarians to repudiate Christ’s pre-existent Sonship. Trinitarians (SDAs) argue that the expression, “self-existent” taken from the noted statement means that Christ’s life is ingenerate-inherently possessed without origin.

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