To clarify, I think it is racist to call any …

Comment on Mrs. White: “Don’t send your children to…” by Erik.

To clarify, I think it is racist to call any form of inter-human marriage (if you wish to call it inter-racial, so be it) equivalent to the “base crime” of “amalgamation.” That is what Sean and some others have offered us as their interpretation of the events. If “inter-racial marriages” constitute a crime before heaven, God should have said so somewhere in the Bible, and such a law would still be valid today. However, it is not there. There is a reason it is not there.

@Lee, that is what I see as racist — forbidding interracial marriage, as if the several races were not equal or of the same “species.” Which of us can say “such and such a race is not fit to marry my children” without being racist?

Erik

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Mrs. White: “Don’t send your children to…”

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13)

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” (Romans 8:14)

“That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.” (Philippians 2:15)

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:1-2)

We are the sons of God if we receive Christ and follow Him. The line of Seth did this, and were, therefore, called the sons of God. Cain’s descendants did not follow God, and were not called His sons.

Erik


Mrs. White: “Don’t send your children to…”

The descendants of Seth were called the sons of God–the descendants of Cain, the sons of men. As the sons of God mingled with the sons of men, they became corrupt, and by intermarriage with them, lost, through the influence of their wives, their peculiar, holy character, and united with the sons of Cain in their idolatry. Many cast aside the fear of God, and trampled upon his commandments. But there were a few who did righteousness, who feared and honored their Creator. Noah and his family were among the righteous few. {3SG 60.2}

After the translation of Enoch to heaven, the sons of men that were set against the worship of God were drawing away the sons of God. There were two parties in the world then, and there always will be. The worshipers of God called themselves the sons of God. The descendants of Seth went up into the mountains and there made themselves homes separate from the sons of Cain. Here in their mountainous homes they thought to preserve themselves from the prevailing wickedness and idolatry of the descendants of Cain. But after the exhortations and the influence of Enoch were removed from them, they commenced to unite with the descendants of Cain. {CTr 39.2}

That should help clarify the identity of the “sons of God.”

Erik


Mrs. White: “Don’t send your children to…”

It does our position no service to claim too much or to base too much on such large leaps into very thin air… claiming that this or that animal within the fossil record was the clear result of human genetic manipulation before the flood and for that reason was not saved on the Ark….

Sean,

It seems like Ellen White said “Every species of animals which God had created was preserved in the ark” (1 SP 78.2). Therefore, any species which became extinct at the time of the flood must necessarily have come about via amalgamation. That seems fairly clear. So we know where T-Rex came from, right?

Erik


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CCC Requests “Decisive and Conclusive Resolution” from LSU
Dear Adventist in High School,

The devil frequently mixes just a small amount of error in with a larger amount of truth. This is sufficient to accomplish his purposes. He does not need to undermine every truth, only some select truths. The Bible tells us how to know whether or not we can accept something as pure and true: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20). If what they say, even a part of it, does not agree with scripture, even the rest of what they have said is of no value according to this.

We have a saying in English that goes something like this:

A barrel full of sewage with one tablespoon of wine is sewage.
A barrel full of wine with one tablespoon of sewage is sewage.

It does not matter how much “wine” there may be with that sewage, the sewage has perverted the entirety.

Consider how entirely the “sewage” has perverted truth at LSU, given that one of the professors’ statements relegated Mrs. White to “the lunatic fringe” for “the absolute necessity of believing that the only way a creator God could do things is by speaking them into existence a few thousand years ago.” Mrs. White clearly informed us that Creation week was six literal days about six thousand years ago, and further, she has told us that God was not dependent upon pre-existing matter and could but speak them into existence. Yet all of that flies in the face of those who wish to believe their own opinions to be superior to inspiration, doesn’t it? It makes perfect sense that if they believe we evolved from apes, they could not believe what Ellen White taught was true.

Nay, the evolutionist “sewage” has defiled the pure and true at LSU, and its effect permeates the remaining departments of the university. One cannot contain such a far-reaching apostasy as this within a single corner or department of the university. Indeed, we have been given clear evidences that the theologians at the university have also been affected. Whither goes the biology department, and then the theology department, thither goes the whole school.

Erik


LSU responds to Michigan Conference
Sean,

[off topic]

Erik


LSU promotes acceptance of homosexuality but not creation
Lydia,

Do you believe the Bible authors’ writings to be infallible? If so, why? Because they are “scripture?” or because they were inspired by God?

If Ellen White’s writings were inspired by the same Holy Spirit, wherein do they differ from those of the Bible?

My concern is that you or others may be influenced to use Mrs. White’s writings in a manner inconsistent with their inspiration, i.e. “of private interpretation.” Placing Mrs. White’s writings upon a sub-scripture platform is the first step toward “higher criticism” of them, which leads to judgments such as those expressed right here on EducateTruth.com by our evolutionist friends that “well, on that point she was wrong.”

Guess which point it was that these Adventist scholars had selected? One of those very important points upon which Mrs. White had described Creation as she had been shown by God. In other words, once we start picking and choosing what to believe, we will soon have no regard for God’s words. As Mrs. White herself said, those who reject her writings will eventually be led to reject those of the Bible.

Erik


A Historical Review of the Creation Debate Among SDAs
Bill,

I think the problem is apathy. People don’t want to know “the negative.” They don’t want to see any “dirty laundry,” much less be participant to hanging it out to the open air and sunshine for a proper cleansing.

I’ve tried talking to a few about this problem and their response was a mixture of incredulity (as in “you’re not going to get me to believe that”) and of disinterest. Putting one’s head in the proverbial sand will not make the problems go away. But it is true that we must face the problems in the right spirit and with wisdom.

There are three swords that the Bible tells us we must choose from: that of Hazael, or of Jehu, or of Elisha. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. We must choose one of the above. There is no escaping from all three, according to 1 Kings 19:17, but one of them must take us. Will it be that of Hazael, who as an outsider cruelly persecuted and slaughtered God’s people? Will it be that of Jehu, who as a member raised his sword against his own leaders? Or will it be that of Elisha, who had the double portion of God’s Spirit: truth and mercy, justice and love?

It is high time to see cleansing in the church. But let us not become Jehus and Hazaels. We can stand up for truth without living by the sword of criticism. We must speak the truth, but always in love.

Erik


LSU promotes acceptance of homosexuality but not creation

Ellen White herself did not consider her writings to be on the same level as the Bible, which is what really concerns me when you refer to them both as sacred. Her writings are authoritative but the Bible is infallible.

Lydia,

You may be correct regarding Ellen White’s estimation of her own writings. She was humble. You imply that you don’t believe she was infallible. I agree. She was not infallible. However, let me ask you a few questions.

1) Was Moses infallible? David? Saul/Paul? Peter?
2) Do you think Paul considered his writings to be on the same level with scripture? How about his personal letters, like the ones to Timothy and Titus? Do you believe he considered them to be “holy scripture?”
3) Do you think the scribes for the kings of Israel and Judah considered their historical record-keeping “scripture?”
4) Do you believe something can only be called “scripture” if its author called it such?

The Bible defines scripture. By the Bible’s definition, Mrs. White’s writings qualify.

If only our church today would accept Mrs. White’s writings as God-inspired and authoritative, this entire website would not exist. LSU might not accept Ellen White’s writings as fully inspired, but if the church leaders, board leaders, conference, union, and division leaders would all have full confidence in Mrs. White’s writings, this matter might have been nipped in the bud long ago.

Mrs. White is abundantly clear on the creation vs. evolution issue. It seems shameful to relegate her writings to a sub-scripture standard which makes it easier for others to “pick and choose” from them which points they will accept. The Bible says “ALL scripture” is inspired by God. We accept as scripture even Paul’s personal comments, where he explicitly stated that he spoke by permission and not by commandment…yet do we think we can draw lines in what Ellen White wrote and say “such and such was inspired, and this or that was not?”

Regarding creation’s literal days, Ellen White specifically details for us that the message she gave was of God. For example, she says “I have been shown that without Bible history, geology can prove nothing.” Who showed her?

Erik