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Do you have a different example of Ellen White's writings correcting inaccurate interpretations?
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Well since you bring up Galatians ---
Thank God that is not true and the Bible scholars in almost all Christian denominations on BOTH sides of the Sabbath Commandment topic admit to it.
Moral law of God defines what sin is "Sin IS transgression of the LAW" 1 John 3:4
Hence we have Paul contrasting ceremonial law with moral law of God in 1 Cor 7:19 -- the very distinction your post claims - cannot exist.
1 Cor 7:19
19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
There we have a clear example of contrasting ceremonial law with moral law of God.
Where the Commandments of God include the TEN having "'honor your father and mother' as the first commandment with a promise" Eph 6:2
“The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Galatians 3:24). In this scripture, the Holy Spirit through the apostle is speaking especially of the moral law. The law reveals sin to us, and causes us to feel our need of Christ and to flee unto Him for pardon and peace by exercising repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ". {1SM 234.5}
In a secondary sense one might think of the ceremonial law that points to Christ - through shadows and types - also leading us to Christ - but I think the moral law fits better in Gal 3
Yes, Uriah Smith, George Butler, and most of the prominent folks in the early Advent movement thought Galatians referred to the ceremonial law.
They objected when E.J. Waggoner published the view in the Signs of the Times that it was speaking of the moral law.
Thank God that is not true and the Bible scholars in almost all Christian denominations on BOTH sides of the Sabbath Commandment topic admit to it.
Moral law of God defines what sin is "Sin IS transgression of the LAW" 1 John 3:4
Hence we have Paul contrasting ceremonial law with moral law of God in 1 Cor 7:19 -- the very distinction your post claims - cannot exist.
1 Cor 7:19
19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
There we have a clear example of contrasting ceremonial law with moral law of God.
Where the Commandments of God include the TEN having "'honor your father and mother' as the first commandment with a promise" Eph 6:2
In none of your quotes do I see the adjective "moral". The Law is the undivided and complete Law.
Do you have a different example of Ellen White's writings correcting inaccurate interpretations?
“The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Galatians 3:24). In this scripture, the Holy Spirit through the apostle is speaking especially of the moral law. The law reveals sin to us, and causes us to feel our need of Christ and to flee unto Him for pardon and peace by exercising repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ". {1SM 234.5}
In a secondary sense one might think of the ceremonial law that points to Christ - through shadows and types - also leading us to Christ - but I think the moral law fits better in Gal 3
Moreover, Ellen White's latest statement regarding the crisis in Galatia was in Acts of the Apostles, and seemed to focus on the ceremonial again.
I don't think there is a problem with her referencing both, or noting it particularly refers to the moral law. However, it is strange that her latest statement didn't put focus on the moral, since it was such a big issue earlier.
The Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles Published 1911
" While tarrying at Corinth, Paul had cause for serious apprehension concerning some of the churches already established. Through the influence of false teachers who had arisen among the believers in Jerusalem, division, heresy, and sensualism were rapidly gaining ground among the believers in Galatia. These false teachers were mingling Jewish traditions with the truths of the gospel. Ignoring the decision of the general council at Jerusalem, they urged upon the Gentile converts the observance of the ceremonial law. AA 383.1
The situation was critical. The evils that had been introduced threatened speedily to destroy the Galatian churches. AA 383.2
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In the Galatian churches, open, unmasked error was supplanting the gospel message. Christ, the true foundation of the faith, was virtually renounced for the obsolete ceremonies of Judaism. The apostle saw that if the believers in Galatia were saved from the dangerous influences which threatened them, the most decisive measures must be taken, the sharpest warnings given. AA 385.2
Their religion was made up of a round of ceremonies, through the performance of which they expected to gain the favor of God. 386.2
Rom 2:
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
Rom 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; 7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants shall be named.” 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
Do you really think that this is only agreed to by SDAs???
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Rom 11:
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; 21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. 22 See then the kindness and severity of God: to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; for otherwise you too will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so all Israel will be saved
At no time, before or after, did the disciples ever practice Ellen White's pseudo-Judaism.
Is it your position that the NT texts I just quoted and that you just responded to - were written by Ellen White??
You're mixing up posts.
So then at some point Smith and Butler might view the 1 SM 234 statement as an opportunity to "pause for reflection"
As for unpublished letters and who remembered what and when after 20 years - that is the kind of skimpy nickle-dime I don't mess with because everyone admits that in those he-said-he-remembered-she-said non-published documents - no one has all the details.
I am fine with what was published at the time.
1. I came to the right view of Gal 3 without even looking into the disputes that Butler had with Waggoner over Gal 3.
Fourth, we should search the Scriptures for ourselves and not allow others to do our thinking for us. At Minneapolis Ellen White could see that many of our ministers were simply following the lead of Elders Butler and Smith in their understanding of Scripture. They were not doing their own thinking Loyalty to Leadership—a commendable virtue—became a serious weakness when it led to following leadership blindly 88IOL 7.7
. On October 19 Ellen White cautioned the delegates: “Do not believe anything simply because others say it is truth. Take your Bibles, and search them for yourselves.” 88IOL 7.8
Again, on October 24, she entreated: “I want our young men to take a position, not because someone else takes it, but because they understand the truth for themselves.” 88IOL 7.9
My own post ends with this -- " In a secondary sense one might think of the ceremonial law that points to Christ - through shadows and types - also leading us to Christ - but I think the moral law fits better in Gal 3"
Context matters: in Acts of the Apostles that you reference - she was addressing the issue with Acts 15:1 and those that argued that gentiles could not be saved unless they kept the ceremonial law.
as you already pointed out here -
Both issues get addressed in Paul's letter to the Galatians so I don't know how it is even a point of discussion to add "yes but which one of the two issues was mentioned last by Ellen White just before she died"... That sort of thing does not even register on my radar given that she affirms that the two valid aspects of that Law in Gal are indeed applicable.
. On October 19 Ellen White cautioned the delegates: “Do not believe anything simply because others say it is truth. Take your Bibles, and search them for yourselves.” 88IOL 7.8
1 . until you read 1 Cor 7:19 which contrasts the two where one does not matter and the other does.
2. Until you read Heb 10:4-11 where we see animal sacrifice laws end - yet as we see in Eph 6:2 the TEN having "'honor your father and mother' as the first commandment with a promise" still applies to all mankind.
3. I don't mind having all Bible scholars in almost all Christian denominations on both sides of the Sabbath topic admit to this Bible detail and yet you have the free will to reject all that you wish. That is also fine with me.
Once again you have failed to provide a single Bible verse using the adjective "moral" with either law or commandment. The fact that you and a multitude of others have chosen to read that into the text is really not my problem. The fact that you and a multitude of others have willfully chosen to selectively pick and choose which commandments might fit into your personal theologies is, indeed, a significant problem.
This is always the plot hole. They say as Christians we are supposedly supposed to follow the law of the old covenant. But only the laws that Ellen White and others decided are applicable. So what exists in this concoction is a mixture of quasi-Christianity and pseudo-Judaism.
The reason it is significant is because the other two were in the context of the debate, but Acts of the Apostles received a wide circulation, and it would have been a good time to reference the significance.
that sort of looks like hair-splitting
The reason it is significant is because the other two were in the context of the debate, but Acts of the Apostles received a wide circulation, and it would have been a good time to reference the significance.
I would not call it such.
But the point remains that Galatians is not the issue to illustrate Ellen White correcting inaccurate scripture teachings.
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