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SECTION 2<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Before we examine the Scriptural texts which reject the trinity doctrine, it would be useful to understand how we, as the church chosen by God, got into the mess that we now have.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rather than \u201cre-invent the wheel\u201d, there is already a first class document available to us via the internet and this information is greatly appreciated.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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http:\/\/www.asitreads.com\/adventist-timeline-of-change\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADVENTIST TIMELINE OF CHANGE<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is a step by step illustration of our early church Pioneers or \u201cold-timers\u201d dying off and the effects of educated scholars inserting their academic influence in changing the direction of our church to what has become now-from non-trinitarian to a decidedly a trinitarian denomination. While there are quite a few more events that have taken place, to keep the focus on the subject of change, we have elected to stay with the key events. This list was put together by As It Reads along with David Allen of\u00a0Truthseeker Ministries<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1860\u00a0\u2013 The remnant (Sabbath-keeping Advent believers) is given the name Seventh-day Adventists which carried Heaven’s approval.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1863\u00a0\u2013 Organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (May 21, 1863).<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1872\u00a0\u2013 The “Declaration of Fundamental Principles Taught and Practiced by Seventh-day Adventists” consisting of 25 propositions largely written by James White is published<\/strong> as a pamphlet at Battle Creek, Michigan (To view or download the original pamphlet click\u00a0HERE<\/a>).\u00a0This lays down a clear non-Trinitarian foundation and is not replaced or changed in any way until 1931. These propositions are based on 1 Cor. 8:6 and contain neither the term Godhead nor Trinity.\u00a0First year that the Fundamental Principles were actually published in the Yearbook was 1889.<\/strong> Prior to 1981, the years of publish are 1905, 1909, 1913, 1914.\u00a0 Then it goes dark but published again until it changes in 1931.\u00a0 Then 1942, 1955, 1965-66, 1973-74, 1975, 1980, 1981.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The God of the Pioneers \u2013 1872 Fundamental Principles<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(25 Fundamental Principles based on 1 Corinthians 8:6)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As elsewhere stated, Seventh-Day Adventists have no creed but the Bible; <\/b>but they hold to certain well-defined points of faith, for which they feel prepared to give a reason \u201cto every man that asketh\u201d them. <\/strong>The following propositions may be taken as a summary of the principal features of their religious faith, upon which there is, so far as we know, entire unanimity throughout the body. They believe, \u2014<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. That there is one God, a personal, spiritual being, the creator of all things, omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal, infinite in wisdom, holiness, justice, goodness, truth, and mercy; unchangeable, and everywhere present by his representative, the Holy Spirit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 139:7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2. That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, the one by whom God created all things, and by whom they do consist; that he took on him the nature of the seed of Abraham for the redemption of our fallen race; that he dwelt among men full of grace and truth, lived our example, died our sacrifice, was raised for our justification, ascended on high to be our only mediator in the sanctuary in Heaven, where, with his own blood he makes atonement for our sins; which atonement so far from being made on the cross, which was but the offering of the sacrifice, is the very last portion of his work as priest, according to the example of the Levitical priesthood, which foreshadowed and prefigured the ministry of our Lord in Heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See Lev. 16; Heb. 8:4, 5; 9:6, 7; etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Click\u00a0HERE\u00a0<\/a>to view or download the original 1889 SDA Yearbook (Fundamental Principles are found on pages 147 to 151).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1872\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder Joseph Bates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1874\u00a0\u2013 The Fundamental Principles of 1872 are published again by James White in the first issue of the\u00a0Signs of the Times\u00a0(June 4, 1874), and by Uriah Smith in the\u00a0Review and Herald\u00a0(Nov. 24, 1874).<\/strong>\u00a0In his introductory remarks to the fundamental principles in the\u00a0Signs, James White states, \u201cIn presenting to the public this synopsis of our faith<\/span>, we wish to have it distinctly understood that we have no articles of faith, creed, or discipline aside from the Bible.<\/strong> We do not put forth this as having authority with our people, nor is designed to secure uniformity among them, as a system of faith, but is a brief statement of what is, and has been, with great unanimity, held by them.<\/span>\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1877\u00a0– The Biblical Institute, where Uriah Smith and James White outline the Principal Doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, is held in Oakland, California.\u00a0Covering everything from the Sanctuary to Prophecy, the nature of Sin to the nature of Christ, this Institute confirms and strengthens the teachings of Adventism, as outlined in the Fundamentals of 1872.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1881\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder James White.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1883\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder J.B. Frisbie and Elder John Nevins Andrews.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1883\u00a0– At this General Conference Session, it is decided against publishing a Church Manual, as it is deemed undesirable to take any steps towards a discipline, creed or form of formalism<\/strong> (RH, Nov. 27).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1888\u00a0– The 27th General Conference Session is held at Minneapolis<\/strong>, Minnesota, with 91 delegates, and approx. 475 attendees. God brings the truth of righteousness by faith to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones. Built on a powerful Biblical foundation, this message of the love of God marks the beginning of the Loud Cry. But sadly, the message is resisted by a large majority of the church leadership.\u00a0Ellen White writes,\u00a0\u201cThe prejudices and opinions that prevailed at Minneapolis are not dead by any means<\/strong>. The seeds there sown are ready to spring into life and bear a like harvest, because the roots are still left…. and will bear their unholy fruit, to poison the perception and blind the understanding of those you connect with, in regard to the messengers and messages that God sends\u2026<\/strong>\u201d (Manuscript 40, 1890; 1888 Materials, ch. 115)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1889\u00a0\u2013 The Fundamental Principles are expanded to 28 sections and published in the 1889 Yearbook, leaving the first two on the doctrine of God unchanged. It remains unchanged during its reprinting from 1905-1914 in the SDA Yearbook.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1889\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder Joseph Harvey Waggoner (Ellet Joseph Waggoner\u2019s father).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1890<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Leadership attempts to remove the name Seventh-day Adventist from the\u00a0American Sentinel\u00a0(Religious Liberty journal of the SDA Church) to make the magazine popular with other denominations<\/span>, but this step is averted because a living prophet is present.<\/strong> Ellen White states, \u201cThis policy is the first step in a succession of wrong steps\u201d (Counsels to Writer and Editors, p. 96) the leading brethren are taking down the road to ecumenical concessions<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1891\u00a0– The General Conference sends Ellen White far away to Australia, contrary to the light given her<\/strong> (This Day With God, p. 61). E.J. Waggoner is sent to England<\/strong> as editor of\u00a0The Present Truth\u00a0for 10 years to separate him from A.T. Jones and E.G. White<\/strong> (Letter from W.C. White to A.G. Daniells, May 30, 1902).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1892\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder Roswell F. Cottrell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1892<\/strong>\u00a0– Bible Students’ Library series – lessons for the public. # 90<\/p>\n

“The Bible Doctrine of the Trinity.” Reprint of article in New York\u00a0Independent\u00a0on November 14, 1889. Author – Samuel Spear (non-SDA).<\/a>\u00a0Promotes “one God subsisting and acting in three hypostases\/persons,” but also in \u201ceternal divine subordination of the Son to the Father.”\u00a0The tract used terms not generally used by Adventists, but it is generally non-Trinitarian in content<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1894<\/strong>\u00a0– Ellen White warns, “It is a grave mistake on the part of those who are children of God to seek to bridge the gulf that separate them from the children of darkness by yielding principle, by compromising the truth.<\/strong>” (BEcho, April 9, 1894, par. 6)\u00a0\u201cIt is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the papacy.<\/strong>\u201d (ST Feb 19, 1894) These counsels would later be disregarded by the leadership<\/span> as we shall see.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1894<\/strong>\u00a0– Herbert Camden Lacey attends Sunday-keeping\/Trinitarian meeting as a Battle Creek College delegate<\/span> to Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions in Michigan. Lacey re-accepts the Trinity doctrine<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895<\/strong>\u00a0– Ellen White warns the leadership in Battle Creek: \u201cThe Lord has not placed any one of His human agencies under the dictation and control of those who are themselves but erring mortals… But there is a power exercised in Battle Creek that God has not given, and He will judge those who assume this authority\u2026 Brethren, leave God to rule.<\/strong>\u201d (TM 347.3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1896<\/strong>\u00a0– H. Camden Lacey lectures on Trinity in Cooranbong, Australia<\/span>. Sister Marian Davis, literary assistant to Ellen White, takes copious notes. Arthur G. Daniells does not oppose the lectures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1896<\/strong>\u00a0– Recommendations for essential change at General Conference session, to choose one man as president<\/strong>, but the brethren are advised that it is not wise to do so<\/span>.\u00a0Ellen White warns: \u201cTo place men where God should be placed does not honor or glorify God. Is the president of the General Conference to be the God of the people? Are the men at Battle Creek to be regarded as infinite in wisdom?\u2026 \u2018Cease ye from man.\u2019<\/strong>\u201d (TM 375.2)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1897<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 John Harvey Kellogg presents his first concepts leading to Pantheism<\/span> at a series of studies he gives at the General Conference session.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Review and Herald prints an article from \u201cThe King’s Messenger\u201d which is Trinitarian in teaching \u2013 \u201cThe God-Man<\/span>\u201d (1898).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0R.A. Underwood\u2019s view of the Holy Spirit changes from an influence to a person, thus becoming a Trinitarian<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ellen White states, \u201cThe church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not in her midst.<\/strong>\u201d (Ms 156, 1898 \u2013 Notebook Leaflets from Elms haven Library, Vol.1, Need of Self-Sacrificing Effort, p. 99)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1900<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Review and Herald again prints two more articles from \u201cThe King’s Messenger\u201d both of which are Trinitarian in teaching \u2013\u201cThe Third Person\u201d<\/span> (January 1900), and \u201c Blended Personalities\u201d<\/span> (April 1900).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1901\u00a0\u2013 The American Standard Version of the Bible is first published.<\/strong> This move towards a common Bible between Catholics and Protestants will influence Adventism in small steps away from truth<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1901<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Recommendations for change are repeated and voted.\u00a0One chairman is to head the G.C for only one year. Arthur Daniells is elected, but two years later, he is still<\/strong> president<\/span>. General Conference Executive Committee increases its members from 13 to 25 (GCB p. 151).\u00a0Ellen White warns that the church is \u201cworking upon wrong principles.<\/strong>\u201d (Ms 37, p.98, 1901)\u00a0\u201cThe people have lost confidence in those who have the management of the work. Yet we hear that the voice of the Conference is the voice of God. Every time I have heard this, I have thought it was ALMOST BLASPHEMY.<\/strong>\u201d (Ms 37, 1901, p. 8)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1902<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 J.H. Kellogg prepares to publish his work,\u00a0The Living Temple<\/span>.\u00a0He is told NOT<\/strong> to include his new theories, but ignores the counsel. He tries to gain approval at the Autumn Council for his book to be published but a letter from Ellen White to Daniells counsels him to have nothing to do with the book.<\/strong> Kellogg takes his manuscript to the Review and Herald publishing house as outside work, and they agree to print it<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As the result, the Battle Creek Sanitarium<\/strong> (February 18) headed by Kellogg and the Review and Herald printing office<\/strong> (December 30) burn to the ground<\/strong>,\u00a0and with it the galley proofs of Kellogg\u2019s book\u00a0Living Temple. But he takes the manuscript to a non-Adventist printer.\u00a023 fires would happen between 1901 and 1923<\/span>.\u00a0Judgment has ruled from the heavens above.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1902\u00a0\u2013 Ellen White feels perplexed and frustrated with the G.C and decides to withdraw herself from all their meetings. She writes to her sons Edson and Willie, “I have but very little confidence that the Lord is giving these men in positions of responsibility, spiritual eyesight and heavenly discernment. I am thrown into perplexity over their course; and I desire now to attend to my special work, to have no part in any of their councils, and to attend no camp meetings, nigh or afar off. My mind shall not be dragged into confusion by the tendency they manifest to work directly contrary to the light that God has given me. I am done. I will preserve my God-given intelligence. My voice has been heard in the different conferences, and at camp meetings. I must now make a change… I shall therefore leave, leave them to receive word from the Bible… This is the light given me and I shall not depart from it.”<\/strong> (Letter W-186, 2 Dec, 1902 to Edson and Willie White, p. 4, 5)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903\u00a0– Crisis begins with\u00a0Living Temple\u00a0and the Alpha heresy.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kellogg prints the book in which he has placed his theories<\/span>.\u00a0Ellen White says they are \u201cspiritualistic<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cakin to pantheism<\/strong>\u201d (Special Testimonies B, No. 6, p. 41). She says these teachings are the \u201calpha of deadly heresies\u201d<\/strong> (1SM 200), and that \u201cthe Omega would follow in a little while. I tremble for our people.<\/strong> In\u00a0Living Temple\u00a0the assertion is made that God is in the flower, in the leaf, in the sinner. But God does not live in the sinner. The Word declares that He abides only in the hearts of those who love Him and do righteousness. God does not abide in the heart of the sinner; it is the enemy who abides there.<\/strong>\u201d (Sermons and Talks, Vol. 1, p. 341,343)\u00a0But Kellogg claims that his book is in harmony with Ellen White\u2019s writings<\/span> and can be sustained by statements from the testimonies. Ellen White tells him he has taken her statements away from their connection, and interpreted them according to his own mind. \u201cI saw what was coming in, and I saw that our brethren were blind. They did not realize the danger.<\/strong>\u201d (Sermons and Talks, vol.1, p. 344)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In a vision, Ellen White sees \u201ca platform, braced by solid timbers\u2014the truths of the Word of God. Someone high in responsibility in the medical work was directing this man and that man to loosen the timbers supporting this platform\u2026\u201d (1SM 204)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903\u00a0– Autumn Council, the understanding of the character and personality of God comes under threat.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A.G. Daniells is concerned that the supporters of\u00a0Living Temple\u00a0would cause a confrontation, and dares not call for a vote. Ellen White writes to him: \u201cBe careful how you sustain the sentiments of this book regarding the personality of God\u2026 It has been represented to me that the writer of this book is on a false track.<\/strong>\u201d (Keepers of the Flame, no.6, Dr Alan Lindsay)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
After the council, Daniells writes to W.C. White regarding the proposed changes Kellogg has planned for the book. \u201cRegarding Dr Kellogg<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s plans for revising and republishing\u00a0\u2018Living Temple\u2019\u2026within a short time he had come to believe in the Trinity<\/strong><\/span> and could now see pretty clearly where all the difficulty was\u2026 He now believed in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and his view was that it was God the Holy Ghost and not God the Father, that filled all space, and every living thing\u2026\u201d (Oct 29, 1903, p. 1,2)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen White writes to Kellogg:<\/span> \u201cYou are not definitely clear on the personality of God, which is everything to us as a people. You have virtually destroyed the Lord God Himself<\/span>.<\/strong>\u201d (Letter 300, The Elmshaven Years, Vol.5, 1900-1905. Arthur L. White, 1941)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
She further predicts what will happen in the future. \u201cThe enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new organization would be established. Books of a new order would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced\u2026\u201d<\/strong> (1SM 204)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0New Constitution is proposed to provide for the election of a G.C president who will be given a mandate from the Church. This will give the president and leading officers authority to enact what they think the people need. Daniells is made president for the next 20 years<\/span>.\u00a0New Constitution provides for the Exec Committee of 25 members to have full administrative power between sessions for any five<\/strong> members as a quorum to take steps that will involve the whole committee<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen White writes, \u201cThese principles are so foreign to God\u2019s principles that God cannot bless those who vote upon them.<\/strong>\u201d (GCB 1903, p.152)\u00a0E.J. Waggoner<\/strong> also objects: \u201cIt is fundamentally and diametrically opposed to the principles of organization as set forth in the Bible.<\/strong>\u201d (GCB 1903)\u00a0Percy Magan<\/strong> says, \u201cThey are the same principles and introduced in precisely the same way as they were hundreds of years ago when the Papacy was made.<\/strong>\u201d (GCB Day 3, No 10, p. 150)\u00a0A.T. Jones<\/strong> states,\u00a0\u201cThis proposed constitution is subversive of the principles of organization given to us at the G.C of 1897 and that of 1901.<\/strong>\u201d (GCB 1903, p. 152,153)\u00a0This G.C session has rejected the 1897 and 1901 recommendations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Uriah Smith dies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Harvey Kellogg<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dr. John Harvey Kellogg promotes Trinitarian doctrines in Battle Creek after converting from Pantheism<\/span>.\u00a0Kellogg asks Jones to teach at Battle Creek College.\u00a0Waggoner moves to Battle Creek, placing him in great peril.\u00a0Ellen White writes to him: \u201cSatan is working stealthily, untiringly, to affect your downfall through his specious temptations\u2026 He hopes to lead you into the mazes of spiritualism.\u201d<\/strong> (Letter 231, 1903)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1904<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ellen White has a vision in which the angel says to Jones and Waggoner,\u00a0\u201cThe sentiments that you have received in harmony with the special theories presented in the book \u2018Living Temple\u2019 are not pure truth. There is a co-mingling of truth and error\u2026 Separate entirely from the bewitching, misleading sentiments that run through\u00a0\u2018Living Temple\u2019.<\/strong>\u201d (Letter 279, 1904)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
For more on Kellogg and the early Adventism, check out this article by Terry Hill,<\/p>\n

“The early 1900\u2019s crisis – Kellogg and the Holy Spirit”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1904<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ellen White has another vision of Kellogg:\u00a0\u201cThe subject upon which he was speaking was life, and the relation of God to all living things. In his presentations he cloaked the matter somewhat, but in reality he was presenting, as of the highest value, scientific theories which are akin to pantheism\u2026 I was astonished to see with what enthusiasm the sophistries and deceptive theories were received. The influence of this talk gave the speaker encouragement to call for a council of our brethren at Battle Creek, for a further examination of these seducing sentiments.<\/strong>\u201d (Special Testimonies Series B, No.6, p.\u00a0210)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cRebellion and apostasy are in the very air we breathe.<\/strong>\u201d (2SM 58)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The apostasy will<\/span> \u201cdevelop into darkness deep as midnight, impenetrable as sackcloth of hair,<\/strong>\u201d and will increase in strength until the coming of Jesus<\/span>. (Manuscript Releases, vol. 7, p. 185.1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In 1904, Ellen White writes, \u201cFor the past 50 years every phase of heresy has been brought to bear upon us\u2026 Messages of every order and kind have been urged upon Seventh-day Adventists, to take the place of the truth which, point by point, has been sought out by prayer, study, and testified to by the miracle-working power of the Lord.<\/strong>\u201d (Special Testimonies, Series B #2, p.\u00a059)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notice that in 1904, the foundation of faith has been firmly established<\/span>. \u201cMany of our people do not realize how firmly the foundation of our faith has been laid. My husband, Elder Joseph Bates, Father Pierce, Elder Hiram Edson, and others who were keen, noble, and true, were among those who, after the passing of the time in 1844, searched for the truth as for hidden treasure\u2026 When they came to the point in their study where they said, \u2018We can do nothing more,\u2019 the Spirit of the Lord would come upon me, I would be taken off in vision, and a clear explanation of the passages we had been studying would be given me, with instruction as to how we were to labor and teach effectively. Thus light was given that helped us to understand the scriptures in regard to Christ, His mission, and His priesthood. A line of truth extending from that time to the time when we shall enter the city of God, was made plain to me, and I gave to others the instruction that the Lord had given me.<\/strong>\u201d (1SM 206.4)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1905\u00a0\u2013 The 28 Fundamental Principles of 1889 \u201cSynopsis of our Faith\u201d is inserted again in the church Yearbook, and continues until 1914.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen White confirms these principles: \u201cEvery pillar that He has established is to be strengthened. We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the truth<\/strong>\u201d (Manuscript 129, 1905). \u201cThe past fifty years have not dimmed one jot or principle of our faith<\/span> as we received the great and wonderful evidences that were made certain to us in 1844, after the passing of the time… Not a word is changed or denied<\/span>.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0(Letter 326, Dec. 4, 1905; The Upward Look, 352.4)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1905\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daniel Bourdeau dies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1905<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ellen White says the writings of the pioneers should be reproduced. \u201cGod has given me light<\/span> regarding our periodicals. What is it? He has said that the dead are to speak. How? Their works shall follow them. We are to repeat the words of the pioneers in our work<\/span>, who knew what it cost to search for the truth as for hidden treasure, and who labored to lay the foundation of our work. They moved forward step by step under the influence of the Spirit of God<\/span>. One by one these pioneers are passing away. The word given me is, Let that which these men have written in the past be reproduced.<\/strong>\u201d (RH May 25, 1905)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1907<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Apostasy is here. With the apostasy of J.H. Kellogg, Ellen White warns: \u201cThe time of this apostasy is here. Every conceivable effort will be made to throw doubt upon the positions we have occupied for over half a century.<\/strong>\u201d (Letter 410, 1907, p. 2 [to J.E. White, Aug 26, 1907]; 7MR 195)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1912\u00a0\u2013 The Review and Herald reprints the original Principles with the first two unchanged<\/span>\u2013”one God” and “one Lord.”<\/strong> (August 22, 1912, p. 4)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1913<\/strong>\u00a0– F. M. Wilcox publishes a supposed \u201cTrinitarian tract\u201d and a quote from Ellen White (taken from Desire of Ages) next to it from 1898 to paint a false picture of belief in the\u00a0Review and Herald<\/span>,\u00a0Vol 6, Oct. 9, 1913, p 21. Wilcox rolls out the divine Trinity which includes the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead<\/span>.\u00a0This sets the stage for making the Godhead<\/strong><\/span> (used exclusively by Ellen White) equivalent with Wilcox’s “divine Trinity<\/span>.” This is apparently a response to counter the claim published by James Gray of the Moody Bible Institute that Adventists deny the Trinity (James Gray,\u00a0Bible Problems Explained, 1913).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ellen White warns of great changes to take place after her death.\u00a0\u201cI am charged to tell our people, that do not realize, that the devil has device after device, and he carries them out in ways that they do not expect. Satan\u2019s agencies will invent ways to make sinners out of saints. I tell you now, that when I am laid to rest, great changes will take place. I do not know when I shall be taken; and I desire to warn all against the devices of the devil. I want the people to know that I warned them fully before my death.<\/strong>\u201d (Manuscript 1, Feb 24, 1915)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ellen G. White dies.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When Ellen White died in July 1915, three funerals and a graveside service memorialized her life of ministry. An estimated 5,400 people attended these services.The first funeral was held July 18 on the lawn at her home in California, known as Elmshaven. A second was held the next day in Oakland, California. The third and largest service was held on Sabbath, July 24, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Ellen White had lived for many years and where she was to be buried beside her husband, James.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915\u00a0\u2013 The \u201cSynopsis of Our Faith\u201d which is the Fundamental Principles mostly written by James White in 1872 and inserted in the 1889 Yearbook and again in the 1905-1914 Yearbooks are now removed from the 1915 SDA Yearbook by a mere General Conference statistician, Edson Rogers.<\/strong><\/span> He obviously did it as soon as the living prophet has died. Thus the Fundamental Principles held in great unanimity by the pioneers are put out of the way.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elder E.J. Waggoner and Dr. David Paulson die.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder George I. Butler, Elder James H. Morrison and Elder W. H. Littlejohn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1919<\/strong>\u00a0– Bible and Teachers Conference takes place in secrecy with the discussion becoming heated at times as some in leadership positions test the waters to see if the doctrine of the Trinity can be brought in<\/strong>.\u00a0There is enough resistance to table the conversation for another time.\u00a0The recorded minutes for this five week long event (July 1-August 9) disappears for 55 years<\/strong> until 1974.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1922\u00a0— Judson Washburn writes an open letter to Daniells saying the 1919 Bible Conference was “the most terrible thing that had ever happened in the history of this denomination.”\u00a0( J. S. Washburn,\u00a0An Open Letter to Elder A. G. Daniells and an Appeal to the General Conference, 1922, p. 28,29)\u00a0Another letter written by Washburn to Claude Holmes is published as a 36-page tract called\u00a0The Startling Omega and its True Genealogy. It is distributed at the General Conference of 1922. In this tract he mentions that the college in Washington has become \u201ca nest of Higher Criticism\u201d\u00a0and he blames Daniells and Prescott for all the theological problems. (Omega Tract, Washburn, p. 1, 6)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1922\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elder Stephen N. Haskell, author of many best selling books and Adventist Pioneer, dies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elder Alonzo Trevor Jones and Elder O.A. Johnson die.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Norton Loughborough, the last of the first generation core of Pioneers, dies.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926\u00a0\u2013 LeRoy Froom (who is the first associate secretary and then made secretary of the GC Ministerial Association until 1950) is asked to present studies on the Holy Spirit at the Milwaukee General Conference Session.<\/strong> In preparation for his studies, Froom went to books written by authors outside of our faith<\/strong> (he went to Babylon for his material) to reference their writings as he could not find in our own denomination writings that would line up with his agenda.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gradually the meaning of the word \u201cdivine\u201d\u00a0changed, until it meant not fully divine. We do not know how it changed, but Trinitarians were using the term \u201cdeity\u201d, instead of \u201cdivine\u201d. \u00a0(Once divine and deity meant the same.)<\/strong> When Froom uses the words \u201call the fullness of the Godhead\u201d, he is making two statements — an Arian or Semi-Arian belief is not true Christianity, and the Trinity has a Saviour with full deity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926\u00a0\u2013 G.C Working Policy (075) is adopted. SDA Church becomes a part of evangelical churches.<\/strong>\u00a0The policy states, \u201cWe recognize every agency that lifts up Christ before men as a part of the divine plan for the evangelization of the world, and we hold in high esteem the Christian men and women in other communions who are engaged in winning souls to Christ.<\/span>\u201d (\u201cRelationship To Other Societies,\u201d GC Exco, 1926) This would include the Jesuit Order<\/span>. Ellen White has warned,\u00a0\u201cShall this power, whose record for a thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part of the church of Christ?<\/strong>\u201d (Great Controversy, 1888, p.\u00a0571.1) This is the first \u201cwrong step\u201d toward ecumenical concessions taken by the G.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder James Edson White, son of James and Ellen White.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 LeRoy Froom is invited to present a series of studies on the Holy Spirit at the North American Union Ministerial Institute.\u00a0After the Institute meetings he says, \u201cYou cannot imagine how I was pummeled by some of the old timers because I pressed on the personality of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead.<\/span>\u201d (Letter from LeRoy Froom to Dr Otto H. Christenson,\u00a0Oct 27,\u00a01960) \u00a0Ellen White has also used the term \u201cthird person of the Godhead\u201d but with very different connotations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leroy Froom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928\u00a0\u2013\u00a0LeRoy Froom, founder of\u00a0Ministry\u00a0Magazine, begins promoting the American Revised Standard Version of the Bible and demotes the King James Bible to not accurate and old-fashioned status.<\/strong>\u00a0He tours the U.S. promoting the Sunday Trinity to Adventist ministers and writes the book\u00a0The Coming of the Comforter<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Coming of the Comforter, a pro-Trinity book by LeRoy Froom, is published<\/strong> upon urgent request of hundreds of ministers who heard him speak. In the book he emphasizes strongly the personality of the Holy Spirit as a separate being from the Father and Son. The book contains many quotations from the Spirit of Prophecy, but the interpretation is totally different than the teaching of the pioneers. More on Froom\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 W. W. Prescott who was educated by the secular Dartmouth College, writes eleven articles in the\u00a0Signs of the Times\u00a0documenting the Sunday scholars’ proof<\/strong> of the inferiority of the King James Bible.\u00a0The Bible of the Pioneers is under assault and being replaced by modern corrupt versions.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928\u00a0\u2013 General Conference leadership adopts the American Revised Version Bible, which is inspired by the Jesuits of Rome<\/span>, above the Authorized KJV Bible of the pioneers.<\/strong>\u00a0This version comes from scholars that rely on two manuscripts, the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus (Constantine\u2019s state Bibles.)\u00a0This is the second \u201cwrong step\u201d toward ecumenism<\/span>. This step is now possible with the passing of the last pioneer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929\u00a0\u2013 Healing of the deadly wound of the Papacy.<\/strong> The Lateran Treaty is signed between Italy and the Vatican, settling the “Roman Question.” Italy now recognizes the Vatican City State as an independent state, and agrees to give the Church financial compensation for the loss of the Papal States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A.T. Robinson writes an article \u201cOne God and One Mediator\u201d for the Review and Herald, quoting 1 Cor. 15:28, giving the impression that the one God is the Father only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930\u00a0\u2013 General Conference votes to publish a Church Manual.\u00a0In 1883 the G.C. session had voted NO.\u00a0They have also decided it was time for a new statement of fundamental beliefs.\u00a0This is the third \u201cwrong step\u201d toward ecumenism.<\/strong> Attitudes have now changed and become more liberal. Theological wounds have \u201chealed.\u201d The last of the pioneers has died and their voices are no longer heard. Leadership wants to change the old SDA doctrines on (1) The final atonement in heaven, (2) The human nature of Christ, (3) The place of Scripture and prophecy in the church, and (4) The doctrine of the Trinity as taught by evangelicals.<\/strong> Ellen White warns, \u201cIn no respect is God\u2019s work to be circumscribed by man-made restrictions. Many of the ambitious plans and policies that have been made are not endorsed by Him.<\/strong>\u201d (1MR 245)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Our Authorized Bible Vindicated\u00a0by B.G. Wilkinson is published, documenting the origins and history of the King James Bible.\u00a0The General Conference tries to discontinue the book and Wilkinson writes a second book in defense of his position,\u00a0Answers to Objections to our Authorized Bible Vindicated.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Church leaders in Africa request a “statement”\u00a0that will \u201cassist in a better understanding of our work.\u201d\u00a0(27 Fundamentals Introduction)\u00a0In answer to the request, a suitable Statement of Faith is placed in the 1931 Yearbook.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931\u00a0\u2013 Yearbook with new Statement of Beliefs is published without a vote or authority.<\/strong> The G.C President C.H. Watson is voted the authority to select a committee of four men of which he is a member, to prepare a statement for publication in the Yearbook. The four are G.C Associate Secretary M.E Kern,\u00a0Review\u00a0editor F.M Wilcox, manager of Review and Herald E.R. Palmer, and G.C President C.H Watson. Francis McLellan Wilcox<\/strong>, editor for the Review and Herald for 33 years, alone writes up the new Statement of Beliefs with 22 Fundamental Beliefs<\/strong> with the approval of the committee and passes it over to Edson Rogers (G.C statistician from 1903-1941) who places it in the 1931 Yearbook. LeRoy Froom would later claim there was a consensus because no one complained.\u00a0He fails to mention the church was unaware of this action.\u00a0President Watson knows, but does not seek to take official action. Thus the Statement of Beliefs is added not by approval of the G.C, but \u201cby common consent\u201d and is \u201caccepted without challenge.\u201d<\/strong> (Froom, Movement of Destiny, p. 414)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SDA Fundamental Beliefs-Yearbook 1889-1914<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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SDA Fundamental Beliefs-Yearbook, 1931<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Click\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to view the entire yearbook (For statement of beliefs see pgs. 377 to 380)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The first two fundamental principles of James White\/Uriah Smith (1872\/1874\/1889-1914 Yearbooks) state in part, \u201c1. That there is one God,\u2026 everywhere present by His representative, the Holy Spirit. 2. That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father\u2026 that He took on Him the nature of the seed of Abraham for the redemption of our fallen race\u2026\u201d<\/strong> The 1931 Yearbook now states, “That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists of the Eternal Father,… the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father,…\u00a0the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead…”<\/span> (p. 377)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Points that are entirely removed from the 1872\/1874\/1889 Fundamental Principles include: Prophecy as a part of God\u2019s revelation to man, World history fulfills Bible prophecy, and Papacy (man of sin) changed the Sabbath.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The pioneer view on the post-fall human nature of Christ is changed to a pre-fall human nature, Christ\u2019s work of final atonement in the most holy place since 1844 is omitted and now replaced with atonement being completed on the cross and Christ now lives to make intercession for us, and the cleansing of the sanctuary involving the work of blotting out sins is now replaced with only a work of judgment.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Now the SDA Church has a new statement on the Trinity, a new Christ with an unfallen human nature instead of a fallen (but not corrupted) human nature, and a new final atonement that was completed on the cross rather than finished in the most holy place in heaven.<\/strong> These doctrinal changes place the SDA Church in harmony with the Sunday-keeping churches of Babylon, and make it possible for ecumenical ties with other denominations. To substantiate these new apostate doctrines, a new Bible, the American Revised Version (now approved by the Papacy), is embraced.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By\u00a01931, periodicals, tracts and books have been published \u201con the \u2018Three Persons\u2019 of the Godhead, the eternal pre-existence and complete Deity of Christ, and the personality of the Holy Spirit\u201d by LeRoy Froom (Movement of Destiny, p. 418).<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1932\u00a0\u2013 The first Church Manual is published, with the 22 articles of Fundamental Beliefs, despite G.I Butler’s objection to having a Church Manual in 1883<\/strong> (RH, Nov. 20).\u00a0Now the church has an official creed for the first time.<\/strong> In 1861, James White warned, \u201cMaking a creed is setting the stakes, and barring up the way to all future advancement. They say virtually that the Lord must not do anything further than what has been marked out in the creed. A creed and the [spiritual] gifts thus stand in direct opposition to each other\u2026 The Bible is our creed. We reject everything in the form of a human creed.<\/strong>\u201d (RH, Oct. 8, 1861)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1935\u00a0\u2013 Death of Arthur Grosvenor Daniells, one of the key men in apostasy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1935\u00a0\u2013 Letter from H.W. Carr to Willie White asking about the nature of the Holy Spirit as being promoted by some of the leaders being another separate person from the Father and the Son.\u00a0Ellen White explaining that the Spirit of God and of Christ (Holy Spirit) is a divine personality begins to be twisted into \u201csomeone else\u201d\u00a0other than Christ the Comforter.\u00a0Part of Willie White\u2019s response is, \u201cThe statements and the arguments of some of our ministers in their effort to prove that the Holy Spirit was an individual as are God, the Father and Christ, the eternal Son, have perplexed me and sometimes they have made me sad. One popular teacher said ‘we may regard Him, (the Holy Spirit) as the fellow who is down here running things.”’\u00a0(Letter Willie White, April 30,\u00a01935)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936\u00a0\u2013 The General Conference Sabbath School Committee publishes a series of Sabbath School lesson studies (starting with the 4th quarter 1936 to the 2nd quarter 1938)\u00a0for the church which is intended to show the world what Seventh-day Adventists officially believe, and purportedly to show that the church still upholds the Adventist Pioneer position on the nature of God and Christ. Six men including F.M Wilcox and M.E Kern were voted by the G.C Committee in late 1935 to sit with the Sabbath School Department Lessons Committee when they compile the studies on essential Bible doctrines. The studies apply Trinitarian language to non-Trinitarian belief, in effect subtly reinterpreting it in Trinitarian terms. In the third week of the 4th quarter 1936 lesson under the title\u00a0“The Godhead”, the word Trinity is used twice, once as a heading and once as a sub-heading. Under the “Trinity” heading, they state that\u00a0“three powers wrought in the work of creation,”\u00a0and that\u00a0“the name God is used of the Father, of the Son, and of the Spirit–a kind of heavenly family name. These three constitute the Godhead.”\u00a0Then under the heading\u00a0“Unity of the Godhead”, they state,\u00a0“The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father<\/span>. The Spirit is ‘the Spirit of God’ and ‘the Spirit of Christ.’ Hence all three dwell together, and the three are one.”<\/strong>\u00a0(Lesson 3, p.10)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The only other time that the word Trinity is mentioned again is in Lesson 10, which states,\u00a0“Since the divine Trinity is composed of three persons, there is established a personal relationship between the Godhead and the one baptized.”(Dec. 5, p. 31) Nothing else is said about the word Trinity, and the phrase “Trinity doctrine” is not used, but intimations of it are being subtly conveyed.\u00a0At this point, the begotten belief is still the official belief. Time and death is needed to change it to an unbegotten belief to support the false claim that Christ could not be begotten and yet be fully God in His pre-existence<\/strong>.\u00a0Ellen White believed that Christ was truly begotten and still truly God, for she said in 1905, \u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father, is truly God in infinity, but not in personality.\u201d (Manuscript 116, Dec. 19, 1905) The 4th quarter lesson rightly concludes regarding the pre-existence of Christ that\u00a0\u201cHe was therefore no part of creation but was \u2018begotten of the Father\u2019\u00a0in the days of eternity, and was very God Himself.\u201d\u00a0(Lesson 4, p. 13) In the section regarding the Deity of Christ, the lesson rightly recognizes that Christ as the begotten Son has inherited God\u2019s name and therefore can rightly be called God. So it seems that as late as 1936, Ellen White’s writings have actually not changed the beliefs of the church about the pre-existence of Christ as the truly divine begotten Son of God<\/strong>, contrary to later claims that they have.\u00a0Also at this point, the Holy Spirit is still not officially regarded as a divine person exactly like God and Christ are persons. The lesson states,\u00a0\u201cHence the Father sends the Spirit in the name of the Son, that is, as the Son\u2019s representative. The Spirit \u2018proceedeth from the Father,\u2019 to do His work in the earth\u2026 Hence the Father sends the Spirit, and the Son sends the Spirit. The Son speaks what the Father gives Him to speak, and the Spirit speaks what the Son gives Him to speak. The Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ\u2026\u201d\u00a0(Lesson 3, p. 11) \u00a0Click\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to view the original Sabbath School lesson of 1936.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936\u00a0\u2013 Benjamin Wilkinson answers a letter from Dr. T.S. Teters saying, \u201cReplying to your letter of October 13 regarding the doctrine of the Trinity,\u00a0I will say that Seventh Day Adventists do not, and never have accepted the dark, mysterious, Catholic doctrine of the Trinity.\u201d \u00a0(http:\/\/omega77.tripod.com\/bivensholyspirit.htm<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1937\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Willie C. White, son of James and Ellen White.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939\u00a0\u2013 W.W. Prescott preaches a sermon at the Takoma Park Church, where he says that Scripture \u201cclearly implied the doctrine of the Trinity\u2026 There are three persons in the Godhead, but they are so mysteriously and indissolubly related to each other, that the presence of one is equivalent to the presence of the other.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Elder Judson S. Washburn protests what he hears and sees happening in the church by writing a letter to the G.C president J.L. McElhany against the Trinity doctrine. It was circulated by a conference president to 32 ministers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941\u00a0\u2013 General Conference Committee votes that the Statement of Beliefs be made available in leaflet form and officially released as our accepted Statement of Faith. The committee also approves a uniform \u2018Baptismal Covenant\u2019 or \u2018Vow\u2019 in certificate form, based on the now generally accepted Fundamental Beliefs declaration of 1931.<\/strong> (G.C Session in San Francisco)\u00a0The\u00a0Trinitarian-worded baptismal vow is formulated by 13 men led by Prescott. They call the Father the first person, Jesus the second person, and the Holy Spirit the third person.\u00a0The word Trinity is not used.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941-44\u00a0\u2013 Hymnal \u201cChrist in Song\u201d and \u201cHymns and Tunes\u201d song book copies are ordered back to the conferences for burning so that a new Church Hymnal with Trinitarian influence can replace them.<\/strong>\u00a0This is under the guise of Roy Allan Anderson.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 John Harvey Kellogg dies, after seducing many to his heresy<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944\u00a0\u2013 Removal by committee of all 18 non-Trinitarian statements from Uriah Smith\u2019s book\u00a0Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation\u00a0in an attempt to cover up history. They eliminate every portion that said Christ was begotten of the Father.\u00a0W.W. Prescott and others change the meaning of the \u201cdaily sacrifice\u201d in the 2300 days message.\u00a0Changes are also made to Spirit of Prophecy books, such as lower case changed to capital letters for Third Person.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Truth Triumphant\u00a0by Benjamin G. Wilkinson is published, an exhaustive study of the history of God\u2019s Church in the Wilderness. It contains strong statements against the Trinity doctrine. LeRoy Froom is angry, and orders the destruction of the original offset press plates so the book cannot be reprinted.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944\u00a0\u2013 Death of William Warren Prescott, one of the key men in apostasy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945\u00a0\u2013 LeRoy Froom publishes a compilation of Ellen White quotes in\u00a0Ministry\u00a0Magazine to give credence to the \u201ceternity of Christ\u201d.\u00a0Her understanding in this usage was far different than his.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946\u00a0\u2013 Leadership again calls for a committee of four to make a statement of official beliefs.\u00a0 However, it is again penned individually by F. M. Wilcox through a statement of beliefs on the Trinity, originally written in 1931 by him and unofficially put in the Yearbook.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946\u00a0– The compilation of\u00a0Evangelism\u00a0with careful, calculated use of certain Ellen White statements, many not even complete sentences, to paint a picture that she was supposedly Trinitarian, is done by LeRoy Froom, Roy Allan Anderson and Miss Louise C. Kleuser under the encouragement of Elder Branson<\/strong> (1966 Froom Letters). With the intent to deceive, Froom places these quotes from Ellen White in his book\u00a0Evangelism\u00a0under the heading “Misrepresentations of the Godhead”\u00a0where she had said \u201cthird person\u201d, \u201cthree great powers\u201d and \u201cHeavenly trio\u201d etc. When reading the statements under such a heading, a subtle message is given.\u00a0But all of these in fact refer to the Spirit of Christ and not another being. This is how Froom eventually managed to lead the entire Adventist Church astray because people do not take the time to research what else Ellen White wrote on these topics.\u00a0They just take the one-liners like they are hypnotized.<\/strong>\u00a0Froom\u2019s book has persuaded many non-Trinitarians in the Columbian Union to \u201clay down their arms\u201d and become Trinitarians.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The General Conference Session votes that all further revisions of the Church Manual must be approved in advance by the G.C in world session.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946\u00a0\u2013 The General Conference, after being conditioned for 27 years (and a new generation of members coming into the church during those 27 years that knew nothing but the Trinity), votes to retain the 1931 Baptismal Vow officially. They then vote that \u201cchanges to the baptismal vow could only be made by the General Conference delegates in official session.<\/strong>\u201d (Movement of Destiny, p. 422) The Trinity is now protected by the necessity of an entire church vote in session<\/span>. The entire ministry and the world membership now believes the Trinity is true.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947\u00a0\u2013 Charles S. Longacre writes paper #17 \u201cThe Deity of Christ,\u201d clarifying the SDA church\u2019s original stand on the Godhead \u2013 a non-Trinitarian article,\u00a0submitting it to the Bible Research Fellowship for discussion. This would be the last of any major resistance left in the church for decades to come.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948\u00a0\u2013 World Council of Churches is formally instituted in Amsterdam.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1949\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bible Readings for the Home Circle\u00a0is revised by D.E. Rebok in an attempt to remove any non-Trinitarian, Arian or Semi-Arian statements.<\/strong> Roy Allan Anderson had his influence in this as well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950\u00a0\u2013 Death of Herbert Camden Lacey, one of the key men in apostasy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950\u00a0\u2013 Elders R.J. Wieland and D.K. Short write a thesis for the GC entitled \u201c1888 Re-examined\u201d.\u00a0 This is eventually rejected with ongoing discussions up until 1961. This is a form of correction for the church through self-examination and getting back to truth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952\u00a0\u2013 A book is copyrighted called\u00a0Principles of Life, and printed in 1956.<\/strong> \u00a0It has been used by school children as their Bible Doctrines study book. \u00a0One paragraph says, \u201cWhile God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three separate and distinct beings, yet they are \u2018one in nature, in character, in purpose<\/span>\u2019\u00a0(PP34.1), working in such close relationship as to be one.\u201d (Principles of Life<\/span>, p.28)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder Judson S. Washburn, one of the last of the connecting links to truth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955-56\u00a0\u2013 Evangelical Conferences take place between the General Conference (represented by Froom, Anderson, Read, and Unruh)\u00a0and Walter Martin and Donald Barnhouse, editor of\u00a0Eternity\u00a0magazine.\u00a0Are Adventists a cult? \u00a0That was the question of the Evangelicals. The Trinity doctrine is one of the first issues discussed. Concessions are made on the Atonement and the humanity of Christ.\u00a0Christ\u2019s nature was changed to that of Adam\u2019s nature before the Fall.\u00a0The teaching of the atonement was changed to \u201ccompleted at the cross\u201d, instead of \u201ccommencing at the cross\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0These changes were required by the protestant denominations for the SDA church to be classified as an evangelical Christian church instead of a cult or sect<\/span>.\u00a0We submit to the daughters of the Harlot in fear of being labeled a cult, and reject the Spirit of Prophecy writings because they do not reflect Adventist theology. But we were previously labeled a cult for years because our beliefs stood out from the rest of Protestantism<\/span>.\u00a0Ellen White warned in 1894 not to bridge the gulf that separates the children of God from the children of darkness<\/strong>.\u00a0But this is not heeded.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donald Barnhouse writes in his\u00a0Eternity\u00a0magazine, \u201cImmediately it was perceived that the Adventists were strenuously denying certain doctrinal positions which had been previously attributed to them\u2026. The Adventists specifically repudiate any teachings by ministers or members of their faith who have believed, proclaimed, and written any matter which would classify them among Arians.<\/span>\u201d \u00a0(Eternity. September, 1956)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Questions on Doctrine\u00a0is published following those meetings\u00a0\u2013 a pro-Trinity book written by LeRoy Edwin Froom, W.E. Read, R.A. Anderson and T.E. Unruh.\u00a0This is to match the SDA Church with the Protestant and Evangelical world, to be accepted so we would not be labeled a \u201ccult\u201d.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0The Church declares oneness with the fallen Protestant denominations.\u00a0\u201cWe are one with our fellow Christian denominational groups in the great fundamentals of the faith once delivered to the saints.\u201d<\/strong> (Questions on Doctrine, p.32)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957\u00a0\u2013 SDA Church joins the CWC \u2013 Christian World Communions.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Charles S. Longacre, a champion of religious liberty, an author who stood for the original Pioneer views within Adventism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Second Vatican Council begins to be held, concluding in 1965. The Roman Church repositions itself in relation to the modern world. Major changes occur in the Catholic Church, but the intention remains the same. The final stage is set for the Jesuit Order\u2019s Counter Reformation to take over all the Protestant churches.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962\u00a0\u2013 The World Council of Churches incorporates the Trinity doctrine in its prerequisite for membership, and becomes the foremost Ecumenical organization.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The 1962 Yearbook reprints the statement of faith in substantially the same form in which it first appeared in 1931.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965\u00a0\u2013 Bernard Seton urges the General Conference to revise our Fundamental Beliefs.\u00a0Several of our leaders had just traveled to Geneva Switzerland to enter into negotiations for closer contacts with the World Council of Churches headquarters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965\u00a0\u2013 Bert Beverly Beach becomes the SDA ecumenical liaison with other denominations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Death of Elder Benjamin G. Wilkinson, Ph.D, after 76 years of active church service.\u00a0This pioneer of Adventism spoke out against the new Trinity doctrine until his death.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968\u00a0\u2013 Uppsala, Sweden \u2013 World Council of Churches admits to full membership the representatives from non-member churches, which include the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Published on July 12, New York Times newspaper.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970\u00a0\u2013 Bert B. Beach is elected as the Secretary-General of the annual Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, which represents about two billion Christians and covers more churches than any other organization. He would hold this position until 2003.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Movement of Destiny\u00a0by LeRoy Froom gets published. Froom admits to alterations made from 1931 to \u201cstandard works\u201d to correct \u201cerroneous views on the Godhead\u201d to make them Trinitarian.\u00a0His historical account says “we began as Semi-Arians, but steadily rose to become a strong Movement, able to take our place among mainline Protestant denominations. Together with them we wholeheartedly profess Christendom\u2019s doctrine of the Trinity and the full deity of Christ.” He also makes other admissions of wrongdoing which include going to Sunday-keeping authors for his material that is included in his book\u00a0The Coming of the Comforter\u00a0that was published in 1928.<\/strong> (Movement of Destiny, p. 322, 422)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The principles and provisions of Adventism are altered in the books\u00a0Seventh-day Adventists Answer,\u00a0Question on Doctrine, and\u00a0Movement of Destiny. The \u201cdivine Personalities\u201d, the pioneer Adventist position on the human nature of Christ, is also changed and omitted in SDA publications.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973\u00a0\u2013 Bert B. Beach,\u00a0secretary of the Northern Europe-West Africa Division, and company begin Social Engineering of acceptance of being one with the world in joining the World Council of Churches.\u00a0He co-authors a book with Lucas Visher, secretary of the WCC, titled \u201cSo Much in Common between the World Council of Churches and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church\u201d,\u00a0published by the WCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 1973, saying, \u201cThe member churches of the World Council of Churches and Seventh-Day Adventists are in agreement on the fundamental articles of the Christian faith as set forth in the three ancient symbols [creeds] (Apostolicum, Nicaeno-Constantinopolitum, Athanasium). This agreement finds expression in unqualified acceptance of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Two Natures.\u201d<\/strong> (So Much in Common, p. 40)\u00a0\u00a0Ellen White had warned that “it is a grave mistake on the part of those who are children of God to seek to bridge the gulf that separate them from the children of darkness by yielding principle, by compromising the truth.<\/strong>” (BEcho, April 9, 1894, par. 6)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974\u00a0– Death of LeRoy Froom<\/strong>, one of the key men in apostasy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974\u00a0– The 1919 Bible Conference transcript is discovered<\/strong> by Don Yost and Don Mansell at the G.C Archives.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975\u00a0–\u00a0A non-Trinitarian paper by Edward Edstrom is printed at the request of the Board of Walla Walla Valley Academy in book form called\u00a0Human Spirit \u2013 Divine Spirit.\u00a0 Edstrom\u2019s belief in the Trinity had been challenged in 1954 when fellow pastors and workers in Central Africa were confronted by Moslems \u201cwho claimed ONE God Allah, while Christianity appeared to have THREE separate, distinct Gods that were called ONE.\u201d (Human Spirit \u2013 Divine Spirit, Introd. iv)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976\u00a0– Neal Wilson, President of the North American Division of SDA, gives this sworn statement in the Silver-Tobler legal case involving the Seventh-day Adventist Church:\u00a0 “Although it is true that there was a period in the life of the Seventh-day Adventist Church when the denomination took a distinctly anti-Roman Catholic viewpoint, and the term hierarchy was used in a perjorative sense to refer to the papal form of church governance, that attitude on the Church\u2019s part was nothing more than a manifestation of widespread anti-popery among conservative protestant denominations in the early part of this century and the latter part of the last, and which has now been consigned to the historical trash heap so far as the Seventh-day Adventist Church is concerned.”<\/strong> (Merikay McLeod lawsuit, p. 4, footnote #2, Docket Entry #84: EEOC vs PPPA C-74-2025 CBR,\u00a0Sworn statement dated Feb.6, 1976) \u00a0Ellen White warned in 1894, \u201cIt is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the papacy.<\/strong>\u201d (ST, Feb 19, 1894)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977\u00a0– Pope Paul VI rewards Bert B. Beach for his book with a private audience in the Vatican.\u00a0Beach presents the pope with a book and a gold medallion confirming friendship of the SDA Church with the Vatican. “The medallion is an engraved witness to the validity of the Ten Commandments. While the other commandments are represented simply as Roman numerals, the words of the fourth\u2014\u2018Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy\u2019\u2014are written out.\u201d<\/strong> (W.D Eva, Adventist Review, \u201cBook, Medallion Presented to Pope\u201d, August 11, 1977, (849) p.23) However, the Seventh day was removed from the text, and quoted in the same way as it is quoted in any Roman Catholic catechism.\u00a0Beach represents the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church in an interview over Vatican radio referring to the pope as “Holy Father,”<\/strong>\u00a0when Ellen White has clearly warned, \u201cThe pope is not regarded by God as anything more than a man who is acting out in our world the character of the man of sin, representing in his claims that power and authority which Satan claimed in the heavenly courts.<\/strong>\u201d (5MR 102)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979\u00a0\u2013 W. Duncan Eva and Bernard Seton are working behind the scenes in moving an agenda to adopt a new Statement of Fundamental Beliefs.<\/strong>\u00a0The revision draft is sent to the \u201ctheologians\u201d at Andrews University to ready it for prime time at the World Session in April 1980. Back in 1946 a committee had put forth an action making it almost impossible to change any Belief statement.\u00a0But that hurdle was overcome and now moving forward.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980\u00a0\u2013 World General Conference in session (Dallas, TX), officially votes to accept the Trinity doctrine, as part of 27 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By officially approving the Trinity doctrine as a fundamental belief of Seventh-day Adventists, the denomination has publicly declared to the world that she is following in the steps of the daughters (fallen churches) of the mother of harlots (the Roman Catholic church) whose central pillar doctrine is the Trinity.<\/strong> Therefore the SDA church has left the original mission (of proclaiming the three angels\u2019 messages) of God\u2019s calling and the firm foundation of our faith (Fundamental Principles) that are based upon unquestionable authority. No longer can the present SDA Church be considered as the \u201cremnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ\u201d, but now simply a Counterfeit New Movement as prophesied in 1903 by Ellen White.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980\u00a0– Ex-Jesuit priest Alberto Rivera states that “all the mainstream churches were taken over (under control of Rome) by 1980.\u201d<\/strong> (Secret Terrorists, p. 108)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981\u00a0– Neal C. Wilson, now General Conference President,\u00a0announces that the Church has officially adopted the Trinity doctrine, which is now number 2 in the Church\u2019s 27 Fundamental Beliefs. He declares before the Seventh-day Adventist Church that: “…there is another universal and truly catholic organization<\/span>, the Seventh-day Adventist Church.”<\/strong> (Adventist Review, March 5, 1981, p. 3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Adventist Review 7-30-1981 Special Issue on Bible Doctrines<\/a>\u2014The Trinity doctrine is explained one year after it was voted as an official doctrine<\/strong> (which was in 1980). It states, “While no single scriptural passage states formally the doctrine of the Trinity, it is assumed as a fact by Bible writers and mentioned several times… Only by faith<\/span> can we accept the existence of the Trinity.”<\/strong> (p. 4) “The concept of the Trinity, namely the idea that the three are one, is not explicitly stated but only assumed.” – (Fernando L. Canale, Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology, Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, vol. 12, p. 138, ‘Doctrine of God’)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984\u00a0– Baptismal vow is reformatted again \u2013 pro-Trinity.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985\u00a0– A new SDA Hymnal takes the place of the older Church Hymnal of 1941. It is decided that there are even more songs that can be replaced or changed to fit the new 1980\u2019s Fundamental Beliefs.<\/strong>\u00a0Catholic terms are used in headings and responsive readings.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986\u00a0– The official doctrine of the church is stated in the Church Manual: \u201cThere is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal persons.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 (SDA Church Manual, chapter 2, p. 23. Refer also to the book –\u00a0Seventh-day Adventists Believe 27 Fundamental Beliefs, \u201cThe Trinity\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988\u00a0– \u201cSeventh-day Adventists Believe\u201d 27 Fundamental Belief book is published<\/strong> (strongly Trinitarian).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0George Knight, a professor and prominent SDA theologian, makes this startling confession in\u00a0Ministry\u00a0Magazine, October 1993: “Most of the founders of Seventh-day Adventism would not be able to join the church today if they had to subscribe to the denomination’s fundamental beliefs. More specifically, most would not be able to agree to belief number 2 which deals with the doctrine of the Trinity.<\/strong>” In all actuality, this would have included ALL<\/strong> of the founders and Pioneers of the early SDA Church and it should be alarming to today’s members.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994\u00a0\u2013 William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review, writes, “Adventist beliefs have changed over the years under the impact of present truth. Most startling is the teaching regarding Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.<\/strong>” (Adventist Review, January 6, 1994)\u00a0While the pre-existence of Christ is held, the divine begotten Sonship of Christ as held by the official world church up to the 1940’s is denied as a “false doctrine”<\/strong> as Johnsson puts it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995\u00a0\u2013 G.C World Session in Utrecht, Netherlands.\u00a0The Vatican flag is carried through the meeting hall in a singular fashion amidst an unusually loud ovation.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996\u00a0\u2013 Devotional\u00a0\u2018Ye Shall Receive Power\u2019 is printed, in which the prophet\u2019s words are changed.<\/strong> Back in 1899, Ellen White wrote, \u201cWhy should we not prostrate ourselves at the throne of divine grace, praying that God’s Spirit may be poured out upon us as it was upon the disciples? Its presence will soften our hard hearts, and fill us with joy and rejoicing, transforming us into channels of blessing. The Lord would have every one of His children rich in faith, and this faith is the fruit of the working of the Holy Spirit upon the mind. It dwells with each soul who will receive it, speaking to the impenitent in words of warning, and pointing them to Jesus, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world. It causes light to shine into the minds of those who are seeking to cooperate with God, giving them efficiency and wisdom to do His work.<\/strong>\u201d (Signs of the Times,\u00a0Sep. 27,\u00a01899)\u00a0If you look carefully, you will see that Ellen White has used the word \u2018it\u2019 four times, and one \u2018its\u2019 when speaking of the Holy Spirit. But in the devotional \u2018Ye Shall Receive Power\u2019 p.59, \u2018it\u2019 has been changed to \u2018He\u2019 or \u2018His\u2019 and \u2018Him\u2019.<\/strong> \u00a0(See also \u2018Ye Shall Receive Power\u2019 p.93, 151, 164, 183, 303, 318, 319, 321, 323, 325, 344 for other changes.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996\u00a0\u2013 Merlin Burt writes, “During the 1930’s there continued to be statements teaching the ‘old view’… \u00a0This largely changed during the 1940’s. The fourth quarter of 1936 Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly was prepared by T.M. French. French concluded regarding Christ’s pre-existence with these words: ‘He was therefore no part of creation but was “begotten of the Father” in the days of eternity, and was very God Himself.’ It seems that French was mixing Wilcox’s fundamental beliefs reference to Christ as ‘very God’ with the ‘old view’ of a ‘begotten’ Christ.” (Merlin D. Burt, Demise of Semi-Arianism and anti-trinitarianism in Adventist theology, 1888-1957, p. 40) So the belief in a begotten Christ has become the “old view”, while an unbegotten Christ is now the new officially accepted doctrine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997\u00a0\u2013 SDA logo is changed from the three angels to flames and cross, becoming Catholic friendly.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999\u00a0– B.T. Rice, pastor of the St. Louis SDA Northside Church addresses the Pope in a Vatican mass held locally as “Pope, your Holiness, your historic visit to St. Louis…”<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003\u00a0\u2013 John R. Graz (GC director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty since 1995)\u00a0is elected as Secretary-General of the annual Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, succeeding Bert B. Beach. Graz would hold this position until 2014.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Questions on Doctrine\u00a0is republished and circulated<\/strong> by Andrews University– pro-Trinitarian, pro-unfallen human nature of Christ.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005\u00a0\u2013 Baptismal Vow is revised to the Trinity creed to read: \u201cDo you accept the teachings of the Bible as expressed in the Statement of Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and do you pledge to live your life by God\u2019s grace in harmony with these teachings?\u201d\u00a0For the first time in Adventist history, the Church has based its membership on a creed. The prophet had told us 95 years earlier, \u201cThe Bible, and the Bible alone, is to be our creed.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(RH, Dec 15, 1885)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008\u00a0\u2013 In contrast to the 1936 Sabbath School lesson, the 2nd quarter lesson in 2008 teaches that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not really a father or a son or a holy spirit but are three divine beings who are just role-playing these parts.<\/strong> Here is a quote from the lesson: \u201cBut imagine a situation in which the Being we have come to know as God the Father came to die for us, and the One we have come to know as Jesus stayed back in heaven<\/strong> (we are speaking in human terms to make a point). Nothing would have changed, except that we would have been calling Each by the name we now use for the Other. That is what equality in the Deity means.<\/strong>\u201d (April 10, 2008, p. 19) As J.N. Andrews said, \u201cThis [Trinity] doctrine destroys the personality of God and His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/strong>\u201d (RH, March 6, 1855)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012\u00a0\u2013 The White Estate database is hacked by an anonymous party. Their concern is for public access to all of Ellen White’s documents and that they have been restricted and it is public domain at this point as they should belong to the people. The meaning and context of her writings is hampered by not being able to view everything in its entirety. The hacker is pushing for full digitized access to anyone wanting them, not just a handful of privileged people.\u00a0The White Estate attempts to sue for damages.\u00a0The hacker threatens to release all of Sister White’s writings.\u00a0Their request is that the White Estate does it to save their reputation<\/span>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013\u00a0\u2013 Revision is made on the fundamental belief in the Gift of Prophecy. Ellen White\u2019s authority is diminished. The phrases \u201cas the Lord\u2019s messenger\u201d and \u201ca continuing authoritative source of truth\u201d are removed.<\/strong> Arthur Stele would later say,\u00a0“The suggested changes seek to avoid giving the impression that Ellen G. White and the Bible are equivalent sources of truth.<\/strong>\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ganoune Diop (GC director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty since 2011) is elected as the new Secretary-General at the annual conference of secretaries of the Christian World Communions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015\u00a0\u2013 Ellen White Symposium is held at Andrews University and spread worldwide, denies the Spirit of Prophecy’s inspired authority to define doctrinal faith and practice, but only as theological and practical guidance and end time application.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015\u00a0– The White Estate reaches a settlement with the hacker and releases the rest of Sister White’s unpublished writings that they have been holding back for years. The collection contains approx. 8,300 typed documents, letters and manuscripts dating from 1845 to 1915.<\/strong> Honest Adventists now fully know that Sister White wrote over and over that Jesus is their Comforter coming to them in spirit form as the Holy Spirit, not some other mystery person or Ghost. The dogma of the denomination’s teaching has been shown to be in error for those who want to know and are paying attention.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Download the PDF version with updated information\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1905 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 188-192) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1909 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 220-224) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1913 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 281-285) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1914 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 293-297) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1931 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 377-380) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original 1942 SDA Yearbook ( Fundamental Beliefs on p. 4-6) View\/Download\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
For a full archive of the SDA Yearbooks click\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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In addition to the above, the following web-page is considered of use and likewise appreciated:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.truthseeker.church\/fundamentals-compared-short-version<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
STATEMENT OF BELIEFS \u2013 the short version for sake of easy comparison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is a quick summary of the statement of beliefs over time.\u00a0 It was originally labeled as Fundamental Principles.\u00a0 You would not be removed if you differed on it.\u00a0 You would even still be baptized. The founders of the faith were against setting up a creed and measuring people by it.\u00a0 This began in 1872 and remained thru 1930 with the same statement of beliefs. That would be for 58 years!\u00a0 The last of the core of the Pioneers died in 1924.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Then in 1931, one man, Francis McLellan Wilcox executed what was published in the 1931 yearbook.\u00a0 This would be the beginning of educated academic Theologians and Scholars having a dramatic effect on our church and bringing in change.\u00a0 Subtle at first.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In 1941, a committee of Scholars and Theologians was set up to formulate a further change in our beliefs.\u00a0 Now the term Godhead along with a doctrine that is made official even thou the Bible does not detail this information in that language.\u00a0 This is now the God of the Theologians and Scholars.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
And then in 1980 under the guidance and influence of Neal Wilson (current President Ted Wilson\u2019s father), the trinity god arrives. This is now the God of the General Conference.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
God, the Father:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1872<\/strong> –\u00a0That\u00a0there is one God, a personal, spiritual being, the creator of all things, omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal, infinite in wisdom, holiness, justice, goodness, truth, and mercy; unchangeable, and\u00a0everywhere present by his representative, the Holy Spirit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/strong> – That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists of the Eternal Father, a personal, spiritual Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, infinite in\u00a0wisdom and love; the Lord Jesus Christ, the\u00a0Son of the Eternal Father, through whom all things were created and through whom the salvation of the redeemed hosts will be accomplished; the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, the great regenerating power in the work of redemption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/strong> – The true and living God, the First Person of the Godhead, is our Heavenly Father, and by His Son, Christ Jesus, created all things.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/strong> – God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation. \u00a0He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. \u00a0The qualities and powers exhibited in the Son and the Holy Spirit are also revelations of the Father.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jesus Christ, the Son of God:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1872<\/strong> –\u00a0That\u00a0there is one Lord Jesus Christ,\u00a0the Son of the Eternal Father, the one by whom God created all things, and by whom they do consist; that he took on him the nature of the seed of Abraham for the redemption of our fallen race; that he dwelt among men full of grace and truth, lived our example, died our sacrifice, was raised for our justification, ascended on high to be our only mediator in the sanctuary in Heaven, where, with his own blood he makes atonement for our sins; which atonement so far from being made on the cross, which was but the offering of the sacrifice, is the very last portion of his work as priest, according to the example of the Levitical priesthood, which foreshadowed and prefigured the ministry of our Lord in Heaven.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/strong> – That Jesus Christ, is very God, being of the same nature and essence as the Eternal Father. While retaining Hs divine nature He took upon Himself the nature of the human family, lived on the earth as a man, exemplified in His life as our Example the principles of righteousness, attested His relationship to God by many mighty miracles, died for our sins on the cross, was raised from the dead, and ascended to the Father, where He lives to make intercession for us.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/strong> – Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Godhead, and the eternal Son of God, is the only\u00a0Savior from sin; and man\u2019s salvation is by grace through faith in Him.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/strong> – God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. \u00a0Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. \u00a0Forever truly God, He became also truly man, Jesus the Christ. \u00a0He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and\u00a0born of the\u00a0Virgin Mary. \u00a0He lived an\u00a0experienced temptation as a human being, but perfectly exemplified the righteousness and love of God. \u00a0By His miracles He manifested God\u2019s power and was attested as God\u2019s promised Messiah. \u00a0He suffered and died voluntarily on the cross\u00a0for our sins and in our place, was raised from the dead, and ascended to minister in the heavenly sanctuary in our behalf. \u00a0He will come again in glory for the final deliverance of His people and the restoration of all things.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NOTE:<\/strong> In regards to the use of the words Godhead and Trinity interchangeably in 1931, they do not have the same meaning.\u00a0 Godhead refers to \u201cDeity\u201d or \u201cDivinity\u201d.\u00a0 Trinity before you add a doctrine or dogma to it, simply means three.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Holy Spirit:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1872<\/strong> – no definition given separate from the Father.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/strong> – no separate listing. \u00a0However used under the Father\u2019s listing, it is detailed as the \u201cthird person of the Godhead\u201d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/strong> – The Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Godhead is Christ\u2019s representative on earth, and leads sinners to repentance and to obedience of all God\u2019s requirements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/strong> – God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and the Son in creation, incarnation, and redemption. \u00a0He inspired the writers of Scripture. \u00a0He filled Christ\u2019s life with power. \u00a0He draws and convicts human beings; and those who respond He renews and transforms into the image of God. \u00a0Sent by the Father and the Son to be always with His children, He extends spiritual gifts to the church, empowers it to bear witness to Christ, and in harmony with the Scriptures leads it into all truth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
There is the additional paragraph from the 1980 Fundamentals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It is #2, then follows the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit as #3, 4 and 5:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201c#2 The Trinity<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
There is one God:<\/strong> Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons. \u00a0God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present. \u00a0He is infinite and beyond human comprehension, yet known through His self-revelation. \u00a0He is forever worthy of worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Compare the last 1980 version to 1872.\u00a0 Look carefully at the subtle changes in 1931 and 1941 vs 1872.\u00a0 Changes are really gradually, until they are not noticed any longer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Now we can see why people are praying and want to worship a third being. \u00a0It is even carried out and illustrated on 3ABN television (Adventist TV network).\u00a0 It is being done in some of the churches.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It is included in belief #2 as a division of God in three persons or parts. This third god now is given credit for creation, redemption (salvation), inspiring the writers of scripture, fills Christ’s life with power, etc. \u00a0Not the Spirit of God, but a new being called god the holy spirit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
That is not what real Adventists believed back in time.\u00a0 This was brought in with the changes in 1980. \u00a0That is verifiable with a deeper study of the Spirit of Prophecy.\u00a0 See Patriarchs and Prophets p. 34.1, Early Writings p. 145, Desire of Ages p. 769.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Study Isaiah 14:12-14, Ezekiel 28:12-18, and Ellen White’s Early Writings pages 54-56 to see who was jealous, wanted to be worshiped and couldn’t enter into the counsels of God.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
There you will discover the author of such a doctrine. \u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t get revealed any plainer than that.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
To view a longer version of this with more information, please visit:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.truthseeker.church\/fundamental-principles-vs-beliefs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Now, as a conclusion to this section, regarding the following Tithe and Systematic Benevolence<\/strong> articles, these ended with the words that follow:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.godswordexplained.com\/?page_id=221<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[for study you may wish to see the later, shorter, more concise:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.godswordexplained.com\/?page_id=971<\/a> ]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Finally, as a result of undertaking this research, it is apparent that there are many documents (e.g. Review & Herald publications) which have not been released by the Ellen G. White Estate \u2013 they obviously exist because extracts have be used by Arthur L. White.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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When these words were typed around the end of 2012 <\/strong><\/p>\n

[First Published: 02.10.13], <\/strong><\/p>\n

it was not known that the White Estate had been hacked.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Do Google search on:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
White Estate database is hacked<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
and read the magazine articles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Also do Google search on:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
E.G.White Estates 2015 unpublished<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This leads to:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.adventistreview.org\/church-news\/story3054-ellen-white-letters-and-manuscripts-to-be-released<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JULY 14, 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen White Letters and Manuscripts to Be Released<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The materials are being published online on the 100th anniversary of White\u2019s death.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Related news commentary:\u00a0\u201cRemembering July 16, 1915\u201d<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By Andrew McChesney, news editor,\u00a0Adventist Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A collection of letters and manuscripts of Seventh-day Adventist Church cofounder Ellen G. White is being released on the Ellen G. White Estate website on Thursday, the 100th anniversary of her death.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The collection, previously only available to researchers at White research centers, contains about 50,000 pages of materials dating from 1845 to the months before White\u2019s death on July 16, 1915.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The materials, which are not expected to contain any surprises, were not made widely available earlier because many are of a personal nature and make reference, sometimes in strong terms, to individuals by name, said James R. Nix, director of the White Estate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
But those people and their close relatives are no longer alive today, prompting the White Estate to decide in 2013 that the value of the materials outweigh those sensitivities and to release them during centennial commemorations of White\u2019s life and ministry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cOther archives will hold materials for 50 years or 100 years and then release them, so why shouldn\u2019t we?\u201d Nix said in an interview Tuesday. \u201cNow it seems natural to put them on the website where everyone can have access to them 100 years after her death.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A prominent link to the materials will be placed at the top of the homepage of the White Estate\u2019s website,\u00a0ellenwhite.org<\/a>, from Thursday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upon her death, White placed the care of her unpublished writings in the hands of five life trustees. But her estate soon faced financial challenges, leading the General Conference, the administrative body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to purchase it outright. The church promptly returned the literary portion of the estate to the trustees in accordance with Ellen White\u2019s written instructions in her Will.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Among the trustees was the General Conference president and other individuals whom White mentioned by name in unpublished, personal correspondence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cEllen G. White had written especially strong counsel to some of them, so they were not excited about the materials being released,\u201d Nix said. \u201cIf you were the president of the General Conference, why would you want some pastor in the middle of the United States reading about you from the pulpit in church?\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The White Estate released the first book of previously unpublished material in 1932, a compilation titled\u00a0Medical Ministry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researchers began to gain access to the unpublished materials in the 1930s with the understanding that any cited information had to first be approved jointly by the White Estate and the General Conference.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The rules were softened in the 1980s, and all unpublished materials are available at White research centers in all the divisions of the world church.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nix said the unpublished collection includes family letters, letters addressed to individuals and institutions, diary materials, and manuscripts written for publication in books and periodicals such as the\u00a0Review and Herald\u00a0(now the\u00a0Adventist Review).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The collection will only be available on the website for now but may be included on the Ellen G. White app in the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nix said he didn\u2019t expect any surprises to emerge from the documents.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cThe materials have been gone over by researchers for years,\u201d he said. \u201cThe portions that I have read were fascinating but not surprising.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This leads to:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Letters and Manuscripts Folio Infobase Released<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Users who own our EGW Writings Research Edition CD-ROM can now download the LtMs Folio Infobase for free.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This leads to:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
http:\/\/ellenwhite.org\/content\/news\/letters-and-manuscripts-folio-infobase<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Letters and Manuscripts Folio Infobase<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Ellen G. White letters and manuscripts collection comprising of over 8300 documents is now available as a free download to users of our \u00a0Ellen G. White Writings Comprehensive Research Edition\u00a0CD-ROM software. Users who own the EGW Writings Comprehensive Research\u00a0CD\u00a0can download the 117MB file and open the infobase using\u00a0Folio Views software that is part ofthe CD software. Users of our CD-ROM can enjoy the EGW Letters and Manuscripts collection and read and study while\u00a0offline. See:\u00a0http:\/\/ellenwhite.org\/content\/letters-and-manuscripts-collection<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Users who do not own the Ellen G. White Writings Comprehensive Research Edition can purchase and download the software from our\u00a0partner.egwwritings.org<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This leads to:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
http:\/\/ellenwhite.org\/content\/letters-and-manuscripts-collection<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Letters and Manuscripts Collection<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts (Folio Views Infobase)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Ellen G. White letters and manuscripts collection comprising of over 8300 documents is available as a free download to users of our CD-ROM software\u00a0Ellen G. White Writings Comprehensive Research Edition.\u00a0Users can download the 117MB file and open the infobase using our EGW CD-ROM software, Folio Views and use it to read and search the collection offline. Download:\u00a0LtMs.nfo<\/a>\u00a0(117MB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The collection, previously only available to researchers at White research centers, contains about 50,000 pages of materials dating from 1845 to the months before White\u2019s death on July 16, 1915.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The materials, which are not expected to contain any surprises, were not made widely available earlier because many are of a personal nature and make reference, sometimes in strong terms, to individuals by name, said James R. Nix, director of the White Estate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
But those people and their close relatives are no longer alive today, prompting the White Estate to decide in 2013 that the value of the materials outweigh those sensitivities and to release them during centennial commemorations of White\u2019s life and ministry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upon her death, White placed the care of her unpublished writings in the hands of five life trustees. But her estate soon faced financial challenges, leading the General Conference, the administrative body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to purchase it outright. The church promptly returned the literary portion of the estate to the trustees in accordance with Ellen White\u2019s written instructions in her Will.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Among the trustees was the General Conference president and other individuals whom White mentioned by name in unpublished, personal correspondence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cEllen G. White had written especially strong counsel to some of them, so they were not excited about the materials being released,\u201d Nix said. \u201cIf you were the president of the General Conference, why would you want some pastor in the middle of the United States reading about you from the pulpit in church?\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The White Estate released the first book of previously unpublished material in 1932, a compilation titled\u00a0Medical Ministry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researchers began to gain access to the unpublished materials in the 1930s with the understanding that any cited information had to first be approved jointly by the White Estate and the General Conference<\/span><\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The rules were softened in the 1980s, and all unpublished materials are available at White research centers in all the divisions of the world church.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The unpublished collection includes family letters, letters addressed to individuals and institutions, diary materials, and manuscripts written for publication in books and periodicals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By making the infobase available as a\u00a0free download<\/a>\u00a0to users of our CD-ROM software we hope you enjoy reading the many letters and manuscripts Ellen G. White wrote during her lifetime.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Download:\u00a0LtMs.nfo<\/a>\u00a0(File Size\u00a0117MB)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is the one that you want<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 assuming that you have the EGW Writings upon your computer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It then opens & operates in exactly the same way as the original works.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Not a dicky-bird is mentioned about the hacker \u2013
\nJust note the way that the The Ellen G. White Estate eat their humble pie!<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Also note:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
http:\/\/ellenwhite.org\/correspondence\/incoming-correspondence<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
589 pages also all of 100 bits of correspondence \u2013 well over half a million items \u2013 just needs to be searchable-friendly!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Any offers?<\/i><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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All we can do to help you decide is to give you a lot more Scriptural support so that you are fully informed as to what GOD<\/strong><\/span> has said \/ not said about the trinity doctrine. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can then [1th5.21-22] “PROVE ALL THINGS; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil<\/span>.<\/strong>” <\/span><\/p>\n

when you are making this SALVATIONAL<\/strong> choice. <\/span><\/p>\n

Should you need this support, then please keep reading [SECTION 3<\/strong>].<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

[We pray that you do – there is SO MUCH MORE<\/strong> to read and know.]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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For continuation of this document click the link below:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
https:\/\/www.godswordexplained.com\/?page_id=1098<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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