Almost any portion of the New Testament we may open which has occasion to speak of the Father and Son, represents them as two distinct persons. It is not very consonant with common sense to talk of three being one, and one being three. Or as some express it, calling God “the Triune God,” or “the three-one-God.” If Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are each God, it would be three Gods for three times one is not one, but three. There is a sense in which they are one, but not one person, as claimed by Trinitarians.Ģ. These positions we will remark upon briefly in their order.
There are many objections which we might urge, but on account of our limited space we shall reduce them to the three following: 1. What serious objection is there to the doctrine of the Trinity?ĪNSWER. WHITE: The following questions I would like to have you give, or send, to Bro. In their original perfection all created things were an expression of the thought of God(COL, 18).Questions for Bro. In His teaching from nature, Christ was speaking of the things which His own hands had made, and which had qualities and powers that He Himself had imparted. Somewhere Ellen White noted that there is no end to the usefulness of persons who dedicate their life to God. In later years he would pioneer the Seventh-day Adventist Church in California and England, serve as a pastor and administer in several parts of the United States, and publish the first history of the Seventh-day Adventists in 1892(The Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists, revised in 1905 as The Great Second Advent Movement). Loughborough accepted the Sabbath in September 1852 and immediately began preaching for the Sabbatarian Adventists. Not only did Andrews treat the same texts, but, claims Loughborough, he did so in the same order. Andrews took up the very texts on th law and the Sabbath that Loughborough had listd and explained each of them. Not only were the gatherings absent of fanaticism and noisy demonstrations, but a minister by the name of J.N. The young preacher would never be the same. With that challenge ringing in his ears, Loughborough "got his texts together" and with several of his first-day Adventist friends attended the Sabbatarians' meetings. So get your texts ready, and you can show them in two minutes that the Sabbath has been abolished." They will give you a chance to speak in their meeting. Some of your flock have joined the Sabbath Adventists, and you ought to get them out of this heresy. But, Orton responded, "you have a duty there. Loughborough at first declined the invitation.
He wasn't overly anxious to encounter such individuals, but a man named Orton of Rochester, New York, approached him, noting that "the seventh-day folks are holding meetings at 124 Mount Hope Avenue" and that they should attend. It was sell known in former Millerite circles that many of the shut-door types had fanatical tendencies, and people had told Loughborough that the group he was about to meet not only kept Saturday for Sunday, but when "they get together" they "scream and yell, and have a great noisy fanatical demonstration." Loughborough had been preaching as a Sundaykeeping Adventist for about three and one half years when he first met a preacher of the seventh-day variety. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
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