Unconditional love, as a teaching, does away with God’s power of choice. It stipulates that God must love because He is love. But it refuses to acknowledge that because of God’s righteous law of love that God is capable of hating anyone or anything. Nevertheless, we have read in Scriptures what God can do regarding […]
Because many see the dangers of the concept of unconditional love, they attempt to teach that God’s love is unconditional while maintaining that salvation is conditional. Their mistake is that they do not see that a conditional salvation is anathema to unconditional love. How can unconditional love plan a salvation unless there is a condition by which salvation would […]
God doesn’t force His love upon those who do not want it. With unconditional love, you have no choice–it is there for you whether you want it or not. While it is certainly true that the provision of love and grace in the form of mercy offered to the undeserving is available during this time […]
Unconditional love is intended to provide assurance of God’s love without any effort being exerted by the object of God’s love. While it is most assuredly certain that God loved us first, nothing in Scriptures or the Spirit of Prophecy supports the idea that God’s love is unconditional. Jesus said to His disciples, “And from […]
We are not being honest if we attempt to make Ellen White’s endorsement an unconditional universal endorsement of everything that Jones and Waggoner ever put in print. What did Ellen White write to Jones about in 1894? These are her words, not mine: “I am fully in harmony with you in your work WHEN you present […]
In order to understand just how Sister White’s endorsing process works, we need to establish a time line in history. From the pen of Ellen White we know that Waggoner and Jones were preaching the 3rd angel’s message in verity. And the timing of this wonderful endorsement? 1890. Here is the quote: “Several have written to me, […]
Inevitably the objection is raised–whenever one points out that unqualified love as used by E. J. Waggoner remains a term originating in spiritualism, universalism, and pantheism–that Waggoner and Jones were endorsed by Ellen White. Therefore, she believed in unqualified love. This is a false premise. Ellen White never used the terms “unqualified love” or “unconditional […]
The first angel’s message of the everlasting gospel combined with the warning that the hour of judgment had commenced did not bring joy to everyone who heard it. The message worked its ministry in all the churches with a power to save or destroy. During the mid-1800s, with the rejection of the first angel’s message, […]
Much ado can be made about an endorsement. Political endorsements are important to those who are running for public office. Marketing endorsements are important to companies wanting to make money from the charismatic following many athletes attract. Within the Seventh-day Adventist church, an endorsement from Ellen White probably means more to certain circles today than […]
One similarity between the emerging church theology and that of a segment of Seventh-day Adventists is the concept that agape should be understood to be the Biblical ideal of God’s love as unconditional. Yet enough Scriptural evidence exists to prove the concept so faulty as to make it altogether unreliable, except to show the connection […]