You probably wonder how I could possibly write something about the Seventh day Adventist church and their aberrant teachings such as the Investigative Judgment.
Not really. I figure you have been deceived from another or self-deceived (by turning from the mirror of the Testimonies) or are simply ignorant of the truth (which may be corrected by thorough and prayerful study).
Because I use to be one for 25 years.
Logical fallacy. Appeal to age.
One of the things in reference to the judgment is I know that we are judged before the throne of GOD. But recently I started questioning GOD in asking whether or not if He ,too, is being judged not only by us but also by the angels in an indirect way.
You sound like a Seventh-day Adventist in that.
E. J. Waggoner said:
"... But God has left the vindication of his character to his children. He has, as it were, risked his character with men. David said, in his penitential psalm: -- {March 6, 1897 EJW, GCDB 55.4}
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. {March 6, 1897 EJW, GCDB 55.5}
Paul brings out the same idea when he says: -- {March 6, 1897 EJW, GCDB 55.6}
Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. {March 6, 1897 EJW, GCDB 55.7}
The time when we are judged is the time when God is judged. At that time all the dealings of God with his creatures will come up before the universe. The character of God as expressed in his government, and the whole story of his dominion, will come up there. Every man will have to participate in pronouncing judgment, for it is written, "Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess," "that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father." Every man shall pronounce his own judgment, and, in pronouncing his own judgment, will declare the righteousness and justice of God's character. {March 6, 1897 EJW, GCDB 55.8}
E. J. Waggoner again:
"That Thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged." Rom. 3:4. {February 3, 1909 EJW, MEDM 89.6}
From the foregoing we learn that when God judges He Himself is judged. [90] God has been fully slandered by Satan. He has been charged with selfish indifference to the wants of His creatures, and many have believed and repeated the accusation. The case, therefore, has been brought into court, God is now on trial, and the final judgment of the world will be the announcement of the verdict in His case, when every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God, "just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Saints." A thorough study of the book of Isaiah reveals the fact that it is devoted to this trial, setting forth the claims of God as against those of the gods of the heathen. It is pre-eminently the book for the foreign missionary. ..."
General Conference Bulletin:
"... Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. {January 1897 LTNe, GCB 55.6}
The time when we are judged is the time when God is judged. At that time all the dealings of God with his creatures will come up before the universe. The character of God as expressed in his government, and the whole story of his dominion, will come up there. Every man will have to participate in pronouncing judgment, for it is written, "Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess," "that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father." Every man shall pronounce his own judgment, and, in pronouncing his own judgment, will declare the righteousness and justice of God's character. {January 1897 LTNe, GCB 55.7} ..."
