Pastor
Bob has been attacking the SDAs for several weeks now. Let me say
this. I think in general, it is best not to be labelling a group as a
"cult" if they believe in the Gospel, which SDAs do. I understand there
are some variants of beliefs within Christianity, and we need to
recognize that not everyone will interpret the Scriptures as we do.
I have never attended a SDA Church. I have however met some fine
folks who have, and have yet to met a single one that believes that our
salvation is based on anything other than the work at the Cross and
resurrection of our Savior. None of the ones I have met believe
salvation is through Ellen White or that one must keep the Sabbath to be
saved. None of them fit the picture being proposed by Pastor Bob.
In re his post at
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2014/pastorbob629-6.htm ,
the quote from Ellen White does NOT say that she believes that men and
animals should cross breed. She simply discussed the variants of the
species of "men and animals", but said nothing about them
interpreeding. That is reaing something into her comments that is not
there. We should not, in our haste to discredit someone from a
competing denomination, accuse them of something they are not guilty
of. That is what Satan does, not something we should ever do to our
brothers and sisters in Messiah. I doubt she believes what Bob is
accusing her of. It is simply not in the comment he quoted.
It also makes me wonder if she is really guilty of many of hte
other things he accused her of. For example, the accusation that
"Atonement was not completed at the Cross" - where is the quote on
that? I have never met an SDA who believes that. If you are going to
accuse someone of heresy, quote their work and provide a reference.
Otherwise, you make yourself look like a wild accuser. Having never
read any of her work, I don't know enough about her to judge whether she
is a true or false prophet or even if what Pastor Bob is saying about
her is true. But I do know it is not fair to draw conclusions about
someone based on wild accusations from someone else and then pass it on
as truth without checking it out, and the post sounds like he has
believed a wild accusation someone else has made and not researched it
himself, because the only original quote he provided does not match the
description he gave, and he did not provide a reference for the only
quote he gave. A quote and reference should be given for any accusation
of heresy. But I have met enough SDAs in my life to know that what
they believe does not line up with what Pastor Bob is characterizing the
SDA Church of teaching.