For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren,
by them which are of the house of Chloe,
that there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians 1:11
"Turns out the conferees are not much concerned about the unity of the whole SDA Church, but are 
Thursday’s speakers included the noted Adventist historian George Knight, whose paper manages to compare the world church—in its rather timid efforts to enforce the 2015 San Antonio vote—to the Nazis of 1930s Germany:
The so-called nonconforming unions must stand together, come into line with General Conference demands, or go down one by one. Martin Niemöller, a leading German Protestant pastor during World War II, has written a thoughtful piece: “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn’t speak out–because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out–because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak out.”
So, let me get this straight: if the General Conference thinks that the San Antonio vote should be respected throughout the world church, they are Nazis and Ted Wilson is Der Führer? .... that’s remarkably unhinged, even for an American liberal. Is this Knight an historian or an hysterian?
I'd like to be able to report that Knight’s comparison of the GC to the Nazis is not typical of his whole paper. But it is. In a nod to Martin Luther, Knight has produced “9.5 Theses” about the church’s ordination controversy. (Actually, he created 15 “theses,” but Knight’s math, like the rest of his reasoning, is a bit at sixes and sevens.) Some of his other “theses” include:
“7. The so-called noncompliant unions are not out of harmony with the Bible.”
I’d say that Female headship is clearly out of harmony with the Bible. (1 Tim. 2:12-3:7; 1 Cor. 14:34; 1 Cor. 11:3)
“8. Adventism has moved at times from being a church based on Scripture to one based on tradition and ecclesiastical pronouncements.”
Maybe, maybe not. But instituting female headship would be a colossal step away from Scripture, toward tradition and ecclesiastical pronouncements.
“9. The General Conference leadership in 2017 is coming dangerously close to replicating the medieval church in its call for the serious discipline of large sectors of the church on the basis of a non-biblical issue.”
I think Knight just made Elder Wilson the pope as well as Herr Hitler. We’re going to run short of historical villains to compare that Wilson chap to.
“9.2. Due to the suppression of data and the manipulation of the events surrounding the voting process, I do not believe that the 2015 vote on women’s ordination indicated the voice of God.”
What is it with you Americans and refusing to accept the results of votes? The “events surrounding the voting process” were “manipulated.” The election was stolen! The Russians colluded with the Trump campaign. The dog ate my homework. Why do you Yanks even bother to have elections when the liberals will not accept the results when they lose? Apparently, the only time there’s a free and fair election in America is when the Left gets what it wants.
“9.4. The current atmosphere of confrontation in Adventism has not been brought about by the unions, but by the General Conference leadership and its non-biblical and manipulative tactics.”
So if the side that lost a vote refuses to accept the results, the side that won the plebiscite is to blame for the “atmosphere of confrontation” when it accepts the result??."ChurchMouse-Fulcrum7
