Truth about Investigative Judgment and 1844

"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" Paul Galatians 4:16 (NIV).

"He [Christ] did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption." Hebrews 9:12 (NIV).

 "It is human to err; it is devilish to remain willfully in error." St. Augustine Sermons, # 164.

"In the past, the Adventist Church had responded to new light from Scripture by reforming certain established positions. Now I hoped the same attitude might be exhibited in regard to Daniel 8:14. My fellowship with the church's scholars over several decades had revealed that practically all of them with expertise in the key areas rejected the traditional version of the Investigative Judgment." Desmond Ford Good News for SDAs, Page 5.

"When we (any of us) give our consent or support to perpetuating a myth (in whole or in part) about any person or any thing, we ourselves are thereby party to a white lie... The worst lies that are told are often the ones told in religion... the assumption is that God endorses them and that therefore they are for our good. That that good can, and does, become harmful, wrongful, and even evil does not usually occur to those zealous persons who promote legends in the name of God."
Walter Rea The White Lie, Prologue.

Truth about Ellen White

"I have since thought that many inmates of insane asylums were brought there by experiences similar to my own." Ellen White Testimonies for the Church Vol. 1, page 25.

"'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor' (Exodus 20:16)...  All intentional overstatement, every hint or insinuation calculated to convey an erroneous or exaggerated impression, even the statement of facts in such a manner as to mislead, is falsehood." Ellen White Patriarchs and Prophets, page 309.

"...we got Conybeare and Howson, and we got Wylie's History of the Reformation, and we read word for word, page after page, and no quotations, no credit, and really I did not know the difference until I began to compare them. I supposed it was Sister White's own work!" Arthur G. Daniells, President of the SDA General Conference in 1919 Bible Conference Minutes, commenting on his discovery of Ellen White's plagiarism. Note: these minutes were kept in a vault until December 1974, upon Daniells' own request to lock them away for 50 years.

"In any case, the Seventh-day Adventist Church stood naked and alone before the world - as a cult - believing that salvation is hardly possible and that Scripture is indeed impossible as a guide to Christ and the Gospel, except through Ellen."
Walter Rea The White Lie, page 62.

Further Study of Investigative Judgment and 1844

"Our traditional method of explaining the pre-Advent judgment will not stand up to critical examination. There are no texts teaching an investigative judgment as we proclaim it. Daniel 8:14 is speaking of a judgment upon Antichrist and his hosts, not the saints. The same is true of the judgment in Dan. 7 and Rev. 12:7. In none of these does the context speak of the saints being investigated." Desmond Ford Daniel 8:14, The Day of Atonement, and The Investigative Judgment, page 403.

"There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts." Eric Hoffer The True Believer, page 107.

"I so often envied peasants their illiteracy and lack of learning. They found nothing false in those doctrinal statements which seemed apparent rubbish to me. Only for me, wretched fellow, it was obvious that 'the truth' was interwoven with fine threads of falsehood, and that I could not accept it..." Leo Tolstoy A Confession.

Investigative Judgment Made Simple

"The Adventist sins are never really forgiven. They are carried on the books of heaven until payday, the Judgment Day. No system that thrives and perpetuates itself on such a scandal can bring happiness to the human mind or experience."
Walter Rea The White Lie, page 42.

Truth about "soul-sleep"

"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.... We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:6,8-9.

"Any text taken out of context is a pretext. This principle alone ultimately robs most of the cultic arguments of any validity." Robert Morey Death and the Afterlife.

"It wasn't until I began to read the Bible more closely that I began to notice some disturbing information. I kept running across passages that imply some form of life, even consciousness, after death." Jerry Gladson Re-thinking Life after Death: Confessions of a Troubled Conditionalist.
 

"It wasn't until I began to read the Bible more closely that I began to notice some disturbing information. I kept running across passages that imply some form of life, even consciousness, after death."
Jerry Gladson Re-thinking Life after Death: Confessions of a Troubled Conditionalist.

Healing from Abusive Religions

"The abusive spiritual leaders of Jesus' day loaded the common people down with multiple religious rules and regulations. In addition to God's Law, they laid on them various layers of human traditions... Universally, the dominant trait of oppressive religious and governmental systems is the multiplication of rules and regulations. These serve to control behavior when kept and promote guilt when broken." Ken Blue Healing Spiritual Abuse, page 52.

"All of the doctrine is meant to illuminate the Cross. Whatever does not reflect the saving gospel is erroneous. All doctrine should lead to faith in the Savior." Desmond Ford Glacier View Manuscript, page ii.

"The fact that Jesus Christ has come means that you are not alone, and therefore that you are not worthless, inadequate, wrong, alien. The Father has made you blessed in His Son. You are alive with the life of the Triune God. God exists as a triune relationship - Father, Son, and Spirit. And it is not a dead or empty relationship. The Father likes the Son. He loves him, is absolutely thrilled with him, bursting with pride over him. And the Son adores his Father, loves Him with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength in the freedom and fellowship of the Spirit. The gospel is all about the fact that the Son of God, who enjoys life with his Father in the fellowship of the Spirit, became human...so that he could share nothing less than this life with us." C. Baxter Kruger The Secret, page 17.

Miscellaneous

"I have never been eager that the listener should think as I think, but only that he should think... The only kind of person who really offends me is the person who criticizes a writer without ever having read a word of his books." William Barclay

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