Ellen White: Jesus began Atonement in 1844
"It is this coming, and not his second advent to the earth, that was foretold in prophecy to take place at the termination of the 2300 days, in 1844. Attended by heavenly angels, our great High Priest enters the holy of holies, and there appears in the presence of God, to engage in the last acts of his ministration in behalf of man,--to perform the work of investigative Judgment, and to make an atonement for all who are shown to be entitled to its benefits."5
BIBLE: Christians had received Atonement by 50 A.D.!
Paul, writing his letter to the Romans in approximately 50 A.D., declares that Christians living in the first century had already received (past tense) the atonement: ...we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Rom. 5:11)
Hum. What makes me wonder about that is not the little Calvinist quip, it's the fact that if you look only at the Bible ("everyone starting with Adam), and don't laterally translate into people outside of Israel, there's an argument that not everyone is going to be given a last judgement anyway. I know there's a last judgement mentioned in the Bible (people get to live for about four score years and ten, and then after that there's a judgement". At the same time, the Bible makes an awful lot of there being chosen people, and the covenant with Abraham/Spiritual Israel current in theology or Bible studies is one reason to wonder if everyone on earth is really going to be judged at all or not. It might just be people who've been instructed and nations that have been given prophecy, with everybody else just kind of, there's a passage about wheat and chaff. God might just burn off the chaff, terminate that with extreme prejudice, and then everybody else gets the book opened and read and the name judged so to speak.Ellen White: Every name is examined, starting with Adam…
"As the books of record are opened in the Judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected."1
BIBLE: God already knows who are His own
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep… John 10:14
The Lord knoweth them that are His 2 Tim. 2:19
According to the Bible, God already knows who are His sheep. He does not need over 175 years to figure out who is saved and who is lost.
Yeah.... Ellen White is one of those people, she's just really high profile. If you ever look inside the SDA church, you'll actually find out that in reality, it's all male controlled (White was married with kids and everything). The theological seminaries and stuff are male only of course. Ellen White, sorry, you have to have worked professionally in the profession of American journalism to "get" that. She's famous in modern times for being a prolific woman writer, but if you understand what real news reportage is, you finally realize that she' really just a joke. Some people try to make a case that she reported on the civil war, which she saw a little bit of, but she didn't. She was just a front person for the movement, giving evangelical direction in magazines and commenting on the Bible and health.In the Bible female prophets were mentioned. But God requires that they be under the leadership of a man.
But in the SDA Ellen G White is the arbitrator of truth. Everyone answers to her and she answers no one.
You know what, that does seem kind of odd, from a point of view of time on earth. You're saying that she says that in 1844, a sequential judgement of human lives begins, now at some point there must be a spacetime doppler effect as the judgement reaches a point at which God finishes judging all the dead who have gone on, and begins to judge the living. I wonder how the two divisions of time here effect the judgement, and whether there is any spiritual difference.Ellen White: Every name is examined, starting with Adam…
"As the books of record are opened in the Judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected."1
BIBLE: God already knows who are His own
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep… John 10:14
The Lord knoweth them that are His 2 Tim. 2:19
According to the Bible, God already knows who are His sheep. He does not need over 175 years to figure out who is saved and who is lost.
You have serious issues with freedom of speech. The New Testament doesn't say that preachers are to be married.She proclaimed herself a prophet, in fact she was a false prophet. She taught doctrines that were not in the Bible. There are no such things as nuns biblically. There are no such thing as priests in the New Testament. The New Testament made it clear preachers are to be married.
Seventh-day Adventism is a cult.