Creation: Seventh Day Adventist state: “God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day. Thus, He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of the work He performed and completed during six literal days that together with the Sabbath constituted the same unit…

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The Begotten Son, Part 4 In our previous post we examine our first two questions concerning when our Lord first became the begotten Son of God and how and in what manner he was the express image of the Father’s person while as a human on earth, and now as the highly exalted Lord. Returning to his image whilst as the Son of God in the flesh we should like to know, 3) How it was then that our Lord…

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The Begotten Son, Part 3 In our previous post we were responding our friends third quote specifically with regards to our Lord’s creation, which of course our Seventh Day Adventist friends along with most of orthodoxy deny. I believe in our previous post we established the fact that begetting offspring is the same as creating offspring. We as humans do this every time we procreate or beget children. We should now like to consider three questions as they relate to…

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The Begotten Son, Part 2 We continue with our reply to some comments made by one of our forum members (Blacklit) under our blog post entitled, “The Beginning, Part 1”. Our friends second comment was:  “Not all Adventists are trinitarians in the traditional sense. The following sums up the non trinitarian beliefs of early Adventism, and of some of today’s Adventists… “God alone is without beginning. At the earliest epoch when a beginning could be, -a period so remote that…

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The Begotten Son, Part 1 This post is in response to some comments made by one of our forum members (Blacklit) under our blog post entitled, “The Beginning, Part 1”. Our friends first comment/quote was:  “The fact that Christ is begotten of God does not mean that He is not God. That would be a denial of what we have been told, by God, through His written word. Whilst Christ cannot be the same person as God the Father of…

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The Beginning, Part 4 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: If you want a proof text that Jesus the Word with God specifically is without beginning: In Hebrews 3 Scripture is teaching that the Melchisdec that came to Abraham to bless him was like the Son of God in that he was…

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The Beginning, Part 3 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: The only time there is in Scripture that begins, is the time of the beginning of Creation. Before that time was God in Gen 1, which the Scripture expands on in John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word…

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The Beginning, Part 2 We continue now with the comments made by one of our forum members (Robert Dirrick) on our reply on the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs concerning the Son of God. (See Part 1) Roberts continues: ‘Since plainly the Word was God, then to say the Word began in the beginning is to say that God began in the beginning’. In reply, it’s true, “The Word was god [theos]” Strong’s # 2316: a god; a mighty one, but…

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The Beginning, Part 1 The following comments were posted under Part 4 of our study, Bible Students and Seventh Day Adventist, by Robert Derrick in regards to the following statements: We were reviewing the beliefs of our Seventh Day Adventist friends in regards to The Son of God. The Seventh Day Adventist state: “John, the disciple, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with…

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We continue with our comparisons of the Seventh Day Adventist beliefs and the Bible Students. We were discussing their belief in The Trinity, first with respects to The Father and presently with regards to The Son. We continue. They continue: “John, the disciple, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1, 2, NKJV). Adventists believe Jesus was co-existent with God from…

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