Featured SDA - An Overview

You are confusing things. Michael is called the Archangel. In the time of Moses said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke thee." At a much later time the angel of the LORD is called the LORD. And as the LORD says to Satan, "The LORD rebuke rhee." We know the angel of the LORD is the preincarnate Christ. What proof do you have that the Archangel cannot be the angel of the LORD?

 

And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment.... - Acts 15:23-24

The Apostles gave no such command pertaining to the keeping of the law.

 

Are you saying that he was Michael in OT, and then Jesus in the NT? Which one is he now then?

 

If so, He would would still in as being "Who like God," unchanged, ". . . For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, . . ." Yet future.

In His incaration He did not cease being God. The only thing that changed was how He was with God in His eternal nature as God.

 

He is now forever Jesus the God Man!

 

The Seventh-day Adventist Church repudiates the Apostles & Nicaean Creeds...
...They will not repeat them in their Church on account of the Trinity Doctrine.
....Which they claim to hold to - but define it no different than Latter-day Saints.

The SDA teaching on how God is one isn't like the Mormon teaching - it IS the teaching.

What Ellen is saying here is that Christ is ONE with God in the same way that Christ was ONE with His Disciples. Trinitarian Christians wouldn't agree with that, at all.

The SDA construct holds that Father God "has a Personality" (hominid flesh form with members and parts). This is called "THE PERSONALITY OF GOD DOCTRINE". In addition both Michael and Lucifer (pre Incarnation of Michael) had "Personalities" (bodies of flesh with all the members and parts of a perfect man).

The SDA "Personality of God Doctrine" was unreconcilable with the Trinity Doctrine because the Adventists held the Trinity Doctrine DESTROYED the Personality of God (i.e. God's hominid flesh body).

Look at Ellen's statement again;

Ellen White
The unity that exists between Christ and His disciples does not destroy the personality of either. They are one in purpose, in mind, in character, but not in person. It is thus that God and Christ are one

Followed by other affirmations to the same.

Adventist Review and Herald Oct 8,1903
"The doctrine of the Personality of God IS the fundamental doctrine of the Scriptures..."
...""NEITHER was this image of God a mere concept; FOR the Bible declares that the Lord has PARTS, THE SAME AS the human body"."OUR EXISTENCE as a people is FOUNDED on a belief in the truths stated above".



"Thus it is declare that God has all the members and parts o a perfect man. This is not said once, no twice, but many times, not in parables an symbols, and figures, but directly and plainly..." RH18780905-V52-11.pdf (adventistarchives.org) (look for the PERSONALITY OF GOD DOCTRINE on page 1). There are scores of these articles.

RH October 8, 1903
OF late the question has repeatedly come to me, Does it make any real difference whether we believe in the personality of God, as long as we believe in God? My answer invariably is, It depends altogether upon the standpoint from which we view it. If from the Spiritualist's, -the Christian Scientist's, the Universalist's, or if from the standpoint of any other " ist" or " ism," it makes but little or no difference. But from the standpoint of Seventh-day Adventists it makes all the difference in the world.

There are other differences Adventists have with Evangelicals but this is probably the biggest one. Just thought you folks might appreciate some intel.