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This is part of the official Adventist teaching of the Atonement. Adventists have a two-stage atonement. That name sounds very academic and respectable, but it is very shocking if one ponders the implications based on general Christian givens and assumptions of Soteriology based on the typical views / theories coming from how the various Christian bodies have interpreted various passages regarding salvation. In general, I'm pretty sure everybody I know (Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic even Messianic Jewish) would agree that Christ paid for our sins on the cross, rather than just paying for the penalty of Sin from the Law and having to do a future work sometime later in the distant future at the end of the age when everybody has died, he can make his final atonement in the Heavenly Sanctuary.
Quotes lifted from Bible.query.org subsite on Adventism.
"Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind."
Uriah Smith, 1877, (The Sanctuary and the Twenty-Three Hundred Days of Daniel VIII, 14, p. 276,)
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"Ellen White herself declared in The Great Controversy that "before Christ's work for the redemption of men is completed, there is a work of atonement for the removal of sin from the sanctuary. This is the service which BEGAN when the 2300 days ended."
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"He (Christ) was inaugurated as our great High Priest and began His intercessory ministry at the time of His ascension. In 1844, at the end of the prophetic period of 2300 days, He entered the second and last phase of His atoning ministry. It is a work of investigative judgment which is part of the ultimate disposition of all sin, typified by the cleansing of the ancient Hebrew sanctuary on the Day of Atonement."
But 1 John 2:1 says, "...And if anyone sins, we have [present tense] an Advocate [intercessor] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."NKJV
The previous quotes and citations were taken from anti-Adventist web site. The basic root Url is at Bible Query - Answers to Bible questions (the exact page has terminology etc. banned in the Terms of Service so I did not give a direct link to it).
Quotes lifted from Bible.query.org subsite on Adventism.
"Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind."
Uriah Smith, 1877, (The Sanctuary and the Twenty-Three Hundred Days of Daniel VIII, 14, p. 276,)
......
"Ellen White herself declared in The Great Controversy that "before Christ's work for the redemption of men is completed, there is a work of atonement for the removal of sin from the sanctuary. This is the service which BEGAN when the 2300 days ended."
......
"He (Christ) was inaugurated as our great High Priest and began His intercessory ministry at the time of His ascension. In 1844, at the end of the prophetic period of 2300 days, He entered the second and last phase of His atoning ministry. It is a work of investigative judgment which is part of the ultimate disposition of all sin, typified by the cleansing of the ancient Hebrew sanctuary on the Day of Atonement."
But 1 John 2:1 says, "...And if anyone sins, we have [present tense] an Advocate [intercessor] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."NKJV
The previous quotes and citations were taken from anti-Adventist web site. The basic root Url is at Bible Query - Answers to Bible questions (the exact page has terminology etc. banned in the Terms of Service so I did not give a direct link to it).
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