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| DID ELLEN G WHITE BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY ? |
| During her most productive writing years, Ellen G. White spent most of her writing years in two primary locations. Cooranbong in Australia from 1891 to 1900 and Elms Haven in St. Helena in California from 1900 to 1915 where she finally died. |
| Many years after her death, there has been much speculation and controversy among 7th Day Adventists regarding if she believed in the trinity doctrine. By going through her writings, we are going to allow Ellen White to speak so that people can finally see if she really believed in the trinity doctrine or not. |
| Let’s begin by asking a question. |
| Did Ellen G. White ever identified God as a triune being? |
| Throughout her many writings and visions, Ellen White made it clear upon the identity of God. |
| In a letter she wrote and was published in the compilation volume sets, Letters and Manuscripts volume 18, we read the following regarding the numerical identity of God: |
| Again and again during my experience in the Lord’s work, I have been called upon to meet these erroneous sentiments. In every case, clear, powerful light has been given that God is the eternal, self-existent One. From my girlhood I have been given plain instruction that God is a person, and that Christ is “the express image of His person.” God always has been. That which concerns us is not the how or the wherefore. {Manuscript 137-1903} |
| So here we see that Ellen G. White identifies the numerical being of God that He is the eternal self existent One and that He is a person. |
| Then Ellen White elaborates upon this truth in a letter she wrote which was once again featured in the compilation sets Letters and Manuscripts volume 13: |
| There are many issues in our world today in regard to the Creator not being a personal God. God is a being, and man was made in His image. After God created man in His image, the form was perfect in all its arrangements, but it had no vitality. Then a personal, self-existing God breathed into that form the breath of life, and man became a living, breathing, intelligent being. All parts of the human machinery were put in motion. The heart, the arteries, the veins, the tongue, the hands, the feet, the perceptions of the mind, the senses, were placed under physical law. It was then that man became a living soul. {Manuscript 117-1898} |
| Through Jesus Christ, God—not a perfume, not something intangible, but a personal God—created man and endowed him with intelligence and power. It is God that thundereth in the heavens. His voice reacheth to the ends of the earth. He holdeth the winds in His hands. He sendeth lightnings with rain. He looketh on the earth and it trembleth; He toucheth the hills, and they smoke. He melteth the mountains like wax at His presence. He maketh the outgoings of the morning and the evening to rejoice. He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good. {Manuscript 117-1898} |
| So here she makes it absolutely clear that God is a single personal being and not a god made up of three co-eternal beings. |
| Then in another Manuscript featured in the compilation book the Faith I Live By, Ellen White gives us the actual name of this single personal being: |
| God is our Father who loves and cares for us as His children. He is also the great King of the universe. The Father is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. No mortal mind can penetrate the secrecy in which the mighty One dwells and works. Jehovah is the fountain of all wisdom, of all truth, of all knowledge. God is a Spirit yet He is a personal being. For so He has revealed Himself as a personal being. God has revealed Himself in His Son the outshining of the Father’s glory. {FLB 39.2} to {FLB 40.3} |
| Then in the Spalding and Magan collection she writes a Manuscript that all Christians should know that God has a personality like His Son: |
| The new theories in regard to God and Christ as brought out in The Living Temple are not in harmony with the teaching of Christ. The Lord Jesus came to this world to represent the Father. He did not represent God as an essence pervading nature but as a personal being. Christians should bear in mind that God has a personality as verily as has Christ. {SpM 324.2} |
| And finally in Testimonies for the Church Volume 6, Ellen White confirms once again the name of this personal God: |
| Make the Word of the living God your lesson book. If this had always been done, students lost to the cause of God would now be missionaries. Jehovah is the Only True God and He is to be reverenced and worshipped. {Testimonies for the Church Volume 6 166.2} |
| It is sufficient to say that if you are an honest 7th Day Adventist, you will see from the clear Testimonies of her writings that Ellen G. White identified God as a single personal being and not a God who is made up of three co-eternal beings. |
| In one of her early visions, Ellen G. White was blessed to actually visit heaven and see the throne of God. Let’s listen to how she described who she saw on the throne. |
| In Early Writings on page 54, she describes the following: |
| I saw a throne and on it sat the Father and the Son. I gazed on Jesus’ countenance and admired His lovely person. The Father’s person I could not behold, for a cloud of glorious light covered Him. I asked Jesus if His Father had a form like Himself. He said He had, but I could not behold it. For said He, if you should once behold the glory of His person, you would cease to exist. {Early Writings 54.2} |
| So here you see that Ellen White described seeing a throne in heaven with God the Father and His Son both sitting upon that throne. Two individuals sharing the throne. The Father’s being was not shown revealing to us all the power and majesty of this being who was enshrouded in light onto which no man could approach. |
| As we have all seen, Ellen White was emphatically clear on the identity of the Only True God, who is Jehovah, a single personal being. |
| This truth is also communicated by the Ten Commandments itself. Ellen White wrote very clearly on who the Me person is from the First Commandment and the identity of who the Lord thy God is from the Fourth Commandment pertaining to the Sabbath in Patriarchs and Prophets. Ellen G. White wrote the following: |
| Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Jehovah the eternal self-existent uncreated One Himself the source and sustainer of all is alone entitled to supreme reverence and worship. Man is forbidden to give to any other object the first place in his affections or his service. Whatever we cherish that tends to lessen our love for God or to interfere with the service to Him, of that do we make a god. {Patriarchs and Prophets 305.3} & {Patriarchs and Prophets 305.4} |
| So here we see that she identifies Jehovah as the person being identified as the Me in the very First Commandment. |
| Then in the Fourth Commandment, she writes the following: |
| Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Sixth day shalt thy labour and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. The Sabbath is not introduced as a new institution, but has been founded at Creation. It is to be remembered and observed as the memorial of the Creator’s work, pointing to God as the Maker of the heavens and the earth. It distinguishes the true God from all false gods. All who keep the seventh day signify by this act that they are worshippers of Jehovah. Thus, the Sabbath is the sign of man’s allegiance to God as long as there are any upon the earth to serve Him. {Patriarchs and Prophets 307.1} & {Patriarchs and Prophets 307.2} |
| So, here we see once again that it is Jehovah who is the One being spoken of in the Sabbath Commandment and not other. |
| Now many present truth Adventists believe that it was Christ who spoke and gave the Law to Moses upon Mount Sinai. This is correct. However, they also erroneously believe therefore that Christ must also be Jehovah, the Only True God. This view is stated due to an Ellen White quote which stated the following: |
| It was Christ who spoke the Law from Sinai. It was Christ who gave the Law to Moses engraving on tables of stone. {Review and Herald, September 27, 1881 par. 15} |
| However, upon closer inspection of this particular quote found in the Review and Herald dated September 27th, 1881, it continues with the following: |
| It was His Father’s Law and Christ says, “I and My Father are One.” {Review and Herald, September 27, 1881 par. 15} |
| Unfortunately, what many Adventists fail to understand is that the Father and His Son always work together. Sadly, this reality is not always fully comprehended by many 7th Day Adventists today because of their erroneous views of the trinity doctrine. |
| Concerning the speaking and giving of the Law upon Mount Sinai, Ellen G. White confirms this Father and Son partnership in the following quotation: |
| When they came to Sinai, He took occasion to refresh their minds in regard to His requirements. Christ and the Father standing side by side upon the Mount with solemn majesty proclaimed the Ten Commandments, placing in the very centre of the Decalogue the Sabbath command. Again and again the Lord told the people that if they would keep his Sabbath he would take them to himself to be his chosen people; and again and again sorrow and shame were brought upon them because they failed to keep it. He also told them that the Sabbath should be a sign between him and them forever, that they might know that he was the Lord their God. Therefore it is of great importance that the Sabbath be regarded according to the commandment. {Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists 231.4} |
| The Father and His Son have always worked together. |
| This is once again confirmed in another portion of her writings: |
| For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth Him all things that Himself doeth.” My authority for the work that I am doing, He said, is the fact that I am God’s Son, one with Him in nature, will, and purpose. I co-operate with Him in His work. My Father loves Me, and communicates to Me all His counsels. Nothing is planned by the Father in heaven that is not fully opened to the Son. {Review and Herald, March 5, 1901 par. 10} |
| It has to be made absolutely clear that Ellen White did view and honour Christ as God, but not in the same way modern 7th Day Adventists view Christ today. |
| As clearly noted in her previous inspired writings and visions, it was Jehovah, or God the Father, who is really the Only True God who is a distinct single personal being. |
| Ellen G. White understood from the clear Testimonies of the Scriptures that Christ was God by nature and not God by personality because Christ was Begotten – taken from the same substance as His Father – from eternity past [Proverbs 8:22-23]. |
| This is a biblical fact that cannot be denied. In fact, even Christ Himself publicly declared the following concerning his origins. Beginning in John 8:42, Christ stated the following. Jesus said unto them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me. For I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me. |
| Then in John 16:27, Christ declares the following: |
| For the Father Himself loveth you because ye have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God. |
| And finally in John 3:16-17 Christ declares the following: |
| For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved. |
| Sadly though, 7th Day Adventists have a hard time believing in this because their minds have been so darkened by the trinity doctrine, it has even obscured the plainest statements made from Christ Himself concerning His origins. |
| Ellen White clearly understood the position of Christ to His Father from the following Spirit of Prophecy quotes: |
| The Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Father, is truly God in affinity but not in personality. |
| Christ did not seek to be thought great, and yet He was the Majesty of heaven, equal in dignity and glory with the infinite God. He [Christ] was God manifested in the flesh. What a rebuke is the life of Christ to everything like self-conceit, self-exaltation, seeking to be great among men! He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Wonder, O heaven, and be astonished, O earth! The divine nature in the person of Christ was not transformed in human nature and the human nature of the Son of man was not changed into the divine nature, but they were mysteriously blended in the Saviour of men. He was not the Father but in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and yet He calls to a suffering world, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” [Matthew 11:28-30] – Letter 8a, 1890, pp. 2, 3. (To M. J. Church, July 7, 1890.) Released January 23, 1974. {Manuscript Releases volume 6 112.3} |
| The eternal Father, the unchangeable One, gave His Only Begotten Son tore from His bosom. Him who was made in the express image of His person and sent Him down to earth to reveal how greatly He loved mankind. {Review and Herald, July 9, 1895 par. 13} |
| And finally, 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 8 268.3} |
| So through her own published writings, Ellen G. White fully understood that Christ could also be called God although He was the Son of God by only two ways. One, by nature because He was Begotten from the Father, and two, by inheritance because He was given equal authority with His Father and therefore was given the name God by His Father. |
| Ellen G. White drew all this wisdom by being guided by the Holy Spirit to study out very carefully Hebrews chapter 1. She was always careful to make a distinction between the Father who was called frequently by Ellen White as the Only True God because He was the original source of Christ. In one of her published letters, she declared the following: |
| You desire to hear what Sister White believes. Our heavenly Father is the God of the universe and Christ is the divine Son, the One equal with the Father. |
| In spite of the very clear revelations in the Holy Scriptures and in the Spirit of Prophecy regarding the personality of God and His Son, the majority of 7th day Adventists are clearly breaking the very First Commandment of God by believing in the trinity doctrine. |
| Sin is the transgression of that Law and any deviation from it will have eternal consequences. |
| Here at Pioneering Again, we admonish all 7th Day Adventists to investigate this trinity doctrine very carefully once again to see if it indeed lines up with the very First Commandment of God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. |
| When you study the Bible, you see that there are two aspects of the Holy Spirit. The first aspect is the divine influence of the Holy Spirit which comes from the Father and the Son. And the second aspect is the person of the Holy Spirit. But how did Ellen G. White convey these two Bible facts in her writings? |
| First of all, let’s take a look at some of her inspired writings in relation to the first aspect of the Holy Spirit, a divine influence which is shed upon believers. We begin by looking at Ministry of Healing and she declares the following: |
| The Bible shows us God in His high and holy place not in a state of inactivity, not in silence and solitude, but surrounded by 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands of holy beings all waiting to do His will. Through these messengers, He is in active communication with every part of His dominion. By His Spirit, He is everywhere present. Through the agency of His Spirit and His angels, He ministers to the children of men. |
| So here we see that Ellen White teaches that this divine influence, the Holy Spirit, originates with God who is Jehovah. The Spirit is His invisible and divine holy agency by which God reveals Himself everywhere. |
| Then in the next quote, Ellen White reveals who else received the Father’s divine power or influence, the Holy Spirit without measure. In the Review and Herald, she declares the following: |
| The Father gave His Spirit without measure to His Son. and we also may be partakers of its fullness. Jesus says, If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him. |
| So in this quotation we see that Ellen White teaches us that the Father’s divine Spirit was given without measure to His dear Son. |
| Then in the next inspired quote we see the following. Jesus is seeking to impress upon them the thought that in giving His Holy Spirit He is giving to them the glory which the Father has given Him that He and His people may be one in God. |
| This inspired quote by Ellen White in the Signs of the Times clearly shows us that the divine influence or power now comes from His Son to His people. |
| This truth is again clearly illustrated in the next quote beginning in Letters and Manuscripts volume 7. |
| Jesus is waiting to breathe upon all His disciples and give them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit and transfuse the vital influence from Himself to His people. |
| Then in a Review and Herald it teaches the following: |
| Christ declared that after His ascension, He would send to His church as His crowning gift, the Comforter who was to take His place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit, the soul of His life, the efficacy of His church, the light and life of the world. With His Spirit, Christ sends a reconciling influence, and a power that takes away sin. |
| We have now looked at the first aspect of the Holy Spirit which was clearly shown by Ellen White to be a divine influence or holy power that originated with the Father then to His Son then is passed down to us. Let’s now take a look at the second aspect of the Holy Spirit which the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy clearly teaches the person of the Holy Spirit. |
| Sadly, most 7th Day Adventists today have no real idea of who the person of the Holy Spirit really is. And when shown, many reject the truth because they have been so indoctrinated with the Catholic idea of the Holy Spirit being a third god called god the holy spirit. By closely examining the words of our prophet, let’s begin to get the truth regarding this issue once and for all. |
| Let’s begin by considering the following quotes: |
| When trials overshadow the soul, remember the words of Christ. Remember that He is an unseen presence in the person of the Holy Spirit. |
| We want the Holy Spirit which is Jesus Christ. |
| Lift up Christ in His power in the person of the Holy Spirit. He is waiting for them to open the door and admit Him. |
| When God’s people take the position that they are the temple of the Holy Ghost, Christ Himself abiding within, they will so clearly reveal Him in spirit, words, and actions that there will be an unmistakable distinction between them and Satan’s followers. |
| And finally, cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally. Therefore, it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His Father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit as the Omnipresent. |
| So throughout her published writings, Ellen White made it very clear that Christ was the person of the Holy Spirit and not another being. |
| There is a quote that has made many 7th Day Adventists trip over where Ellen G. White spoke about a third person. What did she really mean? And how can Christ be the person of the Holy Spirit when she spoke about a third person? Let’s investigate and examine very closely her writings once again and allow Ellen White to tell us what she really means. |
| Beginning in Desire of Ages, page 671. Here we see the quote in question: |
| Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead. |
| On first impressions, it may well seem that Ellen White is referring to a third individual God whom many Christians today refer to as god the holy spirit. |
| However, when we begin to compare this quote with other Spirit of Prophecy quotes, everything becomes much clearer. Let’s see proof of this. |
| Let’s begin by comparing two quotes together. The Desire of Ages one which we have just read. Then we shall read through the second quote from The Youth’s Instructor. |
| By examining these two quotes very carefully, we shall get to see who Ellen White identified as the third person of the Godhead. |
| So beginning in the Desire of Ages quote she says the following. Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person… |
| Let’s pause here. The qualifying words in this statement is that this third person whoever it is helps us to resist and overcome sin. So whoever this being is that helps us to overcome sin is the true third person. |
| Let’s now analyse very carefully the next quote below from The Youth’s Instructor and please listen very carefully to what it has to say. |
| There is no power in you apart from Christ. But it is your privilege to have Christ abiding in your heart by faith. And He can overcome sin in you when you cooperate with His efforts. |
| When you begin to look at these two quotations very carefully, it says in the top quote from the Desire of Ages, sin could be resisted and overcome. |
| Then in the second quote in The Youth’s Instructor it says He can overcome sin in you. And who is that He? Well, it tells us in the very first sentence of this quote that it is Christ. |
| Then going back to the top quotation once again, it tells us that the only person who can help us to resist and overcome sin is the third person. |
| Then going back to The Youth’s Instructor quote it once again it tells us that there is no power in you apart from Christ. |
| Therefore then, if there is no other power in us apart from Christ that can help us to overcome sin, this means then that this third person is no other than Christ. |
| This means then that it is Christ who is the third person in the Godhead who must be in a different form that helps us to overcome sin. |
| Recall: We want the Holy Spirit which is Jesus Christ. |
| As we analyse these two quotes very carefully, we can see that Ellen White identified Christ as this third person and not another individual. |
| To amplify this truth further, let’s take a look at another third person statement from Ellen White and see once again who she identifies as the third person. |
| In these two quotes, it tells us the following. Beginning with the quote, Letters and Manuscripts volume 13. Christ gave His representative, the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit. |
| Then in the second quote in Manuscript Releases volume 13, it says the following: |
| The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. It is His Christ representative. |
| Let’s now examine these two quotes very carefully and get to see who Ellen White identified as the third person. |
| Beginning with Letters and Manuscripts volume 13, it teaches the following. Christ gave His representative. |
| Then in the second quote in Manuscript Releases volume 13, it says the following: |
| It is His representative or Christ’s representative. |
| Then going back to the first quote again, it says the following, the third person of the Godhead for Holy Spirit. |
| Then in the second quote below it teaches the following. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. |
| So looking and comparing these two quotes by Ellen White, it is abundantly clear that the third person is called and identified as the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. |
| We can see then that if we allow the Spirit of Prophecy to interpret itself, everything will become abundantly clearer. Ellen White once again identifies the third person as Christ. |
| When Ellen White ever mentioned the third person, she completely recognised that it was Christ who she was referring to, but in a different form. |
| She completely understood from the Bible that Christ had two natures, one divine and one human. And it is from his divine nature that His Spirit comes. It is this Spirit that can function independently of Himself and that makes His Spirit the third person. His Spirit from His divine nature is like another person. |
| This is confirmed by Ellen White in the following quotes beginning in the Desire of Ages. |
| While Jesus ministers in the sanctuary above, He is still by His Spirit the minister of the church on earth. He Christ is withdrawn from the eye of sense, but His parting promise is fulfilled. Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. While He delegates His power to inferior ministers, His energising presence is still with His church. |
| There is nothing that can save us. Christ comes in His divine nature and here is every soul will be enlightened according to what you study, according to what you give the mind to feed upon. |
| And finally, that Christ should manifest Himself to them and yet be invisible to the world was a mystery to the disciples. They could not understand the words of Christ in their spiritual sense. |
| They were thinking of the outward visible manifestation. They could not take in the fact that they could have the presence of Christ with them and yet He be unseen by the world. They did not understand the meaning of a spiritual manifestation. |
| Sadly though, many of Christ’s professed disciples today fail also to understand and recognise the spiritual manifestation of Christ. |
| As we all know, Ellen G. White had many wonderful experiences and special encounters with our Lord and His angels. She was truly blessed by what she had experienced. |
| One of these special encounters had happened while she was living in Australia. She documented exactly what she experienced while being visited by the Holy Spirit. |
| Please listen very carefully to what she had to say regarding who the person of the Holy Spirit really was. |
| Friday, March the 20th, I arose early about half 3:00 in the morning. While writing upon the 15th chapter of John, suddenly a wonderful peace came upon me. The whole room seemed to be filled with the atmosphere of heaven. A holy sacred presence seemed to be in my room. I laid down my pen and was in awaiting attitude to see what the Spirit would say unto me. I saw no person. I heard no audible voice, but a heavenly Watcher seemed close beside me. I felt, but I was in the presence of Jesus. The sweet peace and light which seemed to be in my room, it is impossible for me to explain or describe. A sacred holy atmosphere surrounded me and there were presented to my mind and understanding matters of intense interest and importance. A line of action was laid out before me as if the unseen presence was speaking with me. |
| So from this remarkable quotation from Ellen White again she clearly related her experience with the Holy Spirit which was Christ. |
| An encounter on a train journey dated May 30th, 1871 would reveal to the world what Ellen and her husband James White really believed regarding the trinity doctrine. |
| Elder James White documented how he felt after the conversation that he had with another Christian missionary man about the trinity who was sitting in the same main carriage as Ellen and her husband. This report was documented in the Advent Review and Herald of the Sabbath dated June 6, 1871. [ This report may also be found here: https://maranathamedia.com/article/view/ellen-and-james-white-uphold-divinity-of-christ-but-reject-trinity ] |
| Please listen very carefully to what Elder James White had to say about the encounter he had with the missionary man regarding the trinity. |
| We had hoped to leave Battle Creek a week sooner, but a pressure of business at the publishing house detained us until May 30th when we left in company with Mrs. W and brother and sister Abby. |
| As we can see, James White documented that he, his wife, identified as Mrs. W. and brother and sister Abby, left Battle Creek train station for a journey. |
| Let’s just pause here because some viewers may contend that the initials Mrs. W could have been anyone. But evidence would prove that James White in his publishing work often called his wife Ellen White Mrs. W. |
| This is clearly confirmed in another article written and published by James White. |
| For more than 20 years has the Spirit of God been appealing to our people through Mrs. W. We invite all to compare the Testimonies of the Holy Spirit through Mrs. W with the Word of God. |
| So here we see convincingly that this Mrs. W is no other than Ellen White. |
| Going back to that documented train journey. Now let’s continue to see what James White said here. |
| Upon the train, we met a man of marked physical and mental powers. Just returning from his missionary field in China. Early he had the advantages of the highest schools of New England and has spent 24 years of the best of his life in China. |
| This missionary seemed very liberal in his feelings toward all Christians. |
| But after catechizing us upon the trinity and finding that we were not sound upon the subject of his triune God, he became earnest in denouncing Unitarianism which takes from Christ his divinity and leaves him but a man. |
| Here as far as our views were concerned he was combating a man of straw. We do not deny the divinity of Christ. We delight in giving full credit to all those strong expressions of Scripture which exalt the son of God. We believe him to be the divine person addressed by Jehovah in the words let us make man. He was with the father before the world was. He came from God and he says I go to him that sent me. |
| The simple language of the Scriptures represent the Father and the Son as two distinct persons. With this view of the subject there are meaning and force to language which speaks of the Father and the Son. But to say that Jesus Christ is the very and eternal God makes him his own son and his own father and that he came from himself and went to himself. |
| We have not as much sympathy with Unitarians that deny the divinity of Christ as with trinitarians who hold that the Son is the eternal father and talk so mistily about the three one God. Give the Master all that divinity with which the Holy Scriptures clothe Him. |
| And on the other shore, by the grace of God, we will join all the redeemed in the highest ascriptions of praise for their salvation to both Him that siteth upon the throne and the Lamb forever and ever. |
| So James White wrote a lengthy report on what he encountered with the missionary man on the train who tried to catch or instruct them regarding the trinity or triune God. |
| It is obvious from the context of this account that Elder James White explained his position and made it clear and plain his position upon the trinity and the divinity of Christ. We do not know how long the conversation lasted between James and the missionary man regarding the trinity, but one thing is certain. James’ wife, Ellen White, was by his side during this conversation, and she would have witnessed and heard everything. |
| And nowhere do we read Ellen White trying to correct her husband during or after this journey. From this account, it is clear that Ellen G. White also rejected the trinity doctrine. |
| That conversation Ellen G. White would had heard between her husband James White and a missionary gentleman regarding the trinity on the train journey dated May the 30th, 1871 would had no doubt been etched upon her mind. |
| Note: Ellen G. White’s prayers also confirm that she did NOT adopt a trinitarian belief. See: |
| https://www.godswordexplained.com/?page_id=1673 and |
| https://www.godswordexplained.com/?page_id=2425 |
| Later in 1888, talking about the work that the worldwide missionaries had to do, Ellen G. White penned the following: |
| I feel my spirit stirred within me. I feel to the depth of my being that the truth must be born to other countries and nations and to all classes. Let the missionaries of the cross proclaim that there is One God and One Mediator between God and man who is Jesus Christ, the Son of the infinite God. |
| This needs to be proclaimed throughout every church in our land. Christians need to know this and not put man where God should be that they may no longer be worshippers of idols but of the living God. |
| And to this we say, Amen. |
