(3 of 3)
GC445: WHEN the leading churches of the United States, uniting in such points of doctrine as are held by them
in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, THEN Protestant America will
have formed an image to the Roman hierarchy, and the inflictions of civil penalties upon dissenters inevitably result.
ERROR 152: SDA theology is neither Democrat, nor Republican, liberal nor conservative B it is blatantly anti-American! Two and one half chapters of this book
are devoted almost exclusively to calling both the U. S. government and its sincere Christians TRAITORS to God’s truth. Like it or not, that is exactly what
SDAs teach about non-SDAs in the U.S.A.
GC448-449: The enforcement of Sunday keeping on the part of the Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship
of the papacyBthe beast. ... hence the enforcement
of Sunday keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image.
ERROR 153: SDAs teach that, in the last days, the Roman Catholic Church will unite with apostate Protestantism
(everybody except themselves) and very strictly enforce Sunday blue laws because these blame the plagues of Revelation on
SDAs for nor worshiping on Sunday. However, compared to the 1800s, Sunday blue laws have become almost non-existent in the
United States.
GC449: But WHEN Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the
obligation of the true Sabbath, THEN whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority
than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage
to Rome ....
ERROR 154: For SDAs the gospel is not in focus in the last days.
GC456: The majority of [Millerite] Adventists rejected the truths concerning the sanctuary and the law of God,
and many also renounced their faith in the advent movement and adopted unsound and conflicting views of the prophecies which
applied to that work.
ERROR 155: The opposite is true. They realized they were wrong and returned to their former churches. The few stubborn
ones became SDAs.
Chapter
27, Modern Revivals, 461-478 [Satan=s deceptions]
ERROR 156: EGW attributes successful evangelism by other churches to Satan=s deceptions.
Chapter
28, Facing Life=s Record (The Investigative Judgment), 479-491
ERROR 157: There is a serious change in theology in this chapter which is not pointed out by SDAs. In chapter 23, pages 409-422 only confessed and forgiven sins of God’s children have
defiled the sanctuary through sacrificial atonement. However, now, in chapter 28, pages 479-491, every sin committed
by believers has defiled the sanctuary and must be removed. The unconfessed sins condemn the believer and cause his/her name
to be blotted out of the book of life.
GC480: Attended by heavenly angels, our great High Priest enters the holy of holies and there appears in the presence of God to engage in the last acts of His ministration in behalf of man--to
perform the work of investigative judgment and to
make an atonement for all who
are shown to be entitled to its benefits.
ERROR 158: Christ actually entered the Presence of God in the Most Holy Place at his ascension B
not 1844.
ERROR 159: The atonement sacrifice was completed on the cross. The SDA concept of incomplete atonement is unique
to themselves.
GC480: ... So in the great day of final atonement and investigative judgment the only cases considered are those
of the professed people of God. The judgment of the wicked is a distinct and separate work and takes place at a later
period. ‘[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.
ERROR 160: Notice that EGW omitted “For the time is come that” from First Peter 4:17. This changes the meaning and disagrees with her interpretation.
ERROR 161: EGW ignores the Bema (the Judgment Seat of Christ which determines
degrees of rewards for the righteous) and confuses it with the judgment of the wicked.
GC480: The books of record in heaven, in which the names and the deeds of men are registered, are to determine
the decisions of the judgment.
ERROR 162: EGW teaches that, until 1844 God had not determined the final fate of any person who has ever lived.
Full atonement had not been applied to any person who accepted Christ. The books must be examined first, beginning in 1844.
GC480a: Says the prophet Daniel: ‘The judgment was set and the books were opened=’ [Dan. 7:10]. The Revelator, describing the same scene, adds: ‘Another book was opened, which is the book of
life; and the dead were judged out of those things, which were written in the books, according to their works.’ Revelation
20:12.
ERROR 163: The little horn is judged and punished in Daniel 7 B
not God’s saints.
ERROR 164: Revelation 20:12 cannot possibly refer to the “same scene” if the Investigative Judgment
has supposedly ended 1000 years earlier when Christ came in Revelation 19.
GC482: Every man's work passes in review before God and is registered for faithfulness or unfaithfulness.
ERROR 165: Even if this is true, for the saints it is at the Bema, the
Judgment Seat of Christ, and is only for the purpose of determining degrees of rewards.
GC482: Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered with terrible exactness every wrong word, every selfish
act, every unfulfilled duty, and every secret sin, with every artful dissembling. Heaven-sent warnings or reproofs neglected,
wasted moments, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted for good or for evil, with its far-reaching results, all are
chronicled by the recording angel.
ERROR 166: EGW’s context makes one ask “According to you, who then can be saved?”
GC482: The law of God is the standard by which the characters and the lives of men will be tested in the judgment.
Says the wise man: “Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every
work into judgment.” Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14.
ERROR 167: This is Old Testament imagery. In the New Covenant man is tested by what he/she has done with Jesus
Christ (Jn 1:12; 3:16; 4:14; 5:24; 16:9; Rom 1:16; 10:9, 10).
GC482: The apostle James admonishes his brethren: “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by
the law of liberty.” James 2:12.
ERROR 168: The “law of liberty” is not the same thing as either the Ten Commandments or the Pentateuch.
It is the “law of love” which produces spontaneous obedience from those who are new creations in Christ. The OT
law was never described as a law of “liberty.” It was called a fence, a hedge and a ministration of death.
GC482: Those who in the judgment are “accounted worthy” will have a part in the resurrection of the
just.
ERROR 169: EGW teaches that nobody, from Adam until 1844, had been accounted worthy
of resurrection. This includes Enoch and Elijah.
GC482: And again [Jesus] declares that “they that have done good” shall come forth “unto the
resurrection of life.” John 5:29. The righteous dead will not be raised until after the judgment at which they are accounted
worthy of “the resurrection of life.” Hence they will not be present in person at the tribunal when their records
are examined and their cases decided.
ERROR 170: EGW ignores John 5:24, 25 “Verily, verily, In say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, [already] has everlasting life, and shall
not come into judgment [Greek: krisis - an active judging process]; but is passed [Greek perfect tense] from death unto life. Verily, verily, In say unto you, The hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear
shall live.” The present gospel response determines who will be resurrected.
GC483: As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come
in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive
generation, and closes with the living.
ERROR 171: The righteous have already been judged and granted “eternal life” when they responded to
the gospel and their names are already in the book of life (Luke 10:20). The souls of the righteous are already in heaven (Gen 5:24; 2 Kg 2:11; Mt 27:53; 2
Cor 5:8; Heb 12:1; Rev 5:8-10). However, there is no assurance of salvation within Adventism today.
GC483: Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected. When any
have sins remaining upon the books of record, un-repented
of and un-forgiven, their names
will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God’s remembrance.
ERROR 172: This indicates the immediate loss of salvation every time a person commits a sin.
ERROR 173: This makes assurance of salvation impossible.
ERROR 174: This seems to say that God will even “un-forgive” previously forgiven sins. Yet the Day
of Atonement actually covered general sins which had not been specifically atoned through the daily ministry of sins of ignorance.
GC483: The Lord declared to Moses: “Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will In blot out of My book.”
Exodus 32:33.
ERROR 175: EGW ignored the context. God killed thousands because the “book” referred to here is the
“book of the living.” Moses himself was eventually “blotted out” for his sin and was not allowed to
enter Canaan. A generation of millions died (were blotted out) and
not allowed to enter Canaan. Yet Moses did not lose his salvation. There is no direct
connection to the N. T. “book of life” of those who believe in Christ.
GC483: And says the prophet Ezekiel: “When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity
. . . all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned.” Ezekiel 18:24.
ERROR 176: Again EGW ignores the context. The text is not discussing “un-forgiving” sins. A person’s
previous righteousness will not deliver him from the discipline of current sin.
GC483: All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice,
have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of
Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they
themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life.
ERROR 177: This favorite SDA quote ignores the context on the same page: “When any have sins remaining upon
the books of record, un-repented of and un-forgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of
their good deeds will be erased from the book of God’s remembrance.” Therefore, EGW must mean truly repented “of
every single sin” as indicated in her many perfectionist statements. Notice that previously forgiven sins will not be
blotted out until after 1844. No assurance of salvation is possible while alive.
GC483: The Lord declares, by the prophet Isaiah: “I, even I, am He that blots out thy transgressions for
Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Isaiah 43:25.
ERROR 178: Isaiah was speaking of the present time B
not since 1844.
GC483: Said Jesus: “He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out
his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.” Rev. 3:5.
ERROR 179: In Revelation 4 and 5:8-10 the saints are already in heaven and clothed in white long before 1844 (per
the SDA interpretation of Revelation). Revelation 3:5 does not discuss the Investigative Judgment.
GC483-484: The divine Intercessor presents the plea that all who have overcome through faith in His blood be forgiven
their transgressions, that they be restored to their Eden
home, and crowned as joint heirs with Himself to “the first dominion.” Micah 4:8.
ERROR 180: This “plan” was presented, not after 1844, but before
the “foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8; Eph 1:4, 5; Rom 8:28-30). God is omniscient. Whether Calvinists or Arminians are correct, God still knows who will be saved
because he is not limited in time and knows the future. EGW’s statement is an insult to God’s omniscience.
GC484 While Jesus is pleading for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God as transgressors. …
Now he points to the record of their lives…
ERROR 181: Who is Jesus pleading with? The Bible says that the Father gave the function of judgment to the Son
(Jn 3:16-18; 1 Cor 15:26-28). EGW also places Satan in the Most Holy Place accusing the believers who are not present.
GC485:
The work of the investigative judgment and the blotting out of SINS is to be accomplished before the second advent of the
Lord. Since the dead are to be judged out of the things written in the books, it is impossible that the SINS of men should
be blotted out until after the judgment at which their cases are to be investigated. [quotes Acts 3:19,20] (Compare GC417-426
with 479-493.)
ERROR 182: The false doctrine of the Investigative Judgment has led to the false doctrine of the Sabbath and to
the false doctrine of the nature of man.
GC485: As the priest, in removing the SINS from the sanctuary, confessed THEM upon the head of the scapegoat,
so Christ will place ALL THESE SINS upon Satan, the originator and instigator of sin. The scapegoat, bearing the SINS of Israel, was sent away “unto a land not inhabited” (Leviticus 16:22).
ERROR 183: Once again EGW says that Satan will ultimately bear all sins away. Satan, not Jesus, is the SDA sin-bearer.
GC486: Sins that have not been repented
of and forsaken will not be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the day of God.
GC486-487: Our acts, our words, even our most secret motives, all have their weight in deciding our destiny for
weal or woe. Though they may be forgotten by us, they will bear their testimony to justify or condemn.
ERROR 184: This is false perfectionism to its ultimate fantasy. Who, then, can be saved?
GC488: he subject of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment should be clearly understood by the people of
God. All need a knowledge for themselves of the position and work of their great High Priest. Otherwise it will be impossible for them to exercise the faith which is essential at this time or to occupy the position which God designs them to
fill.
ERROR 185: Since few SDAs can even begin to explain the Investigative Judgment doctrine, then few of them can be
saved.
Chapter
29, The Origin of Evil (Soul Sleep), 492-504
Chapter
31, Agency of Evil Spirits (Soul Sleep), 511-517
Chapter
32, Snares of Satan (Soul Sleep), 518-530
Chapter
33, The First Great Deception (Soul Sleep), 531-550
Chapter
34, Can Our Dead Speak to Us (Soul Sleep), 551-562
ERROR
186: Everybody except SDAs are deceived by Satan.
Many books have been written disputing the SDA understand of the non-immortality of the
soul. Rather than repeat the same arguments (which are good, but often challenged by SDAs) discussions of the Old Testament
word, Sheol, and the New Testament word, Hades, are in the appendix of my book, Exposing Seventh-day Adventism.
Chapter
35, Liberty of Conscience Threatened (U.S.A. and Roman Catholicism Unite), 563-582
GC573: In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church
the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists.
ERROR 187: Sunday blue laws, prevalent in the mid-1800s, are almost non-existent today.
GC573: Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which
she has lost in the Old World.
ERROR 188: EGW taught that Protestant America will be instrumental in returning the full power of the Roman Catholic
Church through its Sunday blue laws.
Chapter
36, The Impending Conflict (Sabbath) , 582-592
Chapter
37, The Scriptures a Safeguard (Sabbath), 593-602
Chapter
38, The Final Warning, (Sabbath), 603-612
ERROR 189: Instead of the gospel, Sabbath issues obsess SDAs in the last days.
GC603-604: This scripture points forward to a time when the announcement of the fall of Babylon, as made by the
second angel of Revelation 14 (verse 8), is to be repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have
been entering the various organizations that constitute Babylon, since that message was first given, in the summer of 1844.
ERROR 190: This is a very serious SDA and EGW error! This is not a repeat of the summer of 1844 message B it is totally different. Miller’s “second angel’s message” in
the summer of 1844” denounced those who rejected his doctrine that Jesus was literally coming back to destroy the world
in the fall of 1844. Miller’s “Babylon is fallen” thus included future SDAs who changed it into the
false Investigative Judgment message.
GC603-604: As the teachings of spiritualism are accepted by the churches, the restraint imposed upon the carnal
heart is removed, and the profession of religion will become a cloak to conceal the basest iniquity.
ERROR 191: EGW’s completely different “Second Angel’s Message” blames the fall of all other
churches on Satanic spiritualism because of their doctrine of the soul and on Sabbath breaking. Yet Miller taught neither
of these.
GC604: The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that “all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond” (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance
of the false sabbath.
ERROR 192: The theology of Miller preached from 1818 until 1844 is completely gone and replaced by the completely
new “repeated” Investigative Judgment message. The Sabbath will
be the deciding issue just before Jesus returns B not the gospel.
GC604: All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they
are deserving of death.
ERROR 193: EGW says the entire world will turn against SDAs because they worship on Saturday.
GC604: On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the Creator’s rest day demands obedience and threatens
wrath against all who transgress its precepts.
ERROR 194: EGW says God’s wrath will fall on Sunday-keepers.
GC605: But not one is made to suffer the wrath of God until the truth has been brought home to his mind and conscience,
and has been rejected.
ERROR 195: The SDA mission is to tell everybody about the Sabbath B
not the gospel.
