Examining the Adventist Jesus: Exalted to be Made EQUAL with God?! | Part 1

Does the Adventist Church affirm an orthodox Christology? Who is the Jesus of Adventism? In this multi-part series we examine the Jesus of Seventh-Day Adventism up and against the Jesus of the Bible and history.

In part 1 we start at the beginning by looking at what started the SDA concept of "The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan"—their pre-Earth origin story and lens through which the Bible is interpreted. Was Jesus exalted by God the Father and given special honor, authority, and power that He did not previously possess? Is that the Jesus that the Christian church has believed in from the time of the Apostles? Let's see...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:15 | Introduction
00:51 | Jesus's Warning
01:18 | Paul's Warning
02:17 | Establishing that Jesus Christ is God Almighty (Yahweh)
04:16 | The Adventist Jesus was Made Equal to God?
09:19 | The Adventist Catch 22
09:52 | Recap & Sign Off
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SOURCES:
Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pg. 37-8: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p84.89&index=0

Ellen G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. I, pg. 17-8: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p141.56&index=0

Ellen G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. II, pg. 9: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p143.20&index=0

Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. VIII, pg. 268: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p112.1555&index=0
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ:
Man has broken God’s Law (Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8) and our sin has separated us from our Maker (Isaiah 59:2). In His grace, God entered into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14; Col. 1:19), born of a virgin (Matt. 1:23), and lived a perfect and sinless life, fulfilling all the Law’s demands (2 Cor. 5:21; Matt. 5:17), on a mission by God the Father to save sinners from condemnation (John 3:16-18, 6:37-40). He paid the penalty for sin which is death (Romans 6:23) and bore the sins of His people in His body on a cross (1 Peter 2:24), making propitiation by His blood (Romans 3:25). He died, was buried, and resurrected in the same body He died in on the third day for our justification (1 Cor. 15, Romans 4:25; Luke 24:39). By a living faith (James 2:18) in the Person and Work of Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), God graciously declares a person righteous (Romans 4:5), they are reconciled to their Creator (Romans 5:10-11), sealed with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13), and have peace with God (Romans 5:1). They are born again of the Spirit (1 John 5:1, Titus 3:5), adopted into His family (Eph. 4:5–7), and are granted eternal resurrection life in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:11), set free to do good works that please Him (Eph. 2:10; 1 John 2:3-4). Jesus will physically return one day to judge the living and the dead (1 Peter 4:5; Acts 24:15; John 5:24-5) but His people will be spared from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10) to dwell in union with God forever (Rev. 21:3).

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