Sorry I respectfully disagree with your claims here. Let me just bring this up. Your OP was already shot down sometime ago by looking at the contexts of the SOP you left out and definitions of "race" at the time of the SOP writings showing that once again your claims in this OP like many do the scriptures have been taken from their contexts to try and put a meaning on them that they are not saying according to your interpretation of them.
I didn't put any meaning to them. I quoted them and let you supply any context and meaning you wanted.
That is because various Adventists assign different meaning, and so find different context to be helpful. Uriah Smith would not have referenced the context you did because he indicated a blurring of human and animal.
And those Adventists who think it represented pre-flood gene splicing would not reference the context you did either.
So I allowed Adventists to posit their understanding, put any context they thought supported it, and then examined how that matched up with the statements.
And what you wound up with was the view that some races have the image of God defaced because of idolatry. Yet, there is no race that hasn't had idolatry. There have been unbelievers in every race. So her view that amalgamation could be seen in "certain races" would not make sense if we use your definitions. Nor did you wish to point out the races in Ellen White's time in which amalgamation could be seen.
We have had the same discussions on many SOP quotes in the past with the same outcome. Once context was added back in they were never saying what you were claiming they were saying.
You have always claimed so, of course! But I didn't say what she was saying. I let Adventists say what she was saying, and then looked at how well that matched up.
This is the same problem many have doing the same with thing with the scriptures. They pull the scriptures from their contexts to try and make them say things they never said or they read into the scriptures what the scriptures never say (eisegesis).
Or they try to make the Scriptures say what Ellen White said.
I only want to point one more thing. It is you that is bringing up EGW and the SOP here no one else. In our conversations I have only wanted to discuss the scriptures with you yet you decide to run off from that discussion like I have seen others do in the past to try and change the subject matter to discuss EGW.
LGW, I clearly, many times, said I would go through every single Sabbath related text with you. You said people didn't have the patience for that. That was your choice.
I still made 459 posts in that thread, many of them discussing the law and the Sabbath. So you can hardly say I didn't talk about the Scriptures.
Now I already stated I bring up Ellen White. And why? To point out that you do as well, you just don't always recognize it. So in the other thread when you said there were four commands on the first table, and six on the other, that is a statement of Ellen White, not Scripture.
And you don't even have to be aware of the quote to pick up on it. Because the Adventist church often references Ellen White's thoughts.
Moreover, I quote Ellen White so that Adventists know what she says. Because as soon as you state what she says Adventists fall in line.
For instance, I am guessing you now think Moses wrote Job, though previously you did not know Adventists believe that.
Am I wrong?
So let me turn the subject matter back to the scriptures and ask you. Do you not believe that God gives his Church spiritual gifts and that prophecy is one of them? Also, and just as relevant, who does God give His Spirit to those who obey him or those who knowingly disobey Him?
God gives the gift of prophecy.
But the point of this thread, as some of the content in the other thread, is to see how Adventists relate to Ellen White's writings. They indicate that the Scriptures are the test of doctrine. Yet, if Ellen White states something about Scripture, they fall in line.
As to your notions of Sabbath requirements, you already heard my view on that, by your request. But you also didn't think it worth going through every text. So we didn't. It is off topic here. Here we are talking about Ellen White's statements about amalgamation, and various Adventists interpretations of it.
