EGW wrote over and over that we are saved by grace---
The mother is God’s agent to Christianize her family. She is to exemplify Biblical religion, showing how its influence is to control us in its everyday duties and pleasures, teaching her children that by grace alone can they be saved, through faith, which is the gift of God. This constant teaching as to what Christ is to us and to them, His love, His goodness, His mercy, revealed in the great plan of redemption, will make a hallowed, sacred impress on the heart.14
The Review and Herald, September 15, 1891.
Therefore there is no occasion for one to glory over 402another or to grudge against another. No one is privileged above another, nor can anyone claim the reward as a right. {COL 401.0}
Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 402.1
The first and the last are to be sharers in the great, eternal reward, and the first should gladly welcome the last. He who grudges the reward to another forgets that he himself is saved by grace alone. The parable of the laborers rebukes all jealousy and suspicion. Love rejoices in the truth and institutes no envious comparisons. He who possesses love compares only the loveliness of Christ and his own imperfect character.
{COL 402.1}
While we are to be in harmony with God’s law, we are not saved by the works of the law,FW 95.3
We absolutely do not deny the Trinity.
There are biblical reasons for believing that Michael and Christ are the same, so we are not the only denomination to think so.
Read Leviticus 16 about the ritual of the scapegoat, instituted by God Himself.
Lev 16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
Lev 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
On the day of atonement 2 goats were brought to the High Priest. One represented Christ and was sacrificed and the blood used to cleanse the tabernacle of sins---
Lev 16:20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
Lev 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
The scapegoat represents Satan---There is absolutely no attack on the cross, nor can there be when came from God Himself!
The blood of Jesus forgives our sins-they are placed on Satan and he pays the final penalty for those sins----which seems only fair as he is the root cause of all sin.
Sparbud in post #40: "Read
Leviticus 16 about the ritual of the scapegoat, instituted by God Himself."
Also: "The scapegoat represents Satan---There is absolutely no attack on the cross, nor can there be when came from God Himself! "
Why would anyone think that the scapegoat is Satan??? Commentators have always seen the scapegoat in Leviticus 16 as prefiguring Christ's sacrifice on the cross.
John Gill on Leviticus 16:5, the first verse to mention the setting aside of two young goats, one for a burnt offering and the other to become the scapegoat:
"...
a type of Christ ... the burnt offering following by way of thanksgiving for atonement made by the sin offering graciously accepted by the Lord."
John Gill on Leviticus 16:7, on why there are two goats:
"... the number of these goats was two, typical either of
the two natures in Christ; his divine nature, in which he is impassable, and lives for ever, which may be signified by the goat presented alive and let go; and his human nature, in which he suffered and died, and may be fitly represented by the goat that was slain; or else of
the two estates of Christ before and after his resurrection, his being put to death in the flesh and quickened in the Spirit; or rather this may signify
the twofold consideration of Christ as Mediator, one with respect to his divine Father, to whom he made satisfaction by his death; and the other with respect to Satan, with whom he conflicted in life, and to whose power he was so far delivered up, as not only to be tempted, and harassed by him, but through his instigation to be brought to the dust of death ..."
Also: "... these two goats, according to the Jewish writers, were to be alike in sight or colour, in stature and in value, and to be taken together:
Christ, the antitype of them, is the same dying and rising ... "
John Gill on Leviticus 16:10, connecting both young goats to Jesus Christ and the cross:
"...and upon the
cross, when he submitted to the death of it;
during which time he had the sins of all his people on him, and made an end of them, so as to be seen no more ... since
the living goat had all the sins of the people on him, and was reckoned so impure, that he that led him into the wilderness stood in need of washing and cleansing, (
Leviticus 16:21 Leviticus 16:26 ) ; whereas, when Christ was raised from the dead, he was clear of all sin ..."
John Gill interprets the scapegoat of Leviticus 16 as a "type of Christ," and the whole ritual as a foreshadowing of God's plan of redemption which we see in full in the Gospels.
See
Leviticus 16:5 - Commentary & Verse Meaning - Bible
Leviticus 16:7 - Commentary & Verse Meaning - Bible
Leviticus 16:10 - Commentary & Verse Meaning - Bible