Usual scam – distorted quote is intended to discredit E.G. White

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The usual suspects with their usual methods. Quotations from the person being attacked are either taken out of context and placed in a self-constructed context or completely distorted. This also applies to a statement by Ellen G. White and her description of Jesus Christ.

Discrediting through distorted quotations

As could be expected, attacks on the Protestant Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) continue to increase. This is done directly, but also indirectly in many ways. The main focus is on Ellen G. White, a pioneer of the SDA and recognized prophet of the end times (Joel 3:1-3), and her numerous writings. This is also quickly linked to the newly created narrative that Jesus Christ was not God. After all, Jesus Christ must not be God, otherwise He would fit into the ongoing ecumenism and the unification of a desired (pantheistic) religion. The statement in John 14:6 is therefore regularly cut in half.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

A popular means of discrediting is to take statements out of their existing context, or simply to falsify them. One such constellation is found in the statement that E.G. White claimed that the man Jesus Christ was not the almighty God. The source given is “Manuscript 150, 1903, SDA Commentary V, p.1129). In other places the source cited is “Letter 32, 1899, Commentary V, p.1129”.

However, if we keep in mind the context, and especially the Bible’s description in Philippians 2:5-8, then this statement applies to Jesus Christ, the man. For Jesus Christ, in the form of God, reduced himself to a man.

The majority is satisfied

The majority are probably satisfied with the presentation of E.G. White’s statement, after all, “the source” was also given. Only a minority sets out to check this source. It could also be a quote taken out of context. Anyone who actually sets out to examine this source will have to keep looking. Because neither the one nor the other source is correct. The quoted text snippet actually comes from “Manuscript 140, 1903” (Source).

What E.G. White actually wrote

Of course, the context is taken into account and at this point the following is included:
“Christ left His position in the heavenly courts and came to this earth to live the life of human beings. This sacrifice He made in order to show that Satan’s charge against God is false—that it is possible for man to obey the laws of God’s kingdom. Equal with the Father, honored and adored by the angels, in our behalf Christ humbled Himself and came to this earth to live a life of lowliness and poverty—to be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

Yet the stamp of divinity was upon His humanity. He came as a divine Teacher, to uplift human beings, to increase their physical, mental, and spiritual efficiency. There is no one who can explain the mystery of the incarnation of Christ. Yet we know that He came to this earth and lived as a man among men.

The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty, yet Christ and the Father are one. The Deity did not sink under the agonizing torture of Calvary, yet it is none the less true that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.“

The usual scam

When read in context, this statement reads quite differently. E.G. White did not say that Jesus Christ was not God (in general), but that the Son of God reduced himself to a human being and thereby took on the nature of man. This was absolutely necessary in order to prove to the world that the “normal man”, born of the flesh of sin (Romans 8:3-4), is capable of keeping the law of God. (10 Gebote – Info).

A popular method of undermining people’s credibility and bringing an entire religious community into disrepute. The handwriting is easily recognizable (Info).

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