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"One and only" is much different than "only begotten." Modern translations have deviated on this point. Ellen White warns us that very few of those who accept the devil's Bible revisions will ever enter heaven. We must be on our guard. Further, Ellen White taught that "God is a Being." She...

The fact that the fifth commandment specifically references both father and mother is a good indication that they are separate. Were they considered a single being, the word "father" would have sufficed--and it would have had a closer parallel with that of representing our Father in heaven. No...

Until your last paragraph there, I was in agreement with you. That last paragraph alerted me to the fact that you are not Trinitarian because you appear to be Tritheist. By "each deity," each of which, in your words, are not "three expressions of the same person...as some claim," you mean to...

"Elohim" does not refer to only the Father. As I have said multiple times, it is applied in scripture to angels, to false gods, to judges, and to people in addition to being applied to God--as is the most common, percentage-wise. I am not hijacking this term--I am telling you exactly how it is...

Job is one of the books of poetry in Hebrew. This may be why the Jews do not accept it as part of Moses' writings. They do not believe Ellen White, of course, who tells us that Job was written by Moses, along with Genesis, while he was keeping sheep for his father-in-law. (They contend that...

This is strange. Either you are claiming Mary was divine--a Catholic concept if ever there was one, or you are claiming Jesus had THREE parents, which is unnatural and for which there is no precedent. I am confident that you have no "thus saith the Lord" for this belief. I recommend that you...

Show me an inspired "thus saith the Lord" for it and perhaps I would believe it. As it stands now, I do not believe a Son is his Father. They are separate persons. According to Jesus, his Father is "the only true God." That word "only" should get people's attention, especially in view of who...

And LeRoy Froom was your private tutor? No "Trinity" was ever believed by our church during the time of Ellen White. Right up to 1913 in the Adventist yearbook, the non-trinitarian "Fundamental Principles" continued to be published each year--principles which she said were to be maintained...

Jesus was divine as well as human. His divinity did not die, even though his humanity did. Ellen White says "Christ possessed the power to break the bonds of death." Note, however, that she does not say he did so. The Bible teaches that it was at the Father's command. "But God raised him...

I believe, just as the Bible says, that Jesus is God's son. He has always been God's son ever since he was begotten of God, and well before this earth existed. God, the Father, has given all things to the Son, including his authority and power. Because the Father has appointed it, the Son is...

Do you believe that when the Bible says a man should leave his father and his mother when he joins himself to his wife it implies he should be financially independent of his parents? Do you believe that if a man, and his wife and children, are being supported by the man's father, that he would...

There's an essential difficulty with your response. It is contradictory to Bible teachings to both have "denied the faith and is without faith," and be eligible to "simply ask of GOD to provide." That is why I posted Hebrews 11:6 already, which says that without faith it is impossible to...

I see that you have noted that "divine family" is synonymous with "heavenly family." I agree. The angels are part of that family, and we may be too. I do not ignore Biblical poetry, but perhaps I do not read into it what you have. Parallelism and chiasm (inverted parallelism) are common...

I didn't notice this particular point regarding "muwth muwth" before (I was pressed for time), so I'll address that one now while I grab a bite to eat. Hebrew has many words for death, killing, and murder. "Muwth" is the standard word for "die," and happens to be the word used in Ecclesiastes...

Where in the Bible is such a term as "divine family" used? Or where in Ellen White's writings do you find this applied specifically to God? I see that she used the term a couple of times: To me it appears this "divine family" is inclusive of both the angels and us. It is not a substitute term...

Is it better to work on the Sabbath to support one's family than to fall afoul of 1 Timothy 5:8 by not providing for one's own family and thus becoming "worse than an infidel?" If one is already "worse than an infidel" (worse than an unbeliever), what difference would it make whether one kept...

Instead of addressing all of the errors, it is better to focus on what is true. Inspiration never uses such terms as "members" for God, nor the Godhead because, believe it or not, the word "Godhead" is not a collective noun and it is singular. Most Adventists do not realize this. In other...

You did catch, I presume, that Ellen White, whom I quoted, says otherwise. The interesting thing here is that the "seeing" of this passage is reminiscent of the "visiting" in the Ten Commandments where God says He will "visit" the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, etc. The passage in...

The term "co-eternal" is Catholic nonsense which has no application to God. God is "eternal." His son, as you may recall, died and was in the tomb for parts of three days. How "eternal" is that? If God also died during those three days, I suppose one could say that the two were "co-eternal."...

It is most disappointing that the author of these lessons, Jiri Moskala, a staunch Trinitarian, is so blinded by his views as to reject or ignore what Ellen White specifically says about the passage under study. I will quote her words below. While the lesson makes a grand statement claiming a...