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Ellen White taught a
false Christ who was a created being. In her
view, Jesus was a lesser god, a little god.
She and the other founders of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church were all
cultists who taught the Arian heresy.
Ellen
White said:
“To Christ has
been given an exalted position.
He has been
made equal with the Father.” (Testimonies
for the Church, Volume 8, p. 268)
“…yet, Jesus, God’s dear Son, had the
pre-eminence over all the angelic host. He
was one with the Father before the angels
were created. Satan was envious of Christ
and gradually assumed command which devolved
on Christ alone.
The great Creator
assembled the heavenly host, that he might
in the presence of all the angels
confer
special honor upon his Son…
The Father then
made known that it was ordained by himself
that Christ,
his Son,
should be equal with
himself.” (Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 1, p.
17)
“The
exaltation of the Son of God as equal with
the Father was represented as an
injustice to Lucifer, who, it was claimed,
was also entitled to reverence and honor.”
(Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 37)
Seventh-day Adventists
will say that her later writings were
Trinitarian. Not so!
Ellen
White’s husband, James White was an
out-spoken, anti-Trinitarian until the day
he died and Ellen White never spoke out
against her husband’s views as long as he
lived. Ellen White made a number of
conflicting statements as she got older
about the Trinity, Jesus’ divine nature, and
the Holy Spirit. She seemed to be moving
more towards a Trinitarian view but she
continued to have many misconceptions about
Jesus’ true nature.
In 1897, Ellen
said this about Christ’s nature,
“In Him was life original, unborrowed,
underived.” (Desire of Ages, p. 530) And, “He was equal with God, infinite and
omnipotent.” (MS 101, 1897)
That sounds
good, but later in 1903 she made her now
famous statement,
“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.” (MS 140, 1903; SDA Bible Commentary,
Volume 5, p. 1129)
Seventh-day Adventists will say we are
taking her out of context, but the very next year in 1904, she again said,
“God
is the Father of Christ; Christ is the Son
of God. To
Christ has been given an exalted position.
He has been made
equal with the Father. All the
counsels of God are opened to His Son.”
(Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8, p. 268)
Ellen White consistently
taught that Jesus was a created being who
God the Father elevated to his position of deity.
These are not the words of a Trinitarian, or
a true prophet of God.
God
did not create Jesus and make him a little
god, or a lesser god like so many of the
cults teach today. God, the Father did not
have to invest Jesus
with deity at some point in time after He
was
created, He has always existed as the
eternal God and one with the Father. Jesus
is not a created being! You cannot be God
and not be fully God (Isa. 43:10-12; 44:6-8).
And you cannot be the
mighty God like Isaiah 9:6 says, and not be the Almighty God!
Ellen White was a cultist as were the
other founders of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church that taught the Arian heresy. Ellen
taught a false god and a false Jesus
throughout her entire life!
Now let’s look at some
of the most important passages of scripture
relating to Christ’s divinity:
Jesus
Christ, the Son of God,
took upon Himself our human nature to be the perfect sacrifice
for our sins.
1 Peter 1:18-19 says, “knowing that
you were not redeemed with perishable things
like silver or gold from your futile way of
life inherited from your forefathers, but
with precious blood, as of a lamb
unblemished and spotless, the blood of
Christ.”
1 Peter 2:21, 22 says,
“For to this you have been called, because
Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an
example, so that you might follow in His
steps. He committed no sin, neither was
deceit found in His mouth.”
Hebrews 4:14
says, “For we do not have a High Priest
who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but one who in every respect has been
tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so
that we might become the righteousness of
God in Him.”
1 John 3:5 says,
“And you know that He was manifested to take
away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.”
“Jesus appeared to take away sins, not
only so that sin might be forgiven (1 Jn. 1:9)
but also so that it might cease to
exercise its tyrannical bondage. In him
there is no sin. A reminder that “God is
light” (1 Jn. 1:5), and his Son embodies his
sinlessness.” [1]
Jesus Christ was God in human
flesh.
Jesus taught His disciples to pray in His name
(John 16:23-24). He claimed that He and the
Father were one and that He was the Son of
God (John 10:30, 36; 14:9; 17:11). He
claimed that to know Him was to know God, to
see Him was to see God, to receive Him was
to receive God, to believe Him was to
believe in God, and to honor Him was to
honor God, and to hate Him was to hate God
(John 8:18; 14:7; 12:45; 14:9; Mark 9:37;
John 5:23; 12:44; 14:1; 15:23).
Listen to how the
Apostle Paul describes Christ’s humility
and exaltation in coming to earth to be our
redeemer:
Philippians 2:5-11
says, “Have this mind among
yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did
not count equality with God a thing to be
grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the
form of a servant, being born in the
likeness of men. And being found in human
form, he humbled himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death, even death
on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted
him and bestowed on him the name that is
above every name, so that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and
on earth and under the earth, and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.”
The Life
Application Study Bible says this about the
sacrifice Christ made for us when He came to
earth;
“The Incarnation was the act of the
preexistent Son of God voluntarily assuming
a human body and human nature. Without
ceasing to be God, he became a human being,
the man called Jesus. He did not give up his
deity to become human, but he set aside the
right to his glory and power. In submission
to the Father’s will, Christ limited his
power and knowledge. Jesus of Nazareth was
subject to place, time, and many other human
limitations. What made his humanity unique
was his freedom from sin. In his full
humanity, Jesus showed us everything about
God’s character that can be conveyed in
human terms.” [2]
Jesus Christ is the God who spoke the universe into
existence:
John 1:1-3 says, “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God. All things were made through him, and
without him was not any thing made that was
made.”
The Apostle John starts out
his gospel by alluding to the creation in
the book of Genesis. “Genesis 1:1 starts with the
moment of creation and moves forward to the
creation of humanity. John 1:1 starts with
creation and contemplates eternity past...
God the Father created the world (Gen. 1:1)
through God the Son (Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2).
All creation was made through Him. Thus He
is the Creator God.”
[3]
All things were created through
Christ, and for Him:
Colossians 1:15-17
says, “He is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of all
creation. For by him all things were
created, in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities—all things were
created through him and for him. And he is
before all things, and in him all things
hold together.”
The word
“firstborn” in Colossians 1:15 is from the Greek word
“prototokos” which indicates that “the historic
Jesus was none other than the preexistent
Christ, who is coeternal with the Father.
The terminology “firstborn” is a reference
to priority of position. It is a term that
emphasizes quality or kind, not time. The
idea of “preeminence” conveys the meaning of
the term.” [4]
Jesus proclaimed Himself to be
the “Alpha and Omega” in the book of
Revelation.
Revelation 1:7-8 says
of Jesus, “Behold,
he is coming with the
clouds, and every eye will see him, even
those who pierced him, and all tribes of the
earth will wail on account of him. Even so.
Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,”
says
the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is
to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:17-18
says, “When I saw him, I fell at his
feet as though dead. But he laid his right
hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the
first and the last, and the living one.
I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and
I have the keys of Death and Hades.”
Jesus Christ affirmed His divinity
in Revelation 1:17-18 and boldly claimed to be God
when He applied
the Old Testament name for Israel’s God,
Yahweh to Himself (Rev. 22:13; Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12
cf. John 8:58).
Revelation 21:6 says, “And he said to me,
“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I
will give from the spring of the water of
life without payment.” (cf. Matt. 11:28-30;
John 4:14; 7:38).
And in
Revelation 22:12-13 Jesus said, “Behold, I
am coming soon, bringing my recompense with
me, to repay each one for what he has done.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and
the last, the beginning and the end.”
“Once again Christ is described as the
Alpha and the Omega (first and last letters
of the Greek alphabet), the First and the
Last, the Beginning and the End. Christ is
before all Creation and He will continue to
exist after the present creation is
destroyed. He is the Eternal One (cf.
Rev. 1:4, 8, 17; 2:8; 21:6).”
[5]
Finally, the Father called Jesus God
and said He was the greatest revelation of God to
man:
Hebrews 1:1-3
says, “Long ago, at many times and in many
ways, God spoke to our fathers by the
prophets, but in these last days he has
spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed
the heir of all things, through whom also he
created the world. He is the radiance of the
glory of God and the exact imprint of his
nature, and he upholds the universe by the
word of his power. After making purification
for sins, he sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty on high.”
According to
the book of Hebrews, “Not only is
Jesus the exact representation of God, but
he is God himself—the very God who spoke in
Old Testament times. He is eternal; he
worked with the Father in creating the world
(John 1:3; Col. 1:16). He is the full
revelation of God. You can have no clearer
view of God than by looking at Christ. Jesus
Christ is the complete expression of God in
a human body.” [6]
Now look at how Ellen G. White
deliberately twisted the words of scripture to describe her work as God’s
last-day messenger.
“In
ancient times God spoke to men by the mouth
of prophets and apostles. In these days he
speaks to them by the testimonies of his
Spirit [her writings]. There was
never a time when God instructed his people
more earnestly than he instructs them now
concerning his will and the course that he
would have them pursue.” (Testimonies for
the Church, Volume 5, p. 661).
It is
hard to believe but Ellen G. White
arrogantly claimed that she, not Jesus, was
God’s final revelation to the human race.
She never missed an opportunity
to make herself look like a true prophet of
God for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church, but the truth
is, she was nothing but a false prophet who
consistently taught a false Christ, and a
false gospel of works-righteousness.
Ellen G. White said that we had
to either believe everything she said was
from God, or none of it was.
“…I am
presenting to you what the Lord has
presented to me. I do not write one article
in the paper expressing merely my own ideas,
they are what God has opened before me in
vision- precious rays of light shining from
the throne.” (Testimonies for the Church
Volume 5, page 67).
“The visions are either of God or the devil.
There is no half-way position to be taken in
the matter. God does not work in partnership
with Satan.” (Letter 8, 1860, pp. 16, 17, to
Brother John Andrews, June 11, 1860. 1MR
307.1).
Ellen G. White even
claimed that her testimonies were infallible
and said those who reject her gift are
“rebelling against God.”
“If you lessen the confidence of God’s
people in the testimonies He has sent them,
you are rebelling against God as were Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram.” (Testimonies for the
Church, Volume 5, p. 66).
Contrary to what Ellen White taught,
the scriptures clearly teach that Jesus
Christ was God in the flesh, the Almighty
God, and not a created being.
Ellen White had a
diminished view of Jesus as God, and taught contradictory
concepts about Christ’s divine nature
throughout her entire life. She never once
spoke out against her husband’s heretical
Arian beliefs about God as long as he lived.
If Ellen White was a true prophet of God she
would have understood Jesus Christ’s true
nature from the very beginning of her ministry
and spoken out boldly against the
Arian heresy so prevalent in the early
Adventist Church.
Just like the
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Ellen White and the
early Seventh-day Adventist founders were
all Arian cultists. All the evidence proves
Ellen White consistently taught a false god, and a false
Jesus!
We live in an age when false teachers
abound.
False prophets,
false miracle workers, and false gospels are
all competing for God’s people and we have
to do whatever we can to protect the body of
Christ. God has warned us! The last
thing any Christian should ever want to do
is lead another person into a false
religious system, their eternal destinies are at
stake.
The Seventh-day Adventist
Church does not deny their Arian
heritage. Who are you going to follow,
the false beliefs of Ellen G. White and the
Seventh-day Adventist Church, or the Bible?
You can't be true to both! [7]
References:
1. ESV Study Bible:
1 John 3:5.
2. The Life
Application Study Bible: Philippians 2:5-7.
3. Nelson’s NKJV Study Bible: John 1:1, 3.
4. The Believer’s Study Bible: Colossians 1:15-17.
5. The Bible Knowledge
Commentary: Revelation 22:13.
6. Life
Application Study Bible: Hebrews 1:3.
7. See:
https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/2009/02/the-trinity.html
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