IN the NEWS - Another Gospel brought to you by the United Church of Christ

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called

 you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Galatians 1:6

"In July, the United Church of Christ delivered a message, urging the clergy to preach on “the moral obligation of our generation to protect God’s creation” and exhorting individuals to take

political action.

“Climate change is the biggest ethical, moral and spiritual challenge of our day,” Joan Brown, the executive director of New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light, told me.

She pointed to St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology, a medieval Italian monk who spent much of each year living in hermitages, caves and on mountainsides, praying in the wilderness. “St. Francis speaks of everything being connected,” she said, “of there being no separation between the human and natural world.” When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope, he chose his name in honor of St. Francis. Brown credited Pope Francis with helping reframe climate change as a moral concern.

Laudato Si’ describes the relationship between global poverty, inequality and environmental destruction, and issues a call to action. When Francis visited the White House in 2015, he declared: “Climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. I would like all men and women of goodwill in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world.”

Among non-Catholics, too, the pontiff’s message has had an effect: Polling from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication shows that the number of Americans who say they think global warming will harm the world’s poor rose from 49 to 61 percent; the percent who say the issue has become “very” or “extremely important” to them personally jumped from 19 to 26 percent.
A little over a year later, during the Paris climate negotiations, Brown recalled how during a breakout session for faith leaders, one of the Paris organizers praised Laudato Si’ and the similar documents released by Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist leaders. It was the first time, Brown said, quoting the organizer, “that ethical and moral imperatives are front and center with delegates.”
HighCountryNews

Creation Moment 9/28/2017 - Weeding Creationists Out?

"Denyse O’Leary at Uncommon Descent notes some advances in the language used denigrate and thus intimidate skeptics when it comes to controversial science subjects. These are from academic and popular media sources. Of course, there is usual talk of “science denial”.

From the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A:

Science denialism poses a serious threat to human health and the long-term sustainability of human civilization.

 But here’s a totally new one. Skeptics are now social deviants. The journal Sociological Perspectives offers this from Joshua C. Tom of the University of Virginia:

Scientific communities maintain respected authority on matters related to the natural world; however, there are instances where significant portions of the population hold beliefs contrary to the scientific consensus. These beliefs have generally been studied as the product of scientific illiteracy. This project reframes the issue as one of social deviance from the consensus of scientific communities.

 
Or how about this from an article for Nautilus by Brian Gallagher that we discussed here already. Denyse notes their headline: “How to Weed Creationism Out of Schools.”
He endorses the idea that

the U.S. needs its prospective biology teachers to take a course specifically on

evolutionary theory — which, by the way, is “so elegant that it can be stated in five words,” writes Anne Campbell, an English ethnologist and psychologist, “random genetic variation, non-random selection.” Learning this still isn’t a requirement, perhaps because most biology teachers receive degrees from non-research institutions, Berkman and Plutzer suggest, which often don’t have the resources to provide a course on evolution. Requiring it though would, for one, provide teachers “with more confidence to teach evolution forthrightly,” they write, “even in communities where public opinion is sympathetic to creationism”; and two, it would help weed out creationists who want to teach high school biology by either converting them or encouraging them to “pursue other careers.”

 Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wrote in 1924, “How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.” EV&V
Thus my heart was grieved...
Psalm 73:21

On the Streets of Babylon: Oh No!, NOT AGAIN...

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,...  Come out of her, my people,

Revelation 14:8/18:4

 

There seem to be some on the Streets of Babylon doing it AGAIN...this time "Oct.15"...

"The beginning of the End Times will actually occur on Oct. 15, according to a Christian numerologist who denies having ever said that the world would end on Sept. 23 of this year.

David Meade, who received much attention for his claims on when the events of the Book of Revelation would begin to transpire, explained in a recent post on his website that the much heralded Sept. 23 was not supposed to be considered the end of the world.
"When the birth of Jupiter from Virgo occurs, we also see the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12:4 when great and fearful signs in the heavens are given. This birthing occurs according to the latest astronomical data available on October 15, 2017. This is when the King Planet – Jupiter, crosses the womb region of Virgo."
Meade went on to explain that this marks "the day of the onset of the 7-Year Day of the Lord, or Tribulation."
"If we use astronomical calculations and the Book of Revelation only, and no extra-Biblical source such as visions, this takes us to the most important date of this century or millennium – October 15 this year of 2017," continued Meade." CP

73rd Psalm Breakdown Series: 10

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalm 73:10

"Verse 10. Therefore his people return hither. God's people are driven to fly to his throne for

shelter; the doggish tongues fetch home the sheep to the Shepherd. The saints come again, and again, to their Lord, laden with complaints on account of the persecutions which they endure from these proud and graceless men. And waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. Though beloved of God, they have to drain the bitter cup; their sorrows are as full as the wicked man's prosperity. It grieves them greatly to see the enemies of God so high, and themselves so low, yet the Lord does not alter his dispensations, but continues still to chasten his children, and indulge his foes."
Charles Spurgeon

Like us.....

Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
John 18:33

Christ faced a Judgment, died, was buried & rose from the dead....
Like us, who face a Judgment, will die, be buried & raised from the dead (whether in the 1st or 2nd resurrection).

Creation Moment 9/27/2017 - Scoffers

"Peter warned that a skeptical philosophy would prevail in our day, claiming that “all things

continue as they were from the beginning.” Don’t be troubled, he encouraged us.

 As we read about these scoffers, we realize that there is “nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The basic sin nature of man is the same today as it was 2,000 years ago—and as it was approximately 6,000 years ago when our ancestor Adam rebelled against God.

Peter explains that these scoffers in the last days will scorn those who believe Jesus is returning, and will exclaim, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” The philosophy of the scoffers is that physical processes just go on and on without any miraculous intervention (2 Peter 3:4, NKJV).

We are then told the scoffers will reject creation,
reject the Flood of Noah’s Day,
and reject the coming judgment by fire."
AIG

73rd Psalm Breakdown Series: 9

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalm 73:9

"Verse 9. They set their mouth against the heavens. Against God himself they aim their blasphemies. One would think, to hear them, that they were demigods themselves, and held their heads above the clouds, for they speak down upon other men as from a sublime elevation

peculiar to themselves.

Yet they might let God alone, for their pride will make them enemies enough without their defying him.

And their tongue walketh through the earth. Leisurely and habitually they traverse the whole world to find victims for their slander and abuse. Their tongue prowls in every corner far and near, and spares none. They affect to be universal censors, and are in truth perpetual vagrants. Like the serpent, they go nowhere without leaving their slime behind them; if there were another Eden to be found, its innocence and beauty would not preserve it from their filthy trail.
The city is not free from them, and the village swarms with them. They waylay men in the king's highway, but they are able to hunt across country, too. Their whip has a long lash, and reaches both high and low."
Charles Spurgeon

Q & A on Death of Christ

Q: HOW DID HE DIE?
A: WITH HIS ARMS OPEN WIDE

And when they had crucified him,...Mark 15:24

Connecting the Tables

"The Sabbath is the hinge connecting the tables of the law."
Randy Skeete
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus 31:18

ARCHAEOLOGY: Honey

...to a land flowing with milk and honey. Exodus 3:17

"Now an amazing discovery indicates beekeeping may have been a big industry thousands of years ago. Evidence shows honey was being produced by bees here nearly 3,000 years ago around the time of the prophet Elisha.

Bees connected to honey are mentioned only a few times in the Bible, and beekeeping is never mentioned, but several years ago, archaeologists uncovered a strange installation.
"We saw that we have here a row of cylindrical—of clay cylinders—each one of them is about 2-1/2 feet long and about 1 foot in diameter," Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar told CBN News. "We realized these must be bee hives."
The apiary—the place where the hives were found—is at a site in the Jordan Valley called Tel Rehov where some archaeologists believe Elisha lived about a century later.
Mazar says the type of bee was native to Turkey, pointing to its ancient trade relations with Israel. Remnants of the bees were found at the dig.
"These are the most ancient bees ever found in the world," Mazar said."
CBN News

Creation Moment 9/26/2017 - Exotic creatures of the chemical zoo

And God said,..and there was....
Genesis 1:3

"I’m often asked by students in my community education astronomy classes whether any new elements have been found in outer space unknown on Earth. The answer to the question is no – nature uses the same 98 natural elements to fashion everything from the familiar stars and planets to those in the farthest galaxies we can see. Outside of an occasional compound or mineral, Earth is the place where you’ll find more exotic elements than anywhere else in the universe.

An element is a pure substance made of just one type of atom. What sets one element apart from another is the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms. Any atom with six protons will always be carbon, 79 protons gold, 94 protons plutonium and 1 proton hydrogen. The proton number is also the element’s atomic number on the periodic table of elements. Elements in the table are arranged according to their atomic number.

When I was in high school studying chemistry, the periodic table of elements ended at Lawrencium (103). At present there are 118 elements, the most recent one created in the lab being ununoctium (you-nah-NOC-tee-um). Matter of fact, all the elements beyond 98 are artificial, brought to life in nuclear reactors or in particle accelerator experiments. They live very short lives.

Let’s reframe the question about exotic materials in space not present on Earth. Instead of elements, if we look at compounds, we hit paydirt. A compound is also a pure substance but consists of two or more chemical elements joined together. Familiar compounds include water (two hydrogens joined to one oxygen) and salt (one sodium and one chlorine).

Astronomers have found about 220 compounds or molecules in outer space many of them with siblings on Earth but some alien. We don’t have to look far to find them since a few have been delivered right to our doorstep as rocky packages called meteorites.  

Astronomers have discovered compounds in the atmospheres of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune like silane (silicon-hydrogen), arsine (arsenic-hydrogen) and phosphine (phosphorus-hydrogen) that don’t exist naturally on Earth. Humans have created all three in the lab and put them to good use in various industries including the manufacture of semi-conductors.

Moving beyond the solar system, astronomers see unusual long-chained carbon molecules in space that couldn’t form on Earth because oxygen would tear them apart. Space is their safe haven.
So, Earth is the location in the Universe where you’ll find more exotic elements than anywhere else. Thanks to human activity and the complicated molecules that wound together to form life, Earth’s the most exotic place in the universe."
BobKing/UniverseToday

73rd Psalm Breakdown Series: 8

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalm 73:8

"Verse 8. They are corrupt. They rot above ground; their heart and life are depraved. And speak wickedly concerning oppression. ... the nature of the soul

is revealed in the speech.

They choose oppression as their subject, and they not only defend it, but advocate it, glory in it, and would fain make it the general rule among all nations.

 
God forgive the wretches who thus talk. They speak loftily. Their high heads, like tall chimneys, vomit black smoke. Big talk streams from them, their language is colossal, their magniloquence ridiculous. They speak as from the judges' bench, and expect all the world to stand in awe of them."
Charles Spurgeon

Lesson of Dangerous Journey

O Lord,

I know that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps . Jeremiah 10:23

 
"The road through Knight's Canyon, always perilous to the inexperienced traveler, is often impassable in the rainy season.
[* ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM HEALDSBURG TO ST. HELENA, CALIFORNIA, MADE BY MRS. WHITE AND A FRIEND, IN DECEMBER, 1881. FRIENDS DROVE AHEAD TO GUIDE THEM THROUGH A DANGEROUS PASS.] We were very thankful for a pilot in this part of our journey. I dared not look either to the right or left to view the scenery, but, holding the lines firmly, and guiding my horse in the narrow passage, I followed our leader. Carelessness here would have been fatal. Had our horse turned out of the right path, we should have plunged down a steep precipice, into the ravine below. 
 
As we rode along in almost breathless silence, I could but think how forcibly this dangerous ride illustrates the Christian's experience.
We are making life's journey amid the perils of the last days. We need to watch carefully every step, and to be sure that we are following our great Leader.

Skepticism,

infidelity,

dissipation,

and crime are on every hand.

It would be an easy matter to let go the reins of self-control, and plunge over the precipice to sure destruction.... 
 
Infinite Love has cast up a pathway upon which the ransomed of the Lord may pass from earth to heaven. That path is the Son of God. Heaven's glorious ladder is let down in every man's path, barring his way to vice and folly. He must trample upon a crucified Redeemer ere he can pass onward to a life of sin. Our heavenly Father's voice is calling us, Come up hither. . . . But He who is infinite in wisdom compels none to accept Heaven's most precious gift--compels none to walk in the path which has been cast up at such a cost.
Every one is permitted to choose for himself the narrow, shining steep that leads to heaven, or that broader and easier way which ends in death."
Our High Calling p.11 E.G.W. 

IN the NEWS - Green Nazis & Pope Clasping Hands

"In a Washington Times piece, the headline reads “Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes.” The article goes on to state “Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma… ‘Climate change denial should be a crime,’ declared the Sept. 1 headline in the Outline. Mark Hertsgaard argued in a Sept. 7 article in the Nation, titled ‘Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us,’ that ‘murder is

murder’ and ‘we should punish it as such.’ Brad Johnson, executive director of Climate Hawks Vote, posted last week on Twitter a set of ‘climate disaster response rules,’ the third of which was to ‘put officials who reject science in jail.’

 

From another source, Inside Science, the question is asked in the headline, “Will Hurricane Harvey launch a new kind of climate lawsuit.”  In the article subheading it reads, “Scientists can now link ‘acts of God’ to climate change. That could give victims the power to hold someone accountable, say lawyers.”  Reading further, it is stated that “climate science” has already been used in the courts and examples of such were cited.

 

This is not the first time that such proposals were made to deal with climate change deniers.  However, these measures are directed at those who only disbelieve in climate change, which is a flagrant denial of liberty of conscience; but what about those who refuse to accept the solutions and measures put in place to combat climate

change; what will be their fate?

 

 First of all the primary solution given from the principal champion of climate change, Pope Francis, must be considered. The  Pope has not a few times attributed climate change to human activity, stating that it is a moral issue necessitating “moral solutions,” chief of which is enforced Sunday observance. His plan is laid out in black and white in his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si. Pope Francis could not remain silent after the back-to-back hurricanes in September wrought inestimable destruction, stating that “climate change deniers are ‘stupid;’”  and that  Harvey and Irma are reminders that “‘We will go down’ if measures aren’t taken to address climate change.” Note that it is the weather channel that brought forward this report sending a strong message to its viewers that they should heed the Pope’s message.

 

Those who therefore deny not only the science (falsely so called) of climate change, but also refuse to accept the solutions to combat it, namely, mandatory Sunday observance, will not only incur the penalties of fines and imprisonment, but even worse, torture and death. “As the movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided, the law will be invoked against commandment keepers. They will be threatened with fines and imprisonment, and some will be offered positions of influence, and other rewards and advantages, as inducements to renounce their faith.”  (The Great Controversy p.607 E.G.W.) Thankfully, God will have a people that remain faithful to His Commandments be the consequence what they may and refuse the erroneous commandments of men.  May God help us to be among that number!"

SavedToServe

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Galatians 1:6

Montreal Crusade Sermon SERIES by David Gates

 Montreal Crusade Sermon SERIES

(by David Gates)

Thou therefore endure hardness,

as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 2:3

Restoring The Years

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwLdWm1pFO4?list=PLSTbztRUl4kZr7W0TTDWE5SmzT_4NHoIx

Military Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRqcylUt24Y?list=PLSTbztRUl4kZr7W0TTDWE5SmzT_4NHoIx

How to Hold A Conversation With God?

& What Is Christian Music?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TefqcAZUMYA?list=PLSTbztRUl4kZr7W0TTDWE5SmzT_4NHoIx

Secrets of Spiritual Conquest

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRhlowXdKIg?list=PLSTbztRUl4kZr7W0TTDWE5SmzT_4NHoIx

Special Forces

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LJyhgBWvqAM?list=PLSTbztRUl4kZr7W0TTDWE5SmzT_4NHoIx

Creation Moment 9/25/2017 - Nye's Nonsense

I have seen the foolish taking root:
Job 5:3

"Nye's 2 minute video (1.5 million views by February, 2017), goes through the evolution story...

Nye states, "Molecules just happen.  ...Somehow, probably with energy from the sun, these molecules hooked together and accidentally found ways to reproduce themselves the same way crystals

reproduce themselves." 

     This is how Nye explains how non-living chemicals self assembled into a living cell.  Those who defend the evolution story often use things observed to be true (molecules do self assemble to make crystals) as the evidence for things that seem impossible based on science (how non-living chemicals could self assemble into life).  Randomly making and then accumulating in one place all the extremely complex non-living chemicals needed for life (amino acids, proteins, lipids, DNA and RNA, carbohydrates, etc.) in the required quantities of thousands upon thousands, is a large chain of impossibilities no matter how much time passes.  Even if you have these non-living chemicals all in one place, no one knows how to make them into a living cell. 

Nye continues, "These self-replicating molecules could not make perfect copies of themselves, and the imperfections that helped them make more copies stayed there, kept getting reproduced and reproduced and reproduced, and pretty soon you had a complicated things like bacteria."

    This is how Nye explains single celled creatures evolving into humans.  The Biblical "kind" of animal is not the same as the modern term "species."  There are many species in most kinds.  Each kind of animal can develop large variations due to natural selection.  No new kinds of animals ever develop, but some kinds, like the dinosaurs, have gone extinct.  Again, those who defend the evolution story often use things observed to be true (natural selection does produce new species, such as new cat species) as the evidence for things that seem impossible based on science (how new kinds of animals come to be, such as the dog kind).  New kinds of creatures have NEVER been observed.  Even the fossil record shows distinct kinds with at most a handful of very questionable transitional kinds. 

Nye continues, "The key to this is time, time, time." 

    Nye and other evolutionists assume that given enough time, ANYTHING can happen.  This is nonsense.  Impossible things NEVER happen, even with infinite time and infinite universes (some evolutionists propose an infinite number of universes, and we are in the lucky universe where intelligent life evolved)." 
 LSI president Mark Bergemann

SCAM ALERT - Steven Brooks

--SCAM ALERT--

"Christian" Mystic Sid Roth interviewed Steven Brooks, who claims he went to heaven and met Joseph of Cupertino who took him on a tour flying then he met one of the 24 elders who told him that he wasn't getting enough sleep......REALLY?

So now Sid Roth & his guests are mixing charismatic Protestantism with Catholic mystics?
Who is Joseph of Cupertino?
"Joseph of Cupertino, (June 17, 1603 – September 18, 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping.... It was claimed that he began to levitate while participating at the Mass or joining the community for the Divine Office, thereby gaining a widespread reputation of holiness among the people of the region and beyond.

The life of this saint was marked by ecstasies and levitations....at Mass he is said to have frequently floated in the air in rapture. Once as Christmas carols were being sung, he soared to the high altar and knelt in the air, in ecstatic prayer. The people flocked to him in droves seeking help and advice in the confessional, " Wikipedia/CatholicOnline

Also, Mr. Brooks promoted his DVD set which includes info on how to transform your mind to pray and comes with a Manifesting Your Healing Card to help with healing your eyes, ears, lungs, sleep disorders, mental illness, etc....ALL FOR ONLY $39!!!....

Besides the above NONSENSE that he is peddling, he also claims that those watching him on TV, if they begin smelling Frankincense while watching him, would be healed if they have HIV....

This is Unbelievable that people believe this stuff.....

In their greed they will make up
                                           clever lies to get hold of your money.

 But God condemned them long ago,

2 Peter 2:1,3

SDA Issues - Job 1 Lesson for us

Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead;
Job 1:18,19

* What does the eldest brother's House represent? - God's Church
* What does Wine represent in Prophecy? - False Doctrine
* What does a Storm represent? - Trouble

Look at what is happening in the Church today--from those who promote spiritual formation and the contemplative prayer nonsense movement as well as the rebellion of the self proclaimed "progressives" bringing in the wine from Babylon....


"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a


Heresy of modern Gnosticism in the book
by former Walla Walla President Jon Dybdahl
sold in our book stores

great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new organization would be established. Books of a new order would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced.
The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also 

New-ageish nonsense of Bryan

the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but God being removed, they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure."
Selected Messages Book 1, p.204,205 E.G.W.

Operation Iceberg Symposium: Emerging Church Danger

Operation Iceberg Symposium: Emerging Church Danger

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:

and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:17
The Emerging Church Controversy within Adventism  
Steve Wohlberg
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LkrzXRZDhrU
 A Church in Change?  
Janet Neumann
https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7ehD-FC7yE
The Power of the Everlasting Gospel
Dr. Allen Davis
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LHs9Jxh5YXM
 Adventism's Emergence
Alexa Hernandez
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p6zgezrs99Y
When All Else Fails
David Fielder
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2SYFwRTWQKU
The New Pagan Revival
Advindicate President, Gerry Wagoner
https://www.youtube.com/embed/swdAAg--ZxE
Discussion Panel
Moderated by Pastor Mike Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eKB9XveoMRA

SDA History: Kellogg's Heresy

Alpha of the Apostasy: Kellogg's Pantheism
Omega of the Apostasy: Today's Spiritual Formation entering our ranks?

"Pantheism is any religious belief or philosophical doctrine that identifies God with the universe. Simply put: in true pantheism, God is nature.

 

The Living Temple (Kellogg)
Pages 28-29

God is the explanation of nature,—not a God outside of nature, but in nature, manifesting himself through and in all the objects, movements, and varied phenomena of the universe.
      Said an objector, "God made the tree, it is true, just as a shoemaker makes a boot; but the shoemaker is not in the boot; so God made the tree, but he is not in the tree." The objector overlooked the fact that the process of tree-making in the living tree, is never complete so long as the tree is alive. The tree does not create itself; a creative power is constantly going forward in it....a divine architect who understands every law of proportion, an infinite artist who possesses a limitless power of expression in color and form; there is, in all the world about us, an infinite, divine, though invisible Presence, to which the unenlightened may be blind, but which is ever declaring itself by its ceaseless, beneficent activity.

 

"Be not deceived; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. We have now before us the alpha of this danger. The omega will be of a most startling nature." Selected Messages Book 1, p. 197 E.G.W.

"Living Temple contains the alpha of these theories. I knew that the omega would follow in a little while; and I trembled for our people." Selected Messages Book 1, p. 203 E.G.W.."

SDMillerite

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,...

Colossians 2:8

SDA History: Lewis Root of Kellogg Heresy

Lewis

"John Harvey Kellogg--Physician, Author, Director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the first of many more Adventist health institutions, hospitals, and medical centers around the world, Kellogg was a major force within the Advent Movement. In 1879 he married 26 year old Ella Ervilla Eaton, a Seventh-day Baptist who was attending her church’s Alfred University in New York and from which she graduated in 1885.

It was that year she invited her Pastor, teacher, and editor of The Sabbath Recorder, Abram Herbert Lewis to her home. 
 Lewis admitted that in his younger years he had been “under [a spiritualist physician’s] influence” and “became a medium after the rude manner of those times.” Because of this, he confessed, “my faith in the Bible and in orthodox Christianity was much shaken.” Thus “his standpoint on some questions was somewhat changed.”

     Kellogg’s exposure to Lewis through his wife was also changing. Ellen White, far away in Australia, wrote to John Harvey, “Dr. Kellogg, it is not safe for us to employ as instructors in our institutions those who are not believers in the present truth. They advance ideas and theories that take hold of the mind with a bewitching power...” Letter 18, 1892. She already had concerns shortly after his marriage.
     “Before my husband's death (in 1881), Dr. Kellogg came to my room to tell me that he had great light.” “He sat down and told me what it was. I said, ‘Those theories are wrong. I have met them before.’”  T12
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter 5:8

SDA History: Kellogg Controversy- Key Players Interact

"Kellogg first introduced pantheism publicly in 1897 in a series of talks at the ministerial institute that preceded the General Conference session held in the College

Kellogg

View church at Lincoln, Nebraska. He drew heavily upon Ellen White in laying out his position that God works through nature and in nature. His next presentation carried the title “God in Man.” Under this title he gave several talks in which he set forth clearly the pantheistic philosophy he held:

"Gravitation acts instantaneously throughout all space. By this mysterious force of gravitation the whole universe is held together in a bond of unity.... We have here the evidence of a universal presence, an intelligent presence, an all-wise presence, an all-powerful presence, a presence by the aid of which every atom of the universe is kept in touch with every other atom. This force that holds all things together, that is everywhere present, that thrills throughout the whole universe, that acts instantaneously through boundless space, can be nothing else than God Himself. What a wonderful thought that this same God is in us and in everything."

 



Pantheistic views became popular and were taught in Battle Creek College. They were taught in the sanitarium, and were defended by some physicians and some ministers.

 

Ministers and physicians who had a high regard for Dr. Kellogg began to imbibe his philosophy and to develop it in their own work, not sensing the point to which it would lead. One such was E. J. Waggoner, who was also a physician. He was at one time editor of the Signs of the Times and the man who, with A. T. Jones, was used mightily of God at the General Conference session

in 1888 to focus attention on the message of righteousness by faith.

 

At the General Conference session of 1899, held at South Lancaster, Massachusetts, Waggoner was a delegate from England, where he was engaged in editorial work. In a discussion of health and temperance, he was asked to make a presentation of some things he had been giving to the Battle Creek Sanitarium family. He opened with the rather bold statement:

 

"I thank God, brethren, that the Lord has taught me something in the last few months, and enabled me to teach something of how to live forever."

 



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W. A. Spicer, who was serving with Elder Daniells in the General Conference as the newly appointed secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, had spent years of service in India. He was astonished at this teaching that was being proclaimed around Battle Creek. He recognized it as pantheism, which is the basis of Hinduism. He asked himself, “Could it be that the philosophies of heathenism are being taught by leading men in the Seventh-day Adventist Church?”

 

During the General Conference session held in Oakland in 1903, Ellen White spent most of the time in an agony of soul as she watched the crisis developing over the threat of pantheism, and Dr. Kellogg determinedly pushing ahead to override all contrary views. 

 She wrote frequent letters to Dr. Kellogg urging him to rethink his position.”You are not definitely clear on the personality of God, which is everything to us as a people”.

 

Again on April 5, while at the session, she wrote to the doctor:

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"The specious, scheming representations of God in nature carry their charming, soothing influence as a peace and safety pill to give to the people, in the spiritualistic views that Satan has instituted in your theories."

 

As Elder Daniells took up residence in Battle Creek as the leader of the church following the General Conference of 1901, he found the teachings of pantheism rampant. For years he had been more or less isolated in Australia. He was amazed to hear the talk of God in flowers, in trees, in humankind. The expression was constantly heard: The acorn falls to the ground and a tree springs up. It was argued that one must say there is a tree maker in the tree. It was declared that the Creator, whatever He might be like, was in the things that were made, and some boldly said that there is no great Being sitting on the throne in heaven, but God is in all nature.

Daniells could not accept this, because, as he declared: “I knew that the Bible says that there is a 

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great Supreme Being who had created all things. So I never felt in harmony with this idea”.

 

A committee of four had been appointed to give study to Kellogg's manuscript, The Living Temple, and make a report at the Autumn Council. The majority report stated:

 

“That, we find in the book Living Temple nothing which appears to us to be contrary to the Bible or fundamental principles of the Christian religion, and that we see no reason why it may not be recommended by the Committee for circulation in the manner suggested.”

[Signed] A. T. Jones, J. H. Kellogg, David Paulson

 

The minority report, written by W. W. Prescott, read:

 

“I am compelled to say that I regard the matter, outside those portions of the book which deal with physiology and hygiene, as leading to harm rather than good; and I venture to express the hope that it will never be published”

 

The General Conference Committee accepted the minority report. In the discussion that followed, according to the minutes, the author requested the privilege of withdrawing the book from 

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consideration. But, according to Elder Daniells, it was not long before Kellogg jumped to his feet and demanded an open hearing so that everybody from the sanitarium and Review and Herald could hear both sides of the matter. He argued that it should not be confined to a small meeting of the General Conference brethren. So it was decided to hold such a meeting in the Review and Herald chapel. Daniells expected that only a relatively few people from the Review and Herald would be able to get off work to attend, although the chapel would hold a big crowd. However, when they met at 8:30 in the morning, the room was packed to the anteroom and down the stairs. The meetings lasted until noon.

 

Elder Daniells reviewed the history of the church's medical work, the steps being taken to bring the finances into line, and the pantheistic teachings in the galleys of The Living Temple. In the afternoon Dr. Kellogg presented his side of the story. Elder Daniells felt that he faced a real crisis in this situation and spent much of the night in study and prayer. The next morning as the Autumn Council attempted to proceed with business, Dr. Kellogg was present with a big pile of books. He asked for a point of privilege that he might present the fact that “from the first, Elder James White, George I. Butler, and all ... leaders have been absolutely opposed to this medical department of the denomination”.

 

The brethren listened for a while. Finally one of the men stood and asked:

 

“Mr. Chairman. I rise to a point of order. I cannot sit here in this committee and listen to these harsh terms that Dr. Kellogg is using against our venerable founder and leader [James White]. I wish the chairman to call him down”.

 

The chairman accepted the proposition and declared, “I will say to Dr. Kellogg, ‘We do not wish any more of this. You will please terminate your subject’”.

 

Dr. Kellogg placed a personal order with the Review to print The Living Temple. About a month later 

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the Review and Herald burned, and the plates for the book, which stood ready for the press, were destroyed by the fire.

 

Instead he sent the manuscript to a commercial printer in Battle Creek. Three thousand copies of the book were printed and began to make their way among Seventh-day Adventists.

 

When the book came from the press, discerning readers clearly saw that certain chapters were literally peppered with pantheistic teachings. Those in sympathy with the new philosophy held that this understanding of God would lead to holy living and to a deeper religious experience. As Seventh-day Adventist workers met, the conversation inevitably turned to the “new light” set forth in The Living Temple.

 

Eventually, in the summer of 1903, a copy of The Living Temple arrived at Elmshaven. Ellen White did not look at it. This was not unusual, for often in a crisis she refrained from reading materials that had a bearing on the situation, lest it be said she was influenced by what she had read. On the basis of the light she received from the Lord, however, from time to time she mentioned the book.

 



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Finally, as the crisis developed, Willie suggested to her that perhaps she should read some of the passages. So on September 23 he sat down by her side and went over some of the statements dealing with theological matters. This put her in a better position to speak more specifically in regard to the book.

 

Dr. Paulson, who was strongly supportive of Dr. Kellogg, joined Daniells. As the two walked along they continued with a discussion of the day. Reaching the home where Daniells was staying, they stood under a lamppost and chatted for a time. Finally Dr. Paulson shook his finger at Daniells and declared:

“You are making the mistake of your life. After all this turmoil, some of these days you will wake up to find yourself rolled in the dust, and another will be leading the forces”.

Elder Daniells replied firmly:

“I do not believe your prophecy. At any rate, I would rather be rolled in the dust doing what I believe in my soul to be right than to walk with princes, doing what my conscience tells me is wrong”.

 

Elder Daniells, ....Ellen White wrote to him explaining why she had sent the messages just when she did:

 

"Shortly before I sent the testimonies that you said arrived just in time, I had read an incident about a ship in a fog meeting an iceberg. For several nights I slept but little. I seemed to be bowed down as a cart beneath sheaves. One night a scene was clearly presented before me. A vessel was upon the waters, in a heavy fog. Suddenly the lookout cried, “Iceberg just ahead!” There, towering high above the ship, was a gigantic iceberg. An authoritative voice cried out, “Meet it!” There

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was not a moment's hesitation. It was a time for instant action. The engineer put on full steam, and the man at the wheel steered the ship straight into the iceberg. With a crash she struck the ice. There was a fearful shock, and the iceberg broke into many pieces, falling with a noise like thunder upon the deck. The passengers were violently shaken by the force of the collision, but no lives were lost. The vessel was injured, but not beyond repair. She rebounded from the contact, trembling from stem to stern, like a living creature. Then she moved forward on her way.

Well I knew the meaning of this representation. I had my orders. I had heard the words, like a living voice from our Captain, “Meet it!” I knew what my duty was, and that there was not a moment to lose."

 

 

Writing on October 2 to Dr. E. J. Waggoner, she said:

 

"I am authorized to say to you that some of the sentiments regarding the personality of God, as found in the book Living Temple, are opposed to the truths revealed in the Word of God.... Had God desired to be represented as dwelling personally in the things of nature—in the flower, the tree, the spear of grass—would not Christ have spoken of this to His disciples?"

From Ellen White: Woman of Vision 

...there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,...

2 Peter 2:1