Adventist God NOT Our Almighty God
Once again, I find it mind-boggling and even horrifying at how the adventist god is NOT the Almighty God we know! It makes me wonder just how EGW thought she knew anything about God. To her, he is just slightly above being human while being subject to the same natural laws that govern us. More and more I sense that those who say her “handsome young man” was really the devil in disguise are correct! This sort of nonsense [as exposed in Former Adventist Fact Check] could only come from him!
It is, as you have stated, “unbelievable arrogance”!
I got into a Facebook discussion once with an Adventist. He insisted that he personally has lots of questions and that the millennium (in heaven, of course) is the time when God essentially owes him answers. I asked why he thought it would take 1,000 years, but he brushed that off. I asked why he thought we needed to do an internal audit of God’s bookkeeping to make sure He made every decision correctly, but apparently to him, God needs us to do that audit to vindicate Him.
—VIA EMAIL
Response: It’s hard to dig through the verbiage and pious-sounding language of the Adventist Sabbath School lessons and also of EGWs voluminous writings and the reflections of various Adventist authors, but as a whole, the fact that Adventism does not believe the biblical gospel is clear.
Adventism has what Paul called “another gospel” which is really “not another”. Its god is not the sovereign, triune God revealed in Scripture, and its Jesus is not Almighty, eternal God the Son who came to take the punishment for all human sin.
Adventism keeps both God and humanity locked in an ongoing conflict in which God must prove to the universe that He is fair and just and by contrast reveal that Satan is a liar.
This false idea about both God and Satan keeps Adventists imprisoned in a false worldview that leaves them essentially alone in the universe. The power and help they can get from Jesus is NOT His own personal righteousness imputed to them but is outside “power” that will help them obey the law and thus prove that the law can be kept and God is fair.
Adventists live in a twilight of not knowing whether or not they will be saved, of despair over their inability to perfectly keep the law, and in an ongoing state of guilt because they believe that they are personally responsible for Jesus’ suffering and for their own personal disobedience to the law.
Yet Adventists love their Adventist identities, and they cannot see past their great controversy worldview to really perceive who Jesus is and what He has actually done for us!
Blessed with a Dead Prophet
I just read this comment by an Adventist, and I must admit it really jolted me:
“It’s such a blessing to have a dead prophet rather than a silent prophet.”
I keep looking at that, and it just stuns me!
—VIA EMAIL
Response: I wonder what comparison the Adventist was making? I wonder who has/had the “silent prophet”? Yet to consider a dead prophet to be a blessing—that truly IS stunning. That actually reveals a lot about the Adventist worldview…
Response to “Adventism’s God Honors the Devil’s Free Will”
My dear sister, did God introduce “rules of engagement” when Satan was allowed to persecute brother Job? Do you see any restraints on Satan’s daily assault on the life and ministry of Christ? Did not Christ respond to Pilate that it was because God had given him authority to use that Christ was now at his judgement seat? Did not Christ also tell Pilate that if He wanted, He could pray and God would give Him legions of angels to fight for His release? How about God sending Satan to the earth after war broke out in heaven? Surely there’s more then enough Scripture references to point to our way of thinking that God has allowed restraints and “rules of engagement” on Satan and his rebel angels who are still at war with God and the human family.
—VIA YOUTUBE
Response: God has certainly set limits on Satan, but He has not limited Himself in deference to Satan’s freedom. The fact that God doesn’t destroy Satan ahead of His own schedule does not illustrate “rules of engagement” with Satan—and certainly does not demonstrate what the Sabbath School lesson calls a “covenantal agreement” with Satan!
God’s limits on Satan are those of a Creator toward a rebellious creature, not of two mature individuals who are in a mutual disagreement.
Satan is in rebellion—but there is no war with God. God is very much in charge. He is completely sovereign and never “limits” His power for the sake of honoring a creature’s freedom to rebel!
Adventism sees Satan through fleshly eyes that are still veiled by spiritual death. The Adventist god is not sovereign over evil but must take Satan’s supposed accusations seriously enough to expose them as false.
God is not defending His character. He is asking us to trust Him, and He has Satan on a very tight leash. †
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