the differences are what I have come up with. since I researched the new view i would say they are what I have observed.
As far as the problems inside the Catholic Church I am not aware of them and do not understand them. a little more explination would be helpful.
As far as the time period we would say that the corruption started at Constantine, but really devloped from 508 ad to 1798 ad with the fulfillment of the 1290 prophecy of Daniel 12. that is a hard view of the Catholic chruch, the schism is the result of that absloute power of the RCC. it's desire to set its self up and rule the world. Augustine's view guides Catholic teaching and it's desire to regain Jerusalem and rule from there as the go between between God and man. in other words God won't bless you and you can't prosper unless you go through us. This is Daneil 11. 40-45
So the problems inside the Catholic Church is that Pope Francis has really upset many of my traditional Catholic friends, like
@Michie ,
@Fenwick and
@chevyontheriver , first by putting a traditionalist Franciscan order in Italy that celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass under review, which meant that members of the order could not visit their families, unless they resigned, and this process took a very long time. Then there was Amoris Laetitia, which relaxed the firm stance on sexual morality that had characterized Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Then, there was the Amazonian synod, which was extremely controversial, and I will let my Catholic friends if they are interested provide the details. Now, he has reversed the directives of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, Ecclesia Dei and Summorum Pontificum respectively, which combined with new regulations from the Vatican organization in charge of worship, has the effect of banning the traditional Latin mass in nearly all circumstances. This is a situation that is worse than anything experienced by traditional Catholics since the 1970s.
Now, regarding the 508-1798 timeline, one of the main reasons why I don’t accept the writing of EGW is that timeline doesn’t make sense. If she shifted it about 110 years so as to begin after the death of Pope Gregory the Great, who was a pious Christian, universally venerated by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox to this day, it would correspond with the beginning of political interference in the Roman episcopate which led to the Papal States, and the end of the Papal States. While I wish more churches had sovereign territory for their headquarters, the Papal States, in my opinion, with apologies to my Roman Catholic friends, were not well-governed either in terms of civil government or military defense, with Rome being sacked in 1520 by German mercenaries hired by Leo X to defend it. Excessive reliance on mercenaries caused problems, and the Papal States were continually reliant on ever shifting alliances with other Italian duchies and city states, such as Florence, Milan and Venice, and also with Spain, France and the Holy Roman Empire, for support.
However, even Rome during this period is not convincing as a supervillain, which it is made out to be in The Great Controversy, unless we consider converting the Aztecs and Incas to Christianity and ending human sacrifice religion in Latin America, and also spreading the Gospel to Scandinavia, ending the barbaric Nordic Paganism, and parts of Eastern Europe, where together with Eastern Orthodoxy, when the churches were still in communion, they successfully worked to convert the practitioners of the horrifying Pagan religion known as Rodnovery, and centuries later, Catholic missionaries converted the Filipinos and many Africans, as well as Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis outside of Malankara, where Christianity had been established since the martyrdom of the apostle Thomas in 53 AD, but due to Hindu persecution, expansion outside of the Malabar Coast was not possible prior to European colonization. And the Catholics who attempted to convert the Japanese were brutally martyred, as well as many who worked in China.
If you really want to reform Adventism, I would drop criticism of Roman Catholicism, and refocus the 1290 years on Islam. Islam has resulted in so many severe persecutions, in which tens of millions of Christians - Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Adventist, have been brutally butchered. Islam seeks to prohibit Saturday worship; for Islam Friday is the Holy Day, and Thursday and Friday comprise the Muslim holy week. In fact, Sunday and Saturday worship does not really happen in Oman, the UAE, Qatar, and other Gulf states where Christians expatriates work (largely because the profits of oil production are paid to the Gulf Arabs in something like a universal income scheme, disincentivizing them from working; this trend is only been reversed in recent years, but even now, expats from Christian countries, especially English speaking countries like the US, Australia, the UK, Canada and New Zealand, perform the majority of white collar jobs.
Blue collar jobs are largely performed by Indian migrants, some of them Christian, who are treated like dirt, especially if they are Christian.
Actually, the video advertising Oman for Western expatriates openly declares the country’s religious tolerance, showing various Christian denominations worshipping on Friday.
Also, almost since the inception of Islam, Babylon, the actual city (which relocated a short distance due to the shifting of the Euphrates, becoming Seleucia-Cstesiphon, but was still popularly called Babylon, and then the river shifted again, and Baghdad was built partially on top of Babylon), has been under Islamic control since the 7th century.
When we consider the increase in the Islamic population, and the decrease in the Roman Catholic population, as well as the good things Rome did for Christianity during the 1290 years outlined by EGW as being a period of evil dominion by it, which I enumerated above, it just seems to me much more likely that if those 1290 years are interpreted literally, which itself seems dubious, given the large amount of Gematria numeric encoding in scriptural prophecy (for example, 666 translates to “Nero Caesar” and the Hellenic form of the name Muhammed, and Nero and Muhammed are each responsible for initiating the two worst genocides of Christianity in history (the Communist persecution was bad, but the Soviet Union and other communist states realized they had to put up with Christianity; only in Albania and North Korea was it completely outlawed, but in Albania, there survived a catacomb church, which combined with Albanian Catholic and Orthodox expatriates, led to Christianity recovering to its former size in Albania in remarkably little time. Also Albanian Christianity has the distinction of two of the most pious Christians of the 20th century being members of it, one being the expatriate Orthodox bishop Fan Noli, and the other being the Albanian Catholic Mother Theresa.
So, 666 translates to Nero Caesar and Maometis, the Greek form of the name Muhammed (compare the remarkably similar Turkish form Mehmet), the initiators of the initial mass persecution of Christians, and the second and bloodiest mass persecution.
I think EGW erred in associating various prophecies of dark futures with the Roman Catholic Church; it was a mistake, because Islam is far more dangerous to Christianity, and it will force Christians to worship on Friday. Not Saturday, in the case of the Adventists, or Sunday, in the case of everyone else.
So if you really want to reform Adventism, and if you are really indifferent to EGW, focus on Islam rather than Roman Catholicism. With the exception of certain sects of Sufi Islam (which appear to be crypto-Christian), Islam has posed a continual threat to Christianity since its inception, and as of the 1915 Turkish genocide against Armenians, Pontic Greeks, and Aramaic-speaking Christians, and indeed, before that, the 12th century genocide of Tamerlane against the Assyrian Church of the East (which at the time was actually larger than the Roman Catholic Church in terms of geographical size and number of adherents) which exterminated all the Christians in China, Tibet, Mongolia and Central Asia, and before that, the 8th and 9th century extermination of all North African Christians west of Egypt, more Christians have received crowns of martyrdom from Muslims than from any other group, including the Roman Empire.
