SDA Issues: Diop's Korah Moment

"According to Ganoune Diop, the Three Angels’ Messages are no longer applicable. They are an aberration in today’s world. Furthermore, Diop implies that those who speak out against the Pope or his secular advocates, who support doctrines couched in Marxist rhetoric, are engaging in hate speech and should be viewed as extremists. They endeavor to discard every vestige of our church’s foundational principles in order to become like the rest of the world.

Diop alluded to the fact that promoting Bible truths and their

relationship to history and current events can place the lives of all Seventh-day Adventists in jeopardy. 

In other words, present truth is nothing more than an effort to incite violence. This is a trend we have been seeing at many of our churches where the Spirit of Prophecy has been relegated to the “historical trash heap”; part of a quote by Neal Wilson (Ted’s father) during a court hearing in 1975 when he tried to allay concerns about the so-called anti-popery sentiments of conservative Protestantism.

We are supposed to be a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people (1 Peter 2:9). 

This sets us apart from others, and, by virtue of this position, we will indeed face persecution. E.G. White sums it up this way: “When we reach the standard that the Lord would have us reach, worldlings will regard Seventh-day Adventists as odd, singular, straightlaced extremists” {RH, January 9, 1894, par. 10}."
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