The Seventh Day Adventist Cult Part 3: Destroying The Deity of Jesus

Colossians 2:18  Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

Ellen G. White was a false prophet and a deceiver. To this day her followers refuse to open their eyes to the truth. The occult has a powerful stranglehold upon the Seventh Day Adventist congregation.

White attempted to destroy the deity of Jesus Christ by stating that Jesus was Michael the archangel:

Christ was not only the leader of the Hebrews in the wilderness--the Angel in whom was the name of Jehovah, and who, veiled in the cloudy pillar, went before the host--but it was He who gave the law to Israel. [*See Appendix, Note 7.] source: Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets (p. 366)

And Note 7:

Again: Christ is called the Word of God. John 1:1-3. He is so called because God gave His revelations to man in all ages through Christ. It was His Spirit that inspired the prophets. 1 Peter 1:10, 11. He was revealed to them as the Angel of Jehovah, the Captain of the Lord's host, Michael the Archangel. (Note 7 p.761)

Ellen G. White lied about Jesus by equating him with the angel Michael who was a created being and still today Seventh Day Adventists openly admit it and defend this heresy:

21. Ellen White taught the heresy that Christ is the archangel Michael.

 Answer: The archangel Michael's identity has been debated through the centuries. Both Ellen White and many non-Adventist Bible scholars equate Michael with Christ. This view does not require any lessening of Christ's full deity. source

So that is the SDA's defense? Many scholars equate Michael with Christ?  We are supposed to just roll over and fold because of this thin sophism of appealing to expertise? This is the classic use of a logical fallacy called "appeal to authority":

Argument from authority (Latin: argumentum ab auctoritate), also authoritative argument and appeal to authority, is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy when misused. In informal reasoning, the appeal to authority is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism. The appeal to authority relies on an argument of the form:

A is an authority on a particular topic

A says something about that topic

A is probably correct 

Many scholars also agree that homosexuality is normal human behavior.

And the SDA also includes the word "many" in a vain attempt to strengthen a dying argument. Do you think God cares about how many experts agree?

Matthew 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Furthermore, there are five verses in the Bible that mention Michael:

Daniel 10:13  But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Daniel 10:21  But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

Daniel 12:1  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Jude 1:9  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

Revelation 12:7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels...

Many alleged scholars and the SDA believe these five verses should be taken to equate Jesus with Michael, who was a created being. The first thing that you ought to notice is the problem that this doctrine creates with Jude 1:9. This verse infers that Michael did not dare to accuse the devil for fear that his accusation might be slanderous, but instead left rebuke to the Lord who is omniscient. So Michael is supposed to be Jesus, but yet not the Lord? The SDA's statement that "This view does not require any lessening of Christ's full deity" is an obvious falsehood. If Jesus is not the Lord, then the teaching that Jesus is Michael most certainly lessens the "full deity" of Jesus.

Let us look now at Hebrews chapter 1:

Hebrews 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 ¶ Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? 6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. 7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. 8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

The first thing that many scholars will stumble over is the two times in this passage where it states that Jesus was "made." Jesus was "made" flesh, but he had always existed. He had to be made flesh in order to dwell among us as one of us to be tempted in ever manner as we are. 

Jesus was superior than the angels in that no angel is fit to be a sacrifice for sins. 

Only one who is one with God can be a sacrifice for sin.

John 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

This same Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us had always been and he was the creator:

John 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  The same was in the beginning with God. 3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?

John 8:58  Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John 10:30  I and my Father are one.

1 Timothy 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Ephesians 3:9  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

The final verse to prove that Jesus is God:

Isaiah 44:6  Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

This verse from Isaiah is speaking of God as the first and the last and Jesus has not been incarnated into this world as flesh as of yet. Yet in Revelation we see this spoken of Jesus: 

Revelation 1:17  And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

The writer of Hebrews uses rhetorical questions to emphasize how mow better Jesus is than the angels:

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

and

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Of course God never said any such thing at any time to any angel, but only to Jesus who was no angel. Jesus is and always has been God.

Pay careful attention to how deceptive the SDA is on this account. They are always emphasizing how they are different and how they are right in their doctrine, while others are wrong; how they are the true church and others are false. They need people to believe this in order to keep them trapped in the church. Yet, in this instance where it suits their deception they show their true ecumenical colors in their appeal to the authority of "non-adventist scholars" and they appeal to the "consensus of the many." Just who are they referring to that agrees with this teaching? The Jehovah's Witnesses for one.

Beware the leaven of the SDA.   

Do not let anyone beguile you into worshiping angels.